Posted on Nov 28, 2014
Do basic training "stress cards" really exist?
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This is something my drill instructors said they would make us ingest if we had it (sensorineural it a bit for the sailors on here lmao)
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I can not answer for everyone, but we were still slaying bitches in 2007 to good effect. I did have several recruits break down in tears, requested me to stop treating them with firmness but they all survived and were stronger for the experience. No, on the stress cards.
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LCDR (Join to see)
Saw a little bit of that at Parris Island in 1970-72. Some KIDS are not meant to be Marines, but the Marine Corps (did then anyway) BUILD MEN.
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1stSgt (Join to see)
LCDR (Join to see) - , I like to think that the Marines of today are cut from the same cloth as those who fought in Belleau Wood, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, the Chosin Reservoir and Hue. Iraq and Afghanistan proved that.
I actually believe that that is the case in all of the services. We have all heard the "this generation" comments and to that I say bullshit. We still have ~0.4 percent of our young men and women volunteering for active duty. On the shoulders of that ~0.4 percent lay the future of country.
Semper Fidelis
I actually believe that that is the case in all of the services. We have all heard the "this generation" comments and to that I say bullshit. We still have ~0.4 percent of our young men and women volunteering for active duty. On the shoulders of that ~0.4 percent lay the future of country.
Semper Fidelis
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LCDR (Join to see)
Please understand my comments, !st Sgt.......They are Marines only upon graduation from Boot Camp. Once they are Marines, I agree. Before that, well......
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CPT Lawrence Cable
1stSgt (Join to see) - I totally agree. While I am of the opinion that it's a good thing to get ride of some of the meaningless harassment (yes, I understand that a lot of the "harassment" has a distinct purpose), the kids making it through have proved to be as tough as any of their forefathers. I would like to gripe about their levels of fitness coming in, but I remember a lot my OSUT class were in crappy condition when they hit Basic and I wasn't exactly a PT stud when I hit the footprints either.
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I can answer for only 3 of the 5 services, but they do not exist in the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, nor U.S. Marine Corps. I verified this a couple of years ago with my sons (Army, Marine) and the Airmen who worked for me. I cannot speak for the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard.
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SPC Barbara Reed
Actually, they existed in the Army. I had OSUT training at Ft. Leonard wood in 2004. The class that started after mine were issued the stress cards. Our class was the last one to go through in bdu's. But, yes, the stress cards were real...about the size of a credit card.
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