I was told that you aren't a real infantryman unless you went to basic training at Fort Benning. What are your opinions on this?

1989 1st cycle at Sand Hill

"An Army is a team; lives, sleeps, eats, fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is a lot of crap" -General George S. Patton, Armor, Commanding

Ok so scouts are infantry they are at Benning?

This post just turned RallyPoint into WTF Army Moments...Oyyyyy

As a FisTer I would say you're not a real infantryman until you've passed JFO or FO AIT so you can properly call for fire without help from a 13 Fox- since most bangbangs i met while I was in could barely pass a basic polar call for fire for EIB- if CFF is unnecessary why is there whole MOS for it? Most line FOs are doing 11Bs jobs anyways, and then some - but are they infantrymen? Nope. and most don't want to be-being the black sheep of combat arms is reward enough. And also before the butt hurt starts it's spelled and pronounced "Pogue" not pog and its actually called an Aguillete not a "cord".

I knew a lot of real infantrymen that went through Fort Polk.

I was talking to some Marine grunts and they said that they wish the Marines showed the difference between grunts and every other marine and they were NCO's

that's like they called my son Hollywood because he went to MCRD in California but he was still a marine just because you didn't go to sand hill do's not mean you are not a grunt hell I did BCT at Ft Dix then went to Sand hill that is back in 78

Basic training is the same dont matter where you go. All DS are trained at the same place. And they all well trained on skill level one skill out of the stp 21-1.Now when we talk mos specific...yes you need mos qualified instructors, but that is AIT

It doesn't matter what people say, no matter where recruits goes for basic training, they all came out a soldier, so even if you got out as infantry but didn't train at fort benning, that doesn't mean you not a real infantry.