Junior Marines Ponder Edgy New Film, 'A Day Without A First Sergeant'
SAN DIEGO, CA – Finally, a movie about the Marine Corps your Sergeant Major wants you to see.
Marines at Camp Pendleton recently attended the premier of the new mock documentary film "A Day Without A First Sergeant." The movie explores what would actually happen if junior Marines got their wish and woke up one day to discover all their roundly-ridiculed and hated first sergeants and sergeants major suddenly disappeared.
The film is an independent project by Rocker Room Productions and marks the directorial debut of Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Michael Barrett.
It begins on a Monday... a Monday just like any others, except at Camp Pendleton.
"Goddamn you motherfuckers!" yelled First Sergeant Rod Barlow at Fox Company, 2nd Battalion 5th Marines. "All weekend long it's been dealing with Drunk & Disorderlies, bailing your asses out of jail, and stopping your wives from putting out restraining orders on your girlfriends who you stupidly put as co-owners on your triple mortgaged homes!"
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