One day is a fantasy, 80 days are a nightmare

LATimes

SAN DIEGO -- For 85 years young men have been coming here to see if they're tough enough to be Marines.

For the last six years, the Marines have opened up their gates one Saturday morning a year to let the public get a tiny taste of the strenuous process of turning recruits into Marines.


Call it fantasy boot camp, a chance to tackle a miniature version of what recruits do every day for 13 grueling weeks at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot

Sounds like fun, but dollars to donuts they don't treat the one-day-trippers anything like the kids whose names they got on a 4-year contract. And whose asses they fucking own.

Here's a real "fantasy boot camp":



Just like I remember it, ghost of John Wayne and all...