What is your wildest story from basic training?

well when the SSG said in formation " WE HAVING GI PARTY TONIGHT " so after formation i went to the PX and brouth candybars ,donuts for the party hell i didn,t know, i really though we,er having a party and then i got back to the barrests ( 2 ) hours later and seen VEVRYBODY cleaning-and me standing there with my candy & donuts in hand BOY BOY did i pay,BUT i really thouth he ment " PARTY " i really didn,t know BUT I KNOW NOW ahah

Great Lake ,I’ll ,December 1991 16 degrees out sideI had to run from a pre dentist appointment (because you have to double time in boot camp) and it started to rain on top of 5 feet of snow on the ground.A Company commander came walking my way so I had to come to a stop and Salute and slip and fall away I went. By Gods grace I had my pee coat on to lessen the fall on my butt.

I was stationed at Ft Jackson SC IN the early 80’s for basic. I was in the old WWII barracks in January, I left for basic on my 19th birthday exactly. Anyways we had the old black foot lockers that sat opposite our racks. My drill sgt. called me pvt. benijamin, I was 5’1 3/4” and weighted 93 lbs. I wasn’t allowed to go airborne because I didn’t weigh 110. Anyways everytime I turned around I was in trouble for my wall locker being unsecured. I knew something had to be wrong because I KNOW I DIDNT LEAVE MY LOCKER UNLOCKED ALL THOSE TIMES. Finally DS called me into his office to sign my. Art 15 in basic because of my locker. DS said to me What would you be willing to do for me to forget about your Art. 15. I told the DS that if he was saying to me that if I have sex with him then it would be all forgotten. Then he could FUCK OFF AND KISS MYASS , cause that’s not what I was here for……needless to say that day I received my Art 15 in basic for an unsecured wall locker.

Pvt. Rochelle Marie Carter (Vecchio)
Last four are 6993

We were marching back from the chowhall and one girl in my platoon decided she was just done. So she broke ranks, dropped her rifle on the ground, took off her blouse, and went and sat on a bench near a statue. Four Drill Instructors proceeded to chew her out, inches from her face, while we all watched. She did not move an inch. She simply sat and stared blankly into the distance. They marched the rest of the platoon off at that point. It was nuts!

When at the firing range, during Basic training, we all had to spend time in the "pits" to run the targets, which had phone wires running along the top back of the pits. After my turn, when getting ready to return to the firing line, I looked up at the wires and there, wound around the wires was a HUGE 6 ft long snake. After the large surprise, we were all in a big rush to get out of the pits. Tho recognizing it to being only a "Blo-Snake", the size was the scary part. Some of the other recruits had never seen a snake that large and were completely afraid to stay in the pits.

As a 18 year old during basic training I was assigned as a barracks guard of my barracks while the rest of the platoon was outside training with weapons. My weapon was with me in the gun rack. The gun rack was unlocked and unbeknownst to me should have been locked. Wouldn’t you know an inspection of my barracks was done and I was written up for not having the gun rack locked. Heck I had only started basic two weeks earlier. Who would have thought a unlocked gun rack with only my gun was a penalty!!

I could not swim and the Navy Seal in the water when I tried to hold on to him punched me in the belly for me to calm down, during swim training at boot camp

1968 at pendleton rifle range, recruit was missing target so drill instructor said give me that trigger finger opened m14 butt plate stuck finger in there slammed it down I litterly seen end of finger fly down range He was using his salute finger the next day to shoot with

When running off the cattle cars at Ft. Sill, I was at the upper weight limit of 214lbs, when we mustered in common area Drill Sgts were everywhere! UP! down! etc.....a mean old DS came to me and asked "ARE YOU THAT FAT PRIVATE THAT I WAS GONNA ASK HOW MUCH YOU WEIGH?" Recalling my Vietnam Vet Dads advice, I replied "I have no idea what you were gonna ask me Drill Sgt!" He turned and walked away, one fat private did no pushups that time!

I went to basic training on August 28, 2001. During week two of basic training one morning our instructor didn’t show up. A few hours later our MT came up and told us about the crashing Towers on 9/11. Our MTI then left again. Well as he said around the door beds and cleaned up and stuff like that we were talking and we were basically I was able to tell her that I thought it was a hoax and then we were being tested to see who is scared and who would back out and try to get out of basic training because the story. So the whole flight of 60 troops basically thought it was all made up and it wasn’t real until let me the chow runner got sent down to go report for chow for lunch. as I went downstairs there was nobody outside the basic training dorms has caution tape everywhere and Lackland Air Force Base was quieter than a mouse. After chow he went to the day room. We took a metal coat hanger and put it to the back of the TV to try and see if we could get out to get the TV to work. We’re able to get a faint black and white blurry picture that was showing the news about the twin towers being attacked the Pentagon crashing with that point we realize that the 911 attacks were real it was in a house and that What is a surreal feeling for a group of kids in the second week of basic training