I remember the "Be all you can be" when I joined up in the 80s. I remember us joking "If this is all I can be, I'd rather be somewhere else." Oh, and wall to wall counseling sessions in the Drill Sergeant's office if you fucked around too much. I learned that it was going to be a LONG couple of months if I was going to be bounced off the wall like that every day. Straightened my ass out by the third time.
I went to Basic in 94. Did a couple of years in the Guard and then went active in the 101st , No Slack. After that SF and now almost 30 years later, I'm getting ready to retire. The Army has changed so much since I joined. I remember when it was fun. I also remember some of the F'd up things that needed to go away. We started to head down the wrong path when we accommodated everyone. You don't have the right to serve in the military. The military shouldn't cater to you. The military has one purpose. To fight wars when the politicians fail. That is it summed up. If you join the military then you should conform to it, not expect it to change to you.
Sweeping dirt on to dirt huh? Must be nice to have so much shore duty. Get on a ship and experience the joy of having to sweep water into the ocean while it’s pouring rain…and you’re not even being punished.
The days when you could throw a grenade simulator into the CSM's tent during ReForGer so he would be counted as a casualty and be send back to the unit.
I just remember when someone went downrange in Korea and the next morning we had an alert. Needless to say, it was cold and he was falling asleep in the Hummer. Our own SFC Figueroa made our SPC N marched outside to stay awake. (Yeah the blonde guy in the video, circa 2004-2005, 2ID). Good times!!!
That is one thing I will miss about the Army. Even in the Reserves we would shoot the sht, especially us prior active guys. Less than 2 months to get that "Ret" in my signature block. I remember once telling a guy in BCT to "stop just existing. I'm not telling you to stop existing, but all you do is JUST exist". Told him that if he wasn't here, it would make no difference in anybody's lives since all he does is the bare minimum and only follows after someone else makes the first move. "have some sort of impact on those around you". We called his dad to say he was in danger of not graduating. His dad asked if his son was in the room and to be put on speaker then said "If you don't graduate, don't come home. You did that same sht here and I'm not going to have it any more. Last chance to make something of yourself". I hope he turned around, but based on a call we received from his Platoon Sergeant who used to be our Senior Drill Sergeant, his first few months were more of the same (greets the 1SG with "whats up man" and is never on time to any formations). Another one I liked to say was to the BCT Soldiers that couldn't stay in the front leaning rest position... "Get off the floor, it's your body, you grew it, you hold it up!".
.....Drill called a few of us test tube babies. I can't recall the rest but we looked like we were all pushed up against the glass. I've had to sweep a dirt track in the rain. They would not let me rake grass because I would keep raking until it was dirt. Also got in a lot of trouble because when told to strip the floor my progress was slow.... because I actually did it. No one else actually did it right.
I know that being in a rotc group or younger faction of any military establishment (for myself Young Marines) means that i "didn't TRULY serve my country"... To the butthurt people that think I'm a p.o.s. for asserting my opinions on here "🖕"... you try to get enlisted with a full spinal fusion from when you were 16 years old along with multiple diagnosis of adhd... when i was 16 years old in YMOC i quit from my experience of the change of integrity/(rules) that cane from the Marine Corps. I didn't want to be coddled. I didn't want to be accommodated for my effort, no easy shit. i was already at the rank of Sergeant at 16, for every year and during each year (4 years total) i made sure my efforts would present me without question an availability to rise in rank. But when I got smoked out of no where and verbally "reprimanded" for "physically correcting" the recruit to bend his knees in formation with my foot to the back of his knee so he would start following instructions that were being drilled into him from day one in the recruitment so as not to pass out in formation; I'm glad i never wanted to go back. I didn't f🎉🎉🎉 up with my actions towards the recruit or change the "Marine Corps.".. they did and that's not what i was signing up for. Make the Marines Great Again.
@@dannymiller3905 He who Is first to emotion, it's the first to lose the Battle. Both your original comment and essay are edited. I've been in the army a hot minute. Take it from me, either you will be humble or get humbled.
IDK if they still do it cause I have been out since 2016 but I remember a kid getting shark attacked and then they made him do at the time an upside down koala on a tree. He made it a good 5 seconds in before he dropped straight on his head. Another time a kid managed to get a deadman's profile so they made him do a dying cockroach for PT.
I remember the "Be all you can be" when I joined up in the 80s. I remember us joking "If this is all I can be, I'd rather be somewhere else." Oh, and wall to wall counseling sessions in the Drill Sergeant's office if you fucked around too much. I learned that it was going to be a LONG couple of months if I was going to be bounced off the wall like that every day. Straightened my ass out by the third time.
Can’t believe how time flies. A few years ago, I was looking at 14 years to retirement, then 5 and here I am one year into retirement. Great times.
5 years for me.
Would have been three years for me had I signed up for 20.
Got out after 8...would have just retired last Friday..
@@craigw6557 You can go back and knock out 12 more.
@@gbb82 tried, my VA rating disqualifies me, and even the changes to the Army, I'd likely get kicked out for whoopin' someone's ass...
The "I made some asshole sweep the desert" got me. I spit laughed at that, hard. LOL Mean, but good one.
I had to sweep a dirt track in the rain. Rain was not intentional but I was stuck doing it.
Straight talk, this was awesome... takes me back... way back... to BCT
Try buffing raw concrete with a 5 gallon bucket of wax...And told don't stop till he can see his reflection...48 hrs later...He did...
Ahahahaha! That's just awful
@Big.Chad.A.Roni.5.5.Below.5 it was my extra duty for a weekend of carnage..Few months later he made me his driver..lol...Infantry that's why...lol
🤣That’s why I retired.
CSM told us to pick the grass out the rocks after we finished tarping the tracks😂
I went to Basic in 94. Did a couple of years in the Guard and then went active in the 101st , No Slack. After that SF and now almost 30 years later, I'm getting ready to retire. The Army has changed so much since I joined. I remember when it was fun. I also remember some of the F'd up things that needed to go away. We started to head down the wrong path when we accommodated everyone. You don't have the right to serve in the military. The military shouldn't cater to you. The military has one purpose. To fight wars when the politicians fail. That is it summed up. If you join the military then you should conform to it, not expect it to change to you.
Sweeping dirt on to dirt huh? Must be nice to have so much shore duty. Get on a ship and experience the joy of having to sweep water into the ocean while it’s pouring rain…and you’re not even being punished.
The days when you could throw a grenade simulator into the CSM's tent during ReForGer so he would be counted as a casualty and be send back to the unit.
Do better please
Sitting up so hard that your butt comes off the ground sounds harder to do
Oh man I needed that today
I just remember when someone went downrange in Korea and the next morning we had an alert. Needless to say, it was cold and he was falling asleep in the Hummer. Our own SFC Figueroa made our SPC N marched outside to stay awake. (Yeah the blonde guy in the video, circa 2004-2005, 2ID). Good times!!!
Chlorophyll.... Makes the grass green.
Chloroform makes your date green. Eventually. If you hold the rag on too long.
That is one thing I will miss about the Army. Even in the Reserves we would shoot the sht, especially us prior active guys. Less than 2 months to get that "Ret" in my signature block.
I remember once telling a guy in BCT to "stop just existing. I'm not telling you to stop existing, but all you do is JUST exist". Told him that if he wasn't here, it would make no difference in anybody's lives since all he does is the bare minimum and only follows after someone else makes the first move. "have some sort of impact on those around you". We called his dad to say he was in danger of not graduating. His dad asked if his son was in the room and to be put on speaker then said "If you don't graduate, don't come home. You did that same sht here and I'm not going to have it any more. Last chance to make something of yourself". I hope he turned around, but based on a call we received from his Platoon Sergeant who used to be our Senior Drill Sergeant, his first few months were more of the same (greets the 1SG with "whats up man" and is never on time to any formations).
Another one I liked to say was to the BCT Soldiers that couldn't stay in the front leaning rest position... "Get off the floor, it's your body, you grew it, you hold it up!".
Please do more of this
.....Drill called a few of us test tube babies. I can't recall the rest but we looked like we were all pushed up against the glass. I've had to sweep a dirt track in the rain. They would not let me rake grass because I would keep raking until it was dirt.
Also got in a lot of trouble because when told to strip the floor my progress was slow.... because I actually did it. No one else actually did it right.
I only have 28 days left in the U.S. Army IRR.
This was amazing!!!! More like this, please
Using your hips to gain momentum is not allowed!
I recognize hoegaarden when i see it. solid choice.
Solid. 🤣
I know that being in a rotc group or younger faction of any military establishment (for myself Young Marines) means that i "didn't TRULY serve my country"...
To the butthurt people that think I'm a p.o.s. for asserting my opinions on here "🖕"... you try to get enlisted with a full spinal fusion from when you were 16 years old along with multiple diagnosis of adhd... when i was 16 years old in YMOC i quit from my experience of the change of integrity/(rules) that cane from the Marine Corps. I didn't want to be coddled. I didn't want to be accommodated for my effort, no easy shit. i was already at the rank of Sergeant at 16, for every year and during each year (4 years total) i made sure my efforts would present me without question an availability to rise in rank. But when I got smoked out of no where and verbally "reprimanded" for "physically correcting" the recruit to bend his knees in formation with my foot to the back of his knee so he would start following instructions that were being drilled into him from day one in the recruitment so as not to pass out in formation; I'm glad i never wanted to go back. I didn't f🎉🎉🎉 up with my actions towards the recruit or change the "Marine Corps.".. they did and that's not what i was signing up for. Make the Marines Great Again.
Well damn homie. Did your fused spine make you unable to space out your essay lmao?
@@JavierHernandez-fq4hu there's dots in that there essay, sir and quotations along with grammatically correct sentences... how dare you 😐🤣🤣
@@dannymiller3905 He who Is first to emotion, it's the first to lose the Battle.
Both your original comment and essay are edited.
I've been in the army a hot minute. Take it from me, either you will be humble or get humbled.
@@JavierHernandez-fq4hu LMAO..
Welp it used to be awesome in WW2... 😑
IDK if they still do it cause I have been out since 2016 but I remember a kid getting shark attacked and then they made him do at the time an upside down koala on a tree. He made it a good 5 seconds in before he dropped straight on his head. Another time a kid managed to get a deadman's profile so they made him do a dying cockroach for PT.