User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part Deux/@comment-1260687-20100317170632

When I was to recruit training, I was:
 * 1) pitted and quarterdecked for up to 3 hours
 * 2) kicked in the face while race-carring a scuz brush around the head
 * 3) nearly drowned in muddy frog-egg water with a DI's boot on my helmet while dragging another recruit and two ammo cans filled with wet sand
 * 4) choke-slammed through a wooden footlocker (it was already broken)
 * 5) kicked in the chest
 * 6) ACTUALLY drowned by a drill instructor during the highest level of swim qual

I've heard they lightened up a few year ago.