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?

Maybe. Went to Benning in 1985, at Sand Hill, came back in 1991 for Jump School. Retired after receiving my 20 year letter. Looking back, including doing three deployments to the Middle East. Benning was the hardest place for me.

Basic at Benning...sure, be Infantry, just don't be a leg

Well I did basic and infantry ait
And ft Jackson in 1970. Then I was a drill sgt at benning in 1976...training infantrymen. So there is that.

Well if that's the case!!! Then I guess I am a real Infantryman!!!!

I was a 67Y AH-1 Mechanic in the Cav... we had 19D that would never call themselves 11B but all had mad respect for those that were. 11B is the backbone of the Army... Ft Benning is a great place, born there but to say that is the only Infantry training post is BS...

Hhhhmmmm, people often argue the place ,people, difference in training, even the difference in the standard of training , why their are Infantryman and then their are Infantryman , Infantryman trained to standard can go face to face with the enemy , on the other hand the other Infantryman train to do the impossible are they the same ? Even within the Infantry there exists a subset much like the Airborne Infantry of the 82nd trash talking the Air Assault Infantry of the 101st by calling anyone not chairborne a leg ,lol i recall REFORGER where element's of the 82nd jumped into Germany found themselves instant wargame POW's by virtue of being surrounded by the famous can do Regiment of the 15th Inf. Now down to one battalion and enjoying there stay in FT. Benning, or the 101st being over run by Ft. Stewart's mech Infantry regiment, Ego's are a necessary part of an Infantryman's will to fight . In a game where losing is not an option and winning means fighting against all odds by being ready to do the impossible . The American Infantryman since his beginning is famous for doing the impossible and the unimaginable....... If you earned the right to be an American Infantryman by virtue of earning your Blue cord or you have your orders declaring you as an American Infantryman ,then it doesn't matter if you graduated from the ant farm in Benning (joke) or got your Infantry religion at the Church , earned your mosquito fighting badge in the Tigerland . Cause in the end you have earned the right to be volunteered to go to the Valley of the Shadow of Death and own it........

Since when has any other Post run 11B OSUT? I know that early 70"s it was still being done at Ft. Polk ( at least in 73-74)

Because that is the only place the Army trains Infantry? But, I only did the last six weeks of basic at Benning cause I was prior service. Not sure if that makes me a real infantryman. But what do I know...

Totally agree...

Actually the title should be "If you didn't do BCT at Harmony Church, you're not Infantry!"