The first: If a drill instructor looks happy, you’re fucked. Second: These guys go ape-shit for cadence. But, really, who can blame them? Before they earn their campaign cover, drill instructors ...

(PARRIS ISLAND, S.C.) -- Anyone who wants to be one of 'The Few, The Proud' must first get past a Marine Corps drill instructor. 'DI's,' famous for Smokey Bear hats and bad attitudes, are charged ...

On top of that, he was reeling from news of the suspected suicide of a Parris Island drill instructor the day before. So when Arguello showed up outside the base wearing the campaign cover after ...

On top of that, he was reeling from news of the suspected suicide of a Parris Island drill instructor the day before. So when Arguello showed up outside the base wearing the campaign cover after ...

Three different investigations, made public last summer, would substantiate drill instructor misconduct ... handed them their campaign cover back. And they cried like babies on me," he said ...

He still has his campaign cover and wanted to send Joe the cadence every Marine has heard from their drill instructor a thousand times to thank him. "There you go, Joe. One for you," said Sosa.

Donald Jackson, a drill instructor from Marine Corps Recruit ... Putting on the belt and campaign cover transforms a regular Marine into someone he or she probably feared as a new recruit.