Her parents were both in the military: her father was a Marine Corps drill instructor, and her mother was a Navy nurse.

Fitch was a U. S. Marine Corps drill instructor, a fact that Larry Bird credited in his book Drive: The Story of My Life as an important reason for Bird's own strong work ethic.

"-dialogue from R. Lee Ermey's drill instructor character in Full Metal Jacket.

* In Metal Gear Solid, former drill instructor and advisor to the game's protagonist Solid Snake McDonnell Benedict Miller, better known by his nickname Master Miller is murdered before the game main events and replaced by main antagonist Liquid Snake in disguise.

He became a drill instructor and later a Captain in the Eure-et-Loir départemental regiment of the National Guard.

After his recovery, he served as a Marine drill instructor in the United States.

Zack and his fellow AOCs are " welcomed " by their head drill instructor, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley ( Louis Gossett, Jr .).

While tradition calls for the drill instructor to place the coin in his left shirt pocket, Foley places the coin in his right pocket and gives Zack a picture-perfect salute, acknowledging that Zack was a special candidate.

Taylor Hackford kept Gossett in separate living quarters from the other actors during production so Gossett could intimidate them more during his scenes as a drill instructor.

Glory, a humorless drill instructor who harangued cows of the client dairy into producing better milk.

An urban legend claims that Knotts served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, serving as a drill instructor at Parris Island.

Included in the ranks, aside from the milites, were the immunes, specialist soldiers with secondary roles such as engineer, artilleryman, drill and weapons instructor, carpenter and medic.

His portrayal of a tough-as-nails marine drill instructor in Tell It to the Marines ( 1926 ), one of his favorite films, earned him the affection of the US Marine Corps, who made him their first honorary member from the motion picture industry.

Bell was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina to Arthur Bell, Jr., a United States Marine Corps Captain, and Jane Gumaer Bell, a Marine drill instructor.

Mass Effect 2 has a scene of a drill instructor citing Newton's first law and warning a pair of trainees that " eyeballing " such a weapon of mass destruction without a firing solution must be avoided at all costs since a RKV will not stop until it hits something ; in the instructor's own words, " that could be a ship, or the planet behind that ship ; it might even go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years ".

His happiest memory is a homoerotic Army mission fantasized by Wally while being chewed out by his drill instructor ( Mark McKinney ).

Wally finds himself standing considerably closer to his drill instructor when through fantasizing.

He is assisted by a radio support crew consisting of Roy Campbell ( spelled " Roy Kyanbel " in the original MSX2 version ), his new commanding officer ; McDonnell Miller, a survival coach and drill instructor ; George Kasler (" George Kesler " in the MSX2 version ), a military strategist ; and Yozef Norden ( renamed Johan Jacobsen in the later revised versions ), a wildlife expert.

* Parris Island is depicted most famously in Stanley Kubrick's movie Full Metal Jacket, with R. Lee Ermey as a memorable drill instructor.

Conn became a drill instructor at St. Enda's School, founded by Pádraig Pearse, while a member of Fianna Éireann.

A United States Marine Corps | USMC drill instructor

A drill instructor is a non-commissioned officer or Staff Non-Commissioned Officer in the armed forces or police forces with specific duties that vary by country.

In the U. S., a drill instructor refers to a Marine Corps Drill instructor.

The arduous nature of drill instructor duty means that such assignments are among the most prestigious carried out by enlisted personnel.

Chuck a length of 1/8'' '' dia. drill rod into a drill press or some similar turning device and while it is rotating file the end square and then file a slight taper 1/8'' '' long.

The drill press consists of a vertical shaft ( spindle ) which is tapered or threaded on one end to hold a drill chuck, a tubular housing ( quill ) in which the spindle is mounted, a head in which the quill is mounted, a feed lever which moves the quill up or down, a power source, and a movable table upon which the work is placed.

The head is mounted on a horizontal arm that swivels on the supporting column to position the drill bit instead of the work.

The drill press should be leveled and, depending on whether it is a bench or floor model, bolted securely to a sturdy bench or stand or screwed to the floor with lag or expansion screws.

Most drill presses have a quill return spring that raises the spindle automatically when the feed lever is released and holds the quill in the raised position.

On most drill presses, it is impossible to get the exact speed, but you can come close by adjusting the drive belt on the step-cone pulleys.

Another method of assuring a clean hole is to first drill a small pilot hole all the way through, then drill half way with the dimensional bit, turn the piece over, and finish from the other side.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

" The use of a drill to create an " ampulla " of sorts and prevent the propagation of cracks through an important material is also used to protect airplane surfaces.

It is a handbook of Greek, i. e. Macedonian, drill and tactics as practiced by the Hellenistic successors of Alexander the Great.

In a torque-controlled drill, for instance, one shaft is driven by a motor and the other drives a drill chuck.

According to Jordania, this trance-inducing ability of dance comes from human evolutionary past and includes as well a phenomenon of military drill which is also based on shared rhythmic and monotonous group activity.

In Pliny's Natural History ( 7. 198 ) he is credited with inventing carpentry " and with it the saw, axe, plumb-line, drill, glue, and isinglass ".

This phenomenon is used in oil exploration drilling to identify very small amounts of oil in drill cuttings and core samples.

When the mask is used in a real scenario, or as part of a drill, there is 9 seconds to put the gas mask on and clear and seal.

With the expected further increase in temperature with increasing depth, drilling to would have meant working at a projected, at which the drill bit would no longer work.

The unit was run quite informally: there was no saluting and no drill, officers and men messed together, every man was expected to know what to do and get on with it, and there was only one punishment for failure of any kind: immediate Return To Unit.

Like that of the Wide Awakes, they were expected “ to form an armed body of men … whose duty is to arm, equip and drill, and be ready for any emergency that may arise in the present perilous position of Southern States .” The fear of the Wide Awakes resulted in Minute Men companies forming all over the South.

The companies have not yet been formally granted permission to drill and this is expected to take several months.

" Foot drill " or " Drill " stems from time since antiquity when soldiers would march into battle, be expected to gather in a formation, and react to words of command from their commanders once the battle commenced.

During closed weekend, cadets are expected to attend additional leadership training, drill & ceremony, and maintain the appearance of their respective barracks.