Making the Marines.. Is this shit true?

I was jst reading a review for a book i might read, Making the Corps.It follows a platoon of recruits through basic training in 1995.

I came across this quote

Basic training, for the modern Marines, is essentially an intensive process of indoctrination. Start by massive disorientation; cut all their ties with the former identity, in both practical ways (no radio, no TV, no publications except those of the group) --- and symbolic ones (issue clothing, shave all the hair and otherwise modify their bodies, require them to speak a special language). Emphasize their sub-human status (recruits are forbidden to use the first person singular, and must refer to themselves as "this recruit"). Keep them tired, make them repeat your slogans, impose your rules of behavior with extreme strictness, and never explain what is going on. On top of this, encourage them to identify with you: hold out the promise that, once they've shown their dedication to your group, they can join, and will not just be human once more, but a much better kind of human being than before.

Is this really how it is.. Are there any marines or ex-marines that can tell me that this is how it really is..

 

You could allways ask R Lee

 

And the end result? The greatest fighting force in world history — the U.S. Marine Corps. (I'm not biased towards them; I served in the Air Force.). I sleep better at night knowing they're out there 24/7.

 

What about the SAS?

 

There are lots of other awesome military units out there. I respect them. But for sheer, overwhelming, daunting force, I can't think of anything more effective than a Marine Expeditionary Unit. (A naval carrier group is right up there, too).

 

I have cousins in the Marines . I was in the Army and it sucked and they say the marines are worse than the army.

 

"Worse" at what? For doing their job, there's none better.

 

I mean being worse in the sense of being harder more difficult. To you it may be better but to me it sucked. The only time I ever got to do my mos was in basic and ait. The rest of the time I was cleaning toilets and being a chauffeur for the company commander. They just wouldn't let me be all I could be.

 

To the OP, it wouldn't surprise me if that was true. Isn't the purpose of basic training to turn civilians into soldiers? The United States doesn't have one of the best armies in the world for nothing. Our President may be dumb, but no one can deny the the U.S. is the strongest military force in the world. If only these soldiers were they should be: home.