[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Basic training/boot camp bunks (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/19/2014 12:41:14 PM EDT
| I'm looking for a picture of a flipped over bunk but I can't find any. I sent a picture of rolled up underwear and socks to my buddies and one former Marine said "snap out of it LinggrrLonggrr. What the hell is wrong with you still folding your briefs? Lol" |
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Quoted: I'm looking for a picture of a flipped over bunk but I can't find any. I sent a picture of rolled up underwear and socks to my buddies and one former Marine said "snap out of it LinggrrLonggrr. What the hell is wrong with you still folding your briefs? Lol" I don't think anybody would post that anymore, because hazing/bullying, mothers of america etc. |
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Like a you made it wrong, mattress on the floor, try again flipped bunk? I don't think anybody would post that anymore, because hazing/bullying, mothers of america etc. Quoted:
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I'm looking for a picture of a flipped over bunk but I can't find any. I sent a picture of rolled up underwear and socks to my buddies and one former Marine said "snap out of it LinggrrLonggrr. What the hell is wrong with you still folding your briefs? Lol" I don't think anybody would post that anymore, because hazing/bullying, mothers of america etc. Yes sir. |
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Closest I can fine, pretty accurate too. They sent me through the NBC chamber twice because I sat on my bunk to put my boots on. http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Yep+that+s+Basic+Training+for+you_81a55b_4989703.jpg That'll work. Thank you. |
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Leeleatherwood posted the same one a few posts up. Thank you though. 
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Leeleatherwood posted the same one a few posts up. Thank you though. Quoted:
Leeleatherwood posted the same one a few posts up. Thank you though. yeah, he beat me by like a minute 
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I don't care if it's perfect, if they want to toss your bunk, they will toss your bunk.
They tossed mine once but left my buddies intact. Next day, I did his boots in exchange for him making my bunk. They still tossed my bunk. They never said anything to me about it directly so I just put it back up and made it again the next morning. After a couple of days tossing a shit-ton of bunks and unsecured wall lockers, they simply quit. They were going to do it no matter what, they were more concerned as to how you reacted to it than anything else. I looked at it as part of the act and knew my bunk was really fine in reality. I just pretended it never happened and never said anything about it and that was the end of it. |
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There were a few days I remember it looked like a tornado ripped through the squad bay. That tornado's name was Drill Instructor Sergeant Wendell. 
I wished I had a camera many times in basic.... War is chaos, you have to adapt when the enemy shits in your Wheaties. Just because something looked stupid or didn't make sense did not mean that there wasn't a good reason for doing it. |
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There probably aren't more pictures of it because Initial Entry Trainees typically aren't allowed to carry cameras around with them. The destroying of the barracks over some minor infraction isn't just common, it is universal, it is part of the training and occurs to every platoon. Some may have it happen more than once, but all of them get it at least once. Among other benefits it helps them learn to expect the unexpected, and reminds them to not get lazy because the focus of training or a mission have changed, that you still have to keep up with the little shit. |
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There probably aren't more pictures of it because Initial Entry Trainees typically aren't allowed to carry cameras around with them. The destroying of the barracks over some minor infraction isn't just common, it is universal, it is part of the training and occurs to every platoon. Some may have it happen more than once, but all of them get it at least once. Among other benefits it helps them learn to expect the unexpected, and reminds them to not get lazy because the focus of training or a mission have changed, that you still have to keep up with the little shit. Zactly It's all a mind game . SSG Prince at A-10-2 Harmony Church was good at that game. Of course you realize this years later.
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There probably aren't more pictures of it because Initial Entry Trainees typically aren't allowed to carry cameras around with them. The destroying of the barracks over some minor infraction isn't just common, it is universal, it is part of the training and occurs to every platoon. Some may have it happen more than once, but all of them get it at least once. Among other benefits it helps them learn to expect the unexpected, and reminds them to not get lazy because the focus of training or a mission have changed, that you still have to keep up with the little shit. Never had it happen, not even once. C-9-2, Ft. Jackson, June 1985. |
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Quoted: Never had it happen, not even once. C-9-2, Ft. Jackson, June 1985. Quoted: Quoted: There probably aren't more pictures of it because Initial Entry Trainees typically aren't allowed to carry cameras around with them. The destroying of the barracks over some minor infraction isn't just common, it is universal, it is part of the training and occurs to every platoon. Some may have it happen more than once, but all of them get it at least once. Among other benefits it helps them learn to expect the unexpected, and reminds them to not get lazy because the focus of training or a mission have changed, that you still have to keep up with the little shit. Never had it happen, not even once. C-9-2, Ft. Jackson, June 1985. |
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Your Drill Sgts were slacking. Quoted:
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There probably aren't more pictures of it because Initial Entry Trainees typically aren't allowed to carry cameras around with them. The destroying of the barracks over some minor infraction isn't just common, it is universal, it is part of the training and occurs to every platoon. Some may have it happen more than once, but all of them get it at least once. Among other benefits it helps them learn to expect the unexpected, and reminds them to not get lazy because the focus of training or a mission have changed, that you still have to keep up with the little shit. Never had it happen, not even once. C-9-2, Ft. Jackson, June 1985. I bet he had the Reserve Component Drills that switched out every two weeks. I bet they all thought they previous Drills already wrecked the Barracks. I think ours were tossed three times and I was at Jackson in the summer of 90. We had the same drills all the way thru. |
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Quoted: Your Drill Sgts were slacking. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: There probably aren't more pictures of it because Initial Entry Trainees typically aren't allowed to carry cameras around with them. The destroying of the barracks over some minor infraction isn't just common, it is universal, it is part of the training and occurs to every platoon. Some may have it happen more than once, but all of them get it at least once. Among other benefits it helps them learn to expect the unexpected, and reminds them to not get lazy because the focus of training or a mission have changed, that you still have to keep up with the little shit. Never had it happen, not even once. C-9-2, Ft. Jackson, June 1985. We had it happen multiple times a week for a while.
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One time in bootcamp we tied a guy to his rack with dental floss while he slept soundly. Now I wish I had a picture of the following morning it was epic. We tied a guy to his mattress and threw it down the stairs. One of the few times doing PT in your underwear at 0200 was considered worth it. Guy was an asshole. |
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We tied a guy to his mattress and threw it down the stairs. One of the few times doing PT in your underwear at 0200 was considered worth it. Guy was an asshole. Quoted:
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One time in bootcamp we tied a guy to his rack with dental floss while he slept soundly. Now I wish I had a picture of the following morning it was epic. We tied a guy to his mattress and threw it down the stairs. One of the few times doing PT in your underwear at 0200 was considered worth it. Guy was an asshole. That made me laugh. Thanks |
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I bet he had the Reserve Component Drills that switched out every two weeks. I bet they all thought they previous Drills already wrecked the Barracks. I think ours were tossed three times and I was at Jackson in the summer of 90. We had the same drills all the way thru. Quoted:
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There probably aren't more pictures of it because Initial Entry Trainees typically aren't allowed to carry cameras around with them. The destroying of the barracks over some minor infraction isn't just common, it is universal, it is part of the training and occurs to every platoon. Some may have it happen more than once, but all of them get it at least once. Among other benefits it helps them learn to expect the unexpected, and reminds them to not get lazy because the focus of training or a mission have changed, that you still have to keep up with the little shit. Never had it happen, not even once. C-9-2, Ft. Jackson, June 1985. I bet he had the Reserve Component Drills that switched out every two weeks. I bet they all thought they previous Drills already wrecked the Barracks. I think ours were tossed three times and I was at Jackson in the summer of 90. We had the same drills all the way thru. Nope, they didn't have to. They had their bluff in from day one. Ape Face and his fellow criminals lorded it over us for the full 9 weeks. |
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Quoted: I bet he had the Reserve Component Drills that switched out every two weeks. I bet they all thought they previous Drills already wrecked the Barracks. I think ours were tossed three times and I was at Jackson in the summer of 90. We had the same drills all the way thru. |
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I went through Ft. Jackson in 92, RA Drill Sgts. At AIT we had a couple of guys who had the Reserve Drill Sgts, and it sounded like they had it a lot worse than us. I recall two barracks trashings, one of them involved the mattresses going down the rear stairwell. Quoted:
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I bet he had the Reserve Component Drills that switched out every two weeks. I bet they all thought they previous Drills already wrecked the Barracks. I think ours were tossed three times and I was at Jackson in the summer of 90. We had the same drills all the way thru. I went through AIT at Ft. Gordon. And not fucking brick. Brems. |
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Quoted: I went through AIT at Ft. Gordon. And not fucking brick. Brems. |
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Same here, but we lived in the brick barracks, in 92 Brems was being run by GTE Government Systems as the MSE school. Today Brems is a Youth Challenge Academy, my father is a Drill Instructor there. Quoted:
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I went through AIT at Ft. Gordon. And not fucking brick. Brems. It was full of sand and un air conditioned in '85. Brick supposedly had AC. We had flies...and bees. Guy I knew drank a soda with a bee in it, wound up in the hospital. Frakking basic was better, accommodations wise. 
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There were a few days I remember it looked like a tornado ripped through the squad bay. That tornado's name was Drill Instructor Sergeant Wendell.
I wished I had a camera many times in basic.... DS Heard was our Haliburton Weather Machine. He was also fond of kicking us in the head when we were low-crawling.
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Quoted: It was full of sand and un air conditioned in '85. Brick supposedly had AC. We had flies...and bees. Guy I knew drank a soda with a bee in it, wound up in the hospital. Frakking basic was better, accommodations wise. There can't be too many of those old WWII era wooden training camps still in use more or less the same as it was in the forties. |
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DS Heard was our Haliburton Weather Machine. He was also fond of kicking us in the head when we were low-crawling. Quoted:
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There were a few days I remember it looked like a tornado ripped through the squad bay. That tornado's name was Drill Instructor Sergeant Wendell.
I wished I had a camera many times in basic.... DS Heard was our Haliburton Weather Machine. He was also fond of kicking us in the head when we were low-crawling. Our DS's were VERY CAREFUL not to lay hands on us. They made us hurt ourselves. I was actually involved in a pre Court Martial investigation of a DS that hit a recruit. The DS was from another company, and hit a recruit in the chow hall line. Dealing with company and battalion officers at that stage was some scary shit. |
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Brems is still as bad as ever, you must have been there in the summer, I went in winter, and lack of AC was the least of our worries. I was on night shift, and those buildings weren't insulated, and it was cold. It is actually exactly the way it was when you were there, when GTE moved out they reverted it back to a training facility just the way it was. There can't be too many of those old WWII era wooden training camps still in use more or less the same as it was in the forties. Quoted:
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It was full of sand and un air conditioned in '85. Brick supposedly had AC. We had flies...and bees. Guy I knew drank a soda with a bee in it, wound up in the hospital. Frakking basic was better, accommodations wise.
There can't be too many of those old WWII era wooden training camps still in use more or less the same as it was in the forties. I was a night fighter, too. Got there in August '85. The summer they had to close Paris Island for a few days due to heat. Trying to sleep during the SWELTERING days was real fun. |
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Quoted: I was a night fighter, too. Got there in August '85. The summer they had to close Paris Island for a few days due to heat. Trying to sleep during the SWELTERING days was real fun. |
| Sometimes it was hard to not laugh your ass off. One of my faves was them making you dress all fucked up in like two minutes. Get called out to assemble in the middle of the night. Then "Go up, put on polypro pants, right boot, left PT shoe, class A jacket, and gas mask.. you have two minutes...GO". This went on for at least six or seven "outfits". Finally, after the last time, we're all sweaty as hell, looking like some rejects from the looney bin and we're just standing there. Then we hear the cat 5 Tornado that is Sgt Whetstone going batshit in the bay. Hilarious. |
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I was at Jackson during the heat of the summer (being from Augusta it didn't bother me too much). We had a guy in our platoon who was National Guard, Alaska National Guard, he was an honest to goodness Eskimo, he had never left Kipnuk Alaska beofre. The weather nearly killed him during the first two weeks of August, I honestly can't imagine how shocked he had to have been when he got off that bus at Jackson. Quoted:
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I was a night fighter, too. Got there in August '85. The summer they had to close Paris Island for a few days due to heat. Trying to sleep during the SWELTERING days was real fun. Heh. I went through Jackson with a bunch of 17 year old Alabama National Guardsmen (I was 22). The heat didn't bother them much, either. They were all smokers, only being able to smoke certain times a day DID bother them. One guy was caught smoking TWO cigs at once during a smoke break. Yeah, he got to push. |
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Quoted: Sometimes it was hard to not laugh your ass off. One of my faves was them making you dress all fucked up in like two minutes. Get called out to assemble in the middle of the night. Then "Go up, put on polypro pants, right boot, left PT shoe, class A jacket, and gas mask.. you have two minutes...GO". This went on for at least six or seven "outfits". Finally, after the last time, we're all sweaty as hell, looking like some rejects from the looney bin and we're just standing there. Then we hear the cat 5 Tornado that is Sgt Whetstone going batshit in the bay. Hilarious. |
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The fashion show, another peculiar bit of tradition, and often ended with a trashed barracks. Quoted:
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Sometimes it was hard to not laugh your ass off. One of my faves was them making you dress all fucked up in like two minutes. Get called out to assemble in the middle of the night. Then "Go up, put on polypro pants, right boot, left PT shoe, class A jacket, and gas mask.. you have two minutes...GO". This went on for at least six or seven "outfits". Finally, after the last time, we're all sweaty as hell, looking like some rejects from the looney bin and we're just standing there. Then we hear the cat 5 Tornado that is Sgt Whetstone going batshit in the bay. Hilarious. Yep....it was hilarious. I found one of the hardest things in basic was to not laugh. |
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Our DS's were VERY CAREFUL not to lay hands on us. They made us hurt ourselves. I was actually involved in a pre Court Martial investigation of a DS that hit a recruit. The DS was from another company, and hit a recruit in the chow hall line. Dealing with company and battalion officers at that stage was some scary shit. Quoted:
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There were a few days I remember it looked like a tornado ripped through the squad bay. That tornado's name was Drill Instructor Sergeant Wendell.
I wished I had a camera many times in basic.... DS Heard was our Haliburton Weather Machine. He was also fond of kicking us in the head when we were low-crawling. Our DS's were VERY CAREFUL not to lay hands on us. They made us hurt ourselves. I was actually involved in a pre Court Martial investigation of a DS that hit a recruit. The DS was from another company, and hit a recruit in the chow hall line. Dealing with company and battalion officers at that stage was some scary shit. DS Heard was not so careful. I heard a rumor that a few sessions later he got in trouble for the kicking, but not during my rotation. |