Private at basic left his weapon unattended. This is what he got in return.

.. you should see the cleaning rod for that thing!

Greets, Petty Officer Litz! I was in the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps as a High School student (I ended up going through Army ROTC and became a tanker--but my Dad was Navy). Went for 3 weeks of basic training to the Naval Training Center (flew there in a C-130) in Orlando, FL (BRACed some years ago). We had our heads shaved, etc. Regular Navy recruits preferred us over high school Navy ROTC students (who did nothing but bitch). One evening, I locked my "A&B" drawers, but failed to check whether the lock was securely latched. The Master at Arms came through and when he pulled on my lock, the lock arm pulled out. I then had to bring both drawers, one at a time, to the Chief Petty Officer's office ( First Class P.O. Ackerman) at the front of the building (a long way!), dump them out (and my grandmother had given me maybe 15 or so of those little damn hotel soap bars, I had about 15 pairs of folded socks, along with other assorted items, in those drawers). I asked the Petty Officer if the socks counted as one item. He said "Hold the pair up by one individual corner." The other sock peeled off. "No," he said. So I had to carry first each drawer, then the lock, then each item, back to the barracks one at a time, taking off my shoes at the door each time so as not to scuff the deck. Finished after 3.5 hours, well after lights out. Royally sucked! But, damn me if I EVER failed to make sure my lock was secure after that--and I stayed in touch with Ackerman for nearly 15 years after that experience.

I have a feeling someone knew before then, just waited until 3 am to notify the platoon sgt about it on purpose to make it just that much for fun for them.

A KATUSA or US Soldier, or ROK Soldier?

SGT (Join to see) - It was probably a ROK soldier. But then if it had been further north, it is possible that it could have been a KATUSA assigned to a specific unit, that has/had ROK SF NCOs as Platoon Sergeants.

When were you at Osan?
So, a soldier that was on our flight line (Alpha diamond), lost his beret in the middle of the taxi way, (this was 2010) I ended up with it. That night was the first time I've seen the whole Army BN stationed there, out doing a police call looking for it. I showed my buddies that night. Funniest shit ever. I went to turn it in. Their 1SG looked at me, looked at the beret, laughed and said keep it. I still have that beret.

SPC (Join to see) - are you saying the army was hard in 92? Ha ha sir that was Clinton's military there was nothing hard about it. Ha ha what a joke. I was in the navy and the way things were turning with all of this not wanting to stress the recruit and go easy on him makes me wonder how we have come this far within our over seas conflicts.

PVT Andrew Burd - you just kidding, corrective instruction, join in if you would like. :)

Oh jeez. Cry me a river spec. We all got hazed its called training. Half of what soldiers go through could be considered hazing but without it were dead. I'm glad they did that. It might just save his life.

When I was in basic we had something called dead man walking. They'd wait for you to get about 25 feet from your weapon and you had to do some crawl/walk inchworm thing. It sucked but I only left it once.