What's On Your Mind Part 7. Come At Me Bro!!!

[Shamrock]

Originally Posted by chargertom

Who can ever forget stepping off the bus, arriving at boot camp? I've never been so confused, anxious, nervous, and shell shocked in my life. We hadn't even finished lining up, and one of the CC's started yelling at a kid about not knowing his right from his left.

Dropped everyone in their tracks for 50 pushups. Great start to an even better time.

My initial arrival was quite pleasant for enlisted basic at Fort Knox. I got there late at night, and was taken over to my company area. The CQ guys on duty were real nice, and showed me where to sleep. In the morning, one of them came over and woke up me and a couple others, and told us where to go for breakfast.

About noon .... the DI's showed up, and most of the rest of the company started arriving. Then, it was "on" ....

[chargertom]

Originally Posted by Shamrock

My initial arrival was quite pleasant for enlisted basic at Fort Knox. I got there late at night, and was taken over to my company area. The CQ guys on duty were real nice, and showed me where to sleep. In the morning, one of them came over and woke up me and a couple others, and told us where to go for breakfast.

About noon .... the DI's showed up, and most of the rest of the company started arriving. Then, it was "on" ....

It was about the same for us. There were about 40 of us who all showed up at the same time.

They mustered us as a group, went through our stuff, then took us to a berthing area. They assigned us to our company, and then left. Said someone would be there in the morning to take us to our new digs.

They were there, all right. 0400 the lights came on, and a Senior Chief starting walking around hitting a trash can with a nightstick, telling us to get our sorry asses out of our racks.

Senior Chief Fox, I found out, was going to be my CC. But it was all good. I just did as I was told, followed orders and instructions, and tried as much as possible to keep a low profile.

We had a kid named Gary Adams in our company, and he was an athletic freak. He shoulda played sports instead of volunteering. I'll never forget the first time he got in trouble. The Senior Chief told him to hit the deck and give him 50.

Gary said "Sir! Which arm, Sir?"

They tried to PT that kid to death, and he never quit. I've never seen anyone more in shape than that kid was.

[Shamrock]

SFC Drill Sergeant Berkybyle. A tanker .... He was hard on us. At the end, we found out he wasn't an ET, but actually human.

Had a TAC NCO there too .... MSG Bruce. Green Beret. Stud.

MSG Bruce also became my platoon TAC NCO at Fort Lewis ROTC Advance Camp the following year.

I don't remember our platoon officer name at IOBC at Fort Benning. He was a dumbass captain. Our TAC NCO at Benning was a guy name SFC Jolly .... Sergeant Jolly ... and he was. IOBC (Infantry Officers Basic Course) was a "Gentleman's" course. No yelling. We were all 2LT's then, and expected to be proficient at everything.

[chargertom]

Originally Posted by Shamrock

IOBC (Infantry Officers Basic Course) was a "Gentleman's" course. No yelling. We were all 2LT's then, and expected to be proficient at everything.

Boot camp they're supposed to tear you down, and rebuild you. Instill discipline, team work, and teach you how to do things the "military way".

Once I left for my A school, it was really chill after that. Basically a classroom setting. School during the day, maybe a watch you had to stand once in awhile. Biggest hassle was dress uniform inspections every Friday, before you were allowed to leave on liberty.

Diego Garcia was a whole different world. I was so happy to get off that rock, and get to the fleet.

[Island Chelu]

My first night was ridiculous...
I knew how everything was going to break down because I have so many Air Force family members. Specially 3 that went through boot camp recently. So I knew we were going to shave shower and go to sleep. So once we got off the plane, I told all the guys to shave, so they wouldn't have to hurry and cut themselves later... Anyways, I'm at boot camp and they're yelling at us to shave like I expected. No idea how this happens but I shave a big chunk of skin off my right hand... Was horrible. Scared crapless cause I just got blood everywhere haha. Spent the whole night putting pressure on it so I didn't bleed all over the sheets.

One of the best lines of that night...
Guy next to me licks his lips while the TI was looking at him.
"Do I look ******* delicious to you boy?!"
Trying to hold back laughing was difficult. Became one of the highlights later on when we all looked back on our time there.

[chargertom]

I'm tellin you said a bad word.

[23skidoo]

Chilly has a potty mouth.

[FutbolAmericano]

Hey, have any of you heard of the latest Java vulnerability?

Google it if you haven't.

Even the government is recommending people to disable Java on their computers and/or in their browsers until a fix is proven.

I just disabled mine. Don't want malware.

[Shamrock]

Originally Posted by Island Chelu

"Do I look ******* delicious to you boy?!"

Originally Posted by 23skidoo

Chilly has a potty mouth.

Potty Mouth #2 ....

At Fort Knox, a Blackhawk flies overhead, and invariably one guy in formation looks to the sky at it.

Immediately, Drill Sergeant Berkybyle runs up to that new soldier and says, "Hey, are you eye ******* my helicopter?"

Pushups commenced ......

[23skidoo]

Do military instructors sit around and think up new material or do you think it's as old as Unkle Bo's material just with a revolving fresh audience?