Posted on Apr 2, 2014
Where and when did you attend Basic/boot camp, and have you ever been back there?
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Would be an interesting thing to see not only the locations, but a generational perspective on how changes to those locations may be for each and if it even exists anymore. Also have you ever returned to the location either as a duty station or just to see what is was like for memories and changes that may have taken place. I will lead off, Ft McClellan, AL: D10-1983. I did OSUT there so I started in '83 and finished AIT in '84 I went back in 1992 for another school, but haven't been back since it shuttered it's doors to AIT in '99, have been to Leonardwood for few other schools and checked out their facilities, big difference to what we had at McClellan back in the day though. Would love to go back to McClellan today and see what the base looks like and what bldgs. still exist or training areas are there.
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Fort Sill, Ok, also did AIT (not OSUT failed out of another school) and i stopped by there a couple years ago checked out the artillery museum and hit the off post casinos
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Since I had joined the Guard before the Marine Corps, I actually went to Boot Camp twice (yeah, I'm a glutton for punishment).
Ft Knox, Ky (Split trained, Basic: July and August 1985; AIT: Feb-Apr 1986)
MCRD San Diego, May 5, 1987-July 24, 1987. Plt 3045, M Co, 3rd Bn.
Never been back to either place since. Now that I live in Alabama, I'd like to go to Parris Island for a visit.
Ft Knox, Ky (Split trained, Basic: July and August 1985; AIT: Feb-Apr 1986)
MCRD San Diego, May 5, 1987-July 24, 1987. Plt 3045, M Co, 3rd Bn.
Never been back to either place since. Now that I live in Alabama, I'd like to go to Parris Island for a visit.
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MCRD Parris Island. Graduated Dec 2003 and my first duty station was MCAS Beaufort which is less than ten miles away. The air station is very small and doesn't have much of a PX, and the Commisary is on Parris Island so I end up there quite frequently. As much as its changed over the years, recruits are still housed in a lot of the same squad bays. 3rd Bn has been moved to all new buildings, but 1st and 2nd Bns are just now going through the first major renovations since the brick buildings were built in the 1960s.
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MCRD San Diego in 2005 and I've been back there a few times for some graduations or to show family.
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Ft Benning, GA last year, A co 1-46, had one of the best Drill Sergeants, and would totally go back. I would love to embrace the suck once more~
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I went to Basic Training at Ft. Jackson, SC (E-7-2.) in '73/'74. I have never been back. From there I went to Ft Gordon, Ga for AIT then returned nine years later for another MOS, and then returned nine years later because my wife was in the hospital.
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I went to BCT and AIT in B Company, 2nd Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Training Brigade at Fort Gordon Georgia in 1981. I was in the One Station Unit Training (OSUT) program. I finished at the front of my class in AIT. The radio teletype course was self paced then and I could type the 60 words per minute before I arrived. Many of my classmates had to learn typing before advancing to the rest of the course. When I attended school I went back home because at the time I was in the Wisconsin Army National Guard. A year later, I entered active duty to make a better living for my wife and I. I never returned to Fort Gordon, but would like to visit there one day. My son also went to BCT in Georgia, but he was at Fort Benning.
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SPC David Golden
I also went to Ft. Gordon for O5C, then reclassified as a 31C. Did AIT in 83-84. went back for PLC in in 85.
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I attended Boot Camp in September 1977 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. We were up near Sand Hill in the old WWII Barracks. Delta 3-1, The Deathreapers! Our barracks was next to Drag Ass Hill, so named that when we came back from training, we had to run up that hill to get back to the barracks. Talk about being beat!! I graduated that November, only to be sent up the road to AIT! I left Jackson in December after completing the self paced Clerk Typist course! Off to Fort Benning I go!!
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