Watching Documentary on Fort benning.

[Duncanpup]

Can’t post from my I phone yet it’s called what army recruits go through at boot camp 22 weeks produced by business insider. First of all they fucked up it’s not boot camp it’s OSUT infantry , the term boot camp is reserved for our brothers and sisters who join Marine corp or the Navy.

Wow Benning has changed from 39 years ago from the barracks yes Dash one I’m talking about the WW2 barracks I lived in Harmony church now pound sand Hilton. Yet benning has changed to the set up on ranges especially weapons Qualification 240 hours of learning to shoot and scoot to the length of training it’s 22 weeks it was I think 14 went I went through it. One thing caught me was two weeks in reception now shit that’s all zero time my reception was three four days tops.

And once they get off the bus they give them a snack in middle of the night off.
Granola
Juice box
Sun flower seeds
Dried fruit.

WTF when did they stop the 2 cheeseburgers and fries , I just found it cool to watch ,in 84 nothing like young joes getting to know each other crapping on open toilets no privacy as the Drills scream you better make that shit fast.

[MLAA]

1. Those were the good ole days, DuncanPup!

[Aristus]

2. When I was at Fort Knox in 1989 for tanker school, they still had a small number of the old WWII

wooden barracks left. We billeted in the newer brick barracks, but we called the old ones "Splinter Village."

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. I think "boot camp" was an informal name, even in my day (1966)

My induction class was sent to Ft Knox for "Basic Combat Training", but they couldn't find a class opening for us. They flew us to El Paso to our BCT class at Ft Bliss. Big improvement: Ft Bliss had cinder-block barracks with cement floors (no wax), not like Ft Knox's WW2 tinder boxes coated in tons of buffered floor wax as an accellerant. Other improvements: Our area of Ft Bliss was flat, no freaking hills to run up and down. And, of course, it was a DRY heat!

Basic was only 8 weeks, then on to IAT (Individual Advanced Training?) to learn an MOS. I went to Ft Polk (big suck) for 11B, where the Army made me into a clerk, go figure. Ft Polk had the WW2 tinder-box barracks, and it was NOT a dry heat.

Ft Bliss was so nice, I almost thought I got drafted into the Air Force.

[GP6971]

4. Up until 2014

Army ROTC Advanced Camp was at Joint Base Lewis McChord. All the cadets were housed in the "splinter barracks". Only in the last couple of years they torn down.

I went through my ROTC training living in splinter barracks in 1971 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in PA. Not fun especially on the 2nd floor.

[tinymontgomery]

5. Showed up at San Diego navy boot camp

Showed up at San Diego navy boot camp at midnight, got off the bus, taken to the head to take a piss test, sent to my rack and back up at 0430 or 5 to start training. No food no anything but screaming, Nov 1980.

Had a great 23 year career.
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[DashOneBravo]

6. They raised the standards for 11B

So they don’t need second class troops. Like the ones that were at Harmony Church.
(Just kidding)

They should made it longer. When I went through, they had 11 Mike’s who graduated with us. Then went through more training.

Shining boots together also provided bonding time.

We got several people who went through since 9/11.