{"id":212136,"date":"2022-02-13T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-lesson-on-parris-island-virginia-school-teachers-get-taste-of-the-boot-camp-that-makes-u-s-marines"},"modified":"2022-02-13T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T14:24:00","slug":"a-lesson-on-parris-island-virginia-school-teachers-get-taste-of-the-boot-camp-that-makes-u-s-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-lesson-on-parris-island-virginia-school-teachers-get-taste-of-the-boot-camp-that-makes-u-s-marines","title":{"rendered":"A lesson on Parris Island: Virginia school teachers get taste of the boot camp that makes U.S. Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Corps Sgt. Simone Dennis gives Tennesee teacher Colin Kiehlmeir a taste of a new recruit&#8217;s experience at Parris Island boot camp. Dave Ress\/Daily Press\/TNS As the white Marine Corps school buses cross the mile-long State Route 170 bridge over the Broad River, about 15 minutes from Parris Island, they tell the recruits to lower their heads. The reason, Marines tell each other, is so the newbies can&#8217;t figure out how to escape from boot camp. Heads-down arrival makes that moment when a drill instructor like Sgt. Simone Dennis steps onto the bus screaming &#8220;Get Out! Get Out! Get Moving!&#8221; even more of a shock. As recruits stumble out, three more drill instructors bellow orders to form up on yellow footprints painted on the pavement, to keep heels together and feet 45 degrees apart. And that there are only three things a recruit can say: &#8220;Aye, sir.&#8221; &#8220;No, sir.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand.&#8221; Then Staff Sgt. Evelyn Esquinal, in the role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the white Marine Corps school buses cross the mile-long State Route 170 bridge over the Broad River, about 15 minutes from Parris Island, they tell the recruits to lower<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,97,42],"class_list":["post-212136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-education","tag-military","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}