SSG Private RallyPoint Member 5627207 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It could be a saying/quote, anything!! 2020-03-04T10:31:29-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 5627207

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It could be a saying/quote, anything!!

2020-03-04T10:31:29-05:00 2020-03-04T10:31:29-05:00 CW5 Jack Cardwell 5627215

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The difference between my left foot and my right foot !

2020-03-04T10:34:46-05:00 2020-03-04T10:34:46-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 5627217

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Principles of Patrolling: Planning, Reconnaissance, Security, Control, Common Sense.

2020-03-04T10:35:03-05:00 2020-03-04T10:35:03-05:00 SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth 5627236

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It&#39;s been 43years this July since basic, , but I remember that you had to be always on the alert , half of my Drill Sergeants were Vietnam vets.

2020-03-04T10:39:19-05:00 2020-03-04T10:39:19-05:00 LTC Tom McNew 5627303

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Treating other people with respect is paramount.

2020-03-04T11:04:58-05:00 2020-03-04T11:04:58-05:00 CSM Darieus ZaGara 5627313

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You may not know (always) what right looks like, it is always evident what wrong looks like.

2020-03-04T11:08:47-05:00 2020-03-04T11:08:47-05:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 5627326

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>On day one, my DS taught me that the correct answer when asked if it was possible that he told me the wrong way to fill out the hand receipt for linen, is definitely not &quot;Yes, Drill Sergeant, that&#39;s possible.&quot;

2020-03-04T11:12:32-05:00 2020-03-04T11:12:32-05:00 SPC David S. 5627355

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It was a complicated love hate relationship - however my rifle is only for fighting.

2020-03-04T11:20:18-05:00 2020-03-04T11:20:18-05:00 SSgt Private RallyPoint Member 5627411

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>&quot;Fifteen minutes early is on time, on time is late.&quot; - Chief Master Sergeant Furey

2020-03-04T11:49:43-05:00 2020-03-04T11:49:43-05:00 MAJ Private RallyPoint Member 5627416

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The feet together makes the food taste better!

2020-03-04T11:51:34-05:00 2020-03-04T11:51:34-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 5627434

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Expect the worst, hope for the best.

2020-03-04T11:54:27-05:00 2020-03-04T11:54:27-05:00 Lt Col Charlie Brown 5627495

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Keep in step.<br />Also command voice always wins!

2020-03-04T12:09:00-05:00 2020-03-04T12:09:00-05:00 LTC Private RallyPoint Member 5627524

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Not a DS but one of my PSGs when I was a new 2LT: Always have a spare patrol cap to leave on your desk. That way you can go for a walk or to the PX and everyone will think you&#39;re just in the shitter.

2020-03-04T12:15:07-05:00 2020-03-04T12:15:07-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 5627549

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Teamwork.

2020-03-04T12:21:36-05:00 2020-03-04T12:21:36-05:00 MSG Private RallyPoint Member 5627565

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>As a former Drill Sergeant, i cannot say most of the things that came out of our Mouth&#39;s in this forum. haha

2020-03-04T12:25:02-05:00 2020-03-04T12:25:02-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 5627590

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It makes the dream work.

2020-03-04T12:26:59-05:00 2020-03-04T12:26:59-05:00 PO1 Jerome Newland 5627675

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Anything can be booby trapped, even boobies. Jerry

2020-03-04T12:52:33-05:00 2020-03-04T12:52:33-05:00 LTC Wayne Brandon 5627731

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>On the final day of our training, while waiting for the busses to collect us, a few of us were in the vicinity of the orderly room boasting about what sort of damage we were going to do when we got to Nam. About that time SSG Gutierrez walked out and everyone shut up as he glared at us with the unmistakable &quot;I&#39;m going to talk and you are going to listen.&quot; look. Then he said very matter of factly:<br />&quot;Just because you&#39;ve completed your training, don&#39;t think for a second you know more than the enemy - you don&#39;t. In fact, if you underestimate Charlie, Charlie will make sure you have a very bad day.&quot; We thanked him and he went on his way. Of all thing things I learned from anyone during that time, that was timeless advice and the only thing I remember any DS telling me worth remembering.

2020-03-04T13:14:15-05:00 2020-03-04T13:14:15-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 5627736

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I cant choose just one - Theres so many good ones!<br /><br />DS Greene: &quot;Why you smiling at me, Pri&#39;ate? You think I&#39;m pretty or something?&quot;

2020-03-04T13:16:00-05:00 2020-03-04T13:16:00-05:00 SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member 5627757

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>“Smooth is fast, but slow is still slow!”

2020-03-04T13:22:16-05:00 2020-03-04T13:22:16-05:00 GySgt Thomas Vick 5627772

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Discipline.

2020-03-04T13:26:32-05:00 2020-03-04T13:26:32-05:00 CWO3 Private RallyPoint Member 5627801

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>discipline - the instant and willing obedience to orders without hesitation

2020-03-04T13:36:18-05:00 2020-03-04T13:36:18-05:00 SFC Melvin Brandenburg 5627811

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Two things I&#39;ve never forgotten. #1 If you aint cheatin you aint tryin but if you get caught you just didn&#39;t try hard enough. #2 Wanna go to a party? Great, just crawl up my left leg and you can have a ball.

2020-03-04T13:39:02-05:00 2020-03-04T13:39:02-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 5627962

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>If you want to be the man you have to beat the man.

2020-03-04T14:33:34-05:00 2020-03-04T14:33:34-05:00 CPT Jack Durish 5627986

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We were told to pay close attention to everything because everything could mean the difference between surviving and dying in combat. However, the one thing that stuck with me came during hand-to-hand combat training. When asked if &quot;this stuff&quot; really worked, our DI leaned close and whispered, &quot;If you every run out of ammo, go find more ammo.&quot;

2020-03-04T14:42:22-05:00 2020-03-04T14:42:22-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 5628093

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Now my AIT instructors at Leonardwood always used &quot;high speed, low drag&quot;

2020-03-04T15:23:14-05:00 2020-03-04T15:23:14-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 5628483

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One of my drill taught me &quot;you can&#39;t fix fucked&quot;

2020-03-04T17:32:05-05:00 2020-03-04T17:32:05-05:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 5628509

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>&quot;Lead by example&quot;

2020-03-04T17:37:41-05:00 2020-03-04T17:37:41-05:00 Sgt Private RallyPoint Member 5628559

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="1068191" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/1068191-92s-shower-laundry-and-clothing-repair-specialist-95th-qm-bn-1st-bde-qm">SSG Private RallyPoint Member</a> My Drill Instructors were not shy about sharing many hard lessons. When I arrived in Vietnam, a Gunnery Sergeant informed us that we needed to stop thinking about family and home, and focus on learning how to stay alive for the next year.

2020-03-04T18:01:45-05:00 2020-03-04T18:01:45-05:00 Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen 5628567

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Difference between a rifle and a gun, :-)

2020-03-04T18:06:15-05:00 2020-03-04T18:06:15-05:00 SGT John Graham 5628618

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>FRONT LEANING REST POSITION

2020-03-04T18:23:02-05:00 2020-03-04T18:23:02-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 5628634

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My fiance said his contribution is:<br />&quot;SCUZZ BRUSH BULK HEAD!!!&quot;

2020-03-04T18:28:00-05:00 2020-03-04T18:28:00-05:00 MSG Private RallyPoint Member 5628678

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>“These upcoming weeks in basic training are going to pass. The real question is: Will you?”<br /><br />“Never forget who you are, where you are, and why you’re here. The will to serve can be found in the most obvious of places.”<br /><br />“Always look before you burpee.”

2020-03-04T18:42:37-05:00 2020-03-04T18:42:37-05:00 SPC Shawn Durnen 5628828

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Discipline

2020-03-04T19:27:38-05:00 2020-03-04T19:27:38-05:00 SFC Casey O'Mally 5628869

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Down on your left foot. No private, your other left foot. Dammit Private. Here. This is a rock. This rock is never right. Put it in your left hand. There, now you know left from right.<br />(And I literally had a pebble in my left hand every time we did D&amp;C, to include graduation.)<br /><br />Also,<br />A bad plan executed violently and on time is better than a perfect plan executed timidly or too late.<br /><br />I also learned what makes the green grass grow AND why the sky is blue.

2020-03-04T19:43:11-05:00 2020-03-04T19:43:11-05:00 PV2 Bob Ondown 5629164

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I learned how to clean a toilet bowl to a Drill Sergeants standards. This was at a WW2 barracks.<br />I still clean my toilet bowl to his standards:0)

2020-03-04T21:20:31-05:00 2020-03-04T21:20:31-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 5629591

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>“If you can’t stay with the big dogs, stay your ass on the porch.”<br /><br />Profound statement.

2020-03-05T01:33:48-05:00 2020-03-05T01:33:48-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 5630667

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Personal accountability, time management and perseverance.

2020-03-05T08:44:23-05:00 2020-03-05T08:44:23-05:00 SP5 Leo Fitz 5630748

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Do it right the first time,you will do less pushups.

2020-03-05T09:17:27-05:00 2020-03-05T09:17:27-05:00 SGT George G. 5631435

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Be an expert on every weapon you touch, it may save your life one day. so I did! And it did!

2020-03-05T13:21:19-05:00 2020-03-05T13:21:19-05:00 SPC David Hannaman 5631747

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>“Do what it takes to win.”<br /><br />“Keep your head on a swivel”<br /><br />“Attention to detail”<br /><br />“The more you sweat in peace the less you’ll bleed in war”

2020-03-05T15:00:34-05:00 2020-03-05T15:00:34-05:00 CPO Clifford Henry 5631984

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Beware of the first person who tries to befriend you at a new unit. They’re usually looking for someone to share in their disgruntled world. That actually rang true more often than not.

2020-03-05T16:08:12-05:00 2020-03-05T16:08:12-05:00 SFC Milton Padua 5631993

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>3 General Orders.

2020-03-05T16:10:29-05:00 2020-03-05T16:10:29-05:00 SFC Milton Padua 5631998

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>General Orders. If you couldn&#39;t recite them you&#39;ll have to push.

2020-03-05T16:11:19-05:00 2020-03-05T16:11:19-05:00 SPC Steven Depuy 5632136

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>That drill Sgt&#39;s are right, and don&#39;t make mistakes. And you you think they did, refer to rule one. I was platoon guide with 2 weeks to go. My DI made a mistake giving me a command, and my 17 year old ego could not get past not blaming him. He told me to give the troops a left face and move them down the trail. He meant to say counter column as well. I marched the boys to the middle of no where at Knox till they all told me to go F myself and went back to the barracks. I read in a book before basic that said some times they tell you to do something stupid to see if you listen. And did what I though he said. When we got back, I got called into a meeting with him and the E-7 over him, and I blamed him. He said I missed the counter column part, and I said no, you never said that drill Sgt. The platoon guide from another platoon backed me up, and I would not back down. I ended up losing the platoon guide job, and my PFC stripes, plus I could have stayed there if I understand things right and been cadre if I wanted. Just out of respect alone, I should have covered him on it, and I would have benefited greatly as well. But I was young and stupid, and ended up standing my ground, and it cost me a bunch of money and a fun position I could have had. Such is life, and being young and dumb.

2020-03-05T16:56:03-05:00 2020-03-05T16:56:03-05:00 SSG Phil Lockit 5632313

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>&quot;GET THE HELL OTTA BED&quot;!!!!!!!!!!!!! At 2 a.m just before we got in to bed.

2020-03-05T18:17:46-05:00 2020-03-05T18:17:46-05:00 1LT Kevin Chapman 5632445

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>He definitely taught me how to go above and beyond and show your soldiers that you care. We had a 10 mile ruck the next morning and my drill sergeant was currently on CQ the following night. And I remember one of the guys asking him if he would ruck with us in the morning. And I remember DS Trump saying, “you seriously want me to ruck with you guys?” And he replied, “yes”. That morning as he was getting ready to be relieved from CQ duty and head to his promotion ceremony. He was getting promoted from E6 to E7. He decided to ruck with us and then left later after the ruck. Definitely was one of the most selfless leaders I’ve met.

2020-03-05T19:10:36-05:00 2020-03-05T19:10:36-05:00 GySgt Kenneth Pepper 5634634

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How to iron. I don&#39;t know if they still teach it, but I can still put a razor sharp crease in a shirt or trousers.

2020-03-06T11:50:59-05:00 2020-03-06T11:50:59-05:00 LTC Wayne Brandon 5636402

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I do recall one other thing: &quot;Gentlemen, this #10 boot of mine will surely fit in various parts of your anatomy with the proper amount of force.&quot; SDS Henry Prell

2020-03-06T21:13:52-05:00 2020-03-06T21:13:52-05:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 5636682

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How to fire a rifle. I never touched a weapon before basic. including my first time, I have never been below sharpshooter

2020-03-06T22:45:40-05:00 2020-03-06T22:45:40-05:00 PO3 Troy Stutsman 5640303

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Boot camp...<br />“ Keep a limber timber and you’ll be a hard man to beat”...!

2020-03-08T07:14:52-04:00 2020-03-08T07:14:52-04:00 SSG Red Hoffman 5649940

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How to make a bed. I use those corners on my bed to this very day - 43 years later.

2020-03-11T01:42:59-04:00 2020-03-11T01:42:59-04:00 CW4 Harris Smith 5658327

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>&quot;What are you walking for dickhead!&quot;

2020-03-13T14:06:41-04:00 2020-03-13T14:06:41-04:00 PO3 Joseph Mcleod 5699276

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>While standing fire watch at three in the morning, i learned how to stop a hemorrhaging nose after striking my Master Chief with the butt of an M-1 Garand . (ice under the upper lip.) He had failed to respond with the proper password. This incident was never spoken of again until graduation when the Master Chief pulled me aside and said,&quot;I am proud of your ability to stand your post and protect those in your care.&quot; He taught me to stand my ground and never back down no matter what the price.

2020-03-25T02:20:28-04:00 2020-03-25T02:20:28-04:00 SSG Omar Ruiz-Canales 5712831

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My military left..

2020-03-28T17:46:23-04:00 2020-03-28T17:46:23-04:00 MAJ James Fitzgerald 5717657

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I took Basic Training over 50 years ago. I will never forget SFC Williams and SSG Mitchell, my Drill Sargents. I am just thankful I can remember their names at this point! That said, both stressed (and yelled) you can do more than you think you can, and they were right. I did a lot of push ups, some with them grabbing the back of my fatigue pants firmly, telling me to get back in the front lean and rest position, so I could start over! DS’s could physically touch you in those days without fear of losing their stripes or worse.

2020-03-29T22:00:52-04:00 2020-03-29T22:00:52-04:00 1SG Joseph Dartey 5717683

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Two things. To keep my big mouth shut and to never volunteer for anything.

2020-03-29T22:11:32-04:00 2020-03-29T22:11:32-04:00 PO1 William "Chip" Nagel 5718891

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="1068191" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/1068191-92s-shower-laundry-and-clothing-repair-specialist-95th-qm-bn-1st-bde-qm">SSG Private RallyPoint Member</a> We Don&#39;t Have Drill Instructors in the Navy We Have Company Commanders C/Cs. Mine taught Me the Coolest thing You can Call Me is &quot;Sailor&quot; Through Most of Boot Camp. You are &quot;Recruits&quot; and that is it but 2 Weeks before We Left CTRC Zetterholm came into the Squad Bay and Greeted Us Up for Reveille &quot;Good Morning Sailors!&quot;

2020-03-30T08:58:18-04:00 2020-03-30T08:58:18-04:00 MSgt Michael Bischoff 5719157

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>That he was a complete a$$hole

2020-03-30T10:45:31-04:00 2020-03-30T10:45:31-04:00 MSG Robert Reiser 5741451

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Always have a clipboard with a paper on it and everyone will think you are on a mission.

2020-04-05T00:51:43-04:00 2020-04-05T00:51:43-04:00 Sgt Private RallyPoint Member 5744617

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We just got back from Field Week, having eaten a bunch of MREs. SDI marched us to the parade deck to give us a refresher course, and holy mother of God, the gas being passed. My prac hat&#39;s words still ring every so often when I&#39;m in formation.<br />&quot;Stop fucking farting!&quot;

2020-04-06T01:34:16-04:00 2020-04-06T01:34:16-04:00 SFC Doc Moran 5768896

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>As a nco leader i realized if the founding memories of my troops were from basic training the army let them down. Nothing against basic but its like having you best school memory of kindergarten. I would divert training to somme cool shit get em up in birds or blow something up.

2020-04-12T16:47:27-04:00 2020-04-12T16:47:27-04:00 1LT Paul Webber 5771840

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>&quot;Lieutenant, there are 24 hours in a day, and if that is not enough time to get it done, we can always do it at night!!&quot;

2020-04-13T13:19:33-04:00 2020-04-13T13:19:33-04:00 SGT Stephen Crawford 5777710

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The dying cockroach position, the army loves it, the marine Corp hates it, and the coast guard won&#39;t fuck with it. June of 79

2020-04-15T06:20:56-04:00 2020-04-15T06:20:56-04:00 SSgt Larry Davis 5789785

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>When you get out of bed, make it!

2020-04-18T12:10:21-04:00 2020-04-18T12:10:21-04:00 1LT Don Bentivoglio 5814516

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You ever call me “Sir” again recruit, my boot will be so far up you ass, you’re breath will smell like Kiwi (that was back when they could talk to you like that)

2020-04-25T09:03:30-04:00 2020-04-25T09:03:30-04:00 SSG Eric Blue 5816285

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>&quot;Soldiers first, people always.&quot; In spite of the differences in rank and position, my drill sergeants and I had a lot in common. Things like Bragg, Wainwright, singing, dancing, martial arts, etc. Even our affinity for G.I. Joe...and later, our disappointment in the two movies released. LOL

2020-04-25T17:42:37-04:00 2020-04-25T17:42:37-04:00 SFC Jeremy Boyd 5831792

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>C co 169th EN BN during 12B OSUT, Summer and Fall of 1998. The company had three platoons, each with a SFC senior Drill Sergeant and three SSG Drill Sergeants. One afternoon during formation prior to moving to the DFAC, the senior DS for 2nd Platoon, a SFC Duggan, says to the entire company while we&#39;re locked up at Parade Rest, &quot;listen Privates, when you conduct hygiene tonight and take showers, remember, dont just wash the asshole, wash the whole ass!&quot; <br /><br />Looking back in retrospect, I&#39;m quite certain he said it to make the company laugh in formation, which we did, just so he and all the other DS could swoop down on us and smoke the post out of us prior to chow. Good times!

2020-04-29T21:05:58-04:00 2020-04-29T21:05:58-04:00 PFC Nicholas Efstathiou 5832147

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>&quot;You&#39;re all going to run until I throw up.&quot; Drill Sergeant Perry, 1/19th FA.

2020-04-30T00:13:57-04:00 2020-04-30T00:13:57-04:00 LCDR Mike Morrissey 5846803

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Learn how to correctly pronounce every person’s name...especially the last name. Served me well in civilian life as well. Be sensitive to shortened or slang derivatives. (Not a particularly earthshaking revelation, until you see the look on a subordinate’s face.)

2020-05-03T18:09:07-04:00 2020-05-03T18:09:07-04:00 MAJ Mark Steskal 5879439

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Keep up with your gear. Sensitive items are something DI&#39;s love to confiscate in a moment of distraction.

2020-05-12T10:39:15-04:00 2020-05-12T10:39:15-04:00 CPT Earl George 5880551

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I commanded a Basic Combat Training Company at Fort Knox,Kentucky from March 1976 to April 1977. I initially went to fill out the unit training schedule by myself because when I received the phone call to do it, I was the only person around. I had just finished week one when the XO, training NCO and 4 Drill Sergeants showed up. One of the DS&#39;s liked the area I had scheduled for drill and ceremonies. He asked me what classroom I had scheduled to go with that area. I asked him why we needed a classroom. His response,&quot; JOE&#39;s got to pee.&quot; The next time I had to fill out the schedule, anyone among the cadre was welcome to come with me.

2020-05-12T16:10:13-04:00 2020-05-12T16:10:13-04:00 PO2 Eric Lozaga 5891199

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Mine taught us how to properly slit our wrists. If you&#39;re going to do something.. do it right and don&#39;t be a fuck up.

2020-05-15T00:16:44-04:00 2020-05-15T00:16:44-04:00 PO2 Eric Lozaga 5891202

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Mine to us how to slit our wrists properly. If you&#39;re going to do something right, do it correctly and don&#39;t a fuck up

2020-05-15T00:17:25-04:00 2020-05-15T00:17:25-04:00 Capt Raymond Parks 5916659

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Don&#39;t laugh when they try to haze you and you remember pushing pennies down the hall and stairs with your nose at a military high school. I was too big to hang by my ankles off the roof of Old Main, but some of my classmates saw the ground from four stories up. I suppose you could say that I learned that sound and fury are not always successful in raising stress levels. There were ways to quietly use appeals to pride and honour to cause the basics to create their own stress.

2020-05-20T23:16:56-04:00 2020-05-20T23:16:56-04:00 SPC David McCoy 5924274

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Don&#39;t you ever quit! I&#39;ll kick your ads up to your ears if you quit on me!

2020-05-22T19:58:13-04:00 2020-05-22T19:58:13-04:00 LTC Barry Hull 6011918

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Not a drill Sargent but as a new LT at my basic course I received some very good advice I remember to this day. After the formal block of training a SFC, the stereotypical old army vet, cautioned us. He basically stated that doctrine is a basis from where we start. By all means learn and apply the doctrine but if you find yourself in a situation where doctrine does not make sense then don’t follow the doctrine and do what makes sense.

2020-06-16T13:38:05-04:00 2020-06-16T13:38:05-04:00 PVT Private RallyPoint Member 6189343

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>“Pain is temporary, sacrifice if forever”

2020-08-09T12:04:24-04:00 2020-08-09T12:04:24-04:00 Sgt Dale Briggs 6841730

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I’m chronically early to everything, I get anxious if I’m only 30 minutes early, doesn’t work for me, drives my wife crazy.<br /><br />Hands in pockets or slouching, not since 1975.

2021-03-21T13:09:52-04:00 2021-03-21T13:09:52-04:00 2020-03-04T10:31:29-05:00