Story #4150

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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. It was FTX 3 i believe and it was over and we were all waiting around for chow to arrive and do the 16k ruck march. All of our drills gave us permission to get some rest before the ruck.

People were laying against trees ruck sacks and all that. There was one private in 2nd platoon who saw a snake curled up in the grass and notified DS B. He came over to the snake and asked for the PVTs E tool and cut the head off the snake. By this time there was a small crown of privates watching DS B mess with the snakes corpse asking if any of us wanted to keep it and send it home to our girl friends.

Eventually the blood stopped pouring out of where the head was cut off and i saw the look on DS B s face light up with a smile. He then ran around the FTX site looking for sleeping privates to put the dead snake on and wake them up to make scare the living hell out of them. They all reacted the way privates would.

One got up and sprinted a good 100 feet while everyone was just watching and laughing including all of our drills. There was one private whos nickname was Xylophone beacause nobody knew how to actually pronounce his last name. Well anyway DS B went to PVT Xylophone and laid the snake on his lap. DS B wakes him up gently saying to stay calm.

PVT Xylophone looks down on his lap and began to shake and shrink up into a ball and make weird sounds. I remember that he was on the verge of screaming but he noticed everybody laughing and the drill holding the dead snake. “Damn private i thought you were one of them ordinance girls for a moment”.

It is the funniest memory i have from OSUT