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. It got to the point to where DS S was telling people to flip their battle buddie’s beds. Well, Private W left his weapon on his bed and DS S told Private W’s battle to flip his bed. After this all, we had a formation for dinner chow with a time hack of 1 minute. We all rushed to put our weapons on the rack so we could meet the time hack. So, we get to chow and Private W is told he’s needed back at the barracks ASAP. The weapons guard counted the weapons and we were missing 1. After Private W took off, all of 4th PLT had to return to the barracks. Private W realizing what he had done quickly retrieves his rifle from under his bed and shows the DS on CQ, which happened to be our SDS and SDS L didn’t like this at all. We were all instructed to grab out weapons and form up downstairs. Needless to say, he had timed us for our smoking session while he sat under the CTA in a chair. We had to hit the hill and every time we formed back up, he would ask “Does everyone have their weapon? Yes? Good. Hit the hill.” After seeing us drained from hitting it 5 times in a row, we were told to hit the pit, then lunge the pit, then we did weapon PT for the remainder of the smoking. After this incident, we never lost track of a weapon again. -Berserkers