The funniest place you weren't allowed to laugh. "Drill" is VET Tv's newest series with 18 episodes that recreate the boot camp and basic training experience. Go to veterantv.app.link/e/acyt-drill, subscribe, and stream the full series.
BC "how do these strippers keep getting on base,,,," me well sir ,, their husbands are....... "your literally better not fuckin finish the thought you had" mmmm sir, they have base access.....
@@phydeux To be fair, I read a comment about how after Full Metal Jacket, EVERYONE wanted to be like Ermey. And to this day, I still think that holds true.
I'm just the VET Tv social media guy but I'd pay big $$$ for a Angry Cameo in season 2 of Drill. 🔥 also... Checkpoint Charlie Season 3 when?!?!?!? Love you 🖤
My favorite booter story: At Great Lakes, I was struggling with Battlestations, particularly the swim test where we have to tread water. The night before, my RDC, GSM1 Cunningham, called me over. And his words of advice/encouragement- " Recruit! You are shit. And shit floats. So YOU float!" Didn't click right away. So the next day, when it came time to tread water, and people were panicking/temporarily drowning/grabbing the closest thing next to them, ie using fellow recruits as flotation devices, I just floated along, humming to myself " I'm a shit." And Lincoln Logged my way to graduation. Not the hero I wanted, but the hero i needed.
@@ryleygriggs9840 Pushups till you cried, oh not crying, pushups till you cry, oh you;re not crying, pushups till you cry, oh you're not crying, front rest, better be off that floor. Side note, try that in your forties, it is all muscle damage not making any mass.
Leonardwood 2016, 2ndPLT Badgers. You left us there. Honestly, it was the funniest shit tbh. DS B, "What the fuck are yall doing". Made me stare at the tall Lanky kids ugly mug for hours 😂 thanks dude lmao
7:32 my senior drill put me in the front, leaning in front outside his office. Came out a while later, when I am shaking and covered in sweat, and say, "oh shit, I forgot you were here."
During basic at harmony church I had an appointment at the clinic for a broken foot at 08. I stood there outside and waited until 1800 because the drills completely forgot I was there and ended up having to crutch all the way back after all the workers left for the day. Whole platoon was smoked for me “going awol” until the drill that dropped me off came back from the PX and told the other drills he just forgot about me lmao.
A tear of admiration for the weirdo climbing through the rafters and dispensing judicious amounts of fookery. He's probably wearing a Smokey Bear at this very moment.
@@WizardMan03 only the ones who are caught are punished. A true Ricky Ninja would escape the situation by using dental floss to rappel to safety because he had a lookout, SN Stane, provide advance warning.
I was in basic and doing area beautification one morning and was in the rear of the recruit barracks near the parking lot. A red Yugo pulls up and I see one of my drills sitting in the passenger seat. His very large wife and him are screaming at each other and as the car stops, she rips off his drill sergeant hat and starts beating him with it. He covers his head with his hands and sinks down into the seat as she berates and beats him with his hat. I am standing right there with a front row seat and can't believe what I'm seeing. He finally manages to wrestle his hat back and exits the car while she is still punching him in the back. She peels off out of the parking lot and he stands there for a minute, composing himself, putting his hat back on, and straightening out his uniform. Then he looks up and sees me staring with eyes wide open. He beelines right to me and says very calmly to me, "if you tell anyone about this, I will literally kill you. Understood?" YES, DRILL SERGEANT!! That was in 1989, and this is the first time I've ever told this story. Sorry, SSG Barton if you ever see this. That shit was hilarious!
I was 28 when I went to MCRD San Diego. I had been a merchant sailor previously and then married with kids. For me it was hilarious but surreal at the same time. I got ITd quite a few times for laughing. I really love those kids that I had the privilege to watch grow up so quick and become men.
I was in the same boat, being 23 and having worked offshore and construction for years prior meant that the hardest part of MCRD was not laughing my ass off
Funniest DI story I heard: Inside the DI Hut the wall locker had a false back; DI would have a recruit lock him in! When the coast was clear, he'd push the wall locker out do what he needed (sleep, shit, shower, shave) In the morning get back in the wall locker & start banging on it, to have a the recruit unlock him; clean shavin and misbehavin! 🤣🤣🤣
Basic Training Story, circa September, 2005, Fort Sill, OK, OSUT: I watched a Private with a broken foot, on crutches, try to hop away and go AWOL during the day. I watched the Drills stand there laughing, asking, "When do we go get him? DO we tackle him? lol
5:56 funny you mention that about sneaking up on you. My drill sergeant made me wear a bell and stomp because I walked too quietly and he was surprised by me. They dubbed me ninja and even put it on my dog tag for religion because I didn’t have one 😂.
I'm 65 and still remember boot camp fondly. I never got singled out for something stupid. But if one person was singled out and punished, we all got smoked. I wouldn't say it was enjoyable back then but those memories make me smile 47 years later. Great video!
I feel that Went to basic almost 15 years ago, and been out of the army for a little over 11 years now. Basic was hell when I was going through it, but was paradise once I hit the war. Miss it. Still miss it to this day. Lots of great guys I met there too- rest their souls
@@JBS2018 I made it to Week 5 without a DS ever looking at me. I didn't even wear my Specialist rank during basic. Fuzzies get less attention. Then I fucked up my knee and it was all down hill from there.
I got singled out for smiling, and I remember the mantra my instructor made me recite. Smiling just shows you're up to something. Taking the punishment for a pack of CIGS they found instead of the entire platoon earned me someone cred when the real offender fessed up. Punishment was to stay in the front leaning rest after 20 reps while a cig burned down before me.
I went through infantry OSUT in 1997, and getting cussed, name called, and smoked the crap out of was part of the experience. It’s just as important to be emotionally tough as physically tough. That was the entire point. There’s no room for cupcakes in combat.
Agreed! That's what really pisses me off about the new Drill directives. The newer generations are already emotionally weak. The last thing they need is to be coddled in basic! MAKE DRILL SGTS GREAT AGAIN!
@ Yeup. It was traditional and healthy to weed out the weak. There was actually a small attrition rate in OSUT because some guys just couldn’t hack it. They’d usually be sent to other MOS, or if injured then discharged. In my class/company, we had 15 drops out of 70ish trainees. It was usually less in most units, so it wasn’t like they were booting people left and right, just those who could not meet the standards. Thats a good thing.
My Drill Sergeant speaking to the one African-American recruit in my platoon: "Holy SHIT, son. You are blacker than a struck match inside a coal miner's asshole at midnight." He also made the private randomly moonwalk through the entirety of training.
Goddamn, that's what I call funny. If drill sergeants and instructors came up with a comedy album of just their best insults on trainees/recruits, I'd throw money at them so fast they'd think it's 2 dollar lap dance night at the strip club.
Just the thought of a red-faced pissed of Drill knife handing this guy and saying "MOONWALK. NOW. Private!" fills my heart with a level of joy I can't express through words LOL.
When I get truly mad, that I figure some massive injustice has been placed upon me, that the World has changed, my mental state to never be the same, I say GUY!
One of the Roosterteeth guys was in the army, and in one of their podcasts he told a story about drill sgts fucking with new recruits by having a plant in their group asking to go home, and the sgt pulling out a rifle with blanks to pretend to shoot the guy, and throwing his "corpse" in the nearby dumpster.
I believe that was Geoff. I still remember the Let's Play where one of the other guys jokingly says, "Damn it Private Geoff!" in a DI voice. Geoff very quickly responded with "Don't ever do that again!"
I laughed out loud so many times during this video. I remember “Hey, hero” being thrown around a lot during basic training. Fort Benning was definitely one of the funniest places you couldn’t laugh.
The show on Vets TV is why I started watching your UA-cam channel AC. You and your co-stars on Checkpoint Charlie knocked it out of the park. Pure gold. That alone is worth a sub to Vets TV.
@@ninjabearpress2574yeah I remember that show and when I first saw him in it I have about lost it Roflmao. Was a decent show the first season IIRC then got really weird with the cloned soldiers rebellion or whatever the hell that was.
And a very humble man. My father-in-law crossed paths with Ermy, (twice or three times?) during their careers, and Ermy always recognized my father-in-law. Father-in-law got a kick out of that.
So the judge that was name dropping his family members during the neighborhood parking curfuffle really messed up when you showed up on scene and let your inner Drill Instructor shine, when you started calling him “guy” and “dad(?)”. Still one of my favourite videos 🍺🇨🇦🫡🇺🇸🍺
@carlossanillan4647 Somewhere out there, your Drill Sergeant probably just read your comment and I'm guessing you might read the following quote in that Drill Sergeant's voice.: "What dog shat you out, Santillan?" Please, if you have time, I'm curious about that one, and I was a Drill Instructor for a small portion of my career. Now, however, I'm just a disabled combat veteran. By the way, thank you for your service.
My Drill SFC Burton 2 tours in Viet Name as a Marine, they sent him home, he walked into an Army Recruiting Station and 2 more tours in Viet Nam. Never once raised his voice, you just listened to his every word.
That’s some funny shit leaving them at parade rest awaiting your return 😂😂, I went through basic in ‘87 and I was the only kid from Long Island in our platoon, everyone else was southern, including our drills, they got such a kick out of my accent that every morning in formation I would have to report to one of the drills in front of the platoon and say a sentence of whatever they wrote down on a piece of paper, and everyone would laugh for a minute at my expense of course, and got a couple of good nicknames being I was 6’3” and a whole 125lbs when it started, I graduated at 155lbs, I think I pushed enough ground that Oklahoma lost a couple feet of elevation on all the maps 😂
I went to Basic in 86. I was 5'9" 125 lbs. Left basic at 145 lbs. Biggest treat at the chow hall was if you got your bread and it was the end of the loaf. You could get an extra slice of bread
Going through basic here in the UK was a tiring experience, it wasn't the long days, endless PT, drill, stress position, kneeling gun drill, classroom lectures etc, but trying to hold back the laughter of an NCO throwing all our kit, bedding and chairs out the windows, whilst simultaneously reeling off to four of us in the room, the funniest insults ever heard by this 17 year old stood by a void that was once my bedspace.
I left for FT Lost in the Woods Nov 22 2021. Good luck to him. That place sucks and in the winter it's probably the worst time of the year. Going home for holiday block leave was nice though.
@AngryCops I graduated Basics in Feb. 84 at Ft. Leonard Wood. I attended my brother's graduation at Ft. Benning in Feb. 97 and had the honor of "Turning Him Blue" and pinning his infantry rope. After the ceremony, we were all standing in the quad/assembly area when one of the Drill Sergeants walked in. I had been out of the Army for 10 years, but when someone shouted AT EASE, I automatically snapped to parade rest🤣 without a thought and immediately said, "What the fuck am I doing?"🤣
Your story about forgetting about trainees reminds me of the time we were put in the front leaning rest after force hydrating both canteens and our camelbaks. After about 3 hours of being left there, several people had pissed themselves, which of course meant the entire platoon was in the front leaning rest with piss trails all over the place. The 1-50 at benning was in the middle of nowhere so lots of shenanigans went on up there at motivation hill. It was the best worst time of my life.
Ermey was one of, if not the _only_ actor working with Stanley Kubrick, whom was notorious for being overbearing and meticulous over the actors in his movies, that Kubrick had given practically free reign to make up his own lines.
He was actually the advisor on set and wasn't the original cast. The chopper gunner shooting the "well disciplined VC" was actually cast as the DI and While Ermey was correcting him in his role. Kubrick was like just use the real deal.
He was hired to teach an actor how to play the role.. Eventually Kubrick thought that he would do a better job than the actor.. Emery only entered the military becsue the judge offered that to him instead of jail when he was young.. He said it turned his life around and stopped his problems.. It also lead him to his wife that he stayed with until the end..
“The funniest place you can’t laugh” 🤣 that title had me dying!😂😭 no truer words have ever been spoken. My friend used to whisper dark jokes to me while in PT formation n I used to always get cooked for laughing. RIP Ari…
DS’s once forgot us at church. Hour or so after church another DS from another company drove us back. First thing our DS says when we get back is “where have you guys been”
Retired Navy here. I was on Ft Leonard Wood on a Saturday one fall day and decided to walk around. Sitting on a bench near the base Commander’s quarters is observed the following. Three troop trucks come around a corner and parked on the edge of the road. The DI exits the cab of the third truck shouting orders. “Recruits, everyone out and form one line on the sidewalk. Go, go, go.” Around 30 recruits exited the front 2 trucks and hustled to line up. “When I give the order you are to go to the rear truck and be issued your weapon. Your orders are to encircle the enemy, push them to a center location and contain them until they can be collected. Go!” They hustled in line and approached the rear truck where a hand appeared holding a leaf rake. The DI walked to a position shouting I want a circle around me no less than 1 hundred feet across. The wind was blowing and near ankle deep leaves flowed around him as they struggled to form the circle. Once formed up the DI stepped to the edge shouting “Attack and do not let any escape.” In a matter of minutes they had a pile of leaves about 15 feet high with the down wind side struggling to keep the wind from blowing the leaves away. “Keep the enemy contained recruits.” Two in the up wind side were instructed to capture and contain any escapees. They ran chasing a line of leaves and started pushing them back. “Recruits you are loosing the battle, call for reinforcements.” A half dozen more guys from the upwind side raised the ranks and ran screaming. “Reinforcing.” The group struggled to keep the pile intact as a civil pulled up in a gator towing a leaf vacuum cage. He calming got out pulled the vacuum line out and sucked the pile up as the recruits pushed the leaves closer. “Thanks guys” the civilian says flipping a sloppy salute. “I’ll be right back.” The DI proceeded to redeploy his troops to another area directing, “This time I want you in a line using the winds as your allies.” He shouted 8 names two at a time, “You will set up 4 outposts in advanced positions 7 meters apart to catch any runners.” I looked up at the Commanders quarters and spotted someone on the porch coffee cup in hand chuckling and grinning. About half an hour later more leaves had covered the area as the first group left 3 more trucks come around the corner to park.
I was a TAC Officer for OCS at Fort Benning in the mid-late 00's. One of my fellow TACs (a sapper tab'd O3 in A. Co, if that narrows it down) absolutely brought his own barracks bunnies into the dorms when he was on shift at night. So this sort of thing 100% happened and I not only witnessed it, but had to clean up afterwards more than once. Mercifully our CO was pretty forgiving. This was the first rotation post-Iraq "surge" and all of us were fresh off of a combat tour within a few months of the class starting.
A. 2/58, 3rd plt. Sandhill Nov. 2000. We got infilled by a DS who was on vacation first few weeks of the cycle. He posed as a failed recycle from 1/50. During a class in our barracks, he starts mouthing off to our known Drills. They get in his face, and he swings on them. A 10 second squabble ensued until the faker kicked a DS off of him and ran from the starship. At the end of the cycle, we reenacted the scene when ordered to entertain. Was GOLD both times. Shout out to DS's Spencer, Yunker, and Phillips
Real shit, respect to those trainees for pulling that off and nobody fell out. I had someone lock their knees and fallout after an hour and 15 and i don't think i'll ever forget the wet hollow sound a skull makes when it bounces off concrete. Props to them for making it hours. That is discipline!
I love no matter which country you teach basic training in, it’s the same stuff. Five years teaching it. So many memories. You truly can’t make up the stuff they do. 😂😂
I had two interesting Drills when i went through. One liked to do a claw motion with his 3 fingers (thumb through middle) when he’s educating a private. Had another stocky guy, absolutely horrible with cadence but he was funny as all hell. He stopped a private from another company running the track and accused them of crop dusting them, proceeded to make them stand there and eat their fart with a loud audible “om nom nom nom nom”.
Only DI of mine that said anything remotely racist was my Junior hat, who was saying racist stuff to our black recruits, all 3 of them. And he was black, darker than all of them. One of platoon idiots said he wasn't our black squad leader's "n word" on our final day, a day after we got our title and EGAs, and ALL of our DIs were disgusted with him, our senior said he was considering taking it up with the CO to get him discharged. This was almost 23 years ago.
I had a DI named Savage. And another that made us call him DI Danger. He always acted like he was a badass. His real name Dardnik. (I assume he chose Danger because he did not want to be called DI Ret@rdnk.) Last day of the cycle he showed bruised from head to toe. He told us he was in a fight with a bunch of bikers. After he left one of the other DI's told us he had made a rude pass at some cowgirl in a bar and she beat the crap out of him with a pool cue. Still laugh about that.
1984 Fort Lost in the Woods Basic graduation week. We got Cinderella on base pass. Everyone is blitz drunk! I'm stumbling back to the Company Area when I come across a platoon marching past, I'm in my class B looking like the Tower of Pisa saluting and the drill sergeant and this incredulous look on his face as he salutes back to me!😅😅😅 Oh the tails I could tell 😂😂😂
I can remember when my drill sgt forgot about a private he had dropped for not wearing his cover outside. He gave us a complete block of instruction on Army Values which took around an hour. Ahh... Drill Sgt Gerkin, that man never raised his voice, never smilled and never showed emotion.
In week 2 of red phase everyone's issues running shoes no longer had soles, so due to this first the Drill Sergeants filled out some paper work, took pictures of everyone's shoes to be sent in with the paperwork, than pulled everyone's personal bags so we could all get our shoes out so we could use them for PT
Also watched as our entire company of basic trainees was abandoned at the range when a class 5 tornado hit Phenix City, outside Benning. Cadre and every one of our drills ran like hell, minus 1 and 1 LT stayed. Extra exciting for me being from CA. Goodtimes.
AC, I think I speak for us all when I say we need at least an hour long video of nothing but Boot Camp stories. I know you’ve got tons. Even some from your own boot camp and maybe Drill Sgt school. Make it happen my man.
I have a soon-to-be son-in-law in the Marine Corps and is currently recruiting. I sent in the statement that if he sends crap bags to basic, expect a new move I learned called the recruiter not punch! Make me laugh so hard, I appreciate you and especially when you're on unsubscribe you and Nick are the masters of that comedy show!
Oh my God..."the funniest place you can't laugh" is SO perfect. I remember in boot camp...in the squad bay...standing on line...dude right across from me had the DI screaming in his face. (As per usual.) For whatever reason, Recruit Rothweiler decided to smack the DI's hand out of his face. Watching Sgt Davidson come closer to spontaneously combusting than any human in history was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. And I couldn't laugh. So I've laughed my ass off ever since. 🤣🤣🤣
I went through Air Force basic training and then Army basic training (long story), and although the quantity of great drill instructors was in my Army experience, the best drill I ever had, and by far the funniest, was at Air Force basic training. Making our brother flight stop marching with the command of “hippity hop cattle stop!”, and make them respond with “moo!” had me pissing myself with laughter!
At 14:26 was hoping to see a cutaway of that bodycam of you with that drunk judge. "Let me talk to you, GUUUUUYYY!" lol. Had to go rewatch that video from donut covering that hah
The memories flood back. We got a fresh from Drill School senior drill sergeant who had just spent three years as a recruiter. He could shut us up but could do nothing about the other drills.
I'm not from the US, but one of our instructors caught me smoking on base (prohibited of course). In the next march, he gave me 3 packs of Lucky Strikes and ran alongside me all the way, making sure I smoked all the cigarettes all the way up and down. I don't know if this is the best part or worst one, but it backfired on him because I did smoke them all (it was awful of course). Until I finished my basic training, that Sgt brought me 2 packs of Lucky Strikes every week and informed the barrack guards to allow me to step outside to have a smoke. Yes, I was the guy who smoked and passed all the physicals with flying colors, specially cardio ones. I probably diminished my life expectancy to 50 years just from that march, but god damn it was worth it and I'd do it again.
@SuiLagadema For a short time in my US military career I was a Drill Sergeant. I'm pretty sure that if I had been one of your instructors, I would have nicknamed you "Black Lung." I also would have made a morale patch for you, though I doubt it would be authorized on your uniform, but I'd have gifted it to you at your graduation. The morale patch would have been a picture of a trainee getting kicked in the family jewels with a cigarette sticking out of his mouth and slight smoke coming off the tip, and would have had a comic book style caption quoting the pictured instructor kicking him in said family jewels that would read, "The hoofing will continue until morale is improved!" Anyway, well done earning those Lucky Strikes.
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The funniest place you weren't allowed to laugh. "Drill" is VET Tv's newest series with 18 episodes that recreate the boot camp and basic training experience. Go to veterantv.app.link/e/acyt-drill, subscribe, and stream the full series.
@@AngryCops i wanna see you in a episode of drill you would kick ass
BC "how do these strippers keep getting on base,,,,"
me well sir ,, their husbands are.......
"your literally better not fuckin finish the thought you had"
mmmm sir, they have base access.....
I loved using "hero", cause they knew it was bad
69 dollars well spent. thanks AC
Have you ever seen "The D.I." starring Jack Webb?
As a child I didn't, but now I get why he was so mean, cruel to be kind.
"Were you recruited out of a dumpster behind an abortion clinic?!"
R Lee Ermey is smiling down from heaven at that insult.
If your DS doesn’t make a failed abortion joke to you or someone in your platoon, is he really your DS?
How cute you think we go to Heaven.
He sounded like Ermey as well. Like he was channeling his spirit.
@@phydeux To be fair, I read a comment about how after Full Metal Jacket, EVERYONE wanted to be like Ermey. And to this day, I still think that holds true.
Imagine if the trainee actually was an abortion survive, that would be awkward.
I'm just the VET Tv social media guy but I'd pay big $$$ for a Angry Cameo in season 2 of Drill. 🔥 also... Checkpoint Charlie Season 3 when?!?!?!? Love you 🖤
"Fucking reservist coming for his two weeks a year..."
Oh PLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSEEEE @Angrycops please let’s this beeeeeeeeee
Dude new season of checkpoint charlie would be legitnessss
there is hope
A new season of checkpoint Charlie would be fire!
Somewhere out there, Quintard is sitting quietly, with a single tear slowly rolling down his cheek.
What is really funny is my navy recruiting station where i signed up was in the quintard mall in Anniston AL.
@@annabellethepitty damn anni-stan AL... i lived in ozark AL just north of dothan.
Ok but did he unfuck himself?
It's me. I am Quintard.
@@VETTvchannelwe were all Quintard!
My favorite booter story: At Great Lakes, I was struggling with Battlestations, particularly the swim test where we have to tread water. The night before, my RDC, GSM1 Cunningham, called me over. And his words of advice/encouragement- " Recruit! You are shit. And shit floats. So YOU float!" Didn't click right away. So the next day, when it came time to tread water, and people were panicking/temporarily drowning/grabbing the closest thing next to them, ie using fellow recruits as flotation devices, I just floated along, humming to myself " I'm a shit." And Lincoln Logged my way to graduation. Not the hero I wanted, but the hero i needed.
This is phenomenal lmao. If there is ever a story that epitomizes the roll of a DS, this story is it.
ROFL!
I just went back to the swim test at great mistakes in my head and pictured this. Ahh good memories.
You had to float in battlestations!? I swam like once the entirety of basic
@@ryleygriggs9840 Pushups till you cried, oh not crying, pushups till you cry, oh you;re not crying, pushups till you cry, oh you're not crying, front rest, better be off that floor.
Side note, try that in your forties, it is all muscle damage not making any mass.
"The funniest place you can't laugh" is the most accurate description of boot camp I think I've ever heard.
Yessir
My brother is a marine. When he got back from boot camp he told me that the hardest part was not laughing.
And the DIs and DSes are like angry stand up comedians fr.
I swear they must have a whole comedy course at Drill school
100%...I might make a video of one particular story...I've never tried SO HARD not to laugh. Been laughing at it ever since. 🤣
Your private ninja deserves a promotion for having the balls to pull off a stunt like that and being very creative.
@@28_babyshark natural scout. If he can shoot, good choice for sniper training.
@kd5nrh true but we got to make sure he's out of boot camp for a while first. I wonder what kind of other stunts he pulled already.
Love the DI Screaming “ONE ARMS DISTANCE AT ALL TIMES; IT’S FOR YOUR SAFETY NOT MINE”!!!!!
Ours would scream this while running straight through us lol
Right after he shoved a recruit to the moon 😂
I couldn’t walk behind my senior DI
Leonardwood 2016, 2ndPLT Badgers. You left us there. Honestly, it was the funniest shit tbh. DS B, "What the fuck are yall doing". Made me stare at the tall Lanky kids ugly mug for hours 😂 thanks dude lmao
Dude what company? I’m at 3-10 currently and having a blast
A35th is where I went@@conqueeftador99
@conqueeftador99 no shit I was A Co 3/10 way back in 2010 good luck dude
7:32 my senior drill put me in the front, leaning in front outside his office. Came out a while later, when I am shaking and covered in sweat, and say, "oh shit, I forgot you were here."
Had a drill drop me in Basic during a class and totally forgot till it was over, quite a while later.
He didn't forget, that was cover and you bought it.
Had that happen to four or five of us one day. Felt like we were there for an hour. Drill swore it was two minutes. I'm sure he was lying.
During basic at harmony church I had an appointment at the clinic for a broken foot at 08. I stood there outside and waited until 1800 because the drills completely forgot I was there and ended up having to crutch all the way back after all the workers left for the day. Whole platoon was smoked for me “going awol” until the drill that dropped me off came back from the PX and told the other drills he just forgot about me lmao.
@@chellman910 That is fuckin rough, any smokes then or was that recent?
It’s crazy how many core memories are made in such a short time.
A tear of admiration for the weirdo climbing through the rafters and dispensing judicious amounts of fookery. He's probably wearing a Smokey Bear at this very moment.
E-4 Mafia
That's what I thought. If there was ever a DS in the making, it's that guy.
Ricky Ninja is what we called it back in the day!
Seriously that just sound impressive probably got punished though.
@@WizardMan03 only the ones who are caught are punished. A true Ricky Ninja would escape the situation by using dental floss to rappel to safety because he had a lookout, SN Stane, provide advance warning.
I was in basic and doing area beautification one morning and was in the rear of the recruit barracks near the parking lot. A red Yugo pulls up and I see one of my drills sitting in the passenger seat. His very large wife and him are screaming at each other and as the car stops, she rips off his drill sergeant hat and starts beating him with it. He covers his head with his hands and sinks down into the seat as she berates and beats him with his hat. I am standing right there with a front row seat and can't believe what I'm seeing. He finally manages to wrestle his hat back and exits the car while she is still punching him in the back. She peels off out of the parking lot and he stands there for a minute, composing himself, putting his hat back on, and straightening out his uniform. Then he looks up and sees me staring with eyes wide open. He beelines right to me and says very calmly to me, "if you tell anyone about this, I will literally kill you. Understood?" YES, DRILL SERGEANT!! That was in 1989, and this is the first time I've ever told this story. Sorry, SSG Barton if you ever see this. That shit was hilarious!
That drill in Starship Troopers is the voice of Mr Krabs.
He is The Kurgan from Highlander.
He was also Captain Rhodes in Day of the Dead. The actor really gets around.
Wow, I did not know that, thanks!
And Lex Luthor from Justice League.
MONEY....
Oh my God, I remember when we started calling privates warriors at the beginning of the warrior ethos era . We made fun of that even in RA.
No civilian can comprehend the amount of vocabulary brilliance a Drill Sargeant can create in their insults
My Drills are the reason why people insulting me today only makes me laugh.
No shit! Best stand up comedy and one-liners since ever. But, as recruits, we were WTF....
I was 28 when I went to MCRD San Diego. I had been a merchant sailor previously and then married with kids. For me it was hilarious but surreal at the same time. I got ITd quite a few times for laughing. I really love those kids that I had the privilege to watch grow up so quick and become men.
I was in the same boat, being 23 and having worked offshore and construction for years prior meant that the hardest part of MCRD was not laughing my ass off
Funniest DI story I heard:
Inside the DI Hut the wall locker had a false back; DI would have a recruit lock him in!
When the coast was clear, he'd push the wall locker out do what he needed (sleep, shit, shower, shave)
In the morning get back in the wall locker & start banging on it, to have a the recruit unlock him; clean shavin and misbehavin! 🤣🤣🤣
@@Ron_EZ I'll be damn
Making a recruit unlock the deliverer of their misery every morning in the most hilarious way possible is peak DI behavior
Basic Training Story, circa September, 2005, Fort Sill, OK, OSUT: I watched a Private with a broken foot, on crutches, try to hop away and go AWOL during the day. I watched the Drills stand there laughing, asking, "When do we go get him? DO we tackle him? lol
Drill Sergeant Hulka has entered the chat. "Lighten up, Francis"
"Psycho. Call me PSYCHO!"
5:56 funny you mention that about sneaking up on you. My drill sergeant made me wear a bell and stomp because I walked too quietly and he was surprised by me. They dubbed me ninja and even put it on my dog tag for religion because I didn’t have one 😂.
oh lord...we had 2 of those in my BCT never talked, never made a sound, no steps...hated being on fire guard with either of them
I'm 65 and still remember boot camp fondly. I never got singled out for something stupid. But if one person was singled out and punished, we all got smoked. I wouldn't say it was enjoyable back then but those memories make me smile 47 years later. Great video!
I feel that
Went to basic almost 15 years ago, and been out of the army for a little over 11 years now. Basic was hell when I was going through it, but was paradise once I hit the war. Miss it. Still miss it to this day. Lots of great guys I met there too- rest their souls
@@JBS2018 I made it to Week 5 without a DS ever looking at me. I didn't even wear my Specialist rank during basic. Fuzzies get less attention. Then I fucked up my knee and it was all down hill from there.
I got singled out for smiling, and I remember the mantra my instructor made me recite. Smiling just shows you're up to something. Taking the punishment for a pack of CIGS they found instead of the entire platoon earned me someone cred when the real offender fessed up. Punishment was to stay in the front leaning rest after 20 reps while a cig burned down before me.
AC, you crack me up.
"I taught you discipline." Had me in stitches. 😂😂😂
I went through infantry OSUT in 1997, and getting cussed, name called, and smoked the crap out of was part of the experience. It’s just as important to be emotionally tough as physically tough. That was the entire point. There’s no room for cupcakes in combat.
Agreed! That's what really pisses me off about the new Drill directives. The newer generations are already emotionally weak. The last thing they need is to be coddled in basic! MAKE DRILL SGTS GREAT AGAIN!
@ Yeup. It was traditional and healthy to weed out the weak. There was actually a small attrition rate in OSUT because some guys just couldn’t hack it. They’d usually be sent to other MOS, or if injured then discharged. In my class/company, we had 15 drops out of 70ish trainees. It was usually less in most units, so it wasn’t like they were booting people left and right, just those who could not meet the standards. Thats a good thing.
Thiers always room for cupcakes anywhere. Specially if they are frosted with sprinkles.
@@Scott-od1xg 😂
The enemy doesn't give two sh*ts about your mental health when they are throwing hot lead at you
My DS always called us "Little Warriors". I always thought it was just his favorite saying until just right now. I had an eye opening moment lol.
My Drill Sergeant speaking to the one African-American recruit in my platoon: "Holy SHIT, son. You are blacker than a struck match inside a coal miner's asshole at midnight."
He also made the private randomly moonwalk through the entirety of training.
LOL 😂😂😂
Or I guess you could say... Hee-Hee!
Goddamn, that's what I call funny. If drill sergeants and instructors came up with a comedy album of just their best insults on trainees/recruits, I'd throw money at them so fast they'd think it's 2 dollar lap dance night at the strip club.
That moonwalk bit got me. That's friggin' halarious...
My last name being Stephan, my drills would always say Steffoni you think your fans huh do a fancy dance. I did not dance good at all.
Just the thought of a red-faced pissed of Drill knife handing this guy and saying "MOONWALK. NOW. Private!" fills my heart with a level of joy I can't express through words LOL.
R.I.P., Gunny R. Lee Ermy. Your portrayal of Gunnery Sargeant Hartman can never be matched.
The worst smoking ever was making the Drill lose his professional bearing and laugh. Worth it.
Im not in the military but can live vicariously through the delightful stories of Angry Cops 🧡🧡
14:30 - "If I say guy or dude, that means you ****ed up"
*Me remembering the drunk judge who made it to that level with him a few years ago*
When I get truly mad, that I figure some massive injustice has been placed upon me, that the World has changed, my mental state to never be the same, I say GUY!
Yes! I remember watching that. That judge was a fucktard.
@@kidf22 THIS!!!!!!!
Bizarre to see myself on one of my favorite UA-cam channels lol. Thanks for the shoutout for the show!
@@jackhames3874 dude that's awesome!! 😎 What time stamp were you?
@@donaldbarton6701I’m at like 0:13 and a few other places in the video, I’m one of the DS’s
@@jackhames3874 😆🤣 I've been a fan of y'all's episodes for awhile now, they crack me up. Thanks for the response on the timestamp
One of the Roosterteeth guys was in the army, and in one of their podcasts he told a story about drill sgts fucking with new recruits by having a plant in their group asking to go home, and the sgt pulling out a rifle with blanks to pretend to shoot the guy, and throwing his "corpse" in the nearby dumpster.
😂😂😂😂
🔔 🥁
I believe that was Geoff. I still remember the Let's Play where one of the other guys jokingly says, "Damn it Private Geoff!" in a DI voice. Geoff very quickly responded with "Don't ever do that again!"
Roosterteeth was great back in 2005~2009
@@konnorcook4766 it was Jeremy who said it to him
Checkpoint Charlie and A Grunt’s Life are my favorite Vet TV shows.
I laughed out loud so many times during this video. I remember “Hey, hero” being thrown around a lot during basic training. Fort Benning was definitely one of the funniest places you couldn’t laugh.
The show on Vets TV is why I started watching your UA-cam channel AC. You and your co-stars on Checkpoint Charlie knocked it out of the park. Pure gold. That alone is worth a sub to Vets TV.
Checkpoint Charlie is def top tier!
i would've loved to have seen our Boy R.Lee Ermy write a show like this lmao, that man had such a colorful vocabulary R.I.P.
Him and General Patton would have been amazing to have a beer with
One of the best things the TV series Space: Above and Beyond did was get Ermey to be the Senior D.I.
@@ninjabearpress2574yeah I remember that show and when I first saw him in it I have about lost it Roflmao. Was a decent show the first season IIRC then got really weird with the cloned soldiers rebellion or whatever the hell that was.
And a very humble man. My father-in-law crossed paths with Ermy, (twice or three times?) during their careers, and Ermy always recognized my father-in-law. Father-in-law got a kick out of that.
So the judge that was name dropping his family members during the neighborhood parking curfuffle really messed up when you showed up on scene and let your inner Drill Instructor shine, when you started calling him “guy” and “dad(?)”. Still one of my favourite videos 🍺🇨🇦🫡🇺🇸🍺
My Drill Seargent's favorite collective "term of endearment" for us was "pieces of dog sh*t." 🤣
Your about as smart as a bag of dicks!!! My drill was nose to nose to me when he said that!!!! I knew I was about to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@carlossanillan4647 Somewhere out there, your Drill Sergeant probably just read your comment and I'm guessing you might read the following quote in that Drill Sergeant's voice.: "What dog shat you out, Santillan?"
Please, if you have time, I'm curious about that one, and I was a Drill Instructor for a small portion of my career. Now, however, I'm just a disabled combat veteran. By the way, thank you for your service.
@@Hell_Hound_Actual o7. Dang I was gonna make a joke about you but I keep deleting bc I'm still scared to fuck with DIs.
My Drill SFC Burton 2 tours in Viet Name as a Marine, they sent him home, he walked into an Army Recruiting Station and 2 more tours in Viet Nam. Never once raised his voice, you just listened to his every word.
That’s some funny shit leaving them at parade rest awaiting your return 😂😂, I went through basic in ‘87 and I was the only kid from Long Island in our platoon, everyone else was southern, including our drills, they got such a kick out of my accent that every morning in formation I would have to report to one of the drills in front of the platoon and say a sentence of whatever they wrote down on a piece of paper, and everyone would laugh for a minute at my expense of course, and got a couple of good nicknames being I was 6’3” and a whole 125lbs when it started, I graduated at 155lbs, I think I pushed enough ground that Oklahoma lost a couple feet of elevation on all the maps 😂
I went to Basic in 86. I was 5'9" 125 lbs. Left basic at 145 lbs. Biggest treat at the chow hall was if you got your bread and it was the end of the loaf. You could get an extra slice of bread
Going through basic here in the UK was a tiring experience, it wasn't the long days, endless PT, drill, stress position, kneeling gun drill, classroom lectures etc, but trying to hold back the laughter of an NCO throwing all our kit, bedding and chairs out the windows, whilst simultaneously reeling off to four of us in the room, the funniest insults ever heard by this 17 year old stood by a void that was once my bedspace.
This is fantastic timing. Watching with my son... who leaves for Basic Training at Fort Lenard Wood on Monday 🤣🤣
Oh shit! Same cycle i was in 12 years ago. Its gonna be coooooooold!
Lost in the Woods is a decent installation at least...
Mine is currently there doing the same! edit: He's in Fort Jackson, SC
I left for FT Lost in the Woods Nov 22 2021. Good luck to him. That place sucks and in the winter it's probably the worst time of the year. Going home for holiday block leave was nice though.
Someone hasn't taught dad OpSec, yet.
Congratulations, though.
@AngryCops I graduated Basics in Feb. 84 at Ft. Leonard Wood. I attended my brother's graduation at Ft. Benning in Feb. 97 and had the honor of "Turning Him Blue" and pinning his infantry rope. After the ceremony, we were all standing in the quad/assembly area when one of the Drill Sergeants walked in. I had been out of the Army for 10 years, but when someone shouted AT EASE, I automatically snapped to parade rest🤣 without a thought and immediately said, "What the fuck am I doing?"🤣
@@charlesbass66 drill sergeants gave you PTSD huh?
@farmered6085 🤣🤣IKR
It never goes away completely
Your story about forgetting about trainees reminds me of the time we were put in the front leaning rest after force hydrating both canteens and our camelbaks. After about 3 hours of being left there, several people had pissed themselves, which of course meant the entire platoon was in the front leaning rest with piss trails all over the place. The 1-50 at benning was in the middle of nowhere so lots of shenanigans went on up there at motivation hill. It was the best worst time of my life.
If memory serves, R Lee Ermey was a DI in the marine corps, and that was the only part that Kubrick ever did single takes with, instead of fifty.
The Gunny was the real deal. My great-uncle on my mom’s side was one of his real recruits.
Ermey was one of, if not the _only_ actor working with Stanley Kubrick, whom was notorious for being overbearing and meticulous over the actors in his movies, that Kubrick had given practically free reign to make up his own lines.
He was actually the advisor on set and wasn't the original cast. The chopper gunner shooting the "well disciplined VC" was actually cast as the DI and While Ermey was correcting him in his role. Kubrick was like just use the real deal.
Fun fact:
Gunny Ermy ad-libed most of his lines, the only actor under Kubrick to ever do so.
He was hired to teach an actor how to play the role..
Eventually Kubrick thought that he would do a better job than the actor..
Emery only entered the military becsue the judge offered that to him instead of jail when he was young..
He said it turned his life around and stopped his problems..
It also lead him to his wife that he stayed with until the end..
14:28 Yeah like when you were yelling at that drunk judge that one time! I STILL shudder, man...
OMG!! I don't laugh very often but that "birthstone" remark cracked me up. 😂
My favorite line.
“The funniest place you can’t laugh” 🤣 that title had me dying!😂😭 no truer words have ever been spoken. My friend used to whisper dark jokes to me while in PT formation n I used to always get cooked for laughing. RIP Ari…
“Or Quintarded he he”
I can see how that dude would be such a joy 😂
Mate of mine went through navy training with a Swallows and Staines... British rank for a trainee is Seaman. I'm sure their lives were HELL.
Cream Recruit is my favorite episode lol. “Daddy’s not here!!!”
DS’s once forgot us at church. Hour or so after church another DS from another company drove us back. First thing our DS says when we get back is “where have you guys been”
"… Can I motivate the next one?" OMFG! BAHAHAHA!!! Episode 2 rocks!
Retired Navy here. I was on Ft Leonard Wood on a Saturday one fall day and decided to walk around. Sitting on a bench near the base Commander’s quarters is observed the following.
Three troop trucks come around a corner and parked on the edge of the road. The DI exits the cab of the third truck shouting orders. “Recruits, everyone out and form one line on the sidewalk. Go, go, go.” Around 30 recruits exited the front 2 trucks and hustled to line up.
“When I give the order you are to go to the rear truck and be issued your weapon. Your orders are to encircle the enemy, push them to a center location and contain them until they can be collected. Go!”
They hustled in line and approached the rear truck where a hand appeared holding a leaf rake. The DI walked to a position shouting I want a circle around me no less than 1 hundred feet across. The wind was blowing and near ankle deep leaves flowed around him as they struggled to form the circle.
Once formed up the DI stepped to the edge shouting “Attack and do not let any escape.” In a matter of minutes they had a pile of leaves about 15 feet high with the down wind side struggling to keep the wind from blowing the leaves away. “Keep the enemy contained recruits.” Two in the up wind side were instructed to capture and contain any escapees. They ran chasing a line of leaves and started pushing them back. “Recruits you are loosing the battle, call for reinforcements.” A half dozen more guys from the upwind side raised the ranks and ran screaming. “Reinforcing.”
The group struggled to keep the pile intact as a civil pulled up in a gator towing a leaf vacuum cage. He calming got out pulled the vacuum line out and sucked the pile up as the recruits pushed the leaves closer.
“Thanks guys” the civilian says flipping a sloppy salute. “I’ll be right back.”
The DI proceeded to redeploy his troops to another area directing, “This time I want you in a line using the winds as your allies.” He shouted 8 names two at a time, “You will set up 4 outposts in advanced positions 7 meters apart to catch any runners.”
I looked up at the Commanders quarters and spotted someone on the porch coffee cup in hand chuckling and grinning.
About half an hour later more leaves had covered the area as the first group left 3 more trucks come around the corner to park.
Oh my god😂. I'd give a month's pay to see this in person.
This is the greatest thing I've ever pictured. Much appreciated for the detail included good sir.
@handimanjay6642 That's one of the greatest stories I've ever heard. Every bit of it is completely believable. I'd have love to see that.
When you were calling that judge "GUY!" I knew he was toast 😂
I was a TAC Officer for OCS at Fort Benning in the mid-late 00's. One of my fellow TACs (a sapper tab'd O3 in A. Co, if that narrows it down) absolutely brought his own barracks bunnies into the dorms when he was on shift at night.
So this sort of thing 100% happened and I not only witnessed it, but had to clean up afterwards more than once. Mercifully our CO was pretty forgiving. This was the first rotation post-Iraq "surge" and all of us were fresh off of a combat tour within a few months of the class starting.
Remembering you calling that drunk judge “Guy” and now getting this explination is priceless, haha!
A. 2/58, 3rd plt. Sandhill Nov. 2000. We got infilled by a DS who was on vacation first few weeks of the cycle. He posed as a failed recycle from 1/50. During a class in our barracks, he starts mouthing off to our known Drills. They get in his face, and he swings on them. A 10 second squabble ensued until the faker kicked a DS off of him and ran from the starship. At the end of the cycle, we reenacted the scene when ordered to entertain. Was GOLD both times. Shout out to DS's Spencer, Yunker, and Phillips
Hell yeah 😂 D 1-50 '07 Play The Game
A 2/58 2nd Plt, Nov 1999. Those tittie mags still hidden behind the washing machine on the 1st floor? 😆
Real shit, respect to those trainees for pulling that off and nobody fell out. I had someone lock their knees and fallout after an hour and 15 and i don't think i'll ever forget the wet hollow sound a skull makes when it bounces off concrete.
Props to them for making it hours. That is discipline!
I love no matter which country you teach basic training in, it’s the same stuff. Five years teaching it. So many memories. You truly can’t make up the stuff they do. 😂😂
Now that he brought it up, the thought of a drill sergeant being angry with a recruiter is hilarious.
That spot above your flashlight on the curtain had me try to clean my moniter 4 times. 62 year old vet, somethings from basic never leave.😂😂😂
Not Bootcamp, but I still remember the terrible feeling of hearing “ Hey, Devil Dog!” 😂
I had two interesting Drills when i went through. One liked to do a claw motion with his 3 fingers (thumb through middle) when he’s educating a private. Had another stocky guy, absolutely horrible with cadence but he was funny as all hell. He stopped a private from another company running the track and accused them of crop dusting them, proceeded to make them stand there and eat their fart with a loud audible “om nom nom nom nom”.
Can you imagine joining the army, going to basic training and suddenly Angry Cop is your drill sergeant!
😂
Unless there's an unnecessary amount of racial slurs and references about intimacy with their mothers and girlfriends, it's not accurate at all.
😅😂😅😂😅😂
Fr. I never faced more racism than i did from my mexican DIs. Miss it sometimes
Only DI of mine that said anything remotely racist was my Junior hat, who was saying racist stuff to our black recruits, all 3 of them. And he was black, darker than all of them. One of platoon idiots said he wasn't our black squad leader's "n word" on our final day, a day after we got our title and EGAs, and ALL of our DIs were disgusted with him, our senior said he was considering taking it up with the CO to get him discharged.
This was almost 23 years ago.
😂😂😂
@usonumabeach300
Discharge the trainee or discharging the DI?
I had to watch the Donut video where he called the Judge "GUY" again, lol
I can completely believe that there'd be a Drill Sgt named Cox.
I had a Drill Sgt named Blade.
@@beowulfsrevenge4369 We had Drill Sgt. Dethrow
I had a DI named Savage. And another that made us call him DI Danger. He always acted like he was a badass. His real name Dardnik. (I assume he chose Danger because he did not want to be called DI Ret@rdnk.) Last day of the cycle he showed bruised from head to toe. He told us he was in a fight with a bunch of bikers. After he left one of the other DI's told us he had made a rude pass at some cowgirl in a bar and she beat the crap out of him with a pool cue. Still laugh about that.
Did some MFer try to ice skate uphill? 😁
I had one named STEELE.
Drill Instructor Sgt. War. He did everything possible to live up to the name.
1984 Fort Lost in the Woods Basic graduation week. We got Cinderella on base pass. Everyone is blitz drunk! I'm stumbling back to the Company Area when I come across a platoon marching past, I'm in my class B looking like the Tower of Pisa saluting and the drill sergeant and this incredulous look on his face as he salutes back to me!😅😅😅 Oh the tails I could tell 😂😂😂
I can remember when my drill sgt forgot about a private he had dropped for not wearing his cover outside. He gave us a complete block of instruction on Army Values which took around an hour. Ahh... Drill Sgt Gerkin, that man never raised his voice, never smilled and never showed emotion.
Basic was literally the funniest place ive ever been. I dont remember all of it but i remember at night dying of laughter
In week 2 of red phase everyone's issues running shoes no longer had soles, so due to this first the Drill Sergeants filled out some paper work, took pictures of everyone's shoes to be sent in with the paperwork, than pulled everyone's personal bags so we could all get our shoes out so we could use them for PT
Stress Innoculation: best physiological armor ever created ! ! !
Also watched as our entire company of basic trainees was abandoned at the range when a class 5 tornado hit Phenix City, outside Benning. Cadre and every one of our drills ran like hell, minus 1 and 1 LT stayed. Extra exciting for me being from CA. Goodtimes.
AC, I think I speak for us all when I say we need at least an hour long video of nothing but Boot Camp stories. I know you’ve got tons. Even some from your own boot camp and maybe Drill Sgt school. Make it happen my man.
I have a soon-to-be son-in-law in the Marine Corps and is currently recruiting. I sent in the statement that if he sends crap bags to basic, expect a new move I learned called the recruiter not punch! Make me laugh so hard, I appreciate you and especially when you're on unsubscribe you and Nick are the masters of that comedy show!
i cant disagree that you taught them discipline LOLOLOL, thats the best story ive heard in a long time!!!
Pauley Shore In the Army Now captures Basic beautifully.
Amazing, underated movie!
Oh my God..."the funniest place you can't laugh" is SO perfect. I remember in boot camp...in the squad bay...standing on line...dude right across from me had the DI screaming in his face. (As per usual.) For whatever reason, Recruit Rothweiler decided to smack the DI's hand out of his face. Watching Sgt Davidson come closer to spontaneously combusting than any human in history was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. And I couldn't laugh. So I've laughed my ass off ever since. 🤣🤣🤣
My Drill Sergeant was a part of this production. Good on SFC Castro.
My favorite was calling privates Hero! Come here Hero! with Emphasis on the EEE
10 years in, and I would do Basic Training all over again.
-US ARMY, 66S
I think im good
I went through Air Force basic training and then Army basic training (long story), and although the quantity of great drill instructors was in my Army experience, the best drill I ever had, and by far the funniest, was at Air Force basic training. Making our brother flight stop marching with the command of “hippity hop cattle stop!”, and make them respond with “moo!” had me pissing myself with laughter!
At 14:26 was hoping to see a cutaway of that bodycam of you with that drunk judge. "Let me talk to you, GUUUUUYYY!" lol. Had to go rewatch that video from donut covering that hah
I went to Basic Training in 1986 and we had to keep a little notebook in our pocket. I wrote down some "classic" Drill Sergeant quotes!
Vet Tv should be on cable for everyone to see .
How many day do you think that would last before it was ripped off the air?
glad they still call it fort benning on the scene titles at the beginning. im sad and happy at the same time that im no longers serving.
I've been subbed to that channel for a while.
@@firstnamelastname6216 Appreciate you!
No way we would survive... 🤣
The memories flood back. We got a fresh from Drill School senior drill sergeant who had just spent three years as a recruiter. He could shut us up but could do nothing about the other drills.
I bought a subscription just for this series. Can’t say I was disappointed
Hell yeah!
I just dehatted last Friday. Great 3 years. I loved being a drill, mostly because of the guys I was drilling with.
When I went through 12B One Station Unit Training, from July - Oct 1980 - our DS's called us "Brains"...
That term was still flying thru the air in '96.
him talking about saying 'guy' brings me flashbacks of a certain judge that got knife handed and a very stern 'guy'. "LEMME TELL YOU SOMETHING GUY"
They recruited serving and retired DSs for this show for accuracy
legit paused the video to go download the app and make an account, then came back to finish this!
great vid as always, time to go watch drill
You are the man!
Ya made "warrior" sound like how I ended up saying "Siruuuuuuh" and the dreaded unfriendly "HEY SHIPMATE". That one is ALWAYS followed by pain.
I always liked the "Don't thank me, thank your recruiter " line
I'm not from the US, but one of our instructors caught me smoking on base (prohibited of course). In the next march, he gave me 3 packs of Lucky Strikes and ran alongside me all the way, making sure I smoked all the cigarettes all the way up and down. I don't know if this is the best part or worst one, but it backfired on him because I did smoke them all (it was awful of course). Until I finished my basic training, that Sgt brought me 2 packs of Lucky Strikes every week and informed the barrack guards to allow me to step outside to have a smoke.
Yes, I was the guy who smoked and passed all the physicals with flying colors, specially cardio ones. I probably diminished my life expectancy to 50 years just from that march, but god damn it was worth it and I'd do it again.
Good man, you didn't vomit and got rewarded for finishing the punishment.
@SuiLagadema For a short time in my US military career I was a Drill Sergeant. I'm pretty sure that if I had been one of your instructors, I would have nicknamed you "Black Lung." I also would have made a morale patch for you, though I doubt it would be authorized on your uniform, but I'd have gifted it to you at your graduation. The morale patch would have been a picture of a trainee getting kicked in the family jewels with a cigarette sticking out of his mouth and slight smoke coming off the tip, and would have had a comic book style caption quoting the pictured instructor kicking him in said family jewels that would read, "The hoofing will continue until morale is improved!"
Anyway, well done earning those Lucky Strikes.
@@Hell_Hound_Actual I would've worn that patch with pride if the regulations would allow it. Thanks!
I'm 41yes old, disabled vet and I powerwalk 10k while chain smoking a half pack of cigarettes. Takes me between 1.5-2hrs.
@@SuiLagadema least you smoked a decent brand. I'd have made you do it with my unfiltered Woodbines. Really punished you
The interesting nickname I’ve heard from basic training with my senior drill sergeant, was “surge.”
Especially the way he said it caught me off guard.
@3:30 "find a way to sneak inside and infiltrate the privates." PHRASING!
I always appreciated their use of "weirdo" even back in '05
Wait drill sergeants have to wear these vests now?
7:40 😂 That’s brutal 🤣
Ha… WLC, “Hey, Sarnt” that became an awful word. lol.