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 went to Ft Benning for Basic and Infantry School combineducation in the 80's it was the only Infantry School I was aware of. I was E71 at Sanders Hill.

I think there is an Honor with going to Infantry training at FT. Benning home of the Infantry, that being said it has no reflection if you are good infantryman. I did not go to Benning for BCT I went to FT. SILL because I was prior service and in the Reserves so they send us to MOS Q course. I doesn't have any bearing on your skill as an Infantryman and any one who says otherwise is just deluded many infantry man back in WW2 who set the standards for our elite force today did not go Ft. Benning. Now of course you can become a better skilled infantryman by going to airborne School at FT. Benning but going to BCT in Benning doesn't make you necessarily a superior Infantryman.

Poppycock HQ companys are full of non 11b but they all yrain as Infantryman first

Hmmmmm. My uncle went to Basic at Ft. Jackson and did several tours there, as a D.I. at least once and he was Infantry ( Blue Cord, Blue Disks behind the U.S. and whatever ).

To the best of my knowledge the ONLY location for Infantry Basic is Ft Benning GA. Been that way for many years.

If you are required to carry a gun on deployment, your an infantryman, just cause your MOS is shoot move and communicate, doesn't mean other series can't do it.

Unless you have gone through (ALL) the Infantry basic training post and graduated, you have no real opinion. And even then it's a mute point. Stop the crap. Know wonder the Marines talk shit about the Army. Me, I was 11B and went to Ft. Benning. No matter when or where you got your basic training as a Infantryman, you're Infantry, period. Now, I met a female who was a medic and never deployed. She told me that she was basically Infantry because she got a little cross training on Infantry tactics. I chewed her a new asshole. That's what pisses me off.

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