Marine Corps Body Bearers | The Last To Let You Down

a lot of people don't really know what we do or don't really know what it entails and when they find out they're taking back a little bit and it really never crossed their mind at times it's it's a great job I love it for many reasons of it just being an honor and something that I'll remember for the rest of my life the I was actually deployed when I heard about the body bears when I heard about the body bears what it all was about I was like immediately I wanted to be one I remember telling everybody telling my family telling uh friends that I was gonna become a body bear and when I got here it took me about seven months and that's how it all started you it's our job to have flawless bearing and to perform our job at the max at 100% for them and so we don't do it thinking about ourselves it's all for the family and for that American Hero really how we conduct our funerals in Arlington it's different from every other branch I've been told time and time again and it's really just an honor to be a part of it don't take it lightly to do our job we want to do the best that we can for every funeral because for a lot of people that's that's their one look on the marine corps that they get and we want to leave them with that lasting impression the majority of the funerals we do our older Marines died of natural causes world war teen with vets and just just dependents loved ones from them we still do get some active duty and those are those are really I don't want to say ruff to do but they are like they make you think about what you're doing it brings it close to home I think everybody handles it in their own way but ultimately we're all here for each other and to help each other through anything what I we're working on them getting their strength up therefore they're they're bearing their their size and their endurance up but we're also working on is their technique on carrying and doing different various funerals that we do bearing is one of the most important things we we have out here how gnarling Tinley don't breathe through our mouths it's all through the nose and out through the nose just show no emotion and no pain no physical strain whatsoever because it's all about the family you don't want them to see anything other than a flawless funeral they got more time so this is where we do everything down the LP we have all our different training tools that we use from 45 pound plates to the black box it's a its dark dirty it gets wet down here it gets crazy hot and crazy cold and it really I think is where we should be working and it's been around forever every section is is trained down here and we're just carrying on the traditions my strength started to slowly go down within those first two months of getting here because of the shop and really what I mean by the shock is just the different type of training they do here you you you're going to get tendinitis right away from throwing everyday you know the body's not used to doing three sets of 20 pull-ups three sets of twenty curls every day as time went on I got stronger I noticed changes in my strength the tendinitis would go away after a few months and the body just the body adapts to its environment and it either gets stronger and breaks through those walls or a break down so really you have to be a strong individual to get through it and not just physically but emotionally too and mentally I always think about the section I'm sure I want to come back as a lot of guys do just to see hey is it it's staying of the tradition still there or the guys still big or the guy you know is everything saimin little things might change but for the most part the traditions stay alive no one day I'm going to look back on all this and I'll be like those are the good old days and it's cool to know that like I'm in them right now you know being deployed and knowing like when we do active duty marine funerals and stuff and just knowing that they were over there serving their country selflessly and paying that ultimate sacrifice it's really an honor to do it for them and I always want to do my best for them and their family I think the most common question I'm asked is being a body Barrett doesn't that drain you a lot doesn't it isn't that hard on you and for me honestly I love it it's it's a hard job it's not for everybody but it's something I take a lot of pride in and I know everybody else in the section does

Channel: Marines

Views: 2,791,983

Keywords: Marines, Marine Corps, usmc, united states marines, united states marine corps, marine corps, military, armed forces, jarhead, leatherneck, devil dog, first to fight, the few, the proud, Marine (military), Body Bearers, Lance Cpl Jamen Miller, 8th and I, Marine Barracks Wasington

Id: f9SzHRlGRXE

Length: 7min 48sec (468 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 25 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

These guys get straight up hazed in CDS, boot camp style. That's why they look miserable.

[u/MarriedToTheJob]

It's a pretty cool video. I never realized how much work these guys put in. That said these guys look way too fucking yoked. They just look fat in my opinion. Especially in their blues