What is your wildest story from basic training?

During the first few days at BT we have two girls who were very unset about the TI inspection through our personal items and had made rude comments about these girls photos of family. So those two girls decided to go AWOL on the coolest night. They spent that night in a culvert before the SPs found them. Then the next night we had one girl continue to bang her head against the wall til the TI was able to take her away to the hospital.

At the final APFT test in basic training about 6 of us of us snuck off to the barracks after doing our pushups and situps. We had some time before the run and asked if we could get a drink from inside. This of course was a premeditated scheme. We staggered our departures to the barracks and once there got to our main goal - which was making out with our chosen "battle boo".

Having males and females in the same company at Ft. Leonard Wood proved to be very drama filled. Helped the days go by faster though.

During our FTX one of the lower enlisted got a cockroach in there ear. The drill Sargent didn't miss a beat and took a whole hand full of Vaseline and slathered it into there ear then off to sick bay.

Enjoy.

My wildest basic training story was going into the gas chamber and watching the file of soldiers in front of me tasked with lifting their masks and inhaling the gas. The soldier directly in front of me didn't follow the proctors instructions so the following which ensued was wild...the soldier takes off his mask entirely then starts jumping up and down from the pain while ropes of snot are coming out of his nose until several proctors remove him from the chamber. I sometimes didn't take things seriously being so young at the time but having seen this experience first hand made me take things much more seriously thereafter.

Here is my widest episode during my basic training at Fort Gorden, GA. We were at the rifle range for a shooting exercise, and suddenly, out of the blue, the downpour started. Two of us were in the foxhole and did not know what to do, for we couldn't see anything due to the heavy rain. So, we stayed put in the hole, and within a few minutes, the running water gushed into the foxhole. I was only 5'-6" in height, the water level came up to my mouth, and drowning was the next. But my buddy, who was 6'-3", picked me up from the neck to save me. I thought it was a life-and-death circumstance.

I served as a Woman Marine during Vietnam Era! The most memorable story was I found a young woman trying to slash her wrist in the bathroom! I ran upstairs burst into DI’s office where she properly told me off for being out of uniform and crashing into her office! I told her Mam a Marine is trying to slash her wrists and the DI told me to go back downstairs and collect every womans razor! This happened at Parris Island!
Lets just say the woman were not happy with me lol
Noreen O’Brien/Allison

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