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Pierre Braunberg
presents
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The ''Marines''
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America seen by a Frenchman
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We thank General Shell, Captain
Meeker, instructors and recruits from
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Camp Parris Island. Because of them,
we have been able to make this film.
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This film was made to show the
training of a modern army that serves
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to defend liberties that also permit
the showing of that kind of film.
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Everywhere in the world,
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they have the same smile, the same look,
the same worried expression.
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They are leaving to make
their military service.
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They are already
no longer civilians.
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They are not yet soldiers,
not even rookies.
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They will only be rookies
in a few hours.
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These ones are Americans.
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They will have to go across
an arm of the sea.
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They will be driven to
Parris Island.
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An island that is a barrack.
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First contact with reality:
the drill sergent.
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His job: the war.
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The war he fought,
the war he teaches.
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In Parris Island, he became stronger
by earning his stripes.
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It's his duty to train new Marines,
shock troops of the American Army.
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Three months to make it happen.
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These boys are all volunteers.
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They came by themselves
to enroll in the Marine Corps.
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Every army on earth
now has shock troops.
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And these troops undergo
the same kind of preparation,
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the same kind of training.
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The American Army
authorized us to film this training.
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Who are these boys?
Hotheads? Not all.
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There are among them
worried teenagers,
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but also young, sane
and sporty persons.
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They come from every part of the
United States. North and south.
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From white communities
and black communities.
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Fat or puny,
cynic or frightened,
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coming from all backgrounds.
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Some came on impulse.
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Others, after a failure.
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Nevertheless, all these boys so
different have something in common.
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A bet.
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A bet that they made
with themselves.
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The bet to hold on.
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They are warned.
They know what lies ahead.
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In Parris Island, willy-nilly,
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they will have to give up
their personality, their character,
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their physical appearance,
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to become men,
all shaped on a same pattern,
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according to standard mesurments.
In one word: Marines.
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The uniform is shaped
for a man's body.
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But if it is too large or too narrow,
it is the man that we adjust.
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Only just equipped,
they are subject to a first test.
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Only a few days ago,
they had habits,
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tastes, preferences, whims.
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They will have to give it all up.
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As children, they had nicknames.
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In college, they were
called by their first name.
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Here, they will only be
personal numbers.
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Numbers shouted by a sargeant.
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There is no more wandering.
You have to run.
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No discussing, one single reply:
YES SIR!
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At war, the muscular man
is a calm man.
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In any nation,
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shock troop staffs will tell you
that these rigors ar not for nothing.
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That they teach war.
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Why fight, if we don't know
how to vanquish.
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At war, reflexes are
more important than reflection.
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At war, the loner is killed. So they
must keep close to one another.
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They now have only one face.
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In combat, woe to the timid.
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Fear threatens even the bravest.
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That is the new art of war.
The close combat.
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They have to shout, not to scare,
but to forget their own fear.
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The position of attention is the most
common one of the Marine.
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Whether he is drinking water
or receiving his mail.
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Memories are however authorized,
but at specific hours.
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Ten minutes per day to think about
his family, or to educate himself.
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Outside, it is night.
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Sentinels stand watch,
while maybe thinking that
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ninety similar nights were nessessary
to complete their transformation.
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In every amy, it's the sign that
announces the event.
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We take care of apparence,
we clean.
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Each says to himself:
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"I endured. I won my bet.
I am a Marine forever."
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Tomorrow is the big day.
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The day that these volunteers
in front of the troops,
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in front of their families,
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will receive their insignia
that mention, still today,
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the glory of the battles of
Belleau Wood and Guadalcanal.
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However, Marines have put a problem
on the American conscience.
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The mothers, vigilent guides of
public opinion, have become worried.
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By making these boys perfect soldiers,
don't we risk, during peacetime,
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citizens marked by
a too ruthless discipline?
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In Parris Island, life goes on.
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Promotions lead to other promotions.
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Other worried boys go across
the arm of the sea
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that separtates the
continent of the barrack
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and the free life
of the military walk.
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