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

I attended OSUT at Fort Benning, Georgia from 4 November 1979 to 6 February 1980 assigned to D-2-1 at Harmony Church. My Drill Sergeants were SSG Manuel Sanchez and SGT Melvin Guinyard. SSG Sanchez was a Vietnam Veteran. They were very professional but would go off on my platoon like Nitro Glycerin. SSG Sanchez used to say with his Cuban-American Accent " You people are really starting to piss me off"! Another favorite of his was " I can feel it in my bones, I can feel it in my bones" ! SGT Guinyard would tell us that he was going to kill us but we knew it was all for effect ! They taught us well and we won everything at the end of the cycle with the highest scores and all Go's at AO Eagle( Performance oriented training final test).first in PT,BRM,ARM, D&C etc etc. Our first sergeant was 1SG Pena-Ojeda. During an inspection one day one soldier from my platoon was asked who the 1SG was and he says 1SG Penis- Ojeda! LOL! SSG Sanchez went off like a nuke ! SSG Frederick,another DS from another platoon would say " You people will be doing so many pushups you 'll think you're in Florida! All the Drills in our Company were very professional and most had been to Vietnam so knew that being tough with high standards but fair was the way to train us and turn us into the best Soldiers in the Army. The mental and physical toughness they instilled in us came to good use at Airborne school immediately upon graduation from Infantry OSUT.

Lackland AFB, TX, 1970...TSgt Shoemaker and SSgt Kreuger....Shoemaker was a talk and scream out of the corner of his mouth kind of guy, maybe trying to make up for being a little short; SSgt Kreuger was lacking in coordination when he tried to teach us how to march as the same side arm and leg always seemed to swing with each other. But, they got us through.

Sr. Drill Instructor Staff Sergeant Walker. Sgt.
Figueroa and Sgt Rodriguez.

SSgt James Campbell, 3707th BMTS, FLT 064, Lackland AFB TX

45 years later still remember SFC Duran.

Old guy here. I went through basic at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, in the summer of 1975, C-4-3. I am not going to attempt to name any names as I don't want to omit anyone. Our SDI was Special Forces. All of them had done tours in Vietnam. I strongly believe that improved the quality of our training. I have my doubts as to whether any of them are still around. If so, they would be quite old. How did it impact me? I stayed for 20+ and am now completely disabled. I dare any cocky young punk to think he can mug me and escape unscathed. Not happening.

Unfortunately my drill instructor was absent for most of basic, so we supported ourselves for most of BC. Of course he claimed the honor of training us at graduation. Through this adventure, we became our own leaders and support rather than dwell on an absent leader.

TSGT Minfee. 1974 USAF basic. First question he asked us at 0200 when we arrived as rainbows was “who thinks they can kick my ass”

Drill Sergeant Hoffman never cursed even while in your face, Drill Sergeant Dossite not sure about spelling of name, he was not of average height and must have thought he needed to prove something as he PT our asses harder, leading to a medical discharge with no options. 1999 Fort Knox 5/15 Cavs

Fort Benning 2013 F 1-19
SFC Padron (spelling?)
SSG Theus
SSG Cortez-Guzman (Spelling?)
I wish I could remember the guys name from 3rd platoon though. Even though he wasn't our platoons DS, I think he made the biggest impact on me.
SFC Padron was a scary mf'r. The quite monotone type, didn't even have to yell, just fluctuate his voice a little.