hi i am a 13 teen year old girl , my brother is a marine and i want to follow my brothers foot steps. i want to put my two feet on the same yellow foot prints on the same ones he put his on.me and my brother never had the relationship that many other siblings have. i think if i do that it might bring us just a little closer than before. when i finish high school i will go in the marines and do my best , push my self to the limit until i cant go any farther .when i grow up i want to be an american sniper. I WILL KICK SOME BAD GUYS ASS!!!!!!!!
PUSH YOUR SELF TO THE LIMIT UNTIL YOU FALL DOWN WITH SWEAT ON YOUR FACE AND TEARS IN YOUR EYES !!!! GO MARINES !!!!!
Williams - 11 years ago
P.I hardest hands down.. The fleas man.. You just dont understand them unless they have attacked you.. Scratch at em they get bigger.. start bleeding.. can get infections and worse.. get dropped.. No we didnt have hills.. no.... we walked long ass walks just like SD.. but with the temp and humidity being horrible in reality we walked mountains.. not the hills they did.. Just saying.. Being stationed at 29 palms now and coming from PI.. Lol this hills aint shit.. So they need stop complaining.. THE FLEAS MAN.. OMGGGG IMAGINE WAKING UP MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT scratching for your LIFE not being able to sleep half the time.. BUT NO ... IMAGINE LOOKING at your face and the entire thing is COVERED IN FUCKING BLEEDING BUMPS...
Every country on Earth has a Large GROUP OF DEFENDERS that they entitle Marines (or the equivalent). Earth Marines All! Semper Earth Fi.................!....Marine Training is more Spiritual than physical..........+
Mark Cripe - 12 years ago
The toughest Marines are made in America! When "it" hits the fan, I want a Marine to my left and to my right. I do not care where he, or she, came from, nor what battalion they trained under. All I want to know is that they will fight for my Flag, and if need be, die for my family! Semper Fi Devil Dogs, East and West!
Sara Zitek - 12 years ago
I believe real Marines are the ones who make it through boot camp and don't quit while in training. The real Marines are the ones fighting for this country in the world. You can't judge them by where they were trained. Even though P.I. has the Reaper, I bet it's pretty hard. Like I said it's not where they trained it's who made it to the fleet that they are assigned. USMC HOORAH!
Art - 12 years ago
When I hit the fleet in 87' you could tell who could hump, run and fight by where they came from. Keep your fleas, we were running and humping mountains. My gun club was all male and not co-ed.
Katula - 12 years ago
1/5 HOLLYWOOD LEATHERNECKS 1st MARDIV, GET SOME!!!
Gunny D - 12 years ago
I think Marines are made on the Battle Field. When I was next to a fellow Marine in Iraq (2 tours) and in Afghanistan ( two tours going on 3) I did not care where he went to boot camp nor did he. This P.I. and S.D. rivalry is among Marines only for fun. 13 weeks at any depot would make reporters around the world quit. Marines EARN the title at both Depot's. if you are taking votes naturally the Depot that takes more recruits each year will win. But take tolls on if they care who went to Basic where during combat and the vote will be unanimous... Who cares. Let's get home! terds stir up a story to get ratings... Marines stir shi* up just to raise hell.
Miller - 12 years ago
The hardest Marines are bred in the one and only 1/6 HARD.
Marcelo - 13 years ago
Parris island is where real marines are made not only just that to all the fellow server brothers out there remmber that our skill where it really counts is in the battle field and not in S.D or P.I we r all though enough ...weather is land air or sea we still USMC
aleman - 13 years ago
Well, here we go again...PI and SD. To be honest, they both have their positive and negative. But it wouldn't be right if we didn't argue who had it harder, that's what seperate us from all of the other services....pride. I know it's going to change since you know who fought for "don't ask don't tell" to be lifted....bad mistake. we are use to training MEN!!!! not HALF men. I leave it at that.....Semper Fi
Jake - 13 years ago
P.I. is tougher just do to the weather. Anything is a breeze in the perfect San Diego weather, try it in the blazing heat with 100% humidity. And I am sick of hearing about the planes and freedom just of reach at San Diego. It just shows how UNDISCIPLINED and NASTY the West Coast Marines are. Those DI's must be pretty easy to allow recruits to pay attention to some planes and highways instead of whats on the training schedule.
dustin - 13 years ago
well every one that voted on Paris island apparently did not go to San Diego the drill instructors in Paris island dos not push the recruits as hard as they need to be pushed and they give the recruits a little slack the San Diego drill instructors dont give any slack wat so ever they push the recruits till they literally cant be pushed no more than they push them even more and if you take a marine that was a recruit in San Diego and a marine from Paris Island and have them fight the marine from San Diego will whip the living shit out of the marine from Paris Island
Richard Wright - 13 years ago
SERIOUSLY? its the same training people..
we are all Marines to think anything different is crazy.
was told in MCRD that 1 battalion trained easier all i could think about was why was i in 3rd..
I learned its all the same.......
Semper Fi..
but MCRD is tougher hahahahahaha
kidding
Harold Vanhorn - 13 years ago
I have friends who went to San Diego, I went through P.I. 1969 it was a f***en nightmare you were not treated like human's ,I saw many guys who could not make it,the mental strain at Diego was probably as bad as P.I.but those God d*** sand fleas were a nightmare I sometimes thought I could not make it,it was a lot worse than Vietnam,but i guess that was the point of the training.when I went to Vietnam it was a break from that P.I...
rob wills - 13 years ago
Mount motherfucker aint got shit on sand fleas!!!!
Scott - 13 years ago
To those who talk about Parris Island having Female recruits.....They keep you seperated pretty well. And If for some freak chance your platoon marched past a female platoon, you best not get caught eyeballing them. Dude in my platoon had to join their ranks (LOL) and hit the quarter deck for days!!!
IBJFREE GYSGT USMC (Ret) - 13 years ago
This is a good poll, but I DID NOT VOTE.
1st Bn A Co MCRD Paris Island plt 1067 / 1982
DI School 4-94 MCRD San Diego / 1994
1st Bn A Co, Graduated 7 platoons, no quota 94-96
I am not speculating. Sand, sand fleas, dark corners, heat, cold, Reaper, Da pit, Da pit, mountains, up north, down south, the island, the fish bowl, Delta over head, The Hat. I know them both. I will not vote one against the other. They each have there own demons.
I was born on Paris Island, but born again in San Diego. You really cannot argue unless you have been to both. Not just a visit.
FREE
Sanders - 13 years ago
PI is where the girls go. Just sayin
spencer - 13 years ago
ok what does the Island have, sand flies, and swamp. whoopie.
Wendy - 13 years ago
It don't matter where you became a Marine because ALL MARINES ARE BAD ASS!!!!
OOHRAH...SEMPER FI
Robert - 13 years ago
In 1972... Plt 2100... San Diego was harder because we had to march to Pendleton up and down hills for ITR. Running up Ol Smokey to get an appetite for dinner...
Mike Edwards - 13 years ago
MCRD San Diego is more difficult. Also, I enjoy how this poll is slanted from the beginning, not only with the fact that more Marines come out of Paris Island, but the title of the survey uses a generally derogatory term for Marines from San Diego. I personally have only ever been called Hollywood by guys I know from the east coast. But I digress, San Diego is more difficult for the fact that you are constantly teased by freedom. The old saying "out of sight; out of mind" is true. When you watch planes full of just graduated recruits take off every week and planes full of free people taking off many, many times every hour while you are getting screwed, it takes its toll mentally. Also when you go up north for field training I-5 runs right next to the recruit barracks constantly mocking you with the headlights of people headed to way better places than you had to look forward to the next day. Personally I would have rather never seen a single trace of outside life, and had to deal with some annoying, and from what I hear sometimes painful bugs, than to constantly be reminded that I wasn't going anywhere for a while. Semper Fi.
Craig Gordon - 13 years ago
I remember running and at the fence planes taking off...I know S.C. has sand flees..but when ya grow up with those,,,well ya dont miss em..It really doesnt matter,,,good Marines come out of both..Although,,,,Mount Mouther Fucker was a bitch.....and after that Bitch Ridge...Wont say either one is harder,,,they both have the things to make Marines....Went to Hollywood....to thats where my vote goes...
Scott - 13 years ago
I keep hearing about San Diego Marines being tortured by passing planes and civilian life being just within reach...I can honestly say I was too worn out at Parris Island to have even noticed things like that if that were the case. Always a D.I. within arms reach, plenty of pits to dig in, and countless games we would play! Oh, and as for the Sand Flea's....You cant appreciate the torture of how bad it actually is unless you felt it. Btw, no disrespect to S.D. Marines, just touting on how Parris Island Marines are alot harder! Semper Fi ladies!!!
Bill Goodwin - 13 years ago
This will never be settled until somone actually goes the course at both MCRDs. A more fitting challenge would be in finding volunteers who would (or could) still make the grade...twice, once at each MCRD. If it was hell when you're young, ten feet tall and bulletproof, how will it feel after 40, even 60, when you're 30+ pounds heavier and two inches shorter? Get a visual on that. Plt 1015, PI 1968.
David - 13 years ago
I went to PI, the land that god forgot. I got stationed at Camp Pendleton and humped those mountains. Both suck, plain and simple. However PI in late summer 80+ degrees with 80% + humidity and sand fleas no mountain can top that. They swarm to you the second you get outside and don't leave untill you do. Don't get caught trying to kill them or swipe them away....
Josh - 13 years ago
San Diego. I could see the fireworks from Sea World at night and knew the rest of the world was going on but I wasn't. The Reaper and the beach runs were no picnic either.
Brad Couture - 13 years ago
Can't beleive Sandiego recruits complaining they could see Civilization wow must of been hard knowing you were that close, while on P. I. we had no clue where the fuck we were or even how close to civilization we were. As far as that commoent on sand fleas being not so hard, guess again fool, when you are covered head to toe and they are biting and you cant scratch until you are told to do so. Did you guys in San Diego ever wake up to an aligator on your parade deck or have one in the water hole below the slide for life while recruits were in the middle of the rope. The D. I.'s went nuts trying to get all the recruits to safe ground while waiting for wild life proffesionals to show up and remove the 12 footer and you complain about having to go up hills.
Josh Scott - 13 years ago
Anyonr that says sand fleas are no big deal must have been a hollywood Marine.
lewis - 13 years ago
P.I is the toughest .....MOTIVATED island
Steve D - 13 years ago
Trying laying on the top rack of your bunk or being on fire watch in the barracks and looking out the window and seeing gate 29 at the SD airport. That was the gate I arrived and departed boot camp through via SWA.
Tony Alvernaz - 13 years ago
The island is for girl's,Duh.
matt - 13 years ago
Sand fleas?! Try going up the reaper and once you get to the top you can tell me about those fleas.
George11 - 13 years ago
San Diego is the shit
Michael Paredes - 13 years ago
THE LAND THAT GOD FORGOT!!!!
Kevin - 13 years ago
I will always say PI was tougher, But some of my best friends are from SD. Semper Fi
Obviously PI is winning this poll. There are far more women than men on FB! Been to both, I'll take dealing with sand fleas over humping Pendleton mountains anyday.
JWilkinson - 13 years ago
PI is alot different, u ever tried doing PT standing in a hill of fire ants, an sand fleas biting your head?
Peter J. Rupp - 13 years ago
Quit crying about those little bumps you called hills. Try standing at attention for hours while sand fleas crawled around in your face, in your ears, in your eyes, up your nose, all over your neck and arms while BITING you and not flinching once. THAT is discipline. Try 'running away' to get out of bootcamp only to DIE in the swamp trying. Anyone that has been through PISC knows that that's the only way to go!!! Ooh Rah Devil Dogs! 3Rd Batallion Kilo Co. all the way baby!
Semper Fi,
Pete Rupp
Margeorie Nation - 13 years ago
My husband will probably shoot me for this one since he is a Hollywood Marine but I have been to both places and my vote is for Parris Island all the way. I would take hills and watching city lights any day over sand fleas, fire ants (that can be deadly), swamps too include everything that lives in those swamps and then you add the humidity in, not just heat but humidity. It would be 80 degrees out and feel like 110 and you cant breathe. Parris Island is definitely harder than that of San Diego when you actually break down the elements that each boot camp has to deal with, training wise my gut says they are equal and thanks to all those who have served and are serving.
Robert Bjork - 13 years ago
REALLY tired of this arguement! OK, when I went to MCRD SD in 1978 -79 (Platoon 1106)we did 100% of our pts and PFT tests in combat boots, the recruits at PI got to where running shoes. We got to do out close order drill without the benifit of actually hearing the DI's due to the proximity of the airport and the very low flying jets coming in and out of Limburgh Field. Also, we had to do the seabag drag and leave to go to Pendleton for Infantry training and rifle range and mess duty(not to mention climbing mount motherf**ker). besides, if SD was so darned easy why do the WM's all go to PI? And before you all go off on me about that, consider this, my Sister left for boot camp the same day I did and went to PI! And my Father told me that if I wanted it easier in boot camp that I should go to PI(dad was in from 1948 - 1954 w/ 2 tours in Korea during the war as a gunfire spotter)! I asked why and he said that because of the big REP at PI the DI's treated you twice as had at SD. So that why I went there and not PI.
Rob - 13 years ago
Mario - you talking about 4th Battalion?? Hahahahaha!
Corey Flemming - 13 years ago
At least you could see the lights and had hope, I looked out at night and saw black with no hope for exscape except through the parade deck
Fessup - 13 years ago
Parris Island is much harder, nothing compares with the heat on that crummy island. Not to mention the sand pits. Ahhh.
JMartin - 13 years ago
No matter what time of the year you are a feast for the sand fleas oh and they can feast on female's or males. What lovely meals they have every day.
Semper Fi
MARIO - 13 years ago
Hollywood Marine? MCRD San Diego is NOWHERE near Hollywood. The only slight difference is that PI has those little, nasty, biting insects.
Cody Smock - 13 years ago
ill post my vote after i get done with boot camp in san diego
John Ledbetter - 13 years ago
Not only could you see the city lights but you could see people on the airplanes as they took and landed. I was on firewatch new years eve and had to watch all of the fireworks from inside the barracks without being caught. Also anyone can walk on a flat surface try going up and down all of the hills we had to. SD is way tougher!!!!!!!!
lou - 13 years ago
I agree. I could see planes taking off from my rack and it was toture for those's 3 months..
Jason - 13 years ago
San Diego is a little harder than Parris cause we have the hills but Parris Island have swamp and sand fleas... but thats not anything serious
Scott Corner - 13 years ago
P.I. may have been in the boonies, but S.D. was torture with civilization just out of reach; you could see the city lights from your rack.
hi i am a 13 teen year old girl , my brother is a marine and i want to follow my brothers foot steps. i want to put my two feet on the same yellow foot prints on the same ones he put his on.me and my brother never had the relationship that many other siblings have. i think if i do that it might bring us just a little closer than before. when i finish high school i will go in the marines and do my best , push my self to the limit until i cant go any farther .when i grow up i want to be an american sniper. I WILL KICK SOME BAD GUYS ASS!!!!!!!!
PUSH YOUR SELF TO THE LIMIT UNTIL YOU FALL DOWN WITH SWEAT ON YOUR FACE AND TEARS IN YOUR EYES !!!! GO MARINES !!!!!
P.I hardest hands down.. The fleas man.. You just dont understand them unless they have attacked you.. Scratch at em they get bigger.. start bleeding.. can get infections and worse.. get dropped.. No we didnt have hills.. no.... we walked long ass walks just like SD.. but with the temp and humidity being horrible in reality we walked mountains.. not the hills they did.. Just saying.. Being stationed at 29 palms now and coming from PI.. Lol this hills aint shit.. So they need stop complaining.. THE FLEAS MAN.. OMGGGG IMAGINE WAKING UP MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT scratching for your LIFE not being able to sleep half the time.. BUT NO ... IMAGINE LOOKING at your face and the entire thing is COVERED IN FUCKING BLEEDING BUMPS...
Every country on Earth has a Large GROUP OF DEFENDERS that they entitle Marines (or the equivalent). Earth Marines All! Semper Earth Fi.................!....Marine Training is more Spiritual than physical..........+
The toughest Marines are made in America! When "it" hits the fan, I want a Marine to my left and to my right. I do not care where he, or she, came from, nor what battalion they trained under. All I want to know is that they will fight for my Flag, and if need be, die for my family! Semper Fi Devil Dogs, East and West!
I believe real Marines are the ones who make it through boot camp and don't quit while in training. The real Marines are the ones fighting for this country in the world. You can't judge them by where they were trained. Even though P.I. has the Reaper, I bet it's pretty hard. Like I said it's not where they trained it's who made it to the fleet that they are assigned. USMC HOORAH!
When I hit the fleet in 87' you could tell who could hump, run and fight by where they came from. Keep your fleas, we were running and humping mountains. My gun club was all male and not co-ed.
1/5 HOLLYWOOD LEATHERNECKS 1st MARDIV, GET SOME!!!
I think Marines are made on the Battle Field. When I was next to a fellow Marine in Iraq (2 tours) and in Afghanistan ( two tours going on 3) I did not care where he went to boot camp nor did he. This P.I. and S.D. rivalry is among Marines only for fun. 13 weeks at any depot would make reporters around the world quit. Marines EARN the title at both Depot's. if you are taking votes naturally the Depot that takes more recruits each year will win. But take tolls on if they care who went to Basic where during combat and the vote will be unanimous... Who cares. Let's get home! terds stir up a story to get ratings... Marines stir shi* up just to raise hell.
The hardest Marines are bred in the one and only 1/6 HARD.
Parris island is where real marines are made not only just that to all the fellow server brothers out there remmber that our skill where it really counts is in the battle field and not in S.D or P.I we r all though enough ...weather is land air or sea we still USMC
Well, here we go again...PI and SD. To be honest, they both have their positive and negative. But it wouldn't be right if we didn't argue who had it harder, that's what seperate us from all of the other services....pride. I know it's going to change since you know who fought for "don't ask don't tell" to be lifted....bad mistake. we are use to training MEN!!!! not HALF men. I leave it at that.....Semper Fi
P.I. is tougher just do to the weather. Anything is a breeze in the perfect San Diego weather, try it in the blazing heat with 100% humidity. And I am sick of hearing about the planes and freedom just of reach at San Diego. It just shows how UNDISCIPLINED and NASTY the West Coast Marines are. Those DI's must be pretty easy to allow recruits to pay attention to some planes and highways instead of whats on the training schedule.
well every one that voted on Paris island apparently did not go to San Diego the drill instructors in Paris island dos not push the recruits as hard as they need to be pushed and they give the recruits a little slack the San Diego drill instructors dont give any slack wat so ever they push the recruits till they literally cant be pushed no more than they push them even more and if you take a marine that was a recruit in San Diego and a marine from Paris Island and have them fight the marine from San Diego will whip the living shit out of the marine from Paris Island
SERIOUSLY? its the same training people..
we are all Marines to think anything different is crazy.
was told in MCRD that 1 battalion trained easier all i could think about was why was i in 3rd..
I learned its all the same.......
Semper Fi..
but MCRD is tougher hahahahahaha
kidding
I have friends who went to San Diego, I went through P.I. 1969 it was a f***en nightmare you were not treated like human's ,I saw many guys who could not make it,the mental strain at Diego was probably as bad as P.I.but those God d*** sand fleas were a nightmare I sometimes thought I could not make it,it was a lot worse than Vietnam,but i guess that was the point of the training.when I went to Vietnam it was a break from that P.I...
Mount motherfucker aint got shit on sand fleas!!!!
To those who talk about Parris Island having Female recruits.....They keep you seperated pretty well. And If for some freak chance your platoon marched past a female platoon, you best not get caught eyeballing them. Dude in my platoon had to join their ranks (LOL) and hit the quarter deck for days!!!
This is a good poll, but I DID NOT VOTE.
1st Bn A Co MCRD Paris Island plt 1067 / 1982
DI School 4-94 MCRD San Diego / 1994
1st Bn A Co, Graduated 7 platoons, no quota 94-96
I am not speculating. Sand, sand fleas, dark corners, heat, cold, Reaper, Da pit, Da pit, mountains, up north, down south, the island, the fish bowl, Delta over head, The Hat. I know them both. I will not vote one against the other. They each have there own demons.
I was born on Paris Island, but born again in San Diego. You really cannot argue unless you have been to both. Not just a visit.
FREE
PI is where the girls go. Just sayin
ok what does the Island have, sand flies, and swamp. whoopie.
It don't matter where you became a Marine because ALL MARINES ARE BAD ASS!!!!
OOHRAH...SEMPER FI
In 1972... Plt 2100... San Diego was harder because we had to march to Pendleton up and down hills for ITR. Running up Ol Smokey to get an appetite for dinner...
MCRD San Diego is more difficult. Also, I enjoy how this poll is slanted from the beginning, not only with the fact that more Marines come out of Paris Island, but the title of the survey uses a generally derogatory term for Marines from San Diego. I personally have only ever been called Hollywood by guys I know from the east coast. But I digress, San Diego is more difficult for the fact that you are constantly teased by freedom. The old saying "out of sight; out of mind" is true. When you watch planes full of just graduated recruits take off every week and planes full of free people taking off many, many times every hour while you are getting screwed, it takes its toll mentally. Also when you go up north for field training I-5 runs right next to the recruit barracks constantly mocking you with the headlights of people headed to way better places than you had to look forward to the next day. Personally I would have rather never seen a single trace of outside life, and had to deal with some annoying, and from what I hear sometimes painful bugs, than to constantly be reminded that I wasn't going anywhere for a while. Semper Fi.
I remember running and at the fence planes taking off...I know S.C. has sand flees..but when ya grow up with those,,,well ya dont miss em..It really doesnt matter,,,good Marines come out of both..Although,,,,Mount Mouther Fucker was a bitch.....and after that Bitch Ridge...Wont say either one is harder,,,they both have the things to make Marines....Went to Hollywood....to thats where my vote goes...
I keep hearing about San Diego Marines being tortured by passing planes and civilian life being just within reach...I can honestly say I was too worn out at Parris Island to have even noticed things like that if that were the case. Always a D.I. within arms reach, plenty of pits to dig in, and countless games we would play! Oh, and as for the Sand Flea's....You cant appreciate the torture of how bad it actually is unless you felt it. Btw, no disrespect to S.D. Marines, just touting on how Parris Island Marines are alot harder! Semper Fi ladies!!!
This will never be settled until somone actually goes the course at both MCRDs. A more fitting challenge would be in finding volunteers who would (or could) still make the grade...twice, once at each MCRD. If it was hell when you're young, ten feet tall and bulletproof, how will it feel after 40, even 60, when you're 30+ pounds heavier and two inches shorter? Get a visual on that. Plt 1015, PI 1968.
I went to PI, the land that god forgot. I got stationed at Camp Pendleton and humped those mountains. Both suck, plain and simple. However PI in late summer 80+ degrees with 80% + humidity and sand fleas no mountain can top that. They swarm to you the second you get outside and don't leave untill you do. Don't get caught trying to kill them or swipe them away....
San Diego. I could see the fireworks from Sea World at night and knew the rest of the world was going on but I wasn't. The Reaper and the beach runs were no picnic either.
Can't beleive Sandiego recruits complaining they could see Civilization wow must of been hard knowing you were that close, while on P. I. we had no clue where the fuck we were or even how close to civilization we were. As far as that commoent on sand fleas being not so hard, guess again fool, when you are covered head to toe and they are biting and you cant scratch until you are told to do so. Did you guys in San Diego ever wake up to an aligator on your parade deck or have one in the water hole below the slide for life while recruits were in the middle of the rope. The D. I.'s went nuts trying to get all the recruits to safe ground while waiting for wild life proffesionals to show up and remove the 12 footer and you complain about having to go up hills.
Anyonr that says sand fleas are no big deal must have been a hollywood Marine.
P.I is the toughest .....MOTIVATED island
Trying laying on the top rack of your bunk or being on fire watch in the barracks and looking out the window and seeing gate 29 at the SD airport. That was the gate I arrived and departed boot camp through via SWA.
The island is for girl's,Duh.
Sand fleas?! Try going up the reaper and once you get to the top you can tell me about those fleas.
San Diego is the shit
THE LAND THAT GOD FORGOT!!!!
I will always say PI was tougher, But some of my best friends are from SD. Semper Fi
Obviously PI is winning this poll. There are far more women than men on FB! Been to both, I'll take dealing with sand fleas over humping Pendleton mountains anyday.
PI is alot different, u ever tried doing PT standing in a hill of fire ants, an sand fleas biting your head?
Quit crying about those little bumps you called hills. Try standing at attention for hours while sand fleas crawled around in your face, in your ears, in your eyes, up your nose, all over your neck and arms while BITING you and not flinching once. THAT is discipline. Try 'running away' to get out of bootcamp only to DIE in the swamp trying. Anyone that has been through PISC knows that that's the only way to go!!! Ooh Rah Devil Dogs! 3Rd Batallion Kilo Co. all the way baby!
Semper Fi,
Pete Rupp
My husband will probably shoot me for this one since he is a Hollywood Marine but I have been to both places and my vote is for Parris Island all the way. I would take hills and watching city lights any day over sand fleas, fire ants (that can be deadly), swamps too include everything that lives in those swamps and then you add the humidity in, not just heat but humidity. It would be 80 degrees out and feel like 110 and you cant breathe. Parris Island is definitely harder than that of San Diego when you actually break down the elements that each boot camp has to deal with, training wise my gut says they are equal and thanks to all those who have served and are serving.
REALLY tired of this arguement! OK, when I went to MCRD SD in 1978 -79 (Platoon 1106)we did 100% of our pts and PFT tests in combat boots, the recruits at PI got to where running shoes. We got to do out close order drill without the benifit of actually hearing the DI's due to the proximity of the airport and the very low flying jets coming in and out of Limburgh Field. Also, we had to do the seabag drag and leave to go to Pendleton for Infantry training and rifle range and mess duty(not to mention climbing mount motherf**ker). besides, if SD was so darned easy why do the WM's all go to PI? And before you all go off on me about that, consider this, my Sister left for boot camp the same day I did and went to PI! And my Father told me that if I wanted it easier in boot camp that I should go to PI(dad was in from 1948 - 1954 w/ 2 tours in Korea during the war as a gunfire spotter)! I asked why and he said that because of the big REP at PI the DI's treated you twice as had at SD. So that why I went there and not PI.
Mario - you talking about 4th Battalion?? Hahahahaha!
At least you could see the lights and had hope, I looked out at night and saw black with no hope for exscape except through the parade deck
Parris Island is much harder, nothing compares with the heat on that crummy island. Not to mention the sand pits. Ahhh.
No matter what time of the year you are a feast for the sand fleas oh and they can feast on female's or males. What lovely meals they have every day.
Semper Fi
Hollywood Marine? MCRD San Diego is NOWHERE near Hollywood. The only slight difference is that PI has those little, nasty, biting insects.
ill post my vote after i get done with boot camp in san diego
Not only could you see the city lights but you could see people on the airplanes as they took and landed. I was on firewatch new years eve and had to watch all of the fireworks from inside the barracks without being caught. Also anyone can walk on a flat surface try going up and down all of the hills we had to. SD is way tougher!!!!!!!!
I agree. I could see planes taking off from my rack and it was toture for those's 3 months..
San Diego is a little harder than Parris cause we have the hills but Parris Island have swamp and sand fleas... but thats not anything serious
P.I. may have been in the boonies, but S.D. was torture with civilization just out of reach; you could see the city lights from your rack.