What is the longest you have heard of someone lingering around in Basic training?

I am Tired of this conversation??!!

We had a guy in my boot camp company who was continuously being sent back two weeks at at time until he could pass the swim test. He passed the dswimming test the day before we graduated. A few hours before we were to leave they claimed they could not find his paperwork. I think they were messing with him as they found it just before we were allowed to leave.

As a basic trainee at Fort Leonard Wood in 2002 I heard of a private being recycled 3 times. Hearsay

Had this one short and frail guy who had these REALLY thick glasses in our basic training platoon. He had said he was in his thrid rotation because he couldn't make marksman or get a passing grade on his PT test..... I felt really bad for the 'bow low'..... This was in the summer of '66 at Fort Leonard Wood. No idea where he went after he was with us. As I recall, he 'failed' again with us......so sad.

I went to Basic in the 70's, when Basic was 6 weeks and we had a soldier that was waiting for orders sending him to AIT. he was held at Basic for 3 months.

ME 4 months