Rock and a Hard Place Page #3

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- Do you understand me?

- Sir, yes, sir.

Okay, so right now, you just gotta take it.

Grow some thick skin.

- That's the way it is around here.

- Sir, I'm not...

No, that's it. I have nothing more to say.

I'm telling you what you have to do.

- I'm giving you the tools.

- Officer:
Come here, you!

- Do you understand me?

- Sir, yes, sir.

- Good. Get over there.

- Officer:
Come here, you!

Sir, yes, sir. Aye, yes, sir.

Drop your freaking

canteen and freaking push.

Aye, sir. Crazy, man.

Give 'em to me and freakin' push, maggot!

- Get down there!

- Crazy, man.

- Shut up and just freaking push.

- Lopez:
You better hurry up.

You better sound off at the top of your

lungs like I told you. You understand?

- ...two, sir, three, sir...

- They think... they think that this is a joke.

They think when they come over

here, it's gonna be a joke.

- (grunts)

- Get up, get up, get up, get up.

...five, four, three,

two, and freaking one.

- Go, sir!

- And one.

No matter what the drill instructor does,

you have to freaking follow protocol

and do what you're supposed to do.

If I'm doing right and y'all gonna

keep putting me back in the system...

- and keep trying me...

- (overlapping voices)

You know what? Guess what, guess what.

You're gonna be freaking pushing,

then I'm gonna be pushing.

Oh, I'm pushing, man?

Shut up! Shut up!

Let me know when you're ready

to join the rest of the platoon.

Cadets:
...four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine, 10.

He started popping off 'cause

somebody got in his face.

You know? It's gonna be a continuous thing.

- He can't have it, so.

- What you mean by popping off?

Disrespectful, you know?

- Cursing...

- Officer:
He used profanity?

Yeah, throwing his hands up.

Okay, so we'll use the chain of command.

Let's have someone speak with him

and come on up the chain of command

and make a determination of

what we're gonna do with him.

Our job ain't to get rid of

you. Our job is to fix you.

Okay? But you gotta

wanna help yourself first.

Grow up. It's not cute.

It's not funny.

You have a decision to make.

You're not gonna be in timeout forever.

You're not, Chew.

Chew, you're turning

your head, you're moving.

You're doing all what you wanna

do. That's why you over here.

Every day, somebody

gotta be talking to you.

- Every hour on the hour.

- Officer:
Let's go.

Hodge:
This mother

pissed me the hell off!

Chew, you back. What happened?

Why you back? Why you gotta keep

coming back to this holding cell?

- Yeah, I'm trying, man.

- Chew, do it for you

and do it for your mom

and do it for your family.

(mock crying)

(laughing)

Aye, sir!

- Aye, sir.

- You sound so beautiful.

You wanna smile in front

of a drill instructor?

That's what you wanna do?

- (arguing)

- Shut the freak up, man!

Let's go. You gotta go. Let's go.

Get him out of here.

(lock clicks)

Everyone else spoke to him

and told him it's not a joke.

Either you conform to the program

or we're gonna remove you from the program.

- Green:
How many times you been arrested, son?

- Couple... a couple times.

- And how old are you?

- 21.

So, a couple is a lot

for a 21-year-old, son.

So, how much time

we need to give you?

Another 10 days, another five days?

- How much time do you need?

- No, ma'am.

I don't need no more days, ma'am.

I'm debating his life.

You know, you try to help these young men,

and sometimes they can't

get out of their own way.

That's what I'm thinking.

So, part of me says he's trying,

but the other part of me is

saying that he's just playing games

- and going through the motions.

- (door buzzes)

This is an intense program.

They chose boot camp,

we did not choose them.

They signed to be here,

they agreed to be here,

so if you gonna be here,

you not gonna waste my time,

you gonna not... you not gonna waste

my freaking fellow drill instructors' time,

you not gonna waste the other cadets' time

that's trying to change

they freaking life.

So, if you feel like you

gonna slow the program,

we gotta get you out of

the freaking program.

You're damn right.

(chatter)

(lock clicks)

All right, Chew, you know you're

being removed from the program.

Now, you're being charged with

using abusive or aggressive language

or gestures,

aggravated refusal to follow written

or verbal orders from the staff.

- You understand that?

- Sir, yes, sir.

Boot camp ain't for nobody, man.

That's something I knew, man.

(alarm beeps)

- Cadet:
How are you, ma'am?

- Ma'am, good afternoon, ma'am.

Cadets:
Ma'am, good

afternoon, ma'am!

(both speaking Spanish)

He said that she's... she looks sexy.

He said that.

- Look, Cordero.

- Nah.

- Good afternoon, everybody.

- Cadets:
Good afternoon, ma'am.

My name is Mrs. Jackson. I'm

your counselor for boot camp.

Mr. Johnson is also

a counselor here.

If you have any questions,

I'll answer them once I call you up.

Cadet:
Aye, ma'am.

Jackson:
Cadet Jules.

What were your primary charges?

Two armed robberies, two strong-arm,

one grand theft.

Got a high school diploma?

Ma'am, no, ma'am.

Johnson:
Manuel Cordero.

- Sir, good afternoon, sir.

- Okay, have a seat.

Good afternoon. Counselor Johnson.

How do you pronounce your last name?

Oh, I don't speak English.

- No comprende in English?

- No.

Oh.

What are your charges?

Two armed robberies, ma'am.

- Johnson:
Do you have any kids?

- Sir, yes, sir.

- How many?

- One, sir.

- Girl or boy?

- Boy, sir.

The first time you got

arrested, how old were you?

Cadet:
Aye, sir!

Jackson:
How many times you been arrested?

- In total?

- Over five?

- 15, 20.

- 15 to 20 times.

They like running you guys through the

system without actually helping y'all.

I don't understand it.

All right.

A recycle is an individual that's

been sentenced to boot camp,

and, for whatever reason,

we have a one-time opportunity

to kick them out and bring them back.

This is Timothy Williams.

He's a special case.

He's been kicked out

not once, but twice.

This is his last opportunity

here in this program,

so hopefully he's learned his lesson.

Gilliard:
Williams, let's go.

(chatter)

- This is my third time here.

- (chuckles)

- Everybody don't get lucky like that.

- Mm-mm.

So, therefore, why I gotta come here...

Because why am I wasting

my time on you, Williams?

Like you said, you've

been here three times.

Everybody get three times?

Everybody don't get no... some

people don't get two times.

My point exactly.

Everybody don't have the

same judge that you have.

'Cause you could've been up the

road serving your six years.

The prison life.

So, you wanna be here?

I wanna be here so I can go home.

- To do what?

- Change.

Oh, okay, 'cause that's the

biggest issue right now...

change, not just to go home.

- I respect that.

- All right.

- Let's go.

- Aye, ma'am.

How's everybody?

- Cadets:
Good.

- Good?

I'm from the central center.

I'm an anger management facilitator.

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