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Posted: 1/5/2010 1:37:25 PM EDT

SSGT Riddle, SGT Post, SGT Gable, and SGT Jones.

Where the fook are they now?

22 years ago....

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:38:52 PM EDT

[#1]

BMCM Kyle, AME2 Raiford.... 25 years ago.

I also remember by billet number: 005; and my "War Criminal" number from SERE school: 020.

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:40:09 PM EDT

[#2]

Originally
Posted By JarheadPatriot:

22
years ago..

I arrived 22 days after you graduated.

PLT 2043 Started April 26th

SSGT Dixon

SSGT Daniels

SGT Munger

SGT Van Cleaf

Medical Rehab Stress fractures and celulitis in both legs from the knees down.

Can not remember any of them

PLT 2065 graduated September 16th

SGT Alley

SGT Conn

SGT Lay

SGT Welch

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:40:09 PM EDT

[#3]

15 years later.. Sure do.,
SFC FORD, SSG Swanson, SSG Mercado
D 1/19.

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:40:24 PM EDT

[#4]

SDI SSgt Elton Jones
DI SSgt Scott Wilkie
DI Sgt Erik Richburg

I don't know how you could forget that sorta thing.

S/F

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:40:31 PM EDT

[#5]

YN1 Smith
HS1 Devore
MK2 Waldron

That was 5 years ago next month. I'm sure I'll run into them at some point again in my career.

Edit: Company - Oscar 170

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:40:33 PM EDT

[#6]

GySgt Salazar - 12 months ago

Navy OCS Class 15-09

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:41:17 PM EDT

[#7]

ABE (SW) Vinoya ... first Phillipino I ever met in my life. The poor little guy was trying to scream at 80 guys all bigger than he was shouting over the aircraft landing at Lindbergh Field in San Deigo and lost his voice for two weeks. All us poor Americans were trying to figure out what a "request shit" was for about four weeks ... until the division yeoman told us what a "chit" was in Navy parlance.

29 years.

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:41:51 PM EDT

[#8]

Sgt Franklin and Sgt Dyson, 1986 Benning

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:45:25 PM EDT

[#9]

SDI SSGT MartinezRuiz
DI Sgt Gordon
DI Sgt Coleman
DI Sgt Gamboa

Plt 3096 PI 1998

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:47:20 PM EDT

[#10]

Yup. In fact, I encountered one of them about 10 years later. I was an E-1 when I went through basic training, but later became a JAG officer. I was doing legal assistance at the time, and he came by the office for something and ended up on my appointment roster. He had an impossible to pronounce last name, and when I went into the waiting room and called it, he looked up in shock. He said, "How'd you know how to pronounce my name?" I told him that he'd been my DS about a decade earlier. He told me he was glad that I'd turned out okay, other than being an officer and a lawyer.

ETA:

D Co., 2/28 IN, Ft. Jackson (Sept.-Nov. 1993)
SFC Hicks
SSG Weigandt

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:48:06 PM EDT

[#11]

Sgt. Street, SFC Quillon, SFC Douthet. 1974 Ft. Knox.

Hey Street, if you're reading this..........how did you like that ass wuppin' from that little ROK, Moon Koy Sop? Picked on the wrong recruit didn't you?.........what a dick.......

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:48:11 PM EDT

[#12]

SDI S/Sgt Harris
DI Sgt Elmore
DI Sgt Nixon

two "spares" Sgt Riggs and Sgt. Cagigis

1st BN. Plt. 1076 PISC 1991

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:48:18 PM EDT

[#13]

2nd Plt B Co 3/32 INF Ft. Benning, GA, Nov 92 - FEB 93
SFC Bowens
SSG Boyett (sp?)
SSG Lopez

Roster #203

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:49:22 PM EDT

[#14]

SSgt Rodgers and SSgt Denham.
Jan-Feb 02
321 flight 214

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:49:37 PM EDT

[#15]

Yep. SFC LasDulce, SSG Mack, SSG Reyes.

Fort Jackson, 2004

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:51:06 PM EDT

[#16]

Rosario, Inman, Brown, Bledsoe.

Harmony Church, 1987. I'm over the hill.

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:51:11 PM EDT

[#17]

I remember them.

SFC Garcia
SSGT Farmer
SGT Beavers
SGT Byrd

Ft. Jackson, Sc. Nov. 81

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:51:55 PM EDT

[#18]

BM1 Lujan-SDRS 85

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:52:24 PM EDT

[#19]

SSGT Mesec, SSGT Pilates, Sgt Jacks

I actually ran into SSGT Pilats last year, he was pulling Guard Duty at MCCDC. Still a SSGT after 9 years. Saw him a month after that walking around Modern Day Marine. Wish I could remember his damn name.

Dude ALWAYS talkd about how fucking badass it was to be an 03... Come to find out he was a COMM guy and wasn't even a damn 03!

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:52:32 PM EDT

[#20]

Drill Sergeant Wadsworth

Drill Sergeant Burress

Ft Benning, 2nd Plt, C 1/50 INF, 1993

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:52:50 PM EDT

[#21]

SSG Holley and SFC Ramos C-15-4 Ft. Knox, KY. Spring, 1984

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:52:53 PM EDT

[#22]

Senior DI Staff Sgt Wohlhoff

Sgts McGuigan, Spears and Young

Platoon 3025, Hell Company MCRD PI

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORAH!

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:54:14 PM EDT

[#23]

SSG Siska, SSG Jordan, SSG Williams, Fort Bliss, summer 1983.

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:55:23 PM EDT

[#24]

Elias, from Guam and he had no eyebrows.

It was hard not to smile when you saw him , plus he had a perfectly round head.

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:55:30 PM EDT

[#25]

SSgt McLellan
Sgt Caldwell
Sgt Devito
Cpl Kalb, DI in training

Plt 2202 FCo. 2Nd.Bat.P.I.
Dec. 1978

ETA: I ran into Sgt Kalb a few years later, at P.I. we were there for rifle range. He seemed a decent guy. Devito, that bastard still screams at me in my sleep. Fucker traumatized me.

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:55:54 PM EDT

[#26]

SSG Rivera (Airborne) and SSG Rivera (Infantry) - 26 years ago.

Turns out they were cousins (and had a relative working in Brigade).

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:56:49 PM EDT

[#27]

SDI SSgt Stroud
DI Sgt Perko
DI Sgt Britt
Di SSgt Burton

Plt 3111 M Company San Diego Feb 1990

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:58:25 PM EDT

[#28]

Jan 20 2005

Ssgt Fowler
Ssgt Del Rio
Sgt. Delgado

Ran into my senior DI in Iraq. Small world. Smaller corps.

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:59:36 PM EDT

[#29]

hellz no

that was over 26 years ago

so many schools, units, and lets not forget the bajillion other people I've had to deal with since.

Posted: 1/5/2010 1:59:56 PM EDT

[#30]

SFC Ernie Visitation. Infantry

SSG ? Tisdale. IFIRC Finance

SSG ? Floyd (female) THink she was supply before drill school

A-1-26 Ft Dix, Winter '87

Edit. Ran into SSG Tisdale again when I out processed at Presidio.

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:00:04 PM EDT

[#31]

Well, I enlisted in the Air Force in 1969 but had the "pleasure" of having two ex-marine drill sergeants who both were Vietnam vets. SSgt Medina and TSgt Villareal. Since both were San Antonio natives, they both enlisted in the Air Force after their marine combat tours in Vietnam. This allowed them to stay in the San Antonio area for many years while on active duty. So I "somewhat" got marine boot training. I remember one time there was this kid named Watson from Kentucky - a big chubby red headed kid, who would not march correctly. He bounced up and down on his toes with a big shit eating grin on his face. You remember the fat kid in Full Metal Jacket? Reminded me of him. Anyway, this kid marched right in front of me. One day SSgt Medina yelled at him twice to stop bouncing up and down. Watson just ignored him. The next thing I knew, SSgt Medina jumped up on one of my shoulders and the shoulder of the troop marching beside me, swung back his leg and kicked poor Watson so hard he went down for ten minutes. The formation had halted of course and SSgt Medina was yelling his ass off at the guy all the while he was on the ground crying like a baby. Gee, how lucky was I? These were probably the only two ex-marines in all of BMT, and I ended up doing basic with them. Needless to say, I kept my mouth shut and my shit wired tight all the way through basic. When I went through OTS some 11 years later, it was a joke after going through Vietnam-era enlisted basic. I know I am getting old remembering shit like this.........

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:00:41 PM EDT

[#32]

yeah.

boot- Love, Kardos, Orduno
ocs- Hamilton, Montalvo, Rivera, Ragland

Good times.

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:01:13 PM EDT

[#33]

SFC Kirkpatrick
SSG Kane(also from Kansas and I got shit the entire cycle because of it

)

Kirkpatrick was the quintessential Infantry DS. Dude had 3 combat jumps, Jumpmaster, Ranger, RI....dude was about as badass of a non-SOF soldier as you can find these days. He wanted to teach us things rather than just stand around and scream at us all day long. Guy was an excellent teacher and I'm not really sure why he never went SF....things that make you go "hmm."

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:02:19 PM EDT

[#34]

SSG Ray, SSG Ritter and SFC Munoz.

I also remember my recruiter....SSG Woods. I caught up with him in RoK, and we were the same rank....he was astonished, hahahaha!!!! He was a good guy, and didn't lay down too much bullshit, mainly, because, none of them even knew what my MOS was.

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:02:37 PM EDT

[#35]

SGT. Thompson, SGT Pike (1979)

USAMPS - Alpha 10
(Fort McClellan, AL)

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:03:30 PM EDT

[#36]

DS Mattie and Frazier, Ft. Bliss, 1989

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:03:37 PM EDT

[#37]

GySgt Jones, GySgt Willis, SSgt Ixtlahuac.

I can't remember the other instructors in my company.

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:06:17 PM EDT

[#38]

SSG Holmes, SSG Russell, SGT McKnight
B 1/19th Ft. Benning 1990

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:09:54 PM EDT

[#39]

SSG Leake
Sgt Wiseman

Ft. Knox 1989

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:15:13 PM EDT

[#40]

Ssgt Senkbiel, Ssgt Leighleitner, Sgt Mason...PLY 3080, graduated 11 DEC 78...good lord, I'm an old fart....

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:16:57 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

SSGT Riddle, SGT Post, SGT Gable, and SGT Jones.

Where the fook are they now?

22 years ago....

SSGT Downard, SGT Greenwood & SGT Frias

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:22:03 PM EDT

[#42]

......... I had 3 Gunny Sgt's and a Staff Sgt in boot camp. I always thought that was wierd.

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:24:20 PM EDT

[#43]

Platoon 3088 graduated Parris Island 30 Nov 1988

SDI Sgt Espinosa
DI Sgt Harris
DI Sgt Resto
DI Sgt Shine

I'd give every one a hug if I could meet them now.

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:26:19 PM EDT

[#44]

SFC Lucas
SSG Tucker

C-13-4, Ft Knox 1977

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:33:02 PM EDT

[#45]

SSgt Jenkins and SSgt Tiurjina.

Looking back, the stuff they did, like having someone fill out a McDonands application for failing a locker inspection, were hilarious.

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:34:22 PM EDT

[#46]

double tap

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:34:41 PM EDT

[#47]

Some things you never forget, no matter how hard you try

Ft. Benning A-3-1

SSG Clark

SSG Thompson

SSG Ramirez

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:34:42 PM EDT

[#48]

Always a great way of ratting out those who claim to have been in.

SFC Baterna, SSG Clark and Withrow. There was a split tail from Puerto Rico but she wasn't around enough for me to remember. Plus she was ugly as sin.

SFC Baterna was a BAD FUCKER from the Philippines. He was the reason I didn't get recycled after burning my hand. He gave me the stink eye during PT when the rest were doing push-ups so I started doing them one-armed

. I was a Pop-Eye after 2 weeks and passed the PT Test.

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:37:32 PM EDT

[#49]

I am always reminded of my father's story about his DI's name.

His Sr. DI was 'Happy'.

Oddly enough when Dad went through OCS year later guess who had also become an officer? That is right, and was Dad's company CO as well. 'Happy' again.

Posted: 1/5/2010 2:38:02 PM EDT

[#50]

Who could forget Drill Sgt. Prigmore and Drill Sgt. Speck.

40 years ago, and I can still hear him holler.

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