What is your wildest story from basic training?

Sleeping in a cattle shedfor 3 days, then move into barracks being moved to a company area that had been closed and wasn't fit to live in, it had been condem. And also puking guard duty around a big pile of coal

My first week I we were leaving to repot by our beds . I said Admiral Taylor reports. Of course this was AF basic.

We had a kid who attempted to slice and dice his wrists the first week we were picked up by our Drill Instructors. In receiving and whined and cried to everyone but to no avail. Of course it was our fault and were thrashed accordingly to sand pit guidelines.

Eos written on the board in Spanish with colored doodles, rifles in the racks upside down, a girl taking a bubble bath, one crammed in the dryer holding the door, snapping to attention to yell "fuck you" and falling into parade rest during the last BnB inspection.
Daniel's and Stone were an inspiration to us all with that one, but when they kicked out of their heels and helped me finish my final run with a blown out knee...that right there is leadership.

I spent Basic making sure nothing "wild" happened. My goal was to leave with as few people knowing I had been there as possible.
A story I tell my non-Service friends that they find entertaining is, during the early days of Basic the cadre sergeant warned that they would occasionally throw a training grenade in our midst, and how to react to it. He said they would never to it into the latrine, for whatever reasons. Being a bit older, I was skeptical so I wasn't surprised when the little metal device came flying into the space just outside the showers, within the latrine. Because I didn't know what else I could do I yelled "Grenade" and soccer kicked it back out the door, then dove into the showers. The sergeant came in and said "Robbins is the only one who survives" or some such.

Ft Fnox Basic

I went to Basic in 1992 at Ft. Jackson. Ft Dix closed for Basic and all the people who were scheduled to go there were sent down to Jackson. We were part of the overflow and were assigned Reserve Drill Sergeants who switched out every two weeks. Therefore, we were basically starting over every two weeks with the Drill Sergeants reasserting their control over us when they came in.I got a really bad staff infection in my leg around week 4 and spent a week in the hospital. When I returned we had a new cadre and the 1st Sergeant pulled me up and told me I would be washed out for not yet passing the PT test. Well, I passed. That's not all of it. We stayed in the once abandoned WWII barracks on Tank Hill. they have since been knocked down.

My platoon had 3 different drill instructors when we finished. Our 1st senior was a little too physical to the squad leaders. I couldn't see all the way up and that's what I told the company CO. Anyways our new senior drill instructor comes in and he looks like the damn bull dog itself, big guy too. He says to us, YOU THINK SARGENT SO AND SO WAS BAD, I TRAINED HIM!!! I think there were quite a few, "oh craps" being said.

I tested out of the hardest Electronics school in the US Army in 1972. I was told that no one had ever done this so it caused quite a stink when I was awarded 26T20 a week into Basic. It was a three year Electronics school. My score was over 93%, while the average was just 20%

While in Basic Training in Fort Dix New Jersey, we were being assigned to our Drill Sergeants on a very hot day. Drill Sergeant Wilson, newly graduated from Drill Sergeant's School dropped us on the hot pavement for some unknown infraction and refused to let us up until we "locked it up". The hot pavement was burning our hands so it was nearly impossible to "lock it up".
Later that week, he sent us to use the latrines and only gave us 10 minutes to get back into formation. There were only 3 sit down toilets and there was no way 40 females could be back into formation in 10 minutes. Those of us who only had to pee, used the 10 urinals on the wall. He dogged us out for that later and dropped us again. While I don't believe the Basic Training experience should be different for females, there is a time when concessions are necessary. Time for utilizing the latrine is one of them. Wearing PT t-shirts backwards was another.