00:00Marine Corps leaders of yesteryear, featuring Gunnery Sergeant John Bassalone, a true Marine
00:25heroes. October 24th, 1942, Guadalcanal. John Bassalone leads two sections of heavy machine guns to defend the southern perimeter against 3,000 enemy combatants.
00:43Pause. Here's the part they're not going to tell you, but every Marine knows by heart. Bassalone kept his machine guns going 72 hours straight.
00:53They got so overheated, they glowed red. Back then, you kept them cool with water. He didn't have any. So he whipped his dick out and pissed on them.
01:05It worked. Next slide.
01:12Confidence, grit, determination. John Bassalone embodies the Marine Corps. Do you have what it takes?
01:23That's like an actual storm. They're not going to make us train in that, right?
01:42Just warming you up for the gas chamber.
01:48I thought this was the gas chamber.
01:51Talking about the real one. It's not full of tear gas. It hurts this week.
02:03Looks like it's down to you and me.
02:05For what?
02:06Top dog, bitch. What else?
02:07Three months ago, man. A lot can happen.
02:10I'm Rocky. You're Apollo.
02:13Man, I don't care about you or your little contest.
02:16The only person I'm in competition with is myself.
02:20Besides, Apollo wins.
02:25Y'all, come look at this.
02:28Damn corncob.
02:29Put this hillbilly monster in a tank.
02:34Looks like Shamu.
02:35Five bucks says none of you Zambonis can drop one bigger than they used to base here.
02:39Call it the Brown Bomber Challenge.
02:42Who's in it?
02:47Oh, I'm good.
02:54Yes, ma'am.
02:58Yes, ma'am.
02:59Company commands canceled Sunday service.
03:03And all outdoor training events till the storm clears.
03:06It's an unconfidence course.
03:08This place is going soft.
03:10Not today.
03:14Every surface,
03:16every nook,
03:17every cranny,
03:19you make my squat base shine.
03:21Put your backs into it.
03:23Just because we ain't in chapel
03:25don't mean it ain't still the Lord's Day.
03:27And even though you won't be on your knees
03:29praying for God to save you from my wrath,
03:32you will be on your knees
03:34making my barracks be.
03:36Amen?
03:37Sir, yes, sir.
03:39I want to see the reflection of them honey holes
03:42with every step.
03:43Hey.
03:45That's right, because today...
03:46So we're stuck here?
03:47What chapel?
03:49You like chapel?
03:50I was hoping they'd have a bathroom in there.
03:52They're literally scrubbing the toilet.
03:53I know, it's so close.
03:55So far.
03:56Have you not taken a dump since?
04:00New Orleans.
04:01Cam, it's been a week.
04:03That is not healthy.
04:04I can't do it.
04:06The train won't leave the station
04:07with everyone looking.
04:08How are you even walking?
04:09I'm fine,
04:10as long as I don't cough.
04:12Or breathe.
04:16Hey, are you mad at all?
04:18About me being squad leader?
04:19No.
04:20It's cool.
04:21I'm fine.
04:21Why?
04:21I don't know.
04:22It's just what you wanted,
04:23and then Sullivan gave it to me,
04:24which I didn't even want.
04:25Yeah, he's messing with you.
04:27There's only one reason
04:28he made you squad leader.
04:29Why?
04:30Because he wants me to fail?
04:32Yes.
04:37So you think I'm going to fail?
04:38Not me.
04:39Them.
04:40The I's.
04:41It's their whole strategy.
04:42They try to break everybody down.
04:43It's not personal.
04:44Then why doesn't Sullivan
04:45go after the other guys
04:46the way he goes after me?
04:47He's not going after you, Cam.
04:49You really want to prove something
04:51to Sullivan?
04:52Do it this week
04:53on the confidence course.
04:56Dear Mama,
04:57I've been eating everything
04:58they put on my plate
04:59while she talk.
05:01And as soon as I'm done here,
05:04she won't have to worry about me
05:05being any kind of layabout
05:06like my cousins
05:07who ain't got no jobs.
05:09Mama, hold on.
05:10Too fast.
05:10So my mother's boyfriend,
05:13cheeky,
05:13total junkie,
05:15he whoops me in the booth
05:16his 57 fourth on the bird
05:17down the block
05:18so he can get his fix.
05:21Navy.
05:22How many did I do?
05:23Farts?
05:24Pull-ups, you fucking chooch.
05:2523.
05:27So,
05:27we do the job
05:29when it's through Tino
05:30caught us red-handed.
05:32Tino's like 5'2",
05:33but he is big.
05:34He broke two of my ribs
05:35before I beat his ass.
05:37Got an assault charge,
05:39so the judge made me
05:40choose between here
05:41or upstate.
05:44You're here because
05:45you almost killed somebody?
05:47He lived, relax.
05:51Jash.
05:52Can I get a Coke?
05:53No ice in the back of peanuts?
06:00What are you always
06:01writing in there?
06:03Um,
06:04I don't know.
06:06Just like,
06:07thoughts,
06:08I guess.
06:09Observations.
06:10Secrets.
06:16Trillis drugs are on deck!
06:17Good afternoon, sir!
06:19Good afternoon, sir!
06:23Who the hell
06:24made your file?
06:26You dipshits
06:26can't tell the difference
06:27between a first and last name.
06:28Put the same thing twice.
06:30Sir,
06:30it's this recruit's name, sir!
06:31Your name is Santos Santos?
06:36Sir, yes, sir!
06:38Cope!
06:41Sir, recruit Cope reporting
06:42is ordered, sir!
06:43Show this soggy ass
06:44where that beach whale
06:45bowman used to sleep.
06:46He's in your squad
06:47till I say elsewise.
06:49Sir, yes, sir!
06:52At ease,
06:52tickle shits!
06:53Hey.
07:04This is me.
07:10It's mine now,
07:11I ain't doing top bun.
07:13I need shit.
07:14What happened to the dude
07:15that was here before?
07:19Just couldn't hack it.
07:22Yo, squad leader!
07:24My boot laces
07:26is fucked up.
07:28Hook me up, man.
07:29It's your job.
07:30Um, okay.
07:34I don't have any...
07:35Man, you got this or not?
07:40Here.
07:40Just trade with me for now.
07:58Oh, um...
07:59My parents never really taught us.
08:12It's Ray.
08:14Yo, Ray.
08:15What kind of chino
08:16are you anyway, bro?
08:17An American one.
08:18Oh.
08:20Well, I'm American, too.
08:21But, like,
08:22Dominican.
08:24Proud of it.
08:25Scrape!
08:29Sir, yes, sir!
08:32File this.
08:33Aye, sir!
08:33All right.
09:03You stand like a goddamn New Jersey household.
09:33Get out!
09:35Get your asses online right now!
09:52This platoon is a disgrace!
09:54A sloppy fucking disgrace!
09:57My Marine Corps is not a job.
10:00It is a way of life.
10:02It'll take your miserable, weak, insignificant ass out of whatever fucked up circumstance you
10:09came from, and it will change you into something proud, worthy, strong.
10:24But only some of you.
10:33Some of you cannot be changed.
10:35Some of you are weeds in my field.
10:39My mission is to rip out those weeds, and I will complete my mission.
10:45Understood.
10:46Sir, yes sir!
10:49Now you will unfuck my squad bay!
10:52Clean this place from top to bottom!
10:54No cleaning supplies!
10:56Do it now!
10:58Aye, sir!
11:02Okay, well, I'm squad leader, so...
11:04If we all use our shirts, what happens when Sullivan makes us do this shit again at 3 AM?
11:13Fine, what's your suggestion?
11:15Half of us give up our skivvies.
11:17Tear those in half, then we got 12 rags.
11:19Then, if Sullivan wows out again, the other six guys got skivvies on backup.
11:23I'm one, two, three, four, five, six.
11:26Y'all give them up.
11:31Don't be a little bitch.
11:42If I didn't know better, I'd say you're trying to kill me, Sergeant.
11:46Well, Sugar Plum, I'm a good reader of people.
11:56I know when a woman needs a good whooping.
12:01Show cosmetics, huh?
12:03How's business?
12:04Busy day.
12:05Better get to it.
12:08But, um, thank you for your service.
12:12I did for you.
12:16There is a women's group, Marine Moms.
12:19At least every Tuesday.
12:23Give them a call.
12:30They'd get what you're going through.
12:34What I'm going through?
12:36It's disruptive.
12:38When a kid leaves home.
12:40You know?
12:43There's feelings there.
12:43Feelings.
12:48And to think they call you jarheads.
12:52Welcome to my confidence course.
12:55Today, you will complete the reverse climb, the slide for life, and the stairway to heaven.
13:00In each exercise, you will be challenged to find the kind of courage that is in this bottle right here.
13:09This is the Black Sand of Iwo Jima.
13:13It drank the blood and sacrifice of 27,000 Marines in World War II.
13:20One of them was that ass-kicking Italian gunnery sergeant, John Bassalone, that you learned about.
13:27Where did Bassalone find the ball's deep confidence to not only reject the soft comforts of the civilian life, but also put himself back into harm's way?
13:38Oh, shit.
13:39Oh, shit.
13:40Bassalone became a Marine on the sands of a confidence course like this one.
13:46If he can, you can!
13:48Hoorah!
13:50Fall in on the reverse climb.
13:52On the double move!
13:54He said on the double!
13:55Let me pick your knees up and move it, ladies!
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