Quote Originally Posted by Gaffer View Post
No, they had stopped that a few years before. But that didn't mean they always followed procedure. If you really got out of line you might have a private meeting with one of the DI's. The Marines were still doing it at that time tho. Our senior DI had been a Marine before switching to the army. He said he couldn't give us full Marine training, but he would take us as close as he could. I think the only thing we didn't get was regular ass whoopings.
they did it when i was in boot. we had a kid that was hit hard by an adjutant. the kid took it in the eye. went blind and was discharged