Local kids learn at Young Marine camp - Democratic Underground

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Wed Nov-14-07 07:32 AM
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Local kids learn at Young Marine camp

Lance Cpl. Rita Navarro, a senior drill instructor for Camp Foster's Young Marine boot camp, shouts out commands to Austin Payne, 12, a seventh-grader at Lester Middle School, on the first Saturday of the boot camp Sept. 8.

Local kids learn at Young Marine camp
By Cindy Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, November 14, 2007

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Silence shrouds the room and all eyes are locked on the three figures looming in front.

Furtive whispers and rustling occasionally break the silence as recruits squirm anxiously in their seats. Suddenly, the drill instructor’s voice booms: “Get out of my classroom!”

Chairs shuffle as recruits scramble to obey as a chorus of “Yes ma’am,” rings.

Not fast or loud enough.

“So you don’t want to sound off! Everybody get back in my seats,” the drill instructor yells.

No, this isn’t recruit training at Parris Island, S.C.

Rest of article at: http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50244

uhc comment: We've seen this before in the 1930s.

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