Posted on Sep 19, 2015
Did you go off base during Basic Training/Boot Camp?
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SPC Margaret Higgins
CPT (Join to see), I am not sure what the expression "Phase of my OUTS means". Maybe you could fill me in. (I served during the Cold War.)
I am really, really glad that you got to get off base during AIT.
I am really, really glad that you got to get off base during AIT.
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I was able to leave Boot Camp for a couple of hours because I volunteered to give blood. They transported us to the Navy hospital, we gave blood, and they fed us a very good steak dinner. As an added bonus, there were no DIs along to harass us. This was the first time donating blood, and I have since donated blood well over 150 times.
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Thank you Margaret and Rick. I do not have a Red Cross card. I was donating blood through M.D. Anderson for many years until I has squamous cell cancer, and they would no longer take my blood. I then started donating blood through St. Lukes until two years ago when I had Melanoma cancer. They said I had to wait three years before I could donate again. I have one more year before I try and donate blood again. I have moved, so I will try and find someone that will take my blood.
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SP5 Joel O'Brien
Sgt. Hallock: Your post reminded me that my first time donating blood was in the Army. I got quite ill for a couple of hours after that but have given blood without problems ever since. BTW, I do remember getting a pass while at Ft. Dix to visit a friend from college in nearby Toms River, N.J.
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Funny you should mention it... I got a one day pass in BCT and left base for a few hours just to see the sights (such as they were around Fort Gordon, GA). My companions were all teenagers and begged me to buy booze for them (I was 23 at the time).
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SPC Margaret Higgins
I am sure they did; CPT Jack Durish. What with the stress of the military, etc.
I was stationed at Fort Gordon as well- for my AIT. I can't remember if I ever went into the town of Augusta; as there were so many things to do on the base....including swimming- in a beautiful large pool! Do you remember that Captain?
I was stationed at Fort Gordon as well- for my AIT. I can't remember if I ever went into the town of Augusta; as there were so many things to do on the base....including swimming- in a beautiful large pool! Do you remember that Captain?
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CPT Jack Durish
SPC Margaret Higgins - If they had a pool when I was there (1966) it was probably empty. We practically opened the base when we arrived. They bused us from the Reception Center at Fort Jackson where we were supposed to attend BCT but a flurry of spinal meningitis broke out. I don't think the barracks we occupied at Gordon had been touched since Korea...
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Got to go to the USO once in basic, and got two 4 hr. passes to the brigade AO and USO during the AIT portion of OSUT.
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SPC Margaret Higgins
That is really too bad isn't it SGT Scott Bell. I pray that you didn't mind that fact too much, SGT Scott Bell.
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Yes, several times. I also got a three day pass for my score on rifle qualification.
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SGT Jerrold Pesz
SPC Margaret Higgins - When I was in basic training our drill sergeants rewarded you if you tried hard and performed. After about the 4th week some got to go to town on the weekend while others got to spend the weekend cleaning toilets and scrubbing the grease pit under the mess hall. Different things motivate different people.
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SPC Margaret Higgins
That is absolutely correct; Sergeant.- Different things do indeed, motivate different people SGT Jerrold Pesz.
KUDOS, Sergeant! That three day pass was hard earned. You deserved that three day pass.
KUDOS, Sergeant! That three day pass was hard earned. You deserved that three day pass.
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Techinically, yes. But for the most part travelling in the cattle trucks from the barracks to a few of the ranges at Ft Benning required us to cross the highway via a bridge overpass. Up until family day, that was the only time I saw anything even remotely like off-post.
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