+1

The amount of hours a ds puts in is insane. Add that to if you're understaffed. I'm honestly surprised more accidents don't happen. Let alone if one has a family.
My cycle was mostly ocs kids and we figured it out pretty quick.

I think my biggest gripe was the females in bct. They got extra privileges, a full bay (with only 25 or so) which left the male population stuffed liked sardines into the other bays, like bunks in the middle of the bay. Hopefully they figured out a better system... Prolly not. But not like I care(d). It was a fun. Wrote my drill's essays for gcu while on cq. I taught my bunky proper English(he was Puerto Rican). I think it's something every citizen should experience. Just like idf

I remember the Drill Sgts explaining that you were only allowed be a DS for a certain number of cycles. If you wanted to re-up as one you had to go for a psych eval. (srs...)


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I hear now. They give you a giant bonus $$$$$$

I know you think that sounds sophisticated, erudite and clever, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

Unless you get stuck at 30th ag... LOL

I think a few of you guys here will like this...
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1984 Fort "Lost in the Woods" (Leonard Wood) Missouri....

Up jumped a ranger from the coconut grove
He was a mean mother-effer... you could tell by his clothes
He wore a three dollar beanie with a two button stitch
He was a hard core engineer... a son of a beotch
He lined a hundred women up against the wall
Swore to himself he could eff em all
Effed 98 till his balls turned blue
Then he backed off, jacked off and effed the other two

A yellow bird... with a yellow bill
Was sitting on... my window sill
I coaxed him in ... with a piece of bread
And then I smashed... his little head

You looking at me boy? Well looking leads to liking, liking leads to loving....

Quit effing around or I am gonna lay some African soup bone on your ass boy!

I want these barrack floors to shine like a diamond in a goat's azz!

Kiss me eff me glasses... AKA Birth Control glasses

Chocolate milk and grits for breakfast

Me and a buddy left our M16's laying against a picnic table to get seconds for lunch at a range one day.... For the rest of Basic and AIT training we had to drop and start counting off pushups EVERY time we saw our Master Drill Sergeant (African soup bone threats) ... He said we owed him the serial number of our rifles in pushups. We even had to drop the day we left for home while wearing our dress greens.

I still don't know what a "master dI" is.

This is my weapon this is my gun....
one is for fighten the other is for fun.

Our "Master Drill Sergeant" was the man in charge of our company. We had him plus 3 other drill sergeants. IIRC there were typically only a couple of our drill sergeants with us at any given time.

Were you a 12B?

It was based on a quote by a recon marine:


"You know what happens when you go back to civviy life?
you get your brain back"

in context of some sgt major *****ing bout grooming standard the day after weeks of daily combat

I never heard anyone say that, but a joke we used to hear was

What's the difference between The Army and The Boy Scouts

The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

and I was in The USMC so that made it funny

That is Bull crap...there were no painted targets..TRADOC...Training and Doctrine Command has standards and they are the type E silhouette target..OD Green in color.

The guy that wrote that crap is trying to feel better about deserting. People believe that Shiite tho because they want to...…

Yeah, we shoot targets with babies and women with flowers.....what a scum bag that guy must be.

Well...this ought to crack you up then

Marine Corps Mythical History

https://ihatetheusmc.com/marine-corps-mythical-history/

a good read and of course I don't know what if any is true. and then there was the Marines taking back Hue after the Army lost it, or is that not true too. as for money, everybody got stuff before the Marines, we didn't get anything until the Army, AF, Navy was outfitted. I don't pay attention so have no idea how things go now.

and the history was written by ANONYMOUS

Don't take it too literal. The machine gun beatings was the best part tbh.

I know you posted it in that light but I have found too many civilians willing to buy into BS like that.....I always beat Joe with a Howitzer...just took one whack.

Brown? Who were we fighting in RVN? Guy can't even keep his racist comments straight....

We had mechanical pop-up, pop-outs of the top half of men, -maybe OD green?
No indigenous marks as to nationality, sex, or age .
They were made of something that healed the bullet holes as they plugged their own holes.
No face at all.
The looked more like a cutout of shadow.
We had them for target practice and walks through supposed woods and burms, bushes etc.
They would pop out and we had to shoot them in some certain length of time to pass.
I don't remember what percentage of a second was used as pass or fail.
In the Army, everyone has to pass basic DUH...
I was going on to aviation (helicopters) but still had to know about basic warfare as every soldier in the army did.
All the grunt training, basic, in the beginning, did save my arse many times latter.
This training taught us how to drop emotions and do what had to be done under the most difficult circumstances latter.
The first time i saw tracers coming up at our helicopter was almost matter of fact "Tacking Fire!"
Without the grunt basic training, I would have reacted much differently I am so sure.
I probably would have screamed like a schoolboy.

I qualify on these guys. Hit it and pops down.
Lately they've been lazy and using the alternate paper target with smaller silhouettes. Easier to get 35+ imho. Especially with optics.


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USMC Parris Island 1970, at 17, God I hated those *******s, BUT them teaching me how to crawl really fast on my knees AND elbows saved my life twice.

Army Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood fall of 1969with Drill Sgt. Carter (E6) and Drill Sgt. Daugherty (E5) followed by eight weeks artillery AIT at Ft. Sill ending with my getting a 13E20 MOS. AIT was mostly classroom and field exercises. Then 22 weeks of Combat Engineering OCS at Ft . Belvoir. OCS was more than 10x harder than basic - both physically and especially mentally. TAC officers were much more creative in ways to weed out those who they thought would not be leaders. Wasn’t ‘fun’ but it wasn’t a waste of my time either. I learned an awful lot about myself and my abilities. There were lots of good TAC officers but also some sadists. I saw both.