Posted on Jul 27, 2024
SPC July Macias
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I'm curious how you'd react if you're the drill instructor.
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SSG Roger Ayscue
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I would look at the Recruit and say "Your Pronoun is Private, My Pronoun is Drill Sergeant."
There is nothing else that needs to be said.
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SMSgt Bob W.
SMSgt Bob W.
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I think there is only one pronoun--"Recruit" and the derivatives such a "maggot" etc.
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SMSgt Bob W.
SMSgt Bob W.
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff Does "it" count? Personally I don't give a damn about nouns or pronouns.
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SMSgt Bob W.
SMSgt Bob W.
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff Huh, what?
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SMSgt Bob W.
SMSgt Bob W.
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SMSgt Bob W. I'm sorry. I must be walking to a WOKE English major. Did you graduate?
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MSG Intermediate Care Technician
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Had 2 DS in my Basic that had a workaround years before this came to pass. One called everyone "Hero" and the other always called us by "Hey, Stupid."
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SSG Drill Sergeant
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SPC July Macias - Unfortunate that its not authorized anymore.
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SPC July Macias
SPC July Macias
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SSG (Join to see) - Wait... Front Back Goes are not authorized anymore? Why?
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SSG Drill Sergeant
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SPC July Macias - All corrective actions have to be exercises out of FM7-22 to prevent "hazing" and/or "abuse". Front back go, sugar cookies, cherry pickers, ect ect are all out.
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SFC Thomas Wright
SFC Thomas Wright
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I took basic training at FT Bragg in 1968 when DI's were allowed to do and say pretty much anything, but I can't remember them being all that abusive. They would make do pushups and squat thrust if we screwed up but that's about it.
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Cpl Vic Burk
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Our drill instructors routinely called us, "You f**king bitches" among other things! I wouldn't trade my boot camp experience for anything. It was a major turning point in my life.
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SGT Program Coordinator
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Cpl Vic Burk - Yep, it was time to grow up for some, thought their mom's would bail them out. Lol
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MAJ Byron Oyler
MAJ Byron Oyler
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Cpl Vic Burk - We should be working with our teens today in similar fashion.
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Cpl Vic Burk - The juinor DI was a buck sargent, Sgt Brake from Dallas Texas.
Out of Vietnam, 101st ABN, he was a sniper there, got stabbed 3 time with a bayonet, we were told, he had only 1/4 of a lung on one side, and he could never run with us for long.
He was in meanest guy I had ever met, he told our platoon one day, "If I see anyone of you, Cat calling my wife as she walks by the barracks, I'll kill you!" And, we all beleived him.
The E-6 DI's, both had Vietnam Ranger patches on their right sleeves, but they were down to earth, and were always trying to help the recrutes. Out senior DI was an E7, and he was good to us, but kept us straight and taught us what we needed to know.
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1SG Walter Friesen
1SG Walter Friesen
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Your A Soldier ; drive on.
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