Posted on Dec 29, 2013
What can you do or say at Basic to ensure additional smoke sessions?
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I thought this would be a good way to add some humor to the discussions list.<br><br><br>Things like...:<br><br><br>- Simply ask "Why?" for anything.<br>- "That was easy." after getting smoked<br>- Complain about the heat/cold<br>- Touch the campaign hat.
Drill Sergeant
Basic Training
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Posted 11 y ago
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When I was in basic at Ft. Benning, my dad sent only one letter . . . addressed to the Drills. It contained only six words, "Real soldiers graduate from Ft Knox."
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SFC Donna Bush
Fort Knox has changed so much, I was there when we moved HRC from Alexandria, VA to Fort Knox and the Infantry BCT has moved to Fort Benning, GA for OSUT. The post is kinda empty now. I left there in 2011 and transferred to the WTU JBLM.
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CPT Raymond Vezeau - AIT January 1968. Snowing. Soot from the coal stoves. Eye opener when that main gun in the M 48 first went off and sucked the soft cap off my head while standing in the cupola.
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1. Tell your Drill Sergeants you don't like water.
2. Hand the Drill Sergeants your luggage. Ugh...what the hell was I thinking...
2. Hand the Drill Sergeants your luggage. Ugh...what the hell was I thinking...
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1SG David Freed
If you want to freak out your Drill Sergeant when he tells you to do something,
just smile and then ask "why"?. DS are not used to being asked "why", so are
unprepared and usually have no immediate response other than to get frustrated.
Worked. I did that back in 1965 during basic training.....never forgot the DS expression.
FWIW, I met the same DS 23 years later in the 3rd Armored Division in Germany in the late 1980s. We reunited and he remembered the young kid who asked him "why" and said he never had any other trainee who asked "why", ever. The DS at the time was a SSG and I was a PVT E-1. When I met him again, he was a SGM and I was a 1SG......
just smile and then ask "why"?. DS are not used to being asked "why", so are
unprepared and usually have no immediate response other than to get frustrated.
Worked. I did that back in 1965 during basic training.....never forgot the DS expression.
FWIW, I met the same DS 23 years later in the 3rd Armored Division in Germany in the late 1980s. We reunited and he remembered the young kid who asked him "why" and said he never had any other trainee who asked "why", ever. The DS at the time was a SSG and I was a PVT E-1. When I met him again, he was a SGM and I was a 1SG......
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SMSgt Michael Gleason
PV1, May 1968, Fort Knox, when my DI said "Sound off like you've got a pair", ( (unwisely and capriciously) replied, "There's no scientific correlation between testicular presence and vocal prowess". I don't know if he understood or not (I think not), and he moved on the the next trainee in the formation.
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CPL Jerry Galloway
Drill at FT Sill asked, smile if you enjoyed PT? No one told me it was a trick question. :)
"You cant smoke a rock"
"You cant smoke a rock"
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SPC Maurice Williams
Nope !!! Fort Jackson SC; Fort Huachuca AZ; actually got wrote up for smiling too much there!
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Sgt Charles Buckman
My AsDI at Sampson AF Base said if we wanted to look at him he'd send us a picture! He was about 5'6". The DI was a 6'2" Cherokee.
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