Posted on Aug 17, 2017
This is a perfect example of how ridiculous boot camp is
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My first day was actually in the Reception Center which is even dumber than BCT. We were seated in a room listening to a sergeant explaining at least ten times how to fill out the first three lines of the first form on a stack that must have held 50 forms. It was surreal, then funny, then maddening. I was about to start commenting sarcastically when we were finally given permission to pick up one of the two pencils (not both) provided and fill in the first three lines and the first three lines only. As I started to comply, I glanced to my left and found my neighbor on that side looking at what I was doing (I often wonder if he copied my name). Then I glanced to the right and found my neighbor on that side raising his hand to ask a question. A question? Didn't he know his name? That day I understood the Army. It was a lesson that served me well throughout my Army career.
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LTC Orlando Illi
LOL - reminds me of the reception station at Ft. Dix, NJ. The guy next to me raised his hand and the Sgt said "...what do you want idiot?..." This moron said - could he take time out for a cigarette? I have never seen anyone turn that many shades of red/purple. The Sgt pulled that guy out of his seat and we never saw him until later that morning when he said that he did push-ups and sit-ups until he could not move anymore. I learned right then and there to just STFU and do what you were told - even it defied logic or sanity
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
CPT Jack Durish Urinalysis sample time. Nobody leaves until everybody pees. Really? Thanks for the tip. We have been up for twenty hours, we haven't stopped to eat or drink anything, and now we are supposed to pee on command? Then once the seal was finally broken it was another four hours of holding it in while needing to piss like a race horse. We did have one guy who burst into the head while we were providing our sample yelling "I have to pee now, I can't wait anymore!" Not sure who was the most surprised the guy outside the door he had just run past, the meat gazers, or those of us pissing in the cup.
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LTC Orlando Illi
PO3 Steven Sherrill - when we were in OCS we had to do a urinalysis. I learned when it was by bribing the company clerk with $20.00. We had a guys wife sneak in some Apple Juice (you know where this going - right?). You were supposed to pee in the cup and then report to the TAC Officer, salute and give him the urine sample. I went into the latrine stall and then reported to my TAC, rendered my salute and then drank the Apple Juice I had put in the specimen cup. The look on the TACs face was priceless. I did have to do 200 push-ups and march 10 punishment tours - but it was worth it. Afterwards he said that NO ONE had ever pulled that one before - not even at West Point when he was Cadet
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