Posted on Jul 1, 2014
CPT Jacob Swartout
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Do you remember your first day of basic training
Everyone has their memories of that day
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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Getting to Orlando at Midnight, Getting First Issue, Giving up everything I own. Getting to my Rack at 0-Dark Thirty. That jack-ass thorwing that garbage can down the P-way 0530 am. Oh yeah that is burned in my brain and soul pretty good. Learning to Hate the term "Recruit".
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CPT Jacob Swartout
CPT Jacob Swartout
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I think we woke up at 0430 too on the first day at reception. We got in the unit at midnight and that made it a quick night for us
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CSM Director, Market Development
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Infantry school 1987
I sorta remember the first...Def remember the last! With fellow Rally Point Member SFC Ian Lumgair , 1987, Harmony Church, E 1/38. (Me on the left)
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SFC Ian Lumgair
SFC Ian Lumgair
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I remember all to well the Georgia heat running in and out of those old barracks as they changed what bunks we supposed to have. It was our fault of coarse. I got a huge ham string cramp the fifth time running up the stairs. Good memories
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SSG Ray Murphy
SSG Ray Murphy
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Harmony Church Alum
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MSG Wade Huffman
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5 July 1983. Flew from Columbus, OH to Philadelphia, PA arriving at around 8pm. Got on a but to Ft. Dix, NJ which got a flat tire somewhere between Philly and Dix. Ended up getting to reception around 3am. There were only 3 of us and they put the three of us in one bay.. no one else was in that bay and told us that wake up was at 4:30. About 5 am two drills came in yelling and screaming that we were late and the rest of the platoon was waiting for us. Needless to say, it was quite the smoke session! Yeah.. I remember... got off to a real rocky start there! I was never happier than when we left reception two days later to join our BT company so I could 'start over'. After that initial shock, nothing else even phased me! LOL!
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CPT Jacob Swartout
CPT Jacob Swartout
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someone failed you three in that bay.
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PO1 John Johnson
PO1 John Johnson
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CPT Jacob Swartout - Deliberately or unintentionally? Maybe the DI's saw the 3 as a valuable training opportunity!
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SPC Gordon Holman
SPC Gordon Holman
2 y
Thought I landed in hell
At the end I would have followed my brothers into hell
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