Name your Drill Sergeant...no cheating.

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Posted: 6/25/2022 9:00:07 PM EDT

DS, DI, MTI, RDC, CC...man or woman, they make an impression.

Me? Ft. Knox '90 - '91, Aco 1-81 AR, each platoon assigned two Drills:

DS Pleasant(who could be anything but), a big blocky black SSG built like a brick shithouse.
DS Frey, towering white guy, SSG, flat top haircut, built like a f-ing anvil and just as solid.

You didn't mess with either of them.

Both men taught me to grow up, suck it up with no excuses. I will remember their names, even decades later and so should you.

No cheating folks, who kicked your ass, wore our country's uniform and taught you life's lessons?

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:02:29 PM EDT

[#1]

Oxendine, Mitchell, Braillesford
Dix 89

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:04:15 PM EDT

[#2]

SSgt Charleston. TSgt Brooks.

Lackland 03.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:05:12 PM EDT

[#3]

DeMulle & Harris

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:05:33 PM EDT

[#4]

Labreck, thomkins, palizano.

Jackson 14

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:05:37 PM EDT

[#5]

Senior Chief Peterson and CPO Severs

NRTC San Diego 1977

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:06:13 PM EDT

[#6]

SSgt Martinez (busted down, last I heard), SSgt Donely, SSgt Paulson (was an amateur UFC guy for awhile too).

2003, Platoon 2097.

Edit, mine weren't "Drill Sergeants". They were the real deal.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:07:05 PM EDT

[#7]

SSG Moody from Wyoming and 2 others who were less memorable or respectable
ETA: senior drill SFC Salinas

Fort Leonard Wood, MO SEP-OCT '87 D-6-10 3rd platoon

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:07:43 PM EDT

[#8]

ENC Manapat
Company 924 1987
RTC-NTC San Diego

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:07:50 PM EDT

[#9]

Must have not made that big of an impression in me, I couldn't name them or even my company or battalion if my life depended on it. Fort benning school for wayward boys '94.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:08:22 PM EDT

[#10]

Hunnicut, Hillyer, Holmes, Creed, Velez

‘00

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:08:50 PM EDT

[#11]

Hunt and Miskel

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:09:27 PM EDT

[#12]

RD1 Poppewell Y119 Cape May 1985

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:09:27 PM EDT

[#13]

TSgt. Vinning

'06 Lackland AFB

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:09:49 PM EDT

[#14]

Stohl and Peebles. Forget the third guy.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:11:27 PM EDT

[#15]

1985, Ft Jackson, E-3-1-1, Tank Hill.

MSgt Jose Merrero, Sgt Ken Williams.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:12:15 PM EDT

[#16]

Sgt. Franklin L. Stein
'82 Lackland AFB

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:12:27 PM EDT

[#17]

SSG Negrone. August 1990 Fort Beginning

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:12:29 PM EDT

[#18]

DS Mejia, DS Binion and SDS Asadullah

B co 2/19 Inf Benning 2002

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:12:45 PM EDT

[#19]

Wadsworth & Buress
1993, C-1/50, Ft Benning

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:13:10 PM EDT

[#20]

SSG Fletcher, SSG Bankston and Sgt Hodge.

Ft McClellan A-40th MP from Oct-88 to Feb-89

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:13:34 PM EDT

[#21]

DS Walker was the lead drill from Montana and DS Muse was the "prick" DS from Tennessee. I was in OSUT in B co 1/81st Armor at Ft. Knox KY August 89-January 90.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:13:59 PM EDT

[#22]

DS Roberts and Christianson

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:14:14 PM EDT

[#23]

DS Schaul and DS Fuller in BCT, C co 2-28 inf

DS Dicker in AIT at ft Sam, f co 232d med Bn

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:14:20 PM EDT

[#24]

MCRD San Diego 1994

Fox Co Plt 2102

SDI Sgt Hunt
DI Sgt Foeckler
DI Sgt French
DI (Heavy) Sgt Watkins

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:15:04 PM EDT

[#25]

SSG Gibby
SSG Lamay
SSG Platero

Gibby and Platero were genuinely hard as woodpecker lips.

Lamay was a punk.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:16:29 PM EDT

[#26]

D.S. Tuatasi. Giant Arnold Schwarzenegger of a man, a Pacific Islander. Either Hawaiian or Tongan. Had to be roided out. Big Guy!

Harmony Church 6/1988

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:16:44 PM EDT

[#27]

Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.

I was in his last platoon on the drill field.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:17:00 PM EDT

[#28]

SDI SSgt. Soto. DI’s we’re SSgt.’s Gilstrap, Baker and Sullivan.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:18:31 PM EDT

[#29]

Quote History

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SSG Negrone. August 1990 Fort Beginning

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@mountaineer82

Puerto Rican, heavy accent, and only cadence was Captain Jack? If so, I had the delightful experience of spending 16 weeks with him, Pfleger, Prochaska, Brown, and others in the summer of '89, C 1-50

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:19:08 PM EDT

[#30]

Lawrence, Johnson and Gould

2/54th, Fort Benning, 1993

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:19:17 PM EDT

[#31]

Quote History

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Must have not made that big of an impression in me, I couldn't name them or even my company or battalion if my life depended on it. Fort benning school for wayward boys '94.

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Same…..benning school for boys august-october 2002

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:19:29 PM EDT

[#32]

SDI S/Sgt. Harris
DI Sgt. Nixon
DI Sgt. Elmore

PISC 1991

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:20:02 PM EDT

[#33]

Pizaña - could bench 400
Dawson - could do 400 pushups
Pearson - mostly useless

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:20:13 PM EDT

[#34]

SFC Trowbridge SSG Moore SSG Hall FT Dix 1984 C-2-3

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:20:46 PM EDT

[#35]

Senior Drill Instructor SSGT Summerill
Drill Instructor SGT Eskola
Drill Instructor SGT Lewis
I forget my guy's name. Definitely not his face, though.

Platoon 3111, India Company, 3rd Battalion.

I showed up in the yellow footprints on March 21, 1995.

Damn, I'm old.

Best,
JBR

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:20:49 PM EDT

[#36]

SDI Sgt Johnson
DI Sgt Carrier
DI Sgt Lozano
DI Sgt Hibbs
DI Sgt Opie

we had 5 lol. i could only remember the first 3 without going to my yearbook,

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:21:22 PM EDT

[#37]

Drill Sergeant Head Ft Jackson Pro train 1993

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:21:35 PM EDT

[#38]

I can only remember 2 of mine, DS Polojack and DS Arvizo.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:21:46 PM EDT

[#39]

Quote History

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@mountaineer82

Puerto Rican, heavy accent, and only cadence was Captain Jack? If so, I had the delightful experience of spending 16 weeks with him, Pfleger, Prochaska, Brown, and others in the summer of '89, C 1-50

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@garanditis

That would be him. My cousin was a drill down the road and knew him. First person I ever saw fall out of a run in basic. But I guess overall ok.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:22:15 PM EDT

[#40]

OS2 Owen's, YN1 Gowins and EN1 Evans. Navy RTC, DIV 256, May-July 2001

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:22:16 PM EDT

[#41]

Ssgt Lima-Lima, Lackland 2011

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:22:28 PM EDT

[#42]

SDI SSGT Holmes
DI SGT Blackwell
DI CPL Lockhart

Interesting note: Holmes went on to win the Marine Corps Bodybuilding contest a few years later. He was already built like a tank when he was my SDI, but when I saw the pics of him in Leatherneck mag he looked like a black Schwarznegger.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:22:39 PM EDT

[#43]

Quote History

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D.S. Tuatasi. Giant Arnold Schwarzenegger of a man, a Pacific Islander. Either Hawaiian or Tongan. Had to be roided out. Big Guy!

Harmony Church 6/1988

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Roided? I knew a few Samoans in the Army, like Lady Gaga said, they were "born this way". Huge dudes, one taught us how to cook a pig in the ground. Yum!

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:22:52 PM EDT

[#44]

Quote History

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DS Schaul and DS Fuller in BCT, C co 2-28 inf

DS Dicker in AIT at ft Sam, f co 232d med Bn

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I’m not sure who you are, but those names mean we did basic and AIT together. Different platoon in basic though. Definitely had DS Dicker at Sam.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:24:30 PM EDT

[#45]

MCRD PI. 1981

SSGT Demaline

SGT Dvorak

Cant remember the third guys name. He went down with cancer and disappeared.

Cant rememer the name of the guy who replaced him.

Both were SSGTs though.

Posted: 6/25/2022 9:24:31 PM EDT

[#46]

Sgt. Wilder. Appropriately named because he went off on a private and beat the shit out of him in the shower area. He got removed as our platoon Senior DI and replaced by Sgt. Potendyk. He was always calm and quiet, but that was scarier than his killers, Sgt. Chandler and Sgt. Huges, who got off on making privates suffer.

We only saw Sgt. Potendyk lose his shit once. He was dumping foot locker trays and some 5.56 brass a private took from the rifle range made that distinctive "ping" when it hit the deck. Time stood still for a few seconds and you could hear a pin drop in the squad bay. Then all hell broke loose.

All three DIs started dumping foot lockers and tipping over bunk beds. Shit was flying everywhere, privates were dodging the tornado that was our drill instructors. I thought someone was gonna die that day.

Yeah, I will remember those three Marines till my last day.