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

Show up to basic in orange parachute pants and a white tank-top...

Two weeks into basic, have a 'guy' show up in civilian clothes asking for Van Ass in the middle of training...(MSgt Harris - Spec Ops recruiter)...good thing was my DI got smoked before I did for asking who the hell MSgt Harris was to his face and asking why he was interrupting training.

Tell your DI that he spit on you while yelling and you taste bacon and it makes you hungry...

Pass the PAST test three weeks into basic...(I think the 'muscle-man' nickname was funny since I was 5'8" and 155lbs...and my DI was 6'3" and about big enough to throw my wall locker across two bunks...)

I have more, but I digress...

I took pride in being a road guard for a variety of reasons. During one smoke session, the 6 of us at the front were as loud as about the 50 next to us, so they kept going and 1SG let us have a breather. During the 21k road march (That ended up being longer because of 'a detour', or maybe it was supposed to be 15 but the detour made it 21k... I don't remember), we'd do our job, and then jog back to the front of the formation.

However, on a march to turn in the gear from our final FTX, I turned the formation down the road we'd taken to the warehouses, and that's when a DS asked me what the hell I'd just done. After pushing for a few minutes, we continued on, and he later told me I'd been right. He definitely had my respect, and I got to do a few more pushups.

Back when Ft Sam Houston had Drill Sergeants 1994, in the Foxtrot Co 232nd MED BN, those Drill Sergeants were to be called Drill Sergeant. Woes to the individual that called them just plain old Sergeant

In my day, the fastest way to get smoked was to tell a DS that "YOU CANT SMOKE A ROCK DRILL SERGEANT!!"

Leave some buttons unbuttoned, talking during briefings, and asked the DS if you can get a sick day.

I guess in the Air Force you can do what you want these days.

Any USAF TIs want to disprove me?
I hope it isn't as bad as "they" say it is.

Ask the Drill Sergeant for a four day pass.

Fall asleep any time between revile to lights out.

1. Getting caught trying to jam a half of a strawberry cake in my mouth while on KP.
2. Asking a DS who was Air Assualt Qualified why he couldn't get into Airborne school.
3. when the DS confronted us and told us that he had been watching us at night and to go ahead and admit what we had been doing (he hadn't been watching us...classic jedi mind trick he played), admitting we were going to the PX to buy dip.

Leave out Drill Sergeant when addressing them. Saw that happen. It wasn't pretty.