What can you do or say at Basic to ensure additional smoke sessions?

If you go to Jackson - tell them, "Alright! Relaxin Jackson - when do we eat?!"

I sent home made cookies to my son in Basic. On purpose. Put "Pogie Bait" on the outside.
I could see the smoke across 7 states. They got to eat the cookies, thogh.

Basic, Ft. Leonard Wood, 1976... As Platoon Leader walking back from evening chow after clearing the chow hall when we were specifically told to run back to the company area.

About halfway back I saw my DS watching us. We started to panic and decided it would be better to start running. When we got closer I could see he was with his wife (she was a looker and visited him a few times in the company area) He stopped us and asked why we were walking and only started running when we saw him. Being the instigator I replied, DS, I figured since we only walked hallway back you'd only be half mad... His wife burst out laughing and he turned beet red. We spent some quality time doing pushups in the gravel street paying for our lack of attention to orders...

Benning. Sand Hill. 1983.
Every platoon has one. Ours was named Osborne.
- BDUs caught fire during a rest in place after he put an unextinguished smoke in the cargo pocket, which ignited his little blue book
- got up to tuck in the corner of his bunk after lights out, just as DS appeared
- wandered off into a field during mid-cycle test training; took off his BDU, laid on it in the tall grass and drifted off to sleep. Woke up to three DS staring down on him
Every platoon has one. Osborne was a great guy...but he sure made it hard.

"Smoke Sessions?" I thought you were talking about more chances to puff on those nasty cigarettes! Never heard the phrase smoke sessions.

I remember back in 1988 at Ft Lost in the Woods during blue phase our barracks weren't clean to the DS standards so after weapon range trainging guess what. We spent the next few hours in the parking lot doing weapon pt now mind you this was summer in Missouri. That year it was was the hottest on record with triple digits and 100% humidiy. It was ugly to me, because I come from triple digits and no humidiy. Here we are in blouse BDU doing all kinds of weapon pt (we had the Colt M16A1, steel pots, rode in cattle cars, used at reception station old WWII barracks w/ open latrines) with Charlie 2-10 4th Pltoon Engineers before going on to AIT with Alpha 577 Engineers

One young man in my class told the Drills that he was allergic to vegetables. He realized he was not.....

Nice way to make the shitlist. Ha.

Here I was thinking this question was how might you get additional smoke breaks.

Keep repeating “You can’t smoke a rock, Drill Sergeant!”