SSG Perry
SGT Sider

A-2-3 Fort Dix, NJ
Summer '76

Tsgt. Rotereaux (6-6 tall, redneck from bama)
Sgt. Guillen (5-1 Tall Cuban with a barrel chest and popeye arms)

USAF - Lackland - 1976

SFC.Bradley
SSG. Booker
SSG. Martos
1 plt. E 1/56 ADA
Logan Heights Sep. 89

MCRD San Diego

Senior:
Sgt. Caballero

Juniors:
Sgt. Russel
Sgt. Nichols
Sgt. Loera

PMI: SSgt. Burgess (Charlie Range, btw)

August 1987 - October 1987, blew out what knees I had and went home with a haircut, some skivvies, and my Book of Knowledge. I've still got that book around here somewhere along with my Range Data book.

Only qualed Marksman, but that's because I went full retard on qual day and put the wrong dope on for the 300 m firing line. Saved my ass on the 500m though.

I knew your instructors. Denham was a friggen nut. Rogers was a little better. I started pushing flights in Jun 02 at the house of pain.

Oh BTW, SSgt Habercorn and Sgt Gore. LAFB TX, Flt 004 Oct-Nov 1993.

Fort Benning OSUT, 1994
SFC Woodrow (Woody) D. Pemberton, Senior DI
SSG Alan R. Ness, Assistant DI
   





 

14 years later and no

Parris Island 1984
SSgt Finn
Sgt (later promoted SSgt) Tate
Sgt Cienski
Cpl Capdepon

Ran into my old senior(Finn) about 3 years into my enlistment, remembered my name instantly. I was pretty amazed.
But then again the men that make Marines are an amazing bunch.

Semper Fi to my old DIs, & thanks.

Did you have a fucking lobotomy?




 

SSGT Mann and SSGT Terry Weems

Lackland AFB 1986

Can't remember the tech school one but I remember there faces

May - July 1975

3711 BMTS Lackland AFB Texas

TSGT Pfingston
SSGT Escobar

Escobar told everybody that graduated basic and went into casual flight at Lackland that he would meet us at the canteen and buy us all a beer. He kept his part of the bargain.

DS Phillips and Medairos, Fort Jackson, Sept 98'

TI SSgt Pascuzzi
Asst TI Sgt Juan Martinez
BMTS 3723 Flight 342
Lackland 1979, over 30 years ago, man time flies. Pascuzzi was a blonde haired, blue eyed Italian-American. He was about 5'8", face like a bulldog, a real sparkplug. Sgt Martinez was a handsome, tall, black haired hispanic. These two guys were the true odd couple, total contrasts. SSgt Pascuzzi was mean as hell, Martinez played the "good cop" role. They were a good pair. Martinez had a heavy accent, his answer for everything was, "Tough shit airman. That's just tough, tough shit."

D Co 3/32 INF Benning '94

SFC Zoch
SSG Smith
SSG McGlan

MCRD Parris Island, SC, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Delta Company, Platoon 1062 "Black Sheep", graduated 20 June 1990





Senior Drill Instructor SSgt Wright


Drill Instructor Sgt Mitchell


Drill Instructor Sgt Udart


Drill Instructor Sgt Watlington (he transferred out of our platoon after 1st Phase)


Drill Instructor Sgt ??? (took over for Drill Instructor Sgt Watlington)

 

You know that TSgt Pfingston became the 10th CMSGT of the Air Force. He died a few years ago of cancer. At a graduation ceremony this year I met his wife and youngest daughter. They were the guest of honor at a coin ceremony and a parade.

RIP Chief.

TSgt Paunchecano
SSgt Sharp
Senior Airman Dudding

MCRD P. I. plt 3000 Oct 90

Ssgt Bush
Sgt Foshie (Mansonite)
Sgt Johnson

Foshie was a crazy fuck. I got my nose busted boxing and he whiped the blood of my face, licked it off his hand  hand and said " KILL HIM SHAW " and pushed me back in !
Still love that man

SSG Simms and SSG McCory

3rd Platoon D-3-1

Fort Knox Ky

1983

SSG Brown
SSG McCall

Delta 2, Fort Sill 1987

1978  SSgt Pascuzzi and SSgt Henderson

Drill SGT White, Drill SGT Bard, Drill SGT Wireman
D 2/46 3rd PLT Ft. Knox 1988

Ft Dix, summer of '89:

Our platoon Drill Sergeants:
SSG Teagues
SGT Pascet

Company commander:
Cpt Donnette

I can picture the first Sergeant, but can't recall his name right now...  Some of the above may be misspelled also...

1st Platoon, B co, 4-39.

SFC Zamora
SSG Perez
SSG Canada
SFC Begley

1st Plt E Co 2/54 INF Ft Benning 2000

Roster # 128

CPL Hammill
SSGT Nauer
SSGT Farwell
GySgt Suttle

I made Sergeant before the Corporal did.  

MCRD San Diego Charlie Co. Plt. 1091 13 Nov 1987

SDI SSgt Houston, DI Ssgt Johnson, DI SSgt Jaworski, And DI Sgt Chandler

Yes, after 28 years.

USN AOCS 1989: Gunnery Sergeant Stephen C. Holt, United States Marine Corps, Non-Commissioned Officer of Battalion One, Aviation Officer Candidate School.



Gunnery Sergeant Woodring.



Gunnery Sergeant Kent, Chief Non-Commissioned Officer of Aviation Officer Candidate School.



Army ROTC Basic, Ft. Knox, Ky 1984: Platoon Sergeant Miller.

Ft. Dix NJ 1976
D-1-3 3rd Plt

SSG Wayne Gibney: Drill Sgt of the Cycle
SSG Tony Duncan
SSG Thomas Parrott

SFC Winston Harris.


Ft Knox , Aug 1984

I was at Jackson.



Co-ed platoons require co-ed drills...



My 'conversion' to Combat Arms is happening at the hands of the Guard, so I kind of get to 'avoid' the OSUT experience - although I hear plenty of stories from the guys in my platoon...





 

Ft. Benning   Echo Company 3/32 '91
Ssgt. Herman




Ssgt. Blanks




Ssgt. Williams




Ssgt. Rogers


Never really got personally smoked by any of them. Hell they could barely remember my name.




Most notable wasn't even my DS but I had the misfortune of having him for KP. Ssgt. Crumpler from Bco 3/325 Dude was nuts. He also had huge horse teeth. He smoked my ass to the like which I have never seen again. I was on pots and pans (worst detail in KP). He came in and asked who wanted to piss. While I was standing at parade rest my foot started to slide from the water and grease.





He looked down and saw my foot sliding. "Walking at parade rest huh little turd?" He then proceeded to have me to grass drills in the greasy, soapy water on the floor. Tons of pushups that were impossible due to the grease. Every time I slid down he yelled some colourful words and had me flip over and do flutter kicks, then mountain climbers, then push-ups, flutter kicks, more mountain climbers. After a while of that he put me in the electric chair. By now I was already in muscle failure and the greasy floor wasn't helping. I kept sliding down the wall.





He makes me low crawl (yeah side of face to the floor and elbows flat) out of pots and pans and into the dining room where it was dry do he could smoke my ass more. After a while of this I could see all the other privates on KP peeking out watching me get tore up. I was in the electric shair once again but without the aid of a wall to hold me up. At this point I didnt really feel any more pain but my muscles didint cooperate anymore. He kept me there until my legs started to shake violently trying to hold me up. He then asks "do you feel the lightning shooting up your asshole , little turd?".





For a brief moment I thought about it. Yes, why yes I could actually feel lightning  shooting up my ass , down to my shaking legs, up my spine into my shaking arms and out the top of my twitching skull. I actually wanted to tell him just that and for some idiotic reason, I was elated that his question was very accurately realted to what I was feeling. But for some reason the only thing I could mutter was "hooah".





He had me recover and stand at parade rest again on the dry floor and he asks "Are you sorry for what you did you fking little  turd?" referring to "walking" at parade rest. I let out a loud "Yes Drill Sgt!" He said. "BS, you don't sound convicted.





Smoke session two commenced. I was so dead from muscle failure he made two other privated help me on pushups. Basically it was impossible to lift myself up. They others did that. All I could do is slowly and miserably lower myself to the floor. That went on a for a minute or ten then asked me again. "Are you sorry now turd?" I let out a loud "HELL YES DRILL SGT!!". A big assed smile grew across his gorilla/horse hybrid face of his and almost let me go.





He holds his fingers to the sides of his head and closes his eyes. "lets see if you are psychic" "I am thinking 1. get the Fk away from me now or 2. do mroe push-ups." Well since I was screwed either way I figure I would go for #1. I made it about 5 feet before he makes the sound of a game show buzzer and stops me. "You are not psychic, I was thinking #2" DROP. He dropped me and I did like 1 pushup. Since it was impossible to do one at that point he made me gator walk back to pots and pans.





I never did piss that day.



 

i can only remember Senior Chief Ayala. This is because I ran into that man in several different places over my time in the Navy. Hell, as luck would have it, I met the man even before I joined. I didn't realize who he was at first, but eventually it clicked when I heard his voice. He's got a very peculiar accent/speaking problem.

The two assistants were both dicks and I don't recall their names.

SDI SSGT Holmes

DI SGT Blackwell

DI CPL Lockhart

Swanson
Milsaps

RTC Great Lakes 1989

2nd PLT C Co 2/58 INF Fort Benning, GA
APR06-JUL06

SFC Bates
SSgt Hunter
SSgt Fiero


Roster #227

Right on, I feel ya there. Let's keep this thread goin'.

Plt 1037 A Co.

SDI GySgt Barrett
Meanest bastard I ever met Sgt Sisson
Sgt Clayton

Picked up 2 noobs in 3rd phase, no idea who they were, don't remember their names, they sucked at drill, PT, humps, life. Couldn't call cadence, couldn't sing worth a shit on humps, had no clue how to drill a platoon.

SSG Heltemes and SFC Muskevitch, B Co Some Such BN, Ft Jackson SC, Aug-Oct 1992.

How anyone does not remember their drill sergeants is beyond me. If anyone tells me they can't remember the names of their drill sergeants in BCT, I immediately begin to think they are full of shit.

1994 54B OSUT Mt. Mcclellan AL,  Delta Co
SSG Howe
SSG Phillips

and we had a couple of unmemorale 3rd

Sgt Stitt

Sgt Ross

Sgt Wendell

Sgt Quintanarcruz



2nd BN H Co PLT 2001, MCRD SD May15,2006-Aug11,2006

1978

SSgt Rowe
SSgt Minasian

B Co. 1/19, 2002

SSG Mussati
SSG Malik

third one I don't remember because they were reservists who cycled in on two week rotations.

I remember mine....because he went on to become Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps!

PLT 1048, Grad 1978

SSGT Leija
SSGT McConnell
SGT Soler
CPL Cox

Ft Benning
E 1-19 inf  OSUT  summer '02

SSG Dagraca
SSG Jones

No NCO I ever met after basic could hold a candle to these two.

SDI SSGT BECK
DI SGT BARBER
DI SGT JACOBS
DI SGT HEBER
DI SGT CHRISTIANSEN

PLATOON 3070, 94-95, MCRD San Diego

1988 Ft. Dix, NJ

SGT Hightower
SGT Grant

elevenbangbang, around when were you there in 2002? we may have been neighbors.