Posted on Jan 28, 2016
Did anyone else keep their "Warrior Handbooks" from Basic or Field Training? Is it still useful?
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I'm not sure if the Army, Navy, Marines, or Coast Guard carries this with them during basic training, but thought I would ask anyway. I had a close friend present my original 'Warrior Handbook' to me at my wedding last year and recite "GEN Colin Powell's 13 Rules" aloud. He had the whole place rolling in laughter. Lots of memories trapped in this book. Anyone else have something similar?
ROTC
Basic Training
Posted 10 y ago
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Called a BMT Study Guide now, or at least in 2012 it was. I still have mine well riddled with doodles and other "art" work sitting in a tub in my apartment. It has seen better days for sure.
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TSgt Melissa Post
I still have mine too. Ours must be called something different from the Officer side. Look how thin theirs is and ours is like a brick. If all else fails, throw it at the enemy. It might hurt them if thrown with enough force lol.
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I still have my original handbook from Basic Training back in 1968. Hell, I still have all of my squad and platoon books of all the men that served with me in my Company, Bravo 1/3, from Nam including maps a grids! I got everyone's Names, DOB, Service Numbers, Ranks, boot sizes, blood type, weapons and next of kin and addresses. Shit, I kept everything!
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I laminated every single page of my Field Training Manual (FTM). It wasn't smart in so many different ways. It cost me $40, increased every dimension, and weighed about 2 pounds. On the bright side, it survived Maxwell's torrential downpours with ease. As a result, it is staying with me for some time to come. Our detachment switched to using online warrior knowledge handbooks my second semester, so the FTM is the only paper handbook we would have. That said, I'll be keeping it mostly for nostalgia purposes, as well as perhaps to use as a lesson on the dangers of over-engineering.
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I still have my Bluejackets Manual, fourteenth edition copyright 1950, with a foreword by Hon. Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy.
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