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Edited on Thu Oct-12-06 02:11 PM by ryanus
I really felt like they had all of our best interests in mind, and they pushed us to mold us, not to inflict pain or to get a promotions or an awards or anything. They definitely were not our friends. They made that clear. More like a big brother that really wanted to see you turn out ok, and used tough love, but you new deep down underneath he never would let anything happen to you.
But they were still serious. There often was this humor with the drill sergeants. Like someone would get in trouble for something, and a drill Sergeant would smoke the guy (or group), and the guy would do push ups to the drill Sergeant's cadence, "one, two, three..." "One!", "one, two, three..." "Two!" And sometimes the drill Sergeant would like go into another room, or read something on his clipboard, or talk to another drill sergeants, and the punished soldier is still pounding his face, or just staying in that pushed-up position ("front-leaning rest position" my butt). The guy would be suffering, and then say something like, "Permission to recover" (meaning, "can I please stand back up") and if the drill Sergeant even responded after the first request, he'd usually say something like, "you can recover in a hospital." I didn't really understand what "muscle failure" meant, but I sure got to experience it quite a few times.
And if you thought it was just getting to hard, they would tell you that the quickest way out of Basic Training was to graduate. So true. We had some guys in the nearby barracks that just picked up cigarette butts all day...for months...because they wanted to go home. The paperwork apparently takes quite awhile.
Oh man. Don't get me started. I have a video that was shot of our battery in basic. CS gas, confidence course, you name it.
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