Former army drill instructor stages art exhibit at Goochland Library Clinton Helms spent more than 20 years teaching in the U.S. Army and the Army reserve.

Recruits with Echo Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, are introduced to their drill instructors, including Staff Sgt. Courtland Bates Wind, at Parris Island on March 13, 2023.

Most recruits, in turn, revere their drill instructors, seeing them as “perfect, just immaculate, like gods or goddesses,” said one Marine who spent three years at Parris Island.

Normally recruits face 20 drill instructors, but it only takes one to really push you. It helps to have Bruno the Marine Mascot cheering you on. He’ll be there Saturday waiting for you at the ...

When instructors got close to the recruits, they talked with them, rather than yelling and mocking. “Our mission success depends on your effort right now,” one instructor told a slow-moving ...

The obstacle course that the new recruits, reluctantly, had to run was fun for us. The old course is now a military housing area, east of Dyer, south of Vulcan and north of the bridge that spans Dyer ...

Kevin McDugle’s memoir about the two years (1994-96) that he was a Marine Corps drill instructor at the world-famous Parris Island military base in South Carolina is briskly paced, compelling, ...

The loud and brutal drill sergeant was seen as a way to toughen up fresh recruits and prepare them for the harsh realities of war, from the jungles of Vietnam to the post-9/11 battlefields in ...

In the 2015 incident, the drill instructor, while under the influence of alcohol, forced a different Muslim recruit into a Speed Queen commercial clothes dryer and turned it on, while commenting ...