Who was your Drill Sergeant/Drill Instructor in Basic Training?

SFC Lasatter, 23 March 1987…25July1987…. The good ole days!!!

19D OSUT Ft. Knox Nov. '84- Mar. '85. Drill Sergeants were SSG Urtz, SSG Cole and SGT Klett. Senior Drill was SFC Moore. The fact that I remember them by name 38 years later says it all. I still remember SFC Moorestomping up and down yelling "You people are about to piss me the fuck off! I'm gonna bust your liver strings!" Still not sure what a liver string is.

SSGT Garman, USA, Korean War veteran, CIB, Purple Heart and other ribbons I don’t remember. Tough, very, strict discipline, sometimes physical. I took everything he could dish out. It always had a purpose. His training stood me well in Vietnam, where I made corporal. Twenty plus years later as a Military Training Instructor for basics at Lackland AFB, there would be times that I remembered my Army basic training DI.

I had two one was great and the other showed me what kind of soldier I didn't want to be first was drill sergeant Hand that man could not motivate a ant his uniform was never creased or well wearing and all he ever did cadence was tiny bubbles wow then there was drill sergeant Scroggins ex marine changed army could that guy count cadence and always squared away he put so much determination in me he also made me not like the song one on one by hall and oats because I got caught singing in the mess hall instead of eating lol boy did he grass drill me to death but he never let me quit on anything he saw something of course I didn't in myself will never forget those two ( now my recruiters now that is a whole other story lmao)

My drill Sergeant was Sargeant First Class Stalsberg .Fort Knox Kentucky E-15-4

I took basic training in 1984, so I don't remember my drill sergeant's name, but I remember how she made me feel. I was five feet tall, and this woman was an inch or two shorter than me, but I looked at her like she was the tallest person on this planet. I knew if she could do all those military things, I could do all those military things.

Sgt Perez. He liked to call everyone Frank. He also liked to to say "You best wake the hell up!" My favorite was one night after lights out, he heard someone talking. He stormed into the bay room and scream "You best wake the hell up and go to sleep Frank!!!" Couldn't get to sleep for an hour after that.

For the platoon and company I graduated with, (eg: I had an injury, and so did not graduate with my original platoon and company), I remember all of them, as well as the company commander. The Sr. DI. was Sgt. Wilson. The juniors were: Sgt. Currier, Sgt. Tanner, and Sgt. Tugman. Company Cmdr. was Capt. Goben. I ran into Sgt. Currier, (who had been promoted to SSgt.), 4 1/2 years later aboard the USS Essex....along with a guy I had grown up with who lived just 4 houses down from me. I went to boot camp in 89', and graduated in 90'. I even remember one of the names of one of the DI's. in MRP. Eg: Sgt. Kruger, (and yes, we [secretly] called him "Freddy"). I spent a total of 6 months in boot camp due to my injury. Ironically, the one thing I can't remember, is my platoon number. But I was in 2nd Battalion, "G" company.

Team Leader: SSgt Matthew Cho: short guy, all muscle. Black belt in Judo. Before he said a single word, he walked down the aisle with a direct stare at each one of us, then stopped, wheeled around, and planted a perfect upward kick to one of the bed's posts, sending the post cap flying upword, and the bed barely moved an inch. Then he said quietly, "I'm Staff Sergeant Matthew Cho, your lead TI. Do NOT get on my bad side." That's all it took for him to get our respecful attention. Turned out to be a great guy.
The team member, Sgt Skinner, who became known as the "red-headed asshole," was an abusive, power-hungry dipstick who (I found out months later) was terminated two months after we graduated, after he'd caught a kid smoking in the latrine, then trapped him inside his locker and ordered him to smoke the entire pack inside it. The dorm chief ran for help, and Skinner was fired on the spot, and subsequently busted to A1C. The kid ended up in the ER.

DI Knuckles, DI Swan, DI Sergeant,