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?

I heard the same shit because I earned my an air Assault wings from the course at the 7th ID at Ft. Ord, CA n 1992 after I got stationed at the 101st

And wtf is a CW4 ????

Back in the day you were either Airborne /11Bravo or REMFs ….what about now ???

I was 11Bravo 4 years …everything else is REMF !!!!

We went through TigerLand then Nam …if you made thru TigerLand u were considered a killing machine …especially hand to hand ….

I’m old enough to remember TigerLand !!

Ft. Benning truly IS the place where men are forged and drop outs cop out. 2/58, sand hill. "House of Pain". Class of 07/2000

Insecure people always try to make themselves out to be better than you. Fuck em.

CSM Tim Guden would love to talk to whoever said that. I’m pretty sure he’s 100% Infantry, even if he went to Fort Jackson for basic and started out as Signal. How do I know this? SPC Guden and I were roommates ‘89-‘90. He reclassed to 11B because “signal was boring”.

If that’s the only place they took their training then of course it’s the best to them only.
My training was in 1966 at Ft Dix NJ and I’ll tell you it wasn’t a cakewalk. Our DI was a black E7 WWII Veteran who was taken prisoner and we all know how the Nazis looked on blacks, Jews and Poles.
Our training was as rough as any Marine got back then. It was Vietnam and most woukd end up there.