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

Ft Jackson,sc in May of 1970

SSG John Piggott and SSG Ren Williams. A 11B and 42A, respectively. Mean as hell, but in hindsight, damn good Drills. (D/2-46 IN, FKKY, 2004)

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C-5-1 Ft. Jackson, S.C. June 14-August 14, 1974. Drill Sgt.'s Ed Hogue, Roberts, and Beadle for 3rd Platoon. Cpt. Simms, CO, Lt. Gary Gentile Training officer. 4th Platoon had Drill Sgt. Allbritton who marched and ran us the most. He also did the most singing, which was funny...because he was a hairlip. I almost got caught imitating him one day.

SFC King Ft. McClellen Alabama (1986) he was a tough SOB, demanded perfection, but he was fair and he had one on one's with soldiers that didn't adapt as quickly as others, and even showed a little humility at times. I would say as a leader I ended up a lot like him. I never gave it much thought before now. Thanks.

helped me build determination and not feat any challenges. Also I learned that all of my personal bad habits were detrimental and needed to gotten rid of, still working on some :)

Acting Gunnery Sergeant Ramos

Uhlig your first sentence couldn't have been said better. It is so true. That is why I believe my Drill Instructor failed me miserably. No, it's not because of all the platoon discipline, the individual discipline using physical training exercising on "steroids" to remind us to think at all times. That was good. All Marine DI's did it. I was in boot camp in the early-mid 70's where most DI's were not too long ago coming back from Vietnam. I understand why a lot of them had chips on their shoulders, bitterness ,etc from the experience and took some of it out on us slime who didn't have to go. There was a "platoon" in boot camp called Motivation Platoon. It's where they sent the recruits who did things like hit a DI or attempt it, or consciously and verbally refuse orders. It definitely wasn't for guys who simply had a hard time hacking it in general. I was slightly above average in most everything. Wouldn't dare talk back(I wanted to get out of there too much). But through all of the non stop running from here to there that we did, training with the weapon constantly, locking it up then retrieving it again, there was just one time that apparently I did not click the pad lock closed in my haste. DI Staff Seargent Romero shockingly sent me to Motivation Platoon for a 2 hr session with those guys? Any Marine who served during that window of time that Mote was active ,especially if they were sentenced to it (it was outlawed by congress in '76 it was so bad), knows that its like sending a first time cookie thief to Stateville Prison or something, no exaggeration. Yeah, his impact of direct leadership marred my view of the Corps moving forward. Sorry.

Drill Sergeant Maggie fresh back from Vietnam. He was a hard ass but he was just doing his job--trying to save us young civilians and teach us the lessons we would need for survival. Fort Lewis Washington 1971.

GySgt Robinson and SSGT Spruel. They pushed me to finish and that has stayed around now for 48 years now.