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Posted: 3/29/2024 3:32:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TallLankey: Pfff, lol ok buddy. Should I wait until my next life? Should I wait until I’m 40? Ever seen the movie Rudy? That’s me pal. Even if it’s just one shitty over rated play, I’m doing this. A lot of these people are terminally online. I wouldn't listen to most people here at all. Go join your nation's army. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/29/2024 3:48:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MikeJGA: Do it now. Start doing push-ups, sit ups and running today. Work up to running 3-5 miles every day. If you show up in good shape, the rest is all mental Damn, ok. I might as well. I already put in my two weeks notice at work and am doing jack shit anyway. What are they gonna do, fire me? I’ll use this time to start running. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 3:49:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TallLankey: Damn, ok. I might as well. I already put in my two weeks notice at work and am doing jack shit anyway. What are they gonna do, fire me? I’ll use this time to start running. Having good cardio is only going to help. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 3:51:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TaskForce: Having good cardio is only going to help. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TaskForce: Originally Posted By TallLankey: Damn, ok. I might as well. I already put in my two weeks notice at work and am doing jack shit anyway. What are they gonna do, fire me? I’ll use this time to start running. Having good cardio is only going to help. This. Also, if SHTF, that cardio will help save your life. Biggest reason? Everything is easier in the Army when you're good at PT. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/29/2024 3:58:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 11boomboom: This. Also, if SHTF, that cardio will help save your life. Biggest reason? Everything is easier in the Army when you're good at PT. Makes sense. Stupid question but bear with me, does the airborne training involve actually jumping from an aircraft? If so at what point? |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 4:00:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: WildBoar]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TallLankey: Makes sense. Stupid question but bear with me, does the airborne training involve actually jumping from an aircraft? If so at what point? Week 1 is learning how to land. Week 2 is learning how to jump from aircraft, from a tower if weather permits. Week 3 is jumping. You will get 5 actual jumps. You will doing landing practice the entire time of course. Some people used to get there a week early and it was zero week.. probably bullshit details all week |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 4:02:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TallLankey: Makes sense. Stupid question but bear with me, does the airborne training involve actually jumping from an aircraft? If so at what point? Please tell me you didn't volunteer for ABN without knowing that. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/29/2024 4:06:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TaskForce: Please tell me you didn't volunteer for ABN without knowing that. I’m hoping it does. I know they spend a lot of time just learning how to fall before hand and didn’t know if everyone actually gets to jump out of aircraft as part of the training. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/29/2024 4:08:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WildBoar: Week 1 is learning how to land. Week 2 is learning how to jump from aircraft, from a tower if weather permits. Week 3 is jumping. You will get 5 actual jumps. You will doing landing practice the entire time of course. Some people used to get there a week early and it was zero week.. probably bullshit details all week That’s awesome, hope I make it to week three without hurting myself. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 4:09:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TallLankey: I’m hoping it does. I know they spend a lot of time just learning how to fall before hand and didn’t know if everyone actually gets to jump out of aircraft as part of the training. You will jump 5x, once in the dark... |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 4:10:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 11boomboom: You're not wrong.  I got the 30th AG flu and celebrated my 24th birthday there with 101 fever. Cheeseburgers were awesome, though. Getting sick sucks! I got pneumonia about halfway through. We were digging fox holes on an FTX and I felt like I was going to die. I was so weak I could not do anything but I didn’t want to say anything because I didn’t want to be weak. Well, I ended up having to go to the hospital. For some reason, my drill sergeant’s did not recycle me when I got back. I guess I didn’t miss anything too important. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/29/2024 4:23:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ICU: You will jump 5x, once in the dark... That’s even cooler |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 4:28:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AnonymousUser0087: Getting sick sucks! I got pneumonia about halfway through. We were digging fox holes on an FTX and I felt like I was going to die. I was so weak I could not do anything but I didn’t want to say anything because I didn’t want to be weak. Well, I ended up having to go to the hospital. For some reason, my drill sergeant’s did not recycle me when I got back. I guess I didn’t miss anything too important. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AnonymousUser0087: Getting sick sucks! I got pneumonia about halfway through. We were digging fox holes on an FTX and I felt like I was going to die. I was so weak I could not do anything but I didn’t want to say anything because I didn’t want to be weak. Well, I ended up having to go to the hospital. For some reason, my drill sergeant’s did not recycle me when I got back. I guess I didn’t miss anything too important. I started OSUT in August, graduated in November. Got everything from 120 degrees to morning frost while pulling security in waist-deep swamp water.  I wouldn't change it for anything. Living in Ranger Graves is interesting, to say the least. Not sure if they still allow digging in the training area. Originally Posted By TaskForce: Please tell me you didn't volunteer for ABN without knowing that. *slaps thighs and yells stuff from the 1940s while knife edging at things* |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:23:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Airborne11B]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TallLankey: That’s even cooler Just get ready to watch a stupid ass late 1970s airborne video literally 200 times on repeat while sitting in the shed on super comfy wood benches after being JMPI’d waiting for your chalk to board the bird. Actually here it is: |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:32:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SiVisPacem: There is truth in this advice. One of my first days in OSUT, the Drill Sergeants came out of their office while we were in formation and asked if anyone knew how to type. I'd taken two years of typing in high school (late 90's, so not everyone was using computers enough to learn), so I raised my hand, as did a few others. The Drill Sergeants called us out of formation and asked each of us how many words a minute we could type. I was the fastest at around 55 wpm. While everybody else was engaged in some kind of outdoor physical activity in the Georgia heat, I was sitting in an air conditioned office, typing up copies of the company roster. I had a 5-year break in service, which meant I had to go back through Basic when I reenlisted. When I finished Basic, there was about a week before there was room in the AIT barracks for my classmates and I, so we spent it hanging around the Basic Training battery. One of the NCO's from S-3 came around asking if anyone had a civilian driver's license. I was the only one who admitted to it, so I got to spend the next week driving trainees from the Troop Medical Clinic to the hospital on main post and back all day. On my first trip, we passed Burger King and several of the dudes I was driving to the hospital ooh'd and ahh'd at it. I commented that I was going to go for lunch later, but I'd left my wallet at the barracks (which was true). That began a daily routine of somebody offering to pay for my lunch if I'd stop at BK. I will second this. Always volunteer, sometimes the shit detail is a disguise for a fun time. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:39:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Airborne11B: Just get ready to watch a stupid ass late 1970s airborne video literally 200 times on repeat while sitting in the shed on super comfy wood benches after being JMPI’d waiting for your chalk to board the bird. Actually here it is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ6QX-OsWUcSounds like the sound track to “Shaft, Can you Dig It” |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:40:14 PM EDT
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Man this waiting sucks.
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:41:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By scrolledandtabbed: You do realize that you’re the one who determines if you “get into something high speed”, right? That’s entirely on you. And right now it’s easier than it ever was before. 75th, 1SFC, they are hurting for guys. Go get jacked as fuck, assess, and stop wondering if you could have. http://i.imgur.com/WGykwe0.jpg This. If you want it bad enough you will get it. If you don't? You didn't want it bad enough. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:41:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Airborne11B: This fucking right here. Do your part, and the Army opens up exponentially…don’t just do the bare minimum, do 2x PT per day, ruck when you get off, study up on weapons and tactics and doctrine. Learn and live land nav. Like he said, the Army is hurting for pipe hitters now….just don’t quit, be a team player, and work your ass off and you’ll make it. A 600 acft and a 110 GT opens up 99.5% of everything in the army from laundry repair specialist to astronaut. The army WILL fuck you. It’s only fair to demand your reach around. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:43:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TallLankey: Man this waiting sucks. Yeah, about that. There is a term called hurry up and wait. Get used to it. 
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:43:31 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 11boomboom]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Airborne11B: Just get ready to watch a stupid ass late 1970s airborne video literally 200 times on repeat while sitting in the shed on super comfy wood benches after being JMPI’d waiting for your chalk to board the bird. Actually here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ6QX-OsWUcQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By Airborne11B: Just get ready to watch a stupid ass late 1970s airborne video literally 200 times on repeat while sitting in the shed on super comfy wood benches after being JMPI’d waiting for your chalk to board the bird. Actually here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ6QX-OsWUcIt might be because I'm a leg, but that video is a banger. Originally Posted By WildBoar: This. If you want it bad enough you will get it. If you don't? You didn't want it bad enough. Oooooh.... so true. Originally Posted By Stump70: Yeah, about that. There is a term called hurry up and wait. Get used to it. Facts. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:46:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 11boomboom: It might be because I'm a leg, but that video is a banger. Oooooh.... so true. Facts. It’s a banger because you haven’t seen and heard it1000x in the span of 5 days during jump week
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:48:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Airborne11B: It’s a banger because you haven’t seen and heard it1000x in the span of 5 days during jump week I figured, that's why I added I was a leg.
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:52:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 11boomboom: I figured, that's why I added I was a leg. The first couple of times we were like fuckin hooah Airborne…after 6 hrs of sitting in your chute on those fucking benches and your ass is numb because the Air Force can’t get their ‘130 to work, it’s like fuck man, can’t you just kill us instead? |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:57:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Airborne11B: The first couple of times we were like fuckin hooah Airborne…after 6 hrs of sitting in your chute on those fucking benches and your ass is numb because the Air Force can’t get their ‘130 to work, it’s like fuck man, can’t you just kill us instead? I've heard the complaints. My dad was Airborne for nearly 30 years and half of my friends were Airborne. Whenever I explain to them something new and want to mess with them, I slap my thigh three times, knife edge what I'm explaining and sound off how it's done. Drives them crazy.
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Posted: 3/29/2024 5:59:42 PM EDT
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Is “The Hidden Door” still down by the towers?
Me and a buddy snuck away during Basic for his birthday to go there. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 6:01:41 PM EDT
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Your recruiter will give you a list of what to bring and then at reception you will go to a mini PX. When you process through medical at reception let them know about your skin condition and they can get you an RX or exemption. Honestly you should go to a dermatologist and get an actual Rx for something or a doctor's letter explaining you need a specific product to manage a medical condition and provide that letter so they won't fuck with you
I am in the army and have rosacea so I get it. But I haven't been to IET in over 2 decades. When I deployed recently I got a letter from my doctor and the medics helped facilitate getting medication. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 6:15:34 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Cyclic240B]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stefbo: If you are weak and think about quitting when things get a little hard then know that the quickest way off Sand Hill is to graduate. Quitters stick around sucking at life longer then the studs that graduate. I will go against conventional wisdom and say to volunteer for whatever comes down the pipe. Sometimes it fucks you and you end up doing some shitty detail. The times that it works out in your favor can be fucking epic though. Best advice here, if your prone to wallowing in your own misery. We had a couple quitters that were standing there under the "star ship" looking forlorn as they watched us right-face and march off to graduation. Thought they'd be out and home real quick. Nope. Poor bastards. I can attest to this. I "blind" volunteered once as an E-2 and ended up driving a 5-ton on a thousand mile round trip convoy. May not sound fun to some, but is was pretty epic for me. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 8:57:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TallLankey: Man this waiting sucks. Muahahaha. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 9:35:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By STRIKE504: Idk I havent been to Ft Benning in 20 years  Been 41 years for me. Harmony Church survivor. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 10:09:54 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Rooster-X]
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Cardio is key as most have said. Don't just run, learn how to run slowly. You'll be doing a lot of something called the airborne shuffle. the force march(s) are gonna suck, no lie. But you'll feel good a day or so later. Listen to the DS's, but for fuck sake, don't let them know your name. You'll be on every shit detail from KP to ammo detail because your name is on his mind.
YMMV, as it's been 41 years for me A-2-2 Harmony Church school for wayward boys. '83-'84 
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GA, USA
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Posted: 3/29/2024 10:31:00 PM EDT
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You are getting some solid advice from guys here.
Shoot for the stars and crush it like a boss. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 10:41:18 PM EDT
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/29/2024 11:35:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ramairthree: You are getting some solid advice from guys here. Shoot for the stars and crush it like a boss. Yeah I’m listening and don’t doubt a word of it. |
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Posted: 3/30/2024 2:56:56 AM EDT
[Last Edit: airgun1]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rooster-X: /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/toast_gif-994.gif Been 41 years for me. Harmony Church survivor. Hey I was there same time same place! You look like Rod? You were the only guy in the company to see me as an E6. I was 3d Plat Drill Sgt and then Sr Drill |
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Posted: 3/30/2024 12:16:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Naffenea: I will second this. Always volunteer, sometimes the shit detail is a disguise for a fun time. I will second this, a lot of the times the details will suck. But every once and a while it will be totally worth it. I'd volunteer all the time, still do but being a senior NCO that is about to retire I'm pretty selective on the crap I'll do. I remember this one time at band camp, I mean boot camp, we volunteered for something that made us miss chow. Well one of the Drills who was a fan of getting us out of the DFAC super early every time we ate caught wind of the climate surveys, whatever they were called back in 05/06. So it was worse for those guys. They essentially sat down, got up and left. Well our detail actually got to eat our food because we went way after the company. Don't worry that won't happen to you. The reg states you get 15 minutes to eat. |
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Posted: 3/30/2024 12:21:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BrentMG: I will second this, a lot of the times the details will suck. But every once and a while it will be totally worth it. I'd volunteer all the time, still do but being a senior NCO that is about to retire I'm pretty selective on the crap I'll do. I remember this one time at band camp, I mean boot camp, we volunteered for something that made us miss chow. Well one of the Drills who was a fan of getting us out of the DFAC super early every time we ate caught wind of the climate surveys, whatever they were called back in 05/06. So it was worse for those guys. They essentially sat down, got up and left. Well our detail actually got to eat our food because we went way after the company. Don't worry that won't happen to you. The reg states you get 15 minutes to eat. I remember me and two other dudes got tasked with a post-support detail one day where we helped a couple range control guys work on the M-60 range. The roach coach came by, so the RC guys let us grab lunch off it and smoke a couple cigarettes. It was a HUGE deal. LOL |
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Posted: 3/30/2024 3:57:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By airgun1: Hey I was there same time same place! You look like Rod? You were the only guy in the company to see me as an E6. I was 3d Plat Drill Sgt and then Sr Drill I was in A-2-2 Nov '83 to Feb '84. My DS was SFC Ward and SSG Rodriguez. Ward was a massive guy, looked like a friggin' tank. |
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Posted: 3/30/2024 4:01:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BrentMG: I will second this, a lot of the times the details will suck. But every once and a while it will be totally worth it. I'd volunteer all the time, still do but being a senior NCO that is about to retire I'm pretty selective on the crap I'll do. I remember this one time at band camp, I mean boot camp, we volunteered for something that made us miss chow. Well one of the Drills who was a fan of getting us out of the DFAC super early every time we ate caught wind of the climate surveys, whatever they were called back in 05/06. So it was worse for those guys. They essentially sat down, got up and left. Well our detail actually got to eat our food because we went way after the company. Don't worry that won't happen to you. The reg states you get 15 minutes to eat. Hahaha, hey troop, you know how to drive a truck??? FTR, I was extremely underweight (buck 25) and the DS wanted to fatten me up. Extra starch, extra dessert and all the KP free food I could eat. I was on KP atleast once every 2 weeks. I still remember the Drill calling me at the chow hall, grabbing the mashed potatoes off the guy that was on the fat body program and telling me to eat this. I graduated a lean mean.... buck 25. |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 3/30/2024 6:59:56 PM EDT
[Last Edit: airgun1]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rooster-X: I was in A-2-2 Nov '83 to Feb '84. My DS was SFC Ward and SSG Rodriguez. Ward was a massive guy, looked like a friggin' tank. I was there then. I thought you looked Rodriguez, hence me asking if you were Rod. Rodriguez visited me at Drill Sgt School before I made E-7 is why I said he was the only guy in the company to see me as an E-6. I was in the 2d Platoon with SFC Ward Rodriguez for a short time before I took over 3d with SSG Norton. Remember the good old P&T Mile? While I was signing into the company, on the first day, the SGM came in, face white as a ghost, telling us that a troop from D-2-2 fell on the bayonet assault course and it looked bad. My friend SFC Acuna performed CPR but it was hopeless as it went straight through his heart. How is that for a first minute as a Drill Sgt. We were all tight. I used to like deer hunting with Ward. I SFC Mathis |
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Posted: 3/30/2024 7:07:03 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Rooster-X]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By airgun1: I was there then. I thought you looked Rodriguez, hence me asking if you were Rod. Rodriguez visited me at Drill Sgt School before I made E-7 is why I said he was the only guy in the company to see me as an E-6. I was in the 2d Platoon with SFC Ward Rodriguez for a short time before I took over 3d with SSG Norton. Remember the good old P&T Mile? While I was signing into the company, on the first day, the SGM came in, face white as a ghost, telling us that a troop from D-2-2 fell on the bayonet assault course and it looked bad. My friend SFC Acuna performed CPR but it was hopeless as it went straight through his heart. How is that for a first minute as a Drill Sgt. We were all tight. I used to like deer hunting with Ward. Wow, I was an aggressor during that! Was one of the first on the scene. He scaled the wall wrong and landed on his fixed bayonet. Pierced his heart, not much anybody could have done. That was a real eye opener and bought a brutal realization that this shit was for real. As for DS Ward, do you keep in touch? He umm, aggressively adjusted my helmet liner during AO Eagle, and knocked some sense into me. If you do, please tell him thanks! I almost failed AO Eagle, and 3 months later was awarded my EIB with 100% first time Go's. Oh, and I think I remember you. You replaced a DS that left mid cycle. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure you actually spoke to me. I was a prior service E-3 from Vermont. |
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Posted: 3/30/2024 7:44:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rooster-X: Wow, I was an aggressor during that! Was one of the first on the scene. He scaled the wall wrong and landed on his fixed bayonet. Pierced his heart, not much anybody could have done. That was a real eye opener and bought a brutal realization that this shit was for real. As for DS Ward, do you keep in touch? He umm, aggressively adjusted my helmet liner during AO Eagle, and knocked some sense into me. If you do, please tell him thanks! I almost failed AO Eagle, and 3 months later was awarded my EIB with 100% first time Go's. Oh, and I think I remember you. You replaced a DS that left mid cycle. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure you actually spoke to me. I was a prior service E-3 from Vermont. First off, Hey Tall and Lankey, sorry to step on your post but you are getting stuff validated before your eyes. Now Rooster X, Too cool! Since I was brand new, I was bottom of the totem pole for a while, i.e. hauling chow etc. I was SFC Mathis. I never ran into SFC Ward again. SSG Norton and I both served in the 82d after Drill Sgt duty. We ran into each other a few times. A later Drill Sgt in the company was a Platoon Sgt in 3-75th Ranger and his Plt Leader was one of our A-2-2 troops that we sent to OCS. They visited me everytime they were on Ft Bragg. Perhaps you remember these incidents as they all occurred very close together. Well I was taking chow out to I think Range Malone 4 and they waived me out of the parking area awaiting a Medevac. The chopper landed and it was on the ground a long time. After a long while I walked over and said Gee I hope this isnt hurt too bad as you guys are taking your sweet ass time. They said he was dead before they even called for it. He was from D-4-2 and shot himself in the latrine. A few days later we were on Malone 22, a live fire and manuever range and a range cadre, SFC Falici, was shot and killed by one of our A-2-2 troops. He was one of a set of twin brothers. I took out a piece of paper and wrote a Will and kept it in my shirt pocket after that. There hadnt been a fatality on Benning in years and we had three very close together. |
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Posted: 3/30/2024 7:45:41 PM EDT
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Msg to the OP. This side conversation I'm having with one of my former Drill Sergeants (41 years later) is the brotherhood you will be a part of for the rest of your life. I regularly chat with guys that I served with 40+ years ago, and today I was re-acquainted with a DS from my OSUT from 1984. The name of the installation has changed, and the old WWII barracks at Harmony church are long gone. But the brotherhood remains.
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Posted: 3/30/2024 7:48:06 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2024 7:54:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By airgun1: First off, Hey Tall and Lankey, sorry to step on your post but you are getting stuff validated before your eyes. Now Rooster X, Too cool! Since I was brand new, I was bottom of the totem pole for a while, i.e. hauling chow etc. I was SFC Mathis. I never ran into SFC Ward again. SSG Norton and I both served in the 82d after Drill Sgt duty. We ran into each other a few times. A later Drill Sgt in the company was a Platoon Sgt in 3-75th Ranger and his Plt Leader was one of our A-2-2 troops that we sent to OCS. They visited me everytime they were on Ft Bragg. Perhaps you remember these incidents as they all occurred very close together. Well I was taking chow out to I think Range Malone 4 and they waived me out of the parking area awaiting a Medevac. The chopper landed and it was on the ground a long time. After a long while I walked over and said Gee I hope this isnt hurt too bad as you guys are taking your sweet ass time. They said he was dead before they even called for it. He was from D-4-2 and shot himself in the latrine. A few days later we were on Malone 22, a live fire and manuever range and a range cadre, SFC Falici, was shot and killed by one of our A-2-2 troops. He was one of a set of twin brothers. I took out a piece of paper and wrote a Will and kept it in my shirt pocket after that. There hadnt been a fatality on Benning in years and we had three very close together. I do indeed remember both of those incidences. I was in the ammo bldg when the guy capped himself on a blank fire range. He had received a Dear John letter just before leaving for the blank fire and live fire exercises at Malone. The Sergeant was shot in the back twice from a trainee as he tripped over something. He had lagged behind and told to get his ass in gear. I was in the staging area on the bleachers when a DS came up to me said take your helmet off and collect ALL THE DAMN MAGS NOW! I definitely remember you now, I think you used to smoke us on the overhead bars before chow, and make us drop when leaving. Really nice to meet one of my old Drills, I was PFC Soter. The scrawny prior service E-3. |
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Posted: 3/30/2024 7:58:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: tell Lujan i said "Hey." https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/253414/tumblr_46c6473583fbfe84ae7f10a391a08a20_-3174017.JPG Lol, Lujan faking stuff for clout. Nevah been dun befoe. Damn pogue psyops.
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Posted: 3/30/2024 10:15:53 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Ajek]
[#47]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 11boomboom: I think the DS's did the same for top guys in various events like qualification. I know one of the rewards for guys who qualified expert was they got a red dot on their M16s. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 11boomboom: Originally Posted By stefbo: Same. I earned a 10 minute phone call in the breezeway for being top shot in the Company at the Advanced Rifle Marksmanship course. I was all by myself while the rest of the company were getting their balls smoked and was halfway through entering the calling card information when some random assed Drill SGT from a different company came around the corner asking me what the fuck I was doing so I hung up and went back up in the B's to get smoked with the rest of the company and that was the extent of my reward. 🤣 I think the DS's did the same for top guys in various events like qualification. I know one of the rewards for guys who qualified expert was they got a red dot on their M16s. We had two days of prequal with qual on day 3. However, if you scored expert on day 2, you got to keep your score. Lucky me spent day 3 getting smoked. That was my reward. DS explaining shooting fundamentals to a group, and I'm in the front leaning rest at the front/side of the group. DS pauses his explanation and turns to me: "You're a pretty good shot, huh? You think you're better than me?" Me: "NO DS!" DS: "Damn right you're not." |
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Posted: 3/31/2024 11:02:41 PM EDT
[#48]
At the hotel now, going to enlist tomorrow. Honestly I might sign for 6. Everyone and their mother is telling me to sign for three, even the army vet here at meps but I feel in my gut I’ll be ok signing for 6.
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Posted: 3/31/2024 11:28:54 PM EDT
[#49]
Just go do it. It’ll suck at times but will teach you some valuable life skills money cannot buy.
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Posted: 4/1/2024 10:25:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TallLankey: At the hotel now, going to enlist tomorrow. Honestly I might sign for 6. Everyone and their mother is telling me to sign for three, even the army vet here at meps but I feel in my gut I’ll be ok signing for 6. Brother - you do what you feel is right, but I'd highly suggest going for 3-4 and if you want to reenlist, by all means reenlist - and if you don't like your MOS at reenlistment time, reclass and try to go where the bonuses are. 6 years is a long fucking time for a first enlistment and at your age it's going to be rough as shit on your body - I did the same thing as you, joining later at 27 because I didn't want to have any regrets in life and I wanted to see if I could physically and mentally make it. I did the exact same thing and was all fuckin' hooah for a 6 year enlistment and there were definitely plenty of times I regretted that choice and when the time came to reup or get out, I was fucking done after spending 4 of my 6 years deployed to Afghanistan. My point is a shorter enlistment gives you options - a longer one removes all options. |
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