Posted on May 11, 2016
What Post/Base/Camp did you go through Basic Combat Training at and how old were you?
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Fort McClellan, AL for Basic and AIT (Military Police School) in 1983 and I was 18 years old.
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Fox 2-19, Sand Hill School for Wayward Boys, Ft. Benning GA. Age 36. Yep...36.
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SGT Dave Tracy
PO1 (Join to see) - It is a funny thing to be joining at an age when may are looking closely at retirement! Ha, ha. It's particularly strange when one is older than even their senior drill sergeants as I was! And while I wouldn't say I often out performed many of the young pups as your guy did, I certainly managed to hold my own, and I'm okay with that. No matter what, I can forever say I graduated from the US Army's Infantry OSUT in my mid/late 30's whereas--perhaps sadly--many people in this country couldn't do that regardless of their age!
(But dang I'm starting to feel my age these days! LMAO!!) :-)
(But dang I'm starting to feel my age these days! LMAO!!) :-)
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SGT Dave Tracy - Nah, you're still young at heart. I was like a year, if that, younger than one of my Petty Officers; he was from the same state as me and considered me one of his "favorite recruits." Yeah, being a favorite isn't a good thing, lol.
He made me MA but wanted me to be Staff on the QD but I failed my 2nd "PRT" because the system that was recording, froze and didn't record my time. But it showed on the screen that I was a 13:15 for my run.
He made me MA but wanted me to be Staff on the QD but I failed my 2nd "PRT" because the system that was recording, froze and didn't record my time. But it showed on the screen that I was a 13:15 for my run.
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Glad to see another "mature" person join when older. I turned 35 yesterday and am headed to Ft Sill next month.
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I went to BCT at Fort Jackson, SC in the summer of 1985 between my Junior and Senior year in high school.
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Fort Lewis, Wa. (North Fort) C Co. 4th Bn 2 Bde (SFC Fredricks) , 19 Years Old, The great year of 1969!
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CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025
Wooden barracks? Huge parade field? I was a projectionist at the movie theatre! MSG John Hundahl
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MSG John Hundahl
Wooden Barracks! Actually (match this)I was stationed at Lewis 4 times. 3 of those were all at N. Fort and the wooden barracks! (BCT (1969)/ BCT Committee Group (1971)/ 2/47 INF 9th ID 76/77. The 4th trjp back to the 9th ID, waiting for quarters to open up my wife and kids and I lived in one of the small "Commanders" quarters right across the street from the Movie Theater
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