2
2
0
I went to Orlando for boot camp (during summer, which sucked great big donkey balls, but that's another story). Our company had 80 recruits. So, in the barracks, 20 sets of bunk beds along each side. In other words, plenty of room for the Company Commander (CC) to pace...which they did frequently. Whilst torturing us for the idiot that didn't fold his t-shirt correctly. One day, we'd been at it so long that many began to tire of the pushups and the 'hold the pushup' evolutions.
It started with a few. He would pace past them, and they would drop flat. Just before he reached the end and turned, they'd go back up into position. Pretty soon, the entire company (yes, even me, I was a worn puppy) was doing a slow wave as he passed. Down....pace...up....pace...down. Eventually somebody started laughing, and then we all did. That...did not go over well.
How about you? Got a funny Boot story?
It started with a few. He would pace past them, and they would drop flat. Just before he reached the end and turned, they'd go back up into position. Pretty soon, the entire company (yes, even me, I was a worn puppy) was doing a slow wave as he passed. Down....pace...up....pace...down. Eventually somebody started laughing, and then we all did. That...did not go over well.
How about you? Got a funny Boot story?
Humor
Boot Camp
Posted >1 y ago
Responses: 18
9
9
0
When I joined the Army, I arrived at Fort Dix, NJ straight from a Southern Pentecostal Church. My DSs began swearing at us and using language I had only heard in the boy's locker room at school! I backed away from the DS. Of course I caught his attention. He looked at me and began screaming, "where in the %÷#!*^$ do you think you are going?" I replied, "nowhere Drill Sergeant, I just don't want to be standing next to you when God strikes you dead!" I think my handprints are still in the asphalt!!
(9)
(0)
8
8
0
IN the first week or so of Marine boot,one of the privates pulled a weed from the "grass"(sand for those who are not familiar) while we were raking it.One of the Drill instructors ask him why he pulled up his "flower",then proceeded to have him get a pot replant the "flower"and nurture it from that day until the day before graduation.By the end of boot the weed was a couple feet tall from being given plant food and care by the private.The day before graduation the Drill Instructor steps out of the duty hut,looks around,acts as though he sees this plant for the first time and says"Where the F*** did this weed come from? grabs it up and flings it away.The private looks as though he may cry.
(8)
(0)
SSgt Terry P.
SN Greg Wright - Thanks,I can't really do the private's astonishment justice.
Expression:-- "PRICELESS" LOL
Expression:-- "PRICELESS" LOL
(0)
(0)
4
4
0
Once during morning the DS asked "who ate these oreo cookies?". We knew who done it, but we didn't say who to the DS. Of course we got smoked. From that day on we called the private the Cookie Monster.
(4)
(0)
SN Greg Wright
SGT Roberto Mendoza-Diaz - That might have gotten him a blanket party in my company in boot, lol. They were a rough bunch.
(1)
(0)
Cpl Zane Bragg
I got busted eating a cookie I had saved from a box chow in the rack by fire watch at Parris Island, recruit walked right up to the duty hut and ratted me out. After being threatened with being sent back to day 1 (this was around grass week / rifle range) I stood firewatch the rest of the night in near tears honestly. The next day the whole platoon was instructed to pull they’re 2 cookie each out of they’re chows and pass them down to me. My punishment was to eat every last one, and I also earned the Cookie Monster nickname. Funny now, wasn’t funny then!
(1)
(0)
Read This Next
Continue with Facebook 
Continue with Google