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Stories from the trail
Story #5129
Vote So there I was 2nd or 3rd week of BCT, as per normal procedure everyone has that guy in their BCT cycle. We will call this guy Private B.
Story #4062
Vote We had these two privates in basic who we shall call PVT New York and PVT Georgia. Well, these two PVTs where about themselves and not at all team players.
Story #3944
Vote During BCT, we had this douche canoe private, I’ll call PVT Bro. PVT Bro used to tell all sorts of wild stories about his life before the army, and the DS caught wind of it.
Story #3892
Vote This isn’t a funny story but one that stuck with me. I don’t remember what week we were in basic but one day during mail call one of the privates received a red Cross message one of his family members had passed.
Story #3730
Vote February 2014, I am a 24 year old E3 in basic training at Fort Leonardwood. I had previously attended ROTC at a military college and was deathly afraid of my Drill Sargeants finding out.
Story #3593
Vote One day at basic the DS announced that the SGT MAJ wanted everyone in the classroom right now. As per normal BCT SOP we had no fcking idea what it was about but figured since a SGT MAJ was involved someone had really fcked up.
Story #3574
Vote I will start this story by saying that this isn’t a funny story. At the time, this was the most terrifying and inspiring day of BCT. Fall of 2015. November 13th to be exact. I couldn’t forget the date.
Story #3464
Vote Alright, fcksticks… gather ’round. Fall of 2000, and Private F was the most weak, fcked up troop imaginable. Shipped to basic out of shape.
Story #3454
Vote It seems like there is always that one fcking private that thinks he knows everything and one fcking private that resembles a fat marshmallow. Our company know-it-all was named PVT G, and I was the fat-ass PVT D.
Story #3409
Vote After enlisting in 2006, I shipped to basic at Ft. Leonard Wood where I met PFC B. Now B was the kind of guy every other soldier wanted to be, brains with PT score.
Story #3404
Vote So its probably our 5th week in to basic at sand hill and we start are all starting to get the hang of things. We had just gotten done with a pretty intense smoke session and DS O decided to reward us with our mail that had been…
Story #3273
Vote So my older brother is one of the only reasons I decided to enlist in the military. He served for 9 years before becoming KIA in Afghanistan.
Story #3263
Vote I went to basic in 2005 when I was 25. My story is different. I didn’t join because I was hooah hooah. I joined to change my life. I was heading down a trailer that would either had ended with being in jail or dead.
Story #3174
Vote 2010, DS H was a younger guy. Blended in real well and was up to date on all the latest stuff. So you wouldn’t know he was a DS if he was in pts. Well one Sunday in the chow line, another battery was in front of us for chow.
Story #3162
Vote It’s the last week of OSUT. My DS had learned my name the week before (fuckin right) and I get called in to his office because it ends up he went to my high school’s rival and wanted to talk shit about it.
Story #3114
Vote No sht, there I was. About week 5 of basic, 1995, so a good number of the idiots had already been pushed out. We had one DS that, while not the SDS, was the one that you did NOT want to fck with you or smoke you, because he was the…
Story #3101
Vote 2005, on the bus for 0 day and I’m sitting beside a kid who’s somehow too shook up for Basic and has way too many bags.
Story #3093
Vote This isn’t a story about Privates being retarded, or about how how we all got the sht smoked out of us, not even about a hilarious line that came from a Drill Sergeant.
Story #3035
Vote So it’s 2006 and I was one Fat SOB. First time seeing a recruiter I was 310 LBS, dropped to 280 in 20 days just so I could make it through MEPS.
Story #2932
Vote Many years ago I’d gone off to my IET as a reservist and came back to find my unit in the process of being deactivated.
Story #2925
Vote This story is a little different than the normal fuckery we read. I was in my 5th week of BCT back in 1988. We were in class the morning of the gas chamber learning who knows what the fuck. This was 27 years ago.
Story #2878
Vote I didn’t like Nelson from day one. He was about 28, mouthy, and kept bragging about how he lived close to some NASCAR drivers in North Carolina.
Story #2856
Vote November, 2011, we were in blue phase. It was lights out, I was pulling my fire guard shift. About half way through, DS C, with his fricken megaphone and whistle in hand, comes strolling in.
Story #2834
Vote There’s a lot of stories about Drill Sergeants that are funny, acurate and ultimately fucking up privates. This isn’t like that, this is a story about how one showed a young private (me) some simple gestures of humanity and kindness.
Story #2766
Vote DS S was a scary SOB. Must have been 6’8″ our only Infantry DS and built like a shit brickhouse. DS S had one rule. “If I told you, you can do it, then you can do it.” As stupid privates do, we decided to test this theory during the…
Story #2545
Vote Graduation was comming up and we all were getting haircuts and class As ready for turning blue and everything, my girlfriend was comming wih my parents to see the ceremony. So I decided to get cleaned up.
Story #4350
Vote Sept 1966, Ft Bliss TX Basic training (damn 50years ago). Somehow our Sgt Field First Dsgt SFC Q got into the platoon bay without anyone seeing him and calling “At Ease”.
Story #4343
Vote For all my life I looked up to the military and I was stunned this past year when I finally got my chance to join the ranks.
Story #4336
Vote At one point in BCT 3rd and 4th platoon had be warned multiple times on bullying. One day the worst instance was discovered by DS C. I’m just grateful I was in 2nd platoon.
Story #4334
Vote So no sht there I was Ft. Jackson Feb. 2007 (You can stop reading and go whack off to your amputee porn.For those of you that stayed congratulations).Having grown up in the tropics it was colder than a witches tit in a brass bra.
Story #4323
Vote Just remembered this time from BCT that a DS got really pissed at us and said all she wanted to do was go home. She got so mad that she started quick timing us and singing cadence ridiculously fast.
Story #4321
Vote February 25th of 2013, week 4 of OSUT, I was on desk duty for a sprained ankle that morning, today was our second day at the firing range, pvts are all excited and ready to fire their weapons, while 3rd platoon was getting their…
Story #4320
Vote I did my basic training in 1974. Outside every mess hall, there were trash cans, some of them marked Edible Garbage and others marked Inedible Garbage.
Story #4315
Vote It was the summer of 1990. We were in about our sixth week of basic and it was too hot for training outside so the DS Drill sergeant Nice (as I’ll call him) was having a class in our barracks.
Story #4309
Vote OSUT, 2001. I was one of those who heard the bugle call and enlisted to stack bodies for the 9/11 attacks. Anyway, after 30th AG, I get assigned to my ITB unit and my Drill Sergeant. Let’s call him O.
Story #4306
Vote Fall of 1986. I’ll never forget the first words my DS said to me. We were getting off the bus from the induction center at our unit.
Story #4304
Vote while in 19D OSUT, one afternoon we came in from some training, As we filtered in the main door I bumped into my DS while trying to avoid walking on the highly buffed middle of the floor.
Story #4302
Vote Ok so I have a BCT story. 06 in Fort Jackson, winter time. This story is not about me though, it’s about the Drill Sergeants who actually give a fck. See we had this private who had a sht end of stick kind of life before enlisting.
Story #4299
Vote Setup: Summer 1992. FTX. 06:00 White Sands Middle Range. New Mexico. Wearing full MILES gear. Sun rising behind me. Three Drill Sergeants, two of which are Rangers, hiding out in the tall, ragged weeds somewhere in front of me.
Story #4298
Vote So I went though Air Force basic in the summer of 94. I have alway been a small girl, well very small. I finally got my height my senior year but still could put on weight so when I hit basic I was put on weight management but to put…
Story #4296
Vote We had this PVT. Let’s call him Botox lips because he lips looked like he had Botox done. So after 5 weeks, this fucker gets himself into a sharp incident and gets transferred companies. The next week, we were having guide-on wars.
Story #4294
Vote Day 2 and were standing in the classroom at attention. A private, lets call him private M, is squirming all over and finally asks to use the latrine. DS S says keep ahold of your babybladder and stand there but with added profanity.
Story #4293
Vote Ft benning 2000…4th of July and we weren’t training..the platoons were ordered to perform are beautification and maintenance of the squad bays…so there we were sleeping on our racks…not doing what we were told…I had the bottom…
Story #4271
Vote It was day one of training week one at MCRDPI. We had been “introduced” to our DIs and needless to say we were scared shitless.
Story #4270
Vote While I was in Charlie. we had some smoke sessions but none as crazy as this. So one day we’re out at the BTT2 range conducting live fire battle buddy movement drills.
Story #4266
Vote Six weeks in basic and pvt b has been getting us smoked since day 1 .after being in the field all day and getting smoked because of pvt b we decided it was time for him to get his .so we start and it gets broken up before anything…
Story #4253
Vote So in 2007 I was pulling medical support for a pre I ET unit with the RSP and I finally got a moment to eat my lunch.
Story #4252
Vote One of the most inspiring NCOs I ever had was my Drill Sergeant. 2003, on Sand hill. As we came off of a 6 mile ruck march one of the privates was shaking uncontrollably.
Story #4227
Vote Bravo company stole our company guidon one day and we stole it back, along with theirs. A few hours later, the cadre first sergeant comes to formation and tells everybody who was involved with stealing bravos guidon to meet him…
Story #4231
Vote Summer 2016. I was finishing up the AIT portion of my Split-Op training. Because we had all completed Basic Training the year prior, our Drill Sergeants were a little more relaxed with us, but still aimed to make our time there hell.
Story #4172
Vote I was in basic in 2004. My platoon had 3 DS’s. One was a 19K, other was 11B, tanker and infantry respectively and they were standard fear of God DSs. The third however was a 42A. He was only about 5’7″ and rather thin.
Story #4165
Vote red phase. They had our battery all together for SHARP training, 230ish of us. Our DS, DS M, asked for a dirty joke so we had an example of what not to say.
Story #4150
Vote I went to Ft Benning to become a 19D in january 20XX. Training was hard as it always is but I do remember my platoons drills loved messing with us. DS B and DS N were their names.
Story #4146
Vote This is a story of a warrior. I had just arrived at basic training and I could already tell I was in hell. Few of my DS s were choking on their own spit from yelling, privates pushing, and bags flying.
Story #4142
Vote So I got a boot camp story for you guys. In 2005 at MCRD San Diego. We had one drill instructor who was over the top even for drill instructors. This guy eventually got dropped and restricted due to physically abusing recruits.
Story #100
Vote 2013 White phase Submitted by Matt It was about a week before holiday leave. We had been sent upstairs to the bay for barracks maintenance. About half an hour into this I hear my name over the intercom.
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Story #2322
Vote As I arrived to my battalion, I was introduced to my squad leader a tall, fully tattoed and ripped dude who made fun of the new guys like us. He was a great leader but also somehow a dumbass.
Story #2384
DS L, well if i could sum this guy up in a few words, it would be – Hes a fucking legend. Now he lead with an iron fist and destroyed us constantly for doing small things wrong, now every story on this page is usually around the same…
Story #2378
It was just a normal Sunday morning on Sand Hill. We were eating chow when Pvt L got caught with syrup on his plate. Syrup was of course unauthorized for us privates. DS B simply asked Pvt L if he took the syrup.
Story #2376
We were in rifle marksmanship and our DS was showing us how to do the dime drill. For those who are reading and don’t know, this is when you put a piece of your cleaning rod into the muzzle of your M16 or M4 and balance a dime on the end.
Story #2347
So we were about halfway through basic and we had this one pvt, we’ll call him pvt Quitter, who had told the DS he wanted to quit on day one. Obviously that’s pretty pitiful considering we had only gone through the shark attack.
Story #2343
Our basic training cycle had made it to the M4 training section of basic training, and we were all on the grouping and zeroing portion.
Story #2321
It’s the first day of basic for me and my fellow battle buddies. We go through the starting hell and hope we can make it to dinner without breaking down. After dinner chow we are in the bay getting our stuff set up and our SDS walks in.
Story #2320
Basic. October 2014. Pvt Super Hooah placed himself on a pedestal giving all of us “lesser” dickheads motivational speeches during reception. Told us about his baby girl and how was there to make her proud and how we needed to be strong.
Story #2317
It was a bitterly cold day out as my entire company was lined up nut to butt in line for some lunch chow. This had to be around week 2 at most as we were still learning how to go from parade rest to walk a step go back to parade rest in…
Story #2316
“Take grenade!” ordered the Drill Instructor (a Senior D.I. from another platoon), I forgot that meant to just open my hands and to receive the grenade, so I took it out of the hand of a shocked Drill Instructor! STOP!!!!
Story #2315
So we were at the end of our cycle, and had this stupid peer evaluation we had to do. Private D decided to go to senior drill Sgt and tell him that its not right to single out a soldier you don’t think should be in the army.
Story #2314
After going through the crucible and warriors breakfast we where in the barracks and congregating in our barracks and we already knew one of DI had drive a nice caddy with some awsome looking rims when we decided to jokingly ask him what…
Story #2311
I was the shit head soldier, got in trouble for moving at attention, couldn’t get inspection arms correctly etc. One day while waiting to dump my tray at the DFAC line, DS M (a former Marine grunt, current 7th Group SF) spots me like a god…
Story #2309
Ds l always told us stories. We always knew it was coming from one single phrase. “No shit there I was.” One story went like this. “No shit there I was. We were in Afghanistan and we had to clear a suspicious house.
Story #2308
This story did not happen in basic but during CQ in Korea. Our top was a former drill, short black guy but looked mean as fuck. His BDUs just radiated excellence and at times booze.
Story #2307
Our barracks had OD Green painted trash cans. When they were tossed about, they left nasty green streaks everywhere they impacted.
Story #2306
Spring, 1992. I was stationed at Ft. Benning and went over to Sand Hill to see a friend who happened to be a DS. We were going to go to lunch.
Story #2304
The drill sergeants found out that one of us was wiccan. So they saved some chicken bones, and made them apart of said privates uniform. Smoked him and his battle buddie when ever he didn’t have the chicken bones with him.
Story #2303
It was the first day of actual basic training and we were going through the “introduction” classes. DS L and DS T were our drill sergeants that were in our face the most and made the biggest impression.
Story #2301
I was at work last night (a bar) restocking the import beer and liquor. I saw a guy about 20 years older than me wearing a 101st ball cap sitting opposite the bar near me.
Story #2300
First I would like to thank my recruiter for getting me to join the Army. What he seen in me was a skinny ass 5’4″ 118 lb kid that would have to pay to lose his virginity. Yes that was me.
Story #2298
Soo i was sitting by the CQ desk, waiting for the serveant to fome and get the soldiers for sick call and everyone was running out to formation for pt and all of the sergeants are at the desk.
Story #2297
During the week long artillery FTX caller we were instructed to set up a security post on either side of the entrance to our bivouac. This consisted of to Fox Hall to be manned by two people at all times.
Story #2293
Benning 2008. So we’re getting closer to graduation and were in our first night of FTX. The DSs gather us around and inform us that we will have guard duty.
Story #2291
Fort Leonard Wood, MO 2007 On the nights where one of the Platoon Drill Sergeants had CQ duty, we were required to not only pull fire guard (and unfortunately suicide watch) but CQ detail as well.
Story #2289
Me and my best friend were normal privates. We stuck out to our SDS. (he later told us at graduation we reminded him of himself so he took it extra hard on us to save us some trouble later in our careers.) The single example of him fucking…
Story #2288
This want really funny just truly awkward weird and ask around uplifting. We arrived in July. It was deleting and down right unbearable the first few days as we acclimated to the unforgiving Georgia heat.
Story #2284
So no shit, there I was, week 12ish of 19K OSUT circa 2010. We’re inside the Tank Driving Simulators, I’m walking out to take a piss and notice there’s someone walking out of the one directly across the hall.
Story #2282
I’m a Marine so my Drill Instructor said this not my Drill Sergeant, but it works. When I was at boot camp I was getting IT’d (Intensive Training) once and my kill hat stopped me while doing burpees, tells me to stand up and we just made…
Story #2281
We were in formation about 4 weeks into training and DS come out to the CTA. As per usual someone was fucked up… DS proceeds to then smoke us. But he notices one private doesn’t get down.
Story #2277
Red Phase 2013, (I call this one “Toad the Line”) It was a typical loud and stressful Wednesday after training when we got back to the barracks. It was late we were all exhausted.
Story #2274
I remember is as if it was yesterday… Well into the war on terror, I finally decided to do my part, since the new C.O.D.
Story #2272
About 6 weeks in, some of the guys from second platoon hatched a daring scheme. From our barracks we could see Snack Island. We couldn’t quite make out the individual candy selections, but there was clearly a wide assortment.
Story #2251
July- 1990. Ft. Benning We were 12 weeks into our 13 weeks and 3 days of OSUT and feeling pretty good about ourselves. Our platoon had managed to get everyone qualified on their weapons and had passed their PT test so our Drill Sergeants…
Story #2244
First day of BMQ (Basic military Qualification), at CFLRS (Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School). Our platoon is slowly arriving piecemeal in cabs from the airport, and most of us arrived on morning flights and made it to the base…
Story #2242
Final FTX, Sand Hill. Our perimeter is a hot mess. The company has spent the whole cycle wracked with discipline issues. We are averaging a negligent discharge every 2 hours that evening, requiring everyone to be awoken and dive into our…
Story #2241
SDS G was a built mother fucker. Multiple combat deployments, quiet dude, and shammed more than a specialist in the motorpool. Not quite WO level of shamming, but he was close.
Story #2239
(No shit, there I was when a DS said the most funniest thing anyone has ever heard:) “Private, I’m gonna stick that watercan so far up your ass I could pour water out your mouth if you don’t start chuggin’!” – DS Fuckyourself in regards to…
Story #2238
My stories are pretty typical of everyone else’s. But here are some great one liners that are notable. “Yeah Privates, I got a family.
Story #2231
We were cleaning our weapons when our drill sergeants decided to have a surprise wall locker inspection. 2 of our Drills were in the bay inspecting lockers when one of them realized how shitty the beds were made.
Story #2230
I was on duty squad for the week so we got off the duece and my platoon was up in the bay cleaning thier M4’s and private R decided he was going to go to sleep. The whole platoon then yelled at him.
Story #2226
Canadian story here. First week of Basic Military Qualification, Private (Pte) R is one of those 17 year old fake redneck idiots and throughout he day, acted hard and “knew everything about army life” and spewed Wikipedia garbage…
Story #2225
Back in 1978 I had entered basic training. It was the first week and some holdovers had been cycled in to fill in the shortfall. Our TI was an Army combat Veteran in Nam. He switched branches after the war.
Story #2224
19K OSUT 2001. (This story seems a little long winded, but its WORTH it, just bear with it until the end and you will be glad you did.) First week of Red Phase.
Story #2222
Not a DS story, but still a good memory. This takes place during my time at Artillery School. It’s a well known fact that Pvt.
Story #2221
It was Memorial Day and we were all in the 1st Plt bay cleaning for IN4. I had been making an ass of myself as “PSG” for a while now and today was no different trying to get people motivated to clean the bay and with no success so I was…
Story #2219
Everyone knows that while in Boot Camp, when you go to the chow hall, you sit down, eat quickly then move out fast. Anyway. It was the first week of boot camp for me in 1994. We were all in line for breakfast.
Story #2217
So, we had some big time nerds in my platoon, I considered myself a fucking nerd, but even I don’t compare to these guys. Oddly enough, they were least problematic privates too. Anyways, we find out one is a brony. What should we do?
Story #2208
19k OSUT 2001. So early into red phase one evening my plt was gathering into formation one by one after running back from the DFAC. We always had to run back and form up and await what ever was next.
Story #2205
Summer of 09′ in a-co Sandhill. Drill sergeant W. Put us at attention and seemed to have vanished. After about 20 minutes we all start to get pretty restless standing out in the heat. The first Pvt. To break was Pvt H.
Story #2204
Basic training September 2014 PLT CO / PLT barracks (I wrote a bunch of OPSEC here like a genius.) I know alot (FU spell check!) of you grunts will be screaming pig and all that potato level bullshit but I want to tell my story.
Story #2202
Working as a drill in 1978(Yesssssss! Another DS telling the story, and old school too. Can’t wait to read about the fuckery!) , trainees are told that they will be gassed on a tactical march at some point prior to graduating.
Story #2194
It the middle of August and hot as hell. We were a week into basic DS.Y a 5 Ft 6 in ball of South Korean crazy. We were about a half mile into our first road march.
Story #2190
BCT 1996 Ft. Jackson (was not ‘relaxin’ when I was there) all DS were Desert Storm vets and were all 11B. We were in about day 3 of FTX when DS M tells us all to get into our ‘fighting positions’ and prepare for an attack.
Story #2185
SDS G related us privates’ appearances pretty creatively. The first day in our bay, we were toeing the line while he made his way down the entire platoon commenting on how ugly we all were, declaring that one private was so fat that the…
Story #2184
British Army, 1998 about five weeks into basic. Recruit G thinks he is hard as fuck. We’ve been beasted (smoked) countless times because of the amount of fights this little prick has started and everyone is getting pissed off.
Story #2183
So having just gotten out of basic a few weeks ago I can say the funniest thing was what happened to PVT K. Now no one liked PVT K at all, he was known as the Keebler elf and somehow managed to get under everyone in the platoons skin.
Story #2166
So it’s about 4 days before FTX 1, and one of our Drill Sgts, Drill Sgt A is giving us a block of instruction on digging hasty fighting positions.
Story #2159
Week 3 of BCT, and we just began to go over Basic Rifle Marksmanship. We were at a practice range, not shooting anything, but being taught how to clear our weapons, and how to act at the range.
Story #2074
When I was going through boot at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego a recruit in my unit got a little Hot Wheel car in the mail from his Mother, it was one that looked similar to his car.
Story #2072
NO SHIT, THERE I WAS….a young Pvt E-nothing on Sand Hill, we had gotten to our qual day on the range and DS L started our initial briefing with “Who has a joke to start today’s training with?” Like any inexperienced slick sleeve that…
Story #2063
Our platoon screw up got restarted on one of the last days of bct. Our last morning pt before family day was our first day without him. Mid-way through pt, our SDS shouts “PVT A, REPORT! PVT A?!… ah the sweet sound of silence.”
Story #2061
During BCT (Basic Combat Training) in 1970, we went to the QuickFire range, where you were taught to shoot a 1.5″ metal disk that was tossed in the air with a BB gun.
Story #2032
Our company had 3 DS per platoon. The worst of ours was a female, DS P. I believe it was about week six on a Sunday. My platoon was sitting in the front of the barracks (we had the shitty trailers instead of an actual barracks) cleaning…
Story #2017
This story is second hand, buddy shared it after reading a recent story about fart-induced smoking. The year was 2003. Buddy was a rare sight, almost as rare as a Warrant Officer in his office.
Story #2009
Before I begin with the main part of the story, I must preface with how Pvt. H introduced herself to the Drill Sergeants and the rest off us on day one.
Story #1980
We were a couple of weeks away from graduating AIT and had been given an afternoon Post Pass. Four of us who had done BCT on post decided to walk across to watch the fuck fuck games. We stopped by the shoppette along the way.
Story #1967
Ft Benning 2010Â Going through osut with my platoon was one of my best memories I ever had. I’ll try and say as much as I can so the people who were there might recognize this but we had this one DS who I’ll call BG.
Story #1952
Ft Benning “Nevermind the year because anyone after the civil war is a pussy” -George Patton So we are on our final FTX breaking down our scrapes and getting ready to move back the AA.
Story #1936
We had a crusty old drill sergeant who had been in for somewhere around thirty years (his words, not my guess). He had been in the 82nd for nearly his whole career and then for whatever reason, decided to become a drill sergeant.
Story #1862
Basic training, July-August 1987. Basic radio procedure class, late afternoon, wicked hot, under some blissfully shady trees.
Story #1763
It was 1993 and we were in our last week of Basic Training at Ft. Sill, OK. We ware mostly a Reserve and National Guard cycle with about 75% of the company completing Basic during the summer under the Split-Option.
Story #1758
So I’m a reclass it’s my second day here in infantry OSUT. Being a former MP and combat vet I am used to crazy shit NCOs say. Well DS M decideds to fuck the platoon up for our bay looking like the homeless live in it.
Story #1757
First or second week of basic rushing to get out the showers wearing only a towel. DS stops me and asks if I shaved this morning. I lied and said yes. So it started with jumping jacks which made the towel fall off in about 10 seconds.
Story #1756
So while in BCT I developed a cyst under my right ear. Got it removed and got some amazing pain meds and antibiotics that apparently clashed in my system and created a heavy drowsiness system.
Story #1739
September 2013, one night for mail call our DS gathered us all up around him in the Killzone. DS had just started flinging..I mean handing letters out when all the sudden the room got completely silent and all I heard was the DS scream…
Story #1733
One lovely winter morning at kapooka, we were in the mess ready for a feed. Let’s call this fella recruit M, decides to look around checking everyone out, for a split second catches the eye of one of the most ruthless Seco’s at basic, Cpl…
Story #1732
I remeber the first day of AIT we got to fox co at fort lee and as soon as i walk through the doors there he was DS C from basic in fort jackson.
Story #1539
As my company entered white phase in OSUT, we were told that we would soon be having platoon guides marching us back and forth to wherever our drill sergeants had us go.
Nothing in that category.