Posted on May 12, 2016
What was the most "military" corrective training you experienced?
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5000 word essay, hand written, for using paste wax (lighting it on fire) at OCS... It was either that or no weekend pass...
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1LT William Clardy
You mean I once out-ranked you, COL Charles Williams? I would have been either a corporal or just pinning on my sergeant's stripes back then (minor boast: that was also the year I attended BNCOC as a corporal and made honor grad...).
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SGT Jerrold Pesz
It didn't happen to me but when I was company operations NCO at Ft. Jackson our XO shared an office with me. After he got several speeding tickets on base the battalion commander made him write "I will not speed on base" several thousand times. Took him most of the week. His driving did improve a bunch. lol
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CPT Robert Boshears
How did you get a pass in OCS? Ha... Friday afternoon, we were told who had the least amount of marks on our daily gig cards, which, in theory gave us the weekend off. From the small parade field (old buildings) to our rooms, those gig cards were all full. It was accepted we would not only miss a weekend on Victory Blvd., but were given enough marching parties to keep us busy that weekend. We made our uniforms perfect... for our marching tours. First time I failed the inspection, I went up to my room and worked like crazy to pass the next hours March. It hit me, if I failed, I could hide and sleep. I owed a lot of marching time when we graduated... but, I was well rested.
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SSG Dennis Grossmann
I've dug fighting positions and filled them in, only to dig another one two feet from the original, then repeat. Guarded a cigarette butt in full battle rattle for 24 hrs., painted rocks, rearranged gravel walk ways laying them little pieces of gravel out by size. Scrubbed the motor pool bays with a long handled brush. Top off the company's tanks and Bradley's with one 5 gallon fuel can. Those were just a few.
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Back in the day, in USAF Basic Training, if you screwed up bad enough multiple times but were considered to be salvageable, you were assigned to "Motivation Flight" for a week or so. The daily routine in "Motivation Flight" was highly structured and very rigid. Some of the fun we had included mowing grass with hand clippers; memorizing the entire manual for the M-16 rifle; running the "Confidence Course" every other day (a normal basic trainee only runs it once); following a strange protocol during meals (square meals); watching motivational training films; constant unannounced inspections; and lots of other attention to detail tasks designed to get us to conform, etc. Why was I sent there? I beat the crap out of abusive squad leaders...twice. Squad leaders got fired and I went to motivation flight to learn that I can't be beating up abusive authoritarians.
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