Two Fort Bliss soldiers remain hospitalized, nine return home after drinking antifreeze

Command won the stupid prizes and hope they enjoy losses of Rank, Salary and freedom. Wondering if BCD is coming for the poisoner's.

PFC Pamala (Hall) Foster - Not hard. I went to WLC in 2007 when it turned over from PLDC to WLC. JBLM. 30 days staying at the academy barracks.

We did the field exercise and did 2 days overnight in the field (not in a row). The last night overnight, all we had to do was graduate. Literally all that was left after that. Someone got their spouse to sneak alcohol out to the training area. Because we got woken up (those of us not drinking) in the middle of the night and had to bring all our stuff out and dump it out. I see them hauling someone off on a cot. Dude got so drunk he passed out on top of his sleeping bag and got hypothermia.

Three or four people in my platoon got caught. One guy was in the Ranger battalion. He wasn't after that. Three people for sure were from Irwin and had to go back without graduating. The Ranger dude got narced out though. He wasn't drunk but had been drinking and someone turned him in.

I don't know the layout on Bliss but if it's not hard for a spouse to sneak alcohol to a training area at JBLM, it's not hard to sneak it there. If that one guy hadn't gotten so drunk in WLC and passed out and all that, I bet the SGLs never would have known til maybe the next day. Or at all.

SFC (Join to see) Dang PLDC or what ever uts called has gotten soft. In my day it was 72 hours in the field and our Tents served as storage.

SGT (Join to see) - This was in 2007. It's called BLC now (Basic Leader Course). I went literally the first course it was renamed to WLC. We went 30 days, at the academy in their barracks. We had Sundays off. Two overnights in the field that week of field stuff.

Now I don't know. They don't stay in the barracks as far as I heard at JBLM. It did go from 30 days to 14 days to 30 again. I think they still do land nav. I think they ruck out to the training area? I don't know. It was virtual last year though most of the year.

I'm not sure 72 hours in the field is really that much "harder" though lol. I mean c'mon.

I was in 2007 to 2009 and part of it feels like forever. For 14E and 14T, I was out for like a week of training when we had it for quals. and Land Nav. I can tell ya a bit about Bliss-that where I was...the Staff NCO's would take certain soldiers with them as escorts through the barracks and I was there one day when they found alcohol in the ceiling at AIT, secret walls in some barracks rooms, and IF you want to sneak it-YOU WILL find the way to do it no matter the steps others take. But heads are going to roll cause of this and it is NOT going to be pretty for a few people.