Calling All Army Dawgies - When and Where did you go to Boot camp.

[punkass761]

Ft. Benning Georgia Delta Co/258 House Of Pain 1996-1997

 

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[mfloyd]

Ft Bliss TX Viet Nam 69&70

 

[pdsniper]

Fort Leonard Wood 1991 C 589th. served in 1st and 2nd wars in Iraq

 

[GodsServant71]

Ft Jackson SC... Echo 1/34 3rd Platoon DS. Smith .... " To easy soldier to easy". Oct 1992

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

I'll never forget it! Fort Knox Kentucky! It was June, July, and August of 1975. Being a northern California boy I had never experienced humid weather before! It was extremely uncomfortable! How can anyone live in this! Had never seen lighting bugs before! They were everywhere at night! This was old time army basic training where
the drill sargents were all still old school. Every time someone screwed up in the platoon our drill sargents would drop us for pushups or make us low crawl across
asphalt, gravel, or what ever we were marching on. We low crawled so much that all 40 guys in our platoon had blood streaming down from our elbows! I remember
seeing trails of blood across the ground from the guys low crawling ahead of me! We low crawled while .50 cal. machine gun fire was over the top of our heads, I had
a stray tracer round land about 5 feet from my legs! That stray round layed there still burning in the dirt! We were up every morning at 5am and were run raged until
12 midnight! I remember how tired I was all the time! Morning chow had that disgusting white sticky stuff called "grits"! Haw can any normal person eat that cra*!
My feet hurt like hel*! They never would let us sit down! Not even for chow! The drill sargents were sometimes inhuman, even sadistic. Glad it's over!

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Oh, I forgot. C-8-4. "Charley, Charley, Charley 8- 4, We like it Here, We Like it Here, We're Hard Core"! ...We screamed this from the top
of our lungs every day!

 

[CaptEsteban]

Ft. Jackson, 1969 .

 

[Loco-Digger]

Up on Tank Hill, right along Drag-Ass hill in B-3-1, Ft. Jackson SC. Got to the reception center on 7/5/77, 1st day at basic was 7-7-77. I still remeber Drill Sgt Redd, we were his 18th cycle that won both honor platoon and were the drill competition winners.

"B" is for Bravo,
"B" is for the best
We will prove it by the test,
No task too difficult,
No mission too great,
Duty - Honor - Country

 

[CaptEsteban]

Up on Tank Hill, right along Drag-Ass hill in B-3-1, Ft. Jackson SC. Got to the reception center on 7/5/77, 1st day at basic was 7-7-77. I still remeber Drill Sgt Redd, we were his 18th cycle that won both honor platoon and were the drill competition winners.

"B" is for Bravo,
"B" is for the best
We will prove it by the test,
No task too difficult,
No mission too great,
Duty - Honor - Country

I remembered Tank Hill, but had forgotten about " Drag Ass " hill ! LOL

 

[TheRingFinder]

1983 - Fort Leonard Wood Mo. then off to Fort Gordon Georgia for AIT - 36K, Commo ending up in Erlangen Germany.

Hated every minute of it - but wouldn't trade the experience for anything......

 

[Loco-Digger]

I believe everyone hated most of BCT when they were there but we all look back on that time and would not change it for the world. I would not be the man I am if not for the 27 years I was affiliated with the Army.

 

[goldenIrishman]

Nine pages of this thread and no one else was "Sentenced" to Ft. Polk (Puke) for training?

1975 Ft.Polk for BCT, AIT (11-B) and an extra two weeks for Anti Armor School. Guess they could tell I liked making things go BOOM! Second to the last training cycle to go through Ft. Puke. before 5th Mech took the post over.
Also worked as 11-C (mortar crewman) 76-Y30 (armorer)

Got out after 4 year and joined the local Guard unit which after all that time blowing up tanks decided I needed to be inside one. I felt like I had a huge target on me for some strange reason.......

 

[SADS 669]

Golden,

I bet many were but you are the only one brave enough to admit it ha ha
All the best

 

[Cl1983]

I know a couple of people who went to Polk for basic. I was stationed there from 07-09 though

 

[cojo]

Bravo Company. Ft Knox KY. 1989....winter.

The drill sgt's were in the kinder and gentler era at that point by MONTHS....and they were PISSED about it.

Of course.......I still got the crap knocked outta me by them....ahahahahaaa.....I deserved it of course.

God Bless Drill Sergeants. They helped me alot.

Good story from basic:

We had a guy who "accidentally" got roughed up while the driver of the vehicle transporting us from the processing center to the barracks. His arm was broken in short.

This dude passed the pt test by far, on run, sit ups, AND push ups.....one-armed! Yet he was not passed to AIT because of military push-up requirements. (two hands on ground, shoulders squared...etc..etc)

That guy was really cool....and he took the rules with dignity despite the unfair nature and spirit.

 

[Trooper10]

Ft McClellan AL. 1992. Hated big baines and baby baines. Hills from he@@

 

[Kodiak43351]

Ft McClellan AL. 1992. Hated big baines and baby baines. Hills from he@@

I was there from 90 till end of 91 know that base well. I was there for a year and a half. If you were only there for training you missed a lot of the base. I patrolled that base on a month then aggressor platoon for a month. Spent a lot of time at yahoo lake. Found out years later we were contaminated bad from the chemicals stored there and leaking into water system. One of most contaminated bases in military.

 

[Pointman]

Nine pages of this thread and no one else was "Sentenced" to Ft. Polk (Puke) for training?

1975 Ft.Polk for BCT, AIT (11-B) and an extra two weeks for Anti Armor School. Guess they could tell I liked making things go BOOM! Second to the last training cycle to go through Ft. Puke. before 5th Mech took the post over.
Also worked as 11-C (mortar crewman) 76-Y30 (armorer)

Got out after 4 year and joined the local Guard unit which after all that time blowing up tanks decided I needed to be inside one. I felt like I had a huge target on me for some strange reason.......

I only spent 3 weeks there for JRTC almost 20 years ago. I was in the woods two weeks of it and it was like the jungle. It would be sunny and then it would rain every day for about 30 minutes, and then the temperatures would go back up to 100 degrees. The vines were over a foot deep where we had to dig in, but it was interesting because there was all this fruit in the woods (grapes, muscadines, sassafras) Funny, we had a couple of folks diagnosed with "combat stress". LOL. It sucked, but it wasn't THAT bad.

First night I was pulling perimeter waiting for our trucks to arrive. (They never did, they got lost, LOL.) I accidently laid down in a fire ant nest. Woke up having this nightmare of the Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds" and was covered with fire ants and bites. Folks were telling me to go the medic. I just shook it off and kept going. No big deal to me. I was hardcore when I was younger. I don't know how or why. Those ants were huge, they were as big as mosquito hawks.

I spent the first few years as a cannon crewmember and then became a forward observer. We were kind of mindless on the gunline, doing what we were told. Then I was out front having to make life taking decisions and hoping that I wasn't walking the rounds too close or the redlegs didn't make a mistake. I remember a unit moving up close to our guns while we were calling and they dropped a round outside of our safety box in front of our gunline. I was told that the unit almost got some folks killed not too long before. There were a bunch of ROTC cadets learning how to call for fire and they kept dropping rounds short and landing them in a lake. Scary stuff, especially because they were future officers. My fire support officer said he would kick our butts if anyone called a round in the lake like they kept doing.

 

[goldenIrishman]

Yeah... Ft PUKE was the common name for it and never did a nickname fit better. On our first bivouac of AIT I had just come off guard duty and thought I heard the D.I. getting ready to toss the tear gas. I popped open the tent and found myself face to face with a big old raccoon that was hunting for a handout. Another trip out for land nav and the entire platoon got stuck in some trees for almost an hour thanks to Mamma Wild Sow and her little piglets. We didn't even have as much as a blank round to use to scare her off with. The wild life at Ft PUKE was very wild. Between wild hogs, Raccoons, snakes of all types, gators, fire ants, sand chiggers and skeeters that could fly off with some of the smaller guys it stayed "interesting" to say the least.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Fort Jackson S.C - Basic 1987 - Fort Sam Houston Tx. - Medic School.

Fort Rucker Alabama. 1987-92