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  The US Marines - New Drill Instructor Leads
Transitioning from the operational forces to a drill instructor opened Santoro’s eyes on what is expected of the other drill instructors on the depot.
He mentioned that being on the drill field was mentally challenging and that he had to be tough physically because the duty is so demanding.
Drill instructors are around their recruits 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 13 weeks at a time.
www.theusmarines.com /content/view/29/2   (541 words)

  
 Drill instructor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A drill instructor is a non-commissioned officer in the armed forces with specific duties that vary by country.
Senior drill instructors hold a respected position which is distinguished by the wearing of a fl sword belt instead of a green duty belt.
A senior drill instructor is ultimately responsible for the training of the platoon and for the efficiency of his or her assistant drill instructors.
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 Just Another Jarhead's Webpage -- Drill Instructor Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Drill instructors epitomize the word "Marine." It is their sole responsibility to take the American men and women who want to claim the title and transform them into basically trained Marines.
When a drill instructor begins to train recruits, he or she is usually accompanied by two to three other drill instructors all assigned to one platoon.
Drill instructors are the first Marines recruits see when they arrive at Recruit Training and are the Marines that take them the entire way through recruit training up until graduation day.
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 Marine Corps Drill Instructors
Before drill instructors are allowed to mold recruits into the future of the Corps, they must pass a test.
The MCRD Drill Instructor School ensures they set the example of what a Marine should be, according to Staff Sgt. Damian Moreno, senior drill instructor for 1st Bn, C Company.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps announced Sept. 13, 1996, that all female drill instructors are authorized to wear the previously male-only "Smokey" field hat.
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 Drill Instructor - Marine Corps Community for USMC Veterans
While the recruits are in boot camp, their drill instructors teach them everything they need to know about drill whether it is standing in formation for uniform inspections or reporting to a new unit.
One of the purposes of drill is to instill discipline and instant, willing obedience to orders in the recruits who pass through the depot during their 13-week training cycle.
Drill Instructors, as perfect as they are, still make mistakes, they just never get called on it untill the graudation cermoeny when the Drill Master is critiquing them.
www.leatherneck.com /forums/showthread.php?t=38436   (947 words)

  
 Senior Drill Instructor Shatters Final Drill Record
Togiola was one of the three drill masters who witnessed and evaluated the outstanding performance of the platoon.
Recruits are taught close-order drill throughout recruit training, and the drill instructors emphasize discipline in order to perform drill.
Togiola concluded that the success of this platoon is a clear result of the hard work, time and non-stop remediation that their senior drill instructor and drill instructors put into drill.
www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,usmc2_011305,00.html   (522 words)

  
 Drill Instructor Ribbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Drill Instructor Ribbon is a military decoration of the United States Armed Forces which is issued by the United States Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.
The Drill Instructor Ribbon recognizes those service members who are trained and qualified as military instructors to new recruits during initial basic training.
The Marine Corps Drill Instructor Ribbon is retroactively authorized to October 6, 1952.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drill_Instructor_Ribbon   (555 words)

  
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Remember that the drill instructor is not expected to function as a teacher in the strictest sense.
If the drill instructor, for some reason, wants to speak English in class and spend time on grammar, it is up to you to discourage this as politely as possible, and to show that you want to continue the lesson in the foreign language.
Drills and language-use exercises are part of a learning design to insure that, at some point, you will be able to carry on a free conversation.
www.gpc.edu /~dunlang/clpstudyguide.htm   (3582 words)

  
 Classification and Pay
Leads a platoon comprised of Drill Instructors providing training to assigned adjudicated male juveniles, ensures maintenance of an environment designed to enhance the physical and psychological well being of adjudicated male juveniles, provides leadership and mentoring to Drill Instructors and adjudicated male juveniles, and conducts curriculum development and assessment.
Ensures that Drill Instructors and male juveniles are present at all scheduled activities unless excused.
The Senior Drill Instructor supervises assigned Drill Instructors and adjudicated male juveniles and reports to the Brady Academy Director who is responsible for supervising the operation of the academy.
www.state.sd.us /BOP/Classification/ClassSpecs/60339.htm   (869 words)

  
 US Marines - United States Marine Corps - Depot Duties Through the Eyes of a DI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Drill instructors are given time away from recruits to serve in a variety of support billets within the regiment.
Life as a drill instructor can be extremely challenging due to the long hours at work and limited time for anything else.
While being a drill instructor may be one of the more tiresome jobs in the Marine Corps, Hubert thought of a few reasons to sign up for the next course.
www.marines.cc /content/view/80/2   (1296 words)

  
 United States Marine Corp
Before submitting again, Whitcomb looked into both drill instructor duty and Marine security guard duty, but he decided to be a drill instructor because he noticed those Marines who had been on drill instructor duty carried themselves in a more desirable manner than people from other duty fields.
With eight and a half years in, he came to the Depot and attended Drill Instructor School before being assigned to Company K, where he was met with long hours and a large workload.
Whitcomb, who was used to being an instructor at a reserve unit, had to adjust his role from teacher to student and at the same time remember that he was a staff noncommissioned officer.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- Students learn the drill
For the most part, the Sweetwater High School student maintained her composure as the drill instructor inspected her uniform and removed her cap, known as a “cover” in military lingo.
They were also judged on their ability to perform basic marching drills and exhibition drills – “fancy marching” as one observer described it.
Drill instructor staff Sgt. Kevin Jones from MCRD grilled Anthony Guerrero (center), of the Navy Drill Team from Orange Glen High School.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/northcounty/20060205-9999-1m5drill.html   (758 words)

  
 Instructor Selection
What you are seeking for in an instructor may vary according to what training you may need or already have.
If an instructors background is competition, you may find yourself being instructed in techniques and tactics which could be hazardous if used against targets which do shoot back.
Is the instructor set on a particular "method" of shooting and not willing to adapt to your attributes.
www.gspi-handguntraining.com /id12.html   (235 words)

  
 What a Marine drill instructor taught me. - By Eric Liu - Slate Magazine
Close-order drill is the precise marching and movement of a unit in formation.
What made him one of the best drill instructors at OCS was not simply that he could, with the flip of a switch, play the "stress-monster" of movie lore—stomping and screaming, mocking the poor candidates.
That was one of the most humbling things I learned on this day—that the increments, the drill and repetition, take so very long to accrete into a core sense of what it means to lead authentically.
www.slate.com /id/2112484   (1446 words)

  
 Marine Corps Drill Instructor Ribbon
Marines assigned to drill instructor duty (MOS 8511) will be eligible to receive the ribbon upon completion of a successful tour of duty.
Marines returning for subsequent tours as drill instructor will be eligible for subsequent awards upon completion of each tour.
The Marine’s projected detachment date from drill instructor duty is considered the end of a qualifying tour of duty.
www.gruntsmilitary.com /drill_instructor.shtml   (451 words)

  
 Captain Jack Drill Instructor Resources
Captain Jack - Drill Instructor Lyrics -- Printer Friendly Version
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www.captainjack-dvd.co.uk /directory/Captain-Jack-Drill-Instructor.html   (326 words)

  
 SENIOR DRILL INSTRUCTOR SSGT WERTJES
Platoon 3075 had a three-man team of drill instructors consisting of the leader, Senior Drill Instructor Staff Sergeant Wertjes, the teacher, Drill Instructor Staff Sergeant Garcia, and the heavy, Drill Instructor Sergeant Robinson.
He would put you in your place but for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was the respect the other drill instructors showed him, he became the man we most wanted to be.
He stated that neither he nor any one of his drill instructors would ever hit any one of us and that if it happened, to come straight to him.
www.grose.us /bootdir/wertjes.html   (639 words)

  
 Marine Corps Boot Camp Sea Story: "Spic 'n' Span"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Joe Fuller served as a Marine Corps Drill Instructor, and as such, he too possessed the temperament typical of their breed -- always on the quest to find new, educational, and amusing ways to entertain their charges -- the unwary Marine Corps boot camp recruit.
The Drill Instructor ordered the recruits to stand-by, directly outside of the head (and out of view) while he conducted what they knew would be an inspection on a microscopic level.
The Drill Instructor walked over to the prepared commode, reached on the rim with his fingers, and with as much dramatic flare as he could muster he thrust his hand forward at the recruits and said, "Then would you mind telling me what the hell this is!"
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 Penguins win drill instructor's praise at West Point boot camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He looks the part of a drill instructor -- from his brush cut and sunglasses to the fl T-shirt and camouflage pants on what appears to be a fat-free physique -- and wields a bullhorn as deftly as Sidney Crosby handles a puck.
Their time in the swamp figures to be the most demanding the Penguins will spend here, but yesterday's workout featured a few activities that strained muscles and, occasionally, a few players' will.
Several singled out a drill that required them, while lying on their backs, to elevate their feet about 6 inches while holding a rubber rifle over their heads, and maintain that position for several minutes.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06270/725253-61.stm   (844 words)

  
 USMC Drill Instructors' Creed
On a moonlit Sunday night, 8 April 1956, A Drill Instructor at Parris Island took his Platoon 71 on a forced march.
The Drill Instructor, a 31 year old staff sergeant, a veteran of World War II and Korea with an exemplary record, felt his platoon needed more discipline.
The Drill Instructor plunged into the creek, dutifully followed by his platoon.
www.usmcpress.com /heritage/USMC_drill.htm   (311 words)

  
 Military Drill Instructors
When you speak of excellence in military bearing, appearance and deportment, the Marine Corps Drill Instructor is at the head of the class.
A Drill Instructor is an artform - one that definitely CANNOT be duplicated.
Honor, integrity, dedication to duty and to those basic recruits within their charge, are but a mere few of the characteristics that Drill Instructors hold sacred.
www.articledashboard.com /Article/Military-Drill-Instructors/101829   (1175 words)

  
 Marine Corps News -> After 40 years, recruit makes contact with former drill instructor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hubka felt the experiences with his drill instructor were in his thoughts a little more often lately, and it just so happened that it was around his 40th anniversary of graduating boot camp.
There is a bond that develops between recruits and their drill instructor, he said.
If you are interested in contacting your former drill instructor, one place to begin is by contacting the Parris Island Drill Instructor Association by logging on to www.diassn.com.
www.marines.mil /marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/200486111932   (1088 words)

  
 Recruit Abuse: A Culture of Competing Values ©   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During my time as Regimental Chaplain from 1999 to 2001, there was systemic Drill Instructor abuse of Recruits in one battalion.
, Chaplains and Drill Instructors taught 50 hours of values training to Recruits to reinforce “Honor, Courage, and Commitment.”  Chaplains delivered five lectures entitled “Ethics, Courage, Commitment, Personal Values, and Group Values.”  The reason for the emphasis on ethical training was the apparent lack of good character values on the part of many new Recruits.
I asked a Drill Instructor, “Why is it that a few Drill Instructor’s abuse Recruits?”  He responded, “Sir, it is considered a right of passage to hit a Recruit or abuse a Recruit.
www.usafa.af.mil /jscope/JSCOPE06/Creeley06.html   (2690 words)

  
 Drill Instructor Who Struck Marine Recruit Suspended   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The day before his death, a Columbia television station recorded a confrontation between Tharp and the drill instructor, who was seen in the video grabbing Tharp by the shirt and striking him in the chest.
The instructor, who was not identified, has been reassigned to administrative duties, said Capt. Jamie Nott, a Parris Island spokesman.
Drill instrutctors should be able to hit, throw, push, and intimadate recruits...
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 SERGEANT MAJOR WERTJES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
By the time he got to the drill field, he picked up the rank of Staff Sergeant at the age of 24.
We were his last platoon before going to Drill Instructors' School where he picked up Gunnery Sergeant meritoriously.
He had told his monitor, "I was a Drill Instructor, not a recruiter!" To this, the monitor replied, "You are a 9999.
members.tripod.com /jdgrose115/bootdir/sgtmaj.html   (1419 words)

  
 Sergeant is Rare Active Reserve Drill Instructor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Capt. Patrick Klokow, Johnson's series commander, said the 5-foot-11-inch drill instructor puts an incredible amount of effort to make sure his recruits are the best they can be.
When the training platoons are north at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Klokow said Johnson wastes no downtime and teaches basic tactical skills such as marching in patrol formations when moving between different training events.
In his current training cycle, an uncommon all-sergeant team leads the way: Sgt. Fernando Galvan, senior drill instructor; Johnson, the experienced drill instructor; and combat veterans Sgt. Jesse J. Dorsey and Sgt. Matthew C. Button.
www.marforres.usmc.mil /Archive/2004.09/reservedi.html   (460 words)

  
 Drill Instructor Ribbon (Marine) Replacement Recognition Application   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Marine Corps Drill Instructor Ribbon was established on July 15, 1997, by Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton.
The Marine Corps Drill Instructor Ribbon is awarded retroactive to October 6, 1952 (the date the Marine Corps Drill Instructors' School was established).
Marines possessing the 8511 MOS who have served in an 8511 billet are eligible to receive the Marine Corps Drill Instructor Ribbon.
www.amervets.com /replacement/di.htm   (320 words)

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