Posted on Sep 19, 2015
Did you go off base during Basic Training/Boot Camp?
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Gee, I think we had a day downtown just before graduation. But, although I am an Air Force Officer now, I did not attend Air Force Basic Military Training, but instead attended Boot Camp at Great Lakes as my first service was the Navy. I do remember going to Six Flags on a regular basis on the weekends during follow-on training (Seaman Apprentice School or something like that). Used to take the bus in my white cracker-jacks and pray that they would not get dirty!
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Marine Basic training, letting someone off the base. hahaha surely you jest.
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I never got off base during Basic Training. I think we had a chance to though.
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No Ma'am in Parris Island Recruit Depot we were restricted to the base for the ten weeks we were there. However on the first night there; a guy from Boston who was in my charge went AWOL...He said "These DIs are crazy & I am out of here"....So just before lights out a DI noticed he was missing and had a search party try to find this guy. They did find him a few days later in the swamps in bad shape. So when I was on a bus leaving Parris Island after graduation I saw this guy again cleaning ditches; wearing dungarees with BRIG stenciled on the back of them.. So I waved at him & yelled "Good Luck"...
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SPC Margaret Higgins
Thank you for wishing that guy "Good Luck" Sgt Tom Cunnally.
He really needed help and guidance it sounds like.
Good for you!
He really needed help and guidance it sounds like.
Good for you!
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SPC Margaret Higgins
I am very, very sorry about that SGT (Join to see). Wish you could have.
Actually I never got off base during Basis Training either.
Actually I never got off base during Basis Training either.
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