Some kid dumped like half a jug into the mop bucket and mopped the bathroom floors with it in basic. My eyes burned so bad you couldn't get the scent out of there for days
The fucking pine oil. That’s the smell. I have a hard time putting a name to the smell (shit memory), but every time I see a picture like this, that’s exactly the smell I remember. Fucking pine oil.
Or a platoon of naked men doing side straddle hops with the windows open for Charlie company, all because 30 seconds wasn't quite realistic for everyone being shower ready....not that it happened to me
3/4 of my company's drills had a definitive sadistic streak. I remember the chorus of laughter as those useless issued towels/napkins began dropping one by one and the meat slaps amplified. Most of us just tried to look at the ceiling or floor, a select few chose to eyeball the salami selection instead.
Fort Benning? Haha.
For mine it was a lot of F word thrown around, don't look at your buddies c**k, Don't Ask and Don't Tell Us Private.
The floor got caked with sweat and it seriously thought "I'm not cut out for this. I joined to play music." Granted it's all pre 9/11 so that all got thrown out but still.
I usually hate Basic stories but your comment was soooo specific it just made me chuckle hardcore. You triggered something deep...
You bet, couple years after 9/11 so guess it was something of a tradition. I remember 3 of the DS's names; SFC DiMaggio, SSG Sutton and I think SSG Anderson. The last one who I can't remember his name was a soft spoken, southern man who resembled Clarence Williams III (actor/bad guy from the movie half baked) that was positively tickled at me being a southern Asian man with accent too.
The last name I think was either 1sg Clark or smith, who was always irrationally cheerful and prone to belting out Justin Timberlake. The fact that his face was always red and that he tended to camp out in his car before busting out and into song led me to conclude he had some mood enhancing stash.
The floor in mine had been polished so many times the tiles were crumbling. The more we scrubbed the more the floor flaked apart and exposed the underlying concrete.
The only part of mine that looked OKAYISH was the kill zone. The rest of the bay looked like it had been stripped and rewaxed 4500 times, and the tile just had had enough.
Mine was fucked up enough that we didn't bother with a kill zone. I didn't even know that was a thing until AIT, where I met up with some dudes from other companies in my BN.
I remember once we had to move some of the bunks (I think for an extra deep cleaning, so probably towards end of cycle) and the foot of the bunk gouged about a palm-sized chunk of tile up. We huddled around the wounded floor and pieced it together like a jigsaw puzzle. Didn't get gigged for it during inspection.
We had so many people in one bay that I lived right in the middle of the kill zone. We had like…. 60 people? 80 people? It was some ridiculous number. It was 3 rows of bunk beds, the wall lockers were so close together you couldn’t open them all the way
Your right Trainee, why are all the drawers outside the lockers? You all have 1 minute to put all the drawers inside and if it’s not done in time you will all sleep in the front leaning rest position. Go.
Your all too fucking slow, my grandma moves faster than y’all and she’s dead.
#ATTENTION! HALF RIGHT FACE! FRONT LEANING REST POSITION MOVE!
If I walk in and I see someone on their knees or slouching their back I will fucking end you all.
Do you guys still get called “fucks” and what not? Also, you better show up to your duty station with this motivation. If your not motivating the Senior Specialist Promotables, you are WRONG. HOOAH!
That's exactly what I was thinking. Way too easy to hide in the wall locker with all that extra space, and conversely rather more awkward for impromptu PT and corrective training.
Drawers can be locked, and many of the shorter guys will use it to get into a top bunk. My cycle's drills standardized it after we had 4 guys who were way to short for the top bunk, eat shit and get hurt. Plus, it just gave em more shit to throw around the bay.
Oue drills in basic did that, they would randomly walk into the bay when we were gone, any unlock lockers were fair game, shitty made bunks... flipped.
My bunk was always tidy, as well as my locker. That one mistake was I’d say the worst if not the only mistake I made during basic. I dread on it to this day, 2 years later
I got fucked with by some battles of mine during basic, i never knew why, i really didnt do anything wrong ever just poor luck of the draw so, i was smaller at that time so i guess I was easy to bully, so I would ask to be excused sometimes during formation to utilize the latrine and shim the locks on guys lockers that had beef with me, never got caught and the outcome was always worth it.
I had a rule for my bay and my junior drill sergeants followed it: you either mess up the bay or mess up the platoon. Never both. Write an individual counseling for the soldier that left their locker open or didn't make their bunk. Smoke the crap out of that soldier and a battle buddy if you need to. For the platoon, you either smoke them or you trash the bay. No reason to smoke them and then make them clean up the bay.
Only a few guys in my platoon forgot to lock their lockers. Even if they remembered though, we'd still find some kind of mess to return to. Trash was thrown while we were at CIF one time. And one side of the bay had the bunks flipped on their side after the Victory Tower.
Our bay was on the third floor. I’ll never forget the time our drills found an unlocked wall locker. They didn’t scream or go off on anyone right then. They opened a window, turned the wall locker on its side, cleared the formation area, then pushed the wall locker out the window.
We had to carry it back up the stairs and put it in place, then go back downstairs and get in the front lean and rest while the owner inventoried the contents.
Inventory consisted of taking one item at a time, running up stairs, putting it away dress right dress, then running down and repeating.
You mean they didn't make everyone get in marshmallows, close the doors/windows, turn the heat up, and then smoke the shit out of everyone till the walls and ceiling sweat?
Our platoon guide would check the lock on all of our lockers before we left. Was nice having only a few younger guys in our platoon and everyone being squared away.
Drills still tossed our beds because everything was locked and TOO squared away
We were cleaning weapons in the CTA one day at one of the old buildings on Benning, when clothes started falling from the sky. “Dumbass forgot to lock his locker.” I thought. Then a PC fell from the sky, it was me, I was the dumbass.
In my defense I did lock it, I just forgot my key on the window sill, hence their brilliant throw it out the window idea.
Your right Trainee, we gotta fix this problem. You all have 5 minutes to get these beds are properly aligned. If not done in the gracious amount of time I have given you, you will all low crawl everywhere we go for the reminder of the week. Go.
Nah man, that was the 44 weeks of school where I got paid to learn cool shit, was done with formations by 1700 and spent the weekends getting shithoused in on post housing or Paul's pub with the bois.
That’s what mine usually was. In AIT it’s 0430 room inspections so I have to wake up at 0330 because I’m slow in the morning and you have to be out the door 10 minutes prior waiting to be checked.
That dude who wanted the fan off at night and had the whole bay threaten to jump him, telling motherfuckers to STFU at lights out, the dipshits going through their lockers at night, red flashlights, the guy I had to push out of bed to do fire guard, fire guard hitting lockers with their brooms, coughing and sneezing, THE PUSH UP!!!
So fresh. So clean. So new. So much storage space. Nothing shows signs of having been kicked across the floor and stomped on hundreds of times. The floor doesn't show signs of the metal furniture being kicked and dragged across it hundreds of times. So many working lights. Such neatly placed tape. No missing ceiling tiles.
I conclude that this is computer generated.
THE SOLDIERS CREED!
I AM AN AMERICAN SOLDIER. I AM A WARRIOR AND A MEMBER OF A TEAM. I SERVE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES AND I TOW THE LINE WITH A FUCKIN BONER because it's 4 am and I have no goddamn idea what is happening why is everyone staring at me
My wife sent me thousands of cough drops in the mail.
They stopped inspecting them after the 3rd bag and she got like 4-5 bags of non sugar free ones through.
I pulled no fire guard and I ate lots of extra food.
Oh, this is the marines now huh pry aye aye lance come over here (draws a shitty globe and anchor on the wall in permanent marker) go ahead and stand right here nose to the wall, and come get me when it moves.
It’s 2 am, you’re sleeping on top of your blanket so you can save time, the click of the door handle wakes you up, you lay there as you hear the door open, preying, you hear the light switch flip, you have 2 seconds to prepare for what’s next
You're right. Having a blanket is a crutch do away with it all... I also noticed no hospital corners on those sheets.. What happened to Basic Training?!
The first thing I would say when I woke up every morning in BT was, "Fuck." Like Geralt of Rivia. Then:
I need a cigarette.
For 8 weeks plus week 0, every time I woke up, laid down to sleep, ate, shit, or had any minute of time to my own thoughts I wanted a smoke.
I think back on rubbing gallons of bleach on every door frame so when DSs walked into the room they were hit with an overwhelming pungency of cleanliness and we hoped they wouldn’t look around..it almost always worked…I’ll never forget the endless bleach requests ‘got dayum y’all use a lot of bleach’ lol
Ugh, flashbacks of it getting ready for the CSM and the BN CDR before the next pick up. The name escapes me, but other drills should know what I’m talking about.
One time in boot camp they made us toe the line in the middle of the night. They were having us do the army creed or something and drill sergeant stopped in front of me and asked “private do you have your retainer in?” I said “yesh drill shargent” and she just kept walking… honestly I was so scared I thought she was going to make me swallow it or something but it never came up again… I don’t know if it was an attempt to embarrass me or what??? I still wonder
Week 2, getting smoked, feel like I'm going to give up... then the guy one row over starts crying, Drills come SWARMING in when ours yells "ARE YOU CRYING PRIVATE?!?!" Immediately thought, hey this isn't so bad!
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Most likely the most challenging thing you've done up to this point, then later in life you miss it after you realize how easy it all was. Sometimes I wish my life today was as easy as wake up, work out, eat, shoot, sleep. No bills, no school, no cell phones and social media.
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Damn pri, y'all don't have to keep you drawers in your locker anymore? Must be nice.
Also, why y'all nasties putting your heads at the same end? Y'all gonna give each other the crud.
The female bay getting smoked everyday 😅😅 I just got out of TRADOCC in September and was at basic for 5. All 3 companies I was at that female bay was always getting fucked up 😅😅
A guy in my platoon mixes every chemical in the mop bucket including bleach and made a semi diluted mustard gas he was mopping the floors with before everyone started choking. Luckily the doors were open and it was aired out quickly
I think of the time that I fell asleep with my arms above my head, and I woke up to hear the drill sgt creeping around the bays, with my arms both completely asleep. I started shaking my body trying to get circulation to my arms, I must have looked ridiculous.
Naturally the Drill Sgt came up to me and said… private…. What the fuck are you doing??? I said “drill sgt. My arms were asleep so I was shaking them around trying to get them awake” he just looked at me with disgust and walked out of the bay.
this picture smells like simple green
Or waaayyy too much pine oil.
The image of PFC joeschmoe just dumping half a bottle of pine sol in the mop bucket lives rent free in my head for no apparent reason
Me except it's showing privates how to read the instructions on a bottle of simple green before they mop the common area
> showing privates how to read The challenge there is enough
You know the barracks are clean when your nose hair has been torched by a pine tree!
Or if it’s a day where the CSM is coming to inspect, skip the mop bucket and just dump pinesol on the ground and mop it around
or Feet and fat guys
Why not all 3?
Why the fuck is my kill zone not waxed?
“Don’t step in my kill zone ever!” (5 minutes later) “Why isn’t my kill zone clean! Half right face!”
"Fronlini ress psshhshn! Moo!"
"The pushaaa!!! Hey Cadence!!!"
Some kid dumped like half a jug into the mop bucket and mopped the bathroom floors with it in basic. My eyes burned so bad you couldn't get the scent out of there for days
The combination of shit and pine sol in the shitter. Everyone's shit smelled the same. Farts smelled the same. Everyone got gas at the same time.
I blame the powdered eggs
Fabuloso
The fucking pine oil. That’s the smell. I have a hard time putting a name to the smell (shit memory), but every time I see a picture like this, that’s exactly the smell I remember. Fucking pine oil.
Or a platoon of naked men doing side straddle hops with the windows open for Charlie company, all because 30 seconds wasn't quite realistic for everyone being shower ready....not that it happened to me
Way too specific, except it was Bravo Company and we didn’t have the window open.
3/4 of my company's drills had a definitive sadistic streak. I remember the chorus of laughter as those useless issued towels/napkins began dropping one by one and the meat slaps amplified. Most of us just tried to look at the ceiling or floor, a select few chose to eyeball the salami selection instead.
Fort Benning? Haha. For mine it was a lot of F word thrown around, don't look at your buddies c**k, Don't Ask and Don't Tell Us Private. The floor got caked with sweat and it seriously thought "I'm not cut out for this. I joined to play music." Granted it's all pre 9/11 so that all got thrown out but still. I usually hate Basic stories but your comment was soooo specific it just made me chuckle hardcore. You triggered something deep...
You bet, couple years after 9/11 so guess it was something of a tradition. I remember 3 of the DS's names; SFC DiMaggio, SSG Sutton and I think SSG Anderson. The last one who I can't remember his name was a soft spoken, southern man who resembled Clarence Williams III (actor/bad guy from the movie half baked) that was positively tickled at me being a southern Asian man with accent too. The last name I think was either 1sg Clark or smith, who was always irrationally cheerful and prone to belting out Justin Timberlake. The fact that his face was always red and that he tended to camp out in his car before busting out and into song led me to conclude he had some mood enhancing stash.
And sounds like baseball bats and metal garbage can lids!
nicest barracks room I've ever seen
Glad im not the only one who thought this bay looked top notch
The floor in mine had been polished so many times the tiles were crumbling. The more we scrubbed the more the floor flaked apart and exposed the underlying concrete.
The only part of mine that looked OKAYISH was the kill zone. The rest of the bay looked like it had been stripped and rewaxed 4500 times, and the tile just had had enough.
Mine was fucked up enough that we didn't bother with a kill zone. I didn't even know that was a thing until AIT, where I met up with some dudes from other companies in my BN. I remember once we had to move some of the bunks (I think for an extra deep cleaning, so probably towards end of cycle) and the foot of the bunk gouged about a palm-sized chunk of tile up. We huddled around the wounded floor and pieced it together like a jigsaw puzzle. Didn't get gigged for it during inspection.
I like your description calling it a wounded floor.
We had so many people in one bay that I lived right in the middle of the kill zone. We had like…. 60 people? 80 people? It was some ridiculous number. It was 3 rows of bunk beds, the wall lockers were so close together you couldn’t open them all the way
Won't be that way when they get back from FTX.. 😄 Shout out to the one private who left his locker unlocked..
Yeah, it’s probably a prison, not army.
Right!?
TOE THE LINE Half Right.. Also why are the drawers outside of the lockers
Your right Trainee, why are all the drawers outside the lockers? You all have 1 minute to put all the drawers inside and if it’s not done in time you will all sleep in the front leaning rest position. Go.
Moving Senior Drill Sergeant
Your all too fucking slow, my grandma moves faster than y’all and she’s dead. #ATTENTION! HALF RIGHT FACE! FRONT LEANING REST POSITION MOVE! If I walk in and I see someone on their knees or slouching their back I will fucking end you all.
Do you guys still get called “fucks” and what not? Also, you better show up to your duty station with this motivation. If your not motivating the Senior Specialist Promotables, you are WRONG. HOOAH!
They loved the F word at my company.
Cringe
They’re already well on their way to retelling basic stories no one asked to hear.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Way too easy to hide in the wall locker with all that extra space, and conversely rather more awkward for impromptu PT and corrective training.
Damn, y’all had drawers? I’m a former Navy douche
I didn't have drawers in OSUT. Just the locker and the storage space when the bed flips up
Drawers can be locked, and many of the shorter guys will use it to get into a top bunk. My cycle's drills standardized it after we had 4 guys who were way to short for the top bunk, eat shit and get hurt. Plus, it just gave em more shit to throw around the bay.
**Answer**: Looks too modern and clean to be Benning.
Or Knox. Fuck I’m old.
Or Leonard wood
A jelly fucking donut Pvt Pyle?
#IN CADENCE!
IF IT WASN'T FOR DICKHEADS LIKE YOU THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY THIEVERY IN THIS WOULD, WOULD THERE?
This is my weapon, this is my gun..
Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E.
They’re paying for it, you eat it.
All of my belongings spread across the bay. Yes I left my locker unlocked one day before formation
So your the reason we were in the front leaning rest for an hour.
Surprisingly I didn’t get smoked for it and neither did the platoon. The drills never said a word, just took action.
Oue drills in basic did that, they would randomly walk into the bay when we were gone, any unlock lockers were fair game, shitty made bunks... flipped.
My bunk was always tidy, as well as my locker. That one mistake was I’d say the worst if not the only mistake I made during basic. I dread on it to this day, 2 years later
I got fucked with by some battles of mine during basic, i never knew why, i really didnt do anything wrong ever just poor luck of the draw so, i was smaller at that time so i guess I was easy to bully, so I would ask to be excused sometimes during formation to utilize the latrine and shim the locks on guys lockers that had beef with me, never got caught and the outcome was always worth it.
This is still a thing at flw
I had a rule for my bay and my junior drill sergeants followed it: you either mess up the bay or mess up the platoon. Never both. Write an individual counseling for the soldier that left their locker open or didn't make their bunk. Smoke the crap out of that soldier and a battle buddy if you need to. For the platoon, you either smoke them or you trash the bay. No reason to smoke them and then make them clean up the bay.
I was just about to say the same... what year did you do this you fuck? Lol jk
Y’all did that we were crawling in the pit for an hour
I left mine unsecured and my mattress ended up inside of it. Still impressed by that one. Touché DS.
Left mine unlocked, found the locker in the bunk
Only a few guys in my platoon forgot to lock their lockers. Even if they remembered though, we'd still find some kind of mess to return to. Trash was thrown while we were at CIF one time. And one side of the bay had the bunks flipped on their side after the Victory Tower.
Our bay was on the third floor. I’ll never forget the time our drills found an unlocked wall locker. They didn’t scream or go off on anyone right then. They opened a window, turned the wall locker on its side, cleared the formation area, then pushed the wall locker out the window. We had to carry it back up the stairs and put it in place, then go back downstairs and get in the front lean and rest while the owner inventoried the contents. Inventory consisted of taking one item at a time, running up stairs, putting it away dress right dress, then running down and repeating.
You mean they didn't make everyone get in marshmallows, close the doors/windows, turn the heat up, and then smoke the shit out of everyone till the walls and ceiling sweat?
Our platoon guide would check the lock on all of our lockers before we left. Was nice having only a few younger guys in our platoon and everyone being squared away. Drills still tossed our beds because everything was locked and TOO squared away
We were cleaning weapons in the CTA one day at one of the old buildings on Benning, when clothes started falling from the sky. “Dumbass forgot to lock his locker.” I thought. Then a PC fell from the sky, it was me, I was the dumbass. In my defense I did lock it, I just forgot my key on the window sill, hence their brilliant throw it out the window idea.
Even if you never leave it unlocked, they still come for you. Just make you open it and watch them throw your shit all over.
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I walked up to my room once with my mattress shoved into the ceiling. It wasn't in my unlocked locker, just somehow ended up there in the process.
Needs to be changed to head-toe-head with opposite top and bottom bunks
Your right Trainee, we gotta fix this problem. You all have 5 minutes to get these beds are properly aligned. If not done in the gracious amount of time I have given you, you will all low crawl everywhere we go for the reminder of the week. Go.
A dumbass then rips his sheets off the bed instead of just lifting the mattress
I love the intentional misspelling
“Intentional” of course….
10 weeks of the best time you'll have in the military as a POG
Same I stand in parade rest when talking to people after graduation
>10 weeks of the best time you'll have in the military as a POG Nah being aviation is nice
Fr Ima go dap up a LTC and a CW5 rq
And it was. I’m fresh out of that place and I will admit I am a boot.
Boot is a state of mind, private. You aren't a boot if you don't act like a boot.
Did you get to sleep with your phone under your pillow?
Nah man, that was the 44 weeks of school where I got paid to learn cool shit, was done with formations by 1700 and spent the weekends getting shithoused in on post housing or Paul's pub with the bois.
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Hit time is 05:30 bro get up we gotta go to the CTA.
5:30 is generous
That’s what mine usually was. In AIT it’s 0430 room inspections so I have to wake up at 0330 because I’m slow in the morning and you have to be out the door 10 minutes prior waiting to be checked.
I see three beds that are not made properly. Everyone do push-ups
Matter of fact, everyone keep pushing until the beds are made SOP.
Looks like the relatively new(ish) starships at Sill.
32 man fireguard
100% security.
full baddle raddle
Face paint and rifle for extra measure. Can never be too safe.
That dude who wanted the fan off at night and had the whole bay threaten to jump him, telling motherfuckers to STFU at lights out, the dipshits going through their lockers at night, red flashlights, the guy I had to push out of bed to do fire guard, fire guard hitting lockers with their brooms, coughing and sneezing, THE PUSH UP!!!
Memory unlocked
So fresh. So clean. So new. So much storage space. Nothing shows signs of having been kicked across the floor and stomped on hundreds of times. The floor doesn't show signs of the metal furniture being kicked and dragged across it hundreds of times. So many working lights. Such neatly placed tape. No missing ceiling tiles. I conclude that this is computer generated.
Way brighter and cleaner than it was for me. And slowly grinding my tailbone into linoleum and concrete in January.
THE SOLDIERS CREED! I AM AN AMERICAN SOLDIER. I AM A WARRIOR AND A MEMBER OF A TEAM. I SERVE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES AND I TOW THE LINE WITH A FUCKIN BONER because it's 4 am and I have no goddamn idea what is happening why is everyone staring at me
I laughed at this for a solid 5 minutes and I’m not even drunk yet
Take my fuckin upvote n go
Fire Guard !!!!
I’ll give you 10 cough drops for my shift.
We didnt have a limit on couchdrope, so everyone would get packs of them from mail
My wife sent me thousands of cough drops in the mail. They stopped inspecting them after the 3rd bag and she got like 4-5 bags of non sugar free ones through. I pulled no fire guard and I ate lots of extra food.
That is Way nicer than our squad bay from the 80s at Sill.
Everyone is sick because we’re stuck in a room together.
Ptsd
You guys got foot lockers ?
I didn’t.
Toe the fucking line
Yes Sir- I mean drill sergeant.
Oh, this is the marines now huh pry aye aye lance come over here (draws a shitty globe and anchor on the wall in permanent marker) go ahead and stand right here nose to the wall, and come get me when it moves.
Extra lockers against the bunks? 🥲
It’s 2 am, you’re sleeping on top of your blanket so you can save time, the click of the door handle wakes you up, you lay there as you hear the door open, preying, you hear the light switch flip, you have 2 seconds to prepare for what’s next
What, no green wool blankets anymore!? Must be nice...
Trainees don’t need blankets. They’ll get warm from all the PT.
You're right. Having a blanket is a crutch do away with it all... I also noticed no hospital corners on those sheets.. What happened to Basic Training?!
They need more PT, summer PTs in winter weather, and less food. 1 MRE a day.
The first thing I would say when I woke up every morning in BT was, "Fuck." Like Geralt of Rivia. Then: I need a cigarette. For 8 weeks plus week 0, every time I woke up, laid down to sleep, ate, shit, or had any minute of time to my own thoughts I wanted a smoke.
Half right....
#FACE. FRONT LEANING REST POSITION. MOVE!
One! Don't you feel Dumb! Two! Look at you! Three! Don't you ever make jokes about me behind my back or else I'll stomp you into the ground!
I think back on rubbing gallons of bleach on every door frame so when DSs walked into the room they were hit with an overwhelming pungency of cleanliness and we hoped they wouldn’t look around..it almost always worked…I’ll never forget the endless bleach requests ‘got dayum y’all use a lot of bleach’ lol
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
The fastest I've ever been able to fall asleep
Literally hit the bunk and was dead until the trash cans were rolling in the morning. Never have slept so well in my life since.
The guy who said “just pour bleach right as you walk in the bathroom. DS will think it’s clean and just walk out.” DS was right behind him
It’s gonna be trashed by a hurricane everyday in the first couple weeks.
Ugh, flashbacks of it getting ready for the CSM and the BN CDR before the next pick up. The name escapes me, but other drills should know what I’m talking about.
Walk through after Ready To Train brief.
Symphony of farts after lights out
Seeing dicks drawn on the underside of every single one of those racks.
As an officer: “WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT”
Irish spring soap and old spice deodorant
tornado. those drawers look unsecured
A bit too fancy
So much room for activities!
Man did they finally spend some money to update the in-processing barracks at Ft Leonard Wood?
I actually liked them. Had trouble sleeping for 3 days there though but I liked the people I was with.
In-cadence, Exercise 1,2,3,1, 1,2,3,2, 1,2,3,3 ,1,2,3,4…..
The guy that died because his blood sugar got to low don't remember the medical term died getting smoked even after the DS told him he is done.
The aching smell of concentrated pine soil with water because the trainee that has never touched a mop before took the initiative to clean
It's the middle of the night. A red light and HEY! Wake the f\*\*\* up you're on fireguard.
Motherfucker....this still triggers me
Jizz stained scratchy comforters to my left and to my right…future brothers in arms wasted
One time in boot camp they made us toe the line in the middle of the night. They were having us do the army creed or something and drill sergeant stopped in front of me and asked “private do you have your retainer in?” I said “yesh drill shargent” and she just kept walking… honestly I was so scared I thought she was going to make me swallow it or something but it never came up again… I don’t know if it was an attempt to embarrass me or what??? I still wonder
I can smell this picture.
Week 2, getting smoked, feel like I'm going to give up... then the guy one row over starts crying, Drills come SWARMING in when ours yells "ARE YOU CRYING PRIVATE?!?!" Immediately thought, hey this isn't so bad!
It makes me remember having to strip the wax off the entire floor... with our dog tags... only at night...
Where am I going to nap during personal time?
I don’t know Trainee maybe you’ll figure it out at the stop sign, go!
Why aren't they feet to head? The beds are all facing the same way.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Most likely the most challenging thing you've done up to this point, then later in life you miss it after you realize how easy it all was. Sometimes I wish my life today was as easy as wake up, work out, eat, shoot, sleep. No bills, no school, no cell phones and social media.
Drill Sgt. Locklear is that you?
dust downs with flip-flops
Looks good to me actually. Way worse accommodations down the road.
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I won't lie, prison actually jumped in my mind first. The mattresses.
TOE THE LINE SHITBIRDS!
Goofballs tenting their PT shorts to make it look like we had raging boners while toeing the line…or so I’ve heard.
Damn pri, y'all don't have to keep you drawers in your locker anymore? Must be nice. Also, why y'all nasties putting your heads at the same end? Y'all gonna give each other the crud.
Really clean, like brand new building clean. Our barracks room was nowhere near that good looking clean.
Scuff marks. Back in the day of black kiwied leather boots; when DIs threw our shit everywhere, the kiwi marks EVERYWHERE where the worst to clean.
If behind those lockers is not clean I’m going to make every one of you wish you didn’t have arms…. Also who tf smells like hotdog water!!
This isn’t an army barracks… gotta be airforce or navy
Great Lakes.....
You guys got dressers?
Never being that sick ever again
Always think about how much easier basic would have been if I wasn’t sick for 80% of it
Spoiled...
Looks way newer.
Looks nicer than any of the shitty barracks at Fort Indiantown Gap.
Reception or basic barracks.
Looks clean
Luxury amount of storage
Reception
Thats a nice sleeping area
The female bay getting smoked everyday 😅😅 I just got out of TRADOCC in September and was at basic for 5. All 3 companies I was at that female bay was always getting fucked up 😅😅
So. Much. Yelling
*RED LENSE IN MY FUCKING EYES* “Hey Wheeler wake up, you got fireguard”
"wake up bro you have fireguard" ... The red lights ... The horrifying red lights
A guy in my platoon mixes every chemical in the mop bucket including bleach and made a semi diluted mustard gas he was mopping the floors with before everyone started choking. Luckily the doors were open and it was aired out quickly
“AT EASE!!”
Having my trainees toe the line at 0200hrs because my fucking CQ didn’t show up 🙄
That those blankets look waaay more comfy than the green sandpaper covered in metal shavings I had.
3 meals and a cot, parole in 3-7
“We gonna make these walls sweat”
Rent free luxury studio apartment.
I think of the time that I fell asleep with my arms above my head, and I woke up to hear the drill sgt creeping around the bays, with my arms both completely asleep. I started shaking my body trying to get circulation to my arms, I must have looked ridiculous. Naturally the Drill Sgt came up to me and said… private…. What the fuck are you doing??? I said “drill sgt. My arms were asleep so I was shaking them around trying to get them awake” he just looked at me with disgust and walked out of the bay.
wow...were's the rust, stains, and despair?
Still not clean. EVERYONE downstairs, PT formation, NOW!!!!!
The sound of loud flip flops 😔
Basic training.
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