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I saw a guy freak out and lock himself into an Ambulance when we were outside during a marching drill, and during intake, I saw another guy break out of the line and run out of the building when they anounced they were going to do a Urinalysis!
What is your strange and/or funny Boot Camp story?
2006-11-19 07:55:23 · 13 answers · asked by Middy S 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
we had a guy pick up a stick and throw it at a squirrel. and he killed it after that the company commander. this is navy boot camp . made him salut every squirrel we seen for the rest of the 8 weeks
2006-11-19 07:59:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
This happened during the first week of my training in the Australian Army. The platoon had just returned to the lines after a long, tedious drill lesson. The meanest Corporal stood next to the doorway and with a smirk on his face, informed us: "It seems a pack of wild kangaroos have just gone rampaging through the lines. I hope nothing's missing from those unlocked lockers." And sure enough, the locker I left unsecure in a mad rush to get out in time for the lesson was wide open, my underwear strewn across the room. The roos were evidently dilligent enough to upturn a roommate's poorly-made bed, too. Moments later, I was called into the foyer to be screamed at for the next half hour.
2016-03-29 01:51:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boot camp stories are the best.
I was in Navy boot camp.
My brother division had a guy that would get up in the middle of the night and suck on guys toes as they slept. That was one of the bizarre ones. Like 25 MA's took him out in the middle of the night.
One day at the firing range, we were firing 9mm and some idiot decided to reload his gun while pointing it at the booth to his right. The range master slammed him to the ground. It was kinda funny cause they guy couldnt figure out what he was doing wrong.
I cant think of any other good stories, I know I have more but cant remember them
2006-11-19 10:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by redneckking_99 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you forgot to push in your chair after leaving the table in the mess hall, you had to repeatedly push the chair back and loudly state " I'm sorry, chair ! " Also I remember if you were caught talking in line at the mess hall you were called to the head of the steps in front of all the companies formed up, stand with your nose to the concrete pillar, wave your arms up and down and shout, " Cockadoodle do, I won't talk to you !!!" until your company was admitted into the mess hall.
I also remember the Marching Parties with punishment details
doing the 16 count manual of arms to a PA system playing the Stars and Stripes Forever... That's if you had infractions during inspection of the barracks. ( Navy FTG Orlando )
2006-11-19 08:05:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
NRTC Orlando 1985 - We had two old Chiefs as our Company Commanders (both certified cracker/rednecks)... they were SO obviously picking on minorities !
On our graded-formal inspection they failed EVERY minority... ooops... the grading OFFICER was a Filipino and he looked into it... the CC's had failed 4 filipino recruits for "shave" and those boys couldn't find a whisker with a magnifying glass !! (the two CC's were relieved of duty)
We also had a real geek as our Laundry Petty Officer... he got caught stealing underwear from our "sister" Company.
Also... during our training a guidon for another Company got caught on the drill grounds during a thunderstorm and ZAP he got struck by lightning.
And BEST of all... two CUTE girls from our Sister Company went out and got a hotel room on the night of graduation and...ummm... "indulged in an excess of male companionship" (10 guys each)... they were COVERED in "hickies" !!
2006-11-19 08:30:56 · answer #5 · answered by mariner31 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The sgt was doing a footlocker inspection, I had an odd number of socks, he first had me take off my boots, to see I guess if I had an extra foot, then he ran around dumping my footlacker all over everywhere.
2006-11-19 08:11:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We were doing sandbag PT where you hold sandbags over your head for extended periods of time. This one guy who was overweight and out of shape just couldnt' hack it. (He tried to get kicked out before coming to AIT by getting a naked chick with a confederate flag tatooed on his arm.)
Anyway in the middle of PT he stands up and yells "I quit!" The drill sgts tell him to get back into formation but he just starts walking toward the barracks. Well the commander was out there that morning and says "Soldier I am giving you a direct order to come over here right now"
So the guy walks over to the commander with his sandbag and throws it right into the commanders chest knocking him right on his butt. Then he says "Fu%% you you goddam ****" (the commander was hmong ancestry i believe. He got sent to Quantico for 4 months.
Story number 2:
In AIT for our 2 week feild excersise we were with alot of e-7 anoc sgts. Well I got lucky and was on OP-4 for the durration. So here we are setting up an ambush (we were overlooking a small bridge and were standing in one of those big culverts)
All of a sudden behind us we hear someone walking in the water but we couldn't see anything cuz it was super dark and the culvert was pretty long. So myself and the E-7 i'm with walk back to see who it is and we see this MP with his sidearm out pointed at us. He is like "Freeze!" Someone had called the MP's and thought we were an escapee from a local prison.
This MP was an E-2 and was scared as **** shaking with his pistol pointed at us and he was so scared it didn't seem like he could hear us. Finally he snapped out of it and put his gun away. Kind of a scarey moment.
2006-11-19 08:14:41 · answer #7 · answered by travis R 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We had this one guy who was a sleepwalker. We were on fireguard one night and he gets up and is standing in the bathroom when the drill sergeant comes in to check up on us. Hes standing at the sink likes its the toilet, the d.s. is standing next to him and the kid almost pisses on his leg. The D.S. thought is was funny thankfully and didn't wake up the entire platoon for a smoking.
2006-11-19 08:03:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wasn't funny then, but my drill sgt was a pvt and pfc in my dads platoon when my dad was the platoon sgt. He recognized me(strong family resemblance) and let me know just what a jerk he thought my dad was. Found out years later they were actually friends.
2006-11-19 12:22:57 · answer #9 · answered by Cliff W 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
On the Firing Range, the instructor told us, "Prone position, Go!", then said, "As you were!".
We got back up, then down again and did this three times before he added, "No. 3 - move your a** this time!"
Yup, I was No. 3 and oblivious to the fact it was me causing all the problems.
2006-11-19 08:01:54 · answer #10 · answered by scotslad60 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋