What is your wildest story from basic training?

The hair cuts this was amazing we all looked alike, even if we were different colors, we were a team, all sameness, Army’s green machine, back in 1968 Ft Bliss Tx

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our flight was scheduled to run the obsticle course in a few weeks. we did not want anyone to fall out and not complete the course. everyone was gung-ho to run it. we volantaryly trained far above what was required of us. the weakest of us could run in place for 30 minutes.
when the day came for us to run it we were told that after all that extra training we could not run it
WHAT!!!!!
THE REASON WAS THAT IT HAD RAINED 2 DAYS PRIOR and the course was muddy. we wore mad as hell but no amount of complaining or arguing did any good.
extreme disapointment like any reall deployment would be cancled because of a little mud.

I was a basic training company commander in 1972. During one cycle I had a group of reserves going through basic training. We were 7 weeks into an 8 week training cycle, one of the trainees went AWOL. All the hard training had already been com completed! This guy had a PHD in chemistry and was going into a unit that working with chemicals where he would have been one of the most highly educated in the unit if not the most. I never understood why he would throw his life away but he die.

I had my basic at Fort Ord, CA. Me and a few of the guy wanted to go to Monterey. Just so happens we took a soldier we called "Little John". He wanted to find a HOOKER. He and i talked about his hooker experience. He was a little slow, but a good man just horny. A few days later at reveille I see Little John with a look on his face i had never seen, it was the look of pain. He immediately came to me. i told him he had caught the Clap (gonorrhea) i sent him to Med call. I saw him many years later and we laughed about it and how life had been. AIRBORNE

During my basic training I was able to Impersonate my drill sergeant perfectly. I sounded just like him Southern accent and all.. It was right towards the end of basic and AIT. And there was a competition going on within the company to see Who would be the best platoon of the company.. The grating was gonna be on APT test a dress inspection A-weapons inspection inspection and what platoon Stood out the most at the end of the ceremony And competition.. That night before I was the CQ runner.. The person in charge was my drill Corporal... My drill Corporal and I had a great bond with each other we had really become brothers in arms. I suggested to him how I knew we could win the competition tomorrow.. And he asked me to explain how.. I proceeded to tell him that sergeant Hoffman was off for the night and is nowhere on base however because I sound just like him.. I can get the whole company except for our platoon knocking out pushin knocking out push UPS and sit UPS and cleaning the barracks all night long.. And I'll do this over the PA system they'll be too exhausted in the morning for the PT test they'll come out looking like a bunch of bums meanwhile ameanwhile our platoon will get plenty of sleep plenty of plenty of rest and I'll make sure when I return to the barracks that everybody gets up and looks as sharp as attack in the morning for inspection.. He couldn't stop laughing you said you think you could pull that off I said I know I can I sound just like sergeant Hoffman and I'll get them knocking it out all night long... So needless to say 1st 2nd and 3rd platoon was working out and cleaning and spit shining and polishing the floors all night long while 4th platoon my platoon my platoon was fast asleep in their racks and woke up brighten early in the morning completely ready for inspection.. And all the other platoons came out looking at as ragged as goats.. Needless to say we won the competition we got our banner everyone got a metal And I caught a little heat because my platoon knew I could impersonate sergeant Hoffman however the rest of the company didn't. Yet somehow sergeant Hoffman that night showed up miraculously on base even though he wasn't and had the company working their asses off Except for 4th platoon. The other sergeants were pretty pissed but they had no one to pin it on... And the company commander got a big chuckle out of it even though I did catch a little heat for it it was worth it completely

I was told to stay off the grass, and stepped off the sidewalk onto the grass. I had to face a tree and apologize for walking on his grass !

We were sitting around after hours, shining our boots, and talking about what we did before. My bunkmate, Spanky, said, "This sounds dumb, but i was Mickey Mouse at Disneyland.". I said, "I thought i recognized you!".

Having our drill instructor abandon us and we had to fend for ourselves for the last four weeks. Of course he came back on Graduation day.

Sneaking a nap in plain sight.

Picture it 2017. The plains of Fort Sill, OK empty as it is hot. You’ve finally made it past reception, and are being bussed the small distance from the reception area to the real basic area.
I remember the bus stopping and shark attack beginning. Being herded out and DS G and another DS yelling at us. The panic as we had our green bags piled up and told we had like 2 minutes to get our bags or get smoked. Herd mentality created a stampede of panic, think the Lion King. I remember the faintest glimpse of a face in terror and a yelp, POV of our unfortunate Mufasa literally trampled. But remember we have to get our bags folks. So I did- and we fast forward a week. The face of the soldier who was trampled and in my Platoon suddenly gained popularity because she kept struggling- she was injured but played it off. It wasn’t until she was forced to go to sick call- we all found she broke her hip. And FOUGHT to try to stay in with a broken hip. I know it’s not right but to this day I think of that experience lol.