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

While in BCT at FT. Polk, all those years ago, a female friend of mine set me a letter. In humor (so she thought) she addressed it me as LT, AS MY RANK. Yep earned some serious "smoke" over that one---for several days!!!!

Every time I was on line for mail call inside my position was across from 3rd platoons Drill Sergeants office. After sounding off "27 , last man on line drill sergeant", Drill Sgt. Pierce would ask "hey Private Weddig, what are you looking at?"
There is no correct answer to this question, so I would get 20-30 push-up from him then double from my own. It turned into some comradary towards the end.

Be the wrong person

We were filling out those little post cards to let our families know we had arrived safely. I had a US Government pen given to me that didn’t work. I raised my hand to tell the TI that the pen didn’t work. He told me to come to office immediately after he finished telling us rainbows how to fill it out. I reported to him and then made the mistake of putting the training manuals I had just been given on his desk. He literally exploded and threw them off his desk and proceeded to chew my ass out. BTW, he was a Buck Sgt.

Smoke the PT test and smoke them on a run. Had a Drill make me run around formation on a 5 mile run then challenge me to 1/4 mile sprint at the end of the run, telling me if I beat him it was over if not he was gonna PT me till I puked. I beat him by 50 yards. Then he started yelling and telling me to drop other drill came up told me to recover and get the F out. The whole time that drill seen me he would tell me to drop while at AIT.

Impersonating Senior Drill Sergeant SFC Arthur C Weathersby will get you some big arms. 2 years later he was on the cover of Army Times ( long ago maybe not right publication) with a Ranger patrol cover. D-4-2 Fort Benning.

Cuss, talk at attention, move, forget to brush your teeth, insult them were my favorites. I did it on purpose to piss my RDCs off if I was in a bad mood

1 smile
2 wear his campaign hat
3 take your sweet time getting things done
4 just being there
5 assigned to his platoon.

Hell I could keep going lol

Step on his highly polished jump boot.... SFC Thomas I am still sorry! I did it... bad move. SFC Thomas thank you for being such a strong influence on my future!

We had a recruit in my unit that got off the bus from the reception station and stepped on a drill sergeant's spit shined boots. He didn't make is two steps past the D. I. Smoke city man!