Author Topic: I'm back from bootcamp! (Read 931 times)

Hawklore · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07, 2003, 12:15:20 PM »

I was worried I would do that if they started yelling at me but my,
CC (company commander) made us stare at our lockers when he yelled at us, but it wasn't that bad of a yelling never did get a headache.

Staga · « **Reply #16 on:** July 07, 2003, 03:19:55 PM »

Hehe real "bootcamp" will be different case (at least it was here). After medical examinations it's nothing but run run run, spend the weeks in the woods without shower (if you're lucky there's a ice cold river somewhere near), enjoy your two or three hour sleeps and wake up when someone yells alarm and again you're going to run run run....
dam I hated that place.

edit:
Well there were good things too: I was in a combat engineer troops so we had plenty of explosives to play with. I hated to carry all that crap but thinking that I'm not gonna carry it back from the woods helped a little

DiabloTX · « **Reply #17 on:** July 07, 2003, 04:06:25 PM »

Hey Hawk, welcome back and welcome to the family (USN)!! Check your original post of you leaving. Can't believe these guys missed it!!

Arlo · « **Reply #18 on:** July 07, 2003, 05:50:16 PM »

Damn Diablo .... first it's your being a texan, then the hispanic wife and now I find out you're a nav vet too? Stop it, man. Stop it now!

Hawklore · « **Reply #19 on:** July 07, 2003, 05:56:42 PM »

We had to memorize Anchors Aweigh!

Not to hard for me.. Only had to do the first verse..

Were suppose to do Sailors Creed, but hehe, Never got that..

11 general orders? Bah can I say I've forgotten all of them now..

Arlo · « **Reply #20 on:** July 07, 2003, 06:04:51 PM »

11? ... I thought there were only ten when I went through? Unless, of course, you include the infamous "extra general order."

WMBBMMSEWTF

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #21 on:** July 07, 2003, 09:07:19 PM »

Squids. Hehe

Its odd that they made you face your locker when a DI/SI went on a yelling spree.

We got spit in our faces and had the pleasure of being able to identify the offending instructor by the smell of his breath after a few weeks.

We also got the **** kicked out of us consistantly... but they wont show you that on the History Channel special.

Dont kid yourself into thinking its easy Hawk... or in alot of cases fun... but youll never regret doing it.

4:00AM get up.. run, run, run, puke, eat chow, puke. Drop a deuce, find out they took away all toilet paper, improvise, run, run, run, eat chow, run, run, puke, get instruction, run, run, run, clean rifle, participate in company drills because some ****bird in Bravo 3 didnt make his bed right, run, run, eat chow, run, run, run puke, run. Instruction, clean rifle again, meet the company First Sergeant for some contrived reason, get acquainted with C1S, shower/shine, lights out, do all the **** at night you couldnt do during the day - hope you dont get caught, get caught, participate with rest of platoon and whip wool blankets over head for an hour because that one dumb kid got caught in the ladder well writing to his girlfriend, get yelled at because of all the wool on teh floor, clean squad bay at 2AM, go to bed at 3AM, wake up at 4Am, repeat.

Good times!!

Martlet · « **Reply #22 on:** July 07, 2003, 10:07:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
Dont kid yourself into thinking its easy Hawk... or in alot of cases fun... but youll never regret doing it.

Navy Boot camp WAS easy 15 years ago. I can't imagine it's gotten any harder.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #23 on:** July 08, 2003, 09:09:48 AM »

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Originally posted by Martlet
Navy Boot camp WAS easy 15 years ago. I can't imagine it's gotten any harder.

Yeah, it was mostly a mind-game when I went through it in Aug. - Oct. 1986 (Co. 280 GLRTC). I consider those 8 weeks some of the best times of my young adult life. Saur, when did you go through? Clean guns? Never even fired one here when I went through, just had to lug around and M-14 that had it's bolt welded shut. Man that thing killed my arm. "Make a cheerio and put the butt in it! You CAN make a cheerio, right!?!?!?!" Arlo, you a Nav-vet as well? Cool beans man. I would have wanted to hook up with VF-17 if I hadn't hooked up with Löwejg and Andijg when they were with the 325th whiney-tucked-tail clan. Anyway, I am still in the Navy via the reserves, love every minute of it, and all the girls that where freaks in active duty, I have found out, get out to join the reserves. I'll let that one sink in for a bit.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #24 on:** July 08, 2003, 10:05:45 AM »

No, no - Im not talking Navy - hense my 'squid' comment. Did the Marine routine.

Cleaning the M16 was a favorite pastime.

And man... only 8 weeks? You guys lucked out.

Martlet · « **Reply #25 on:** July 08, 2003, 10:13:07 AM »

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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
No, no - Im not talking Navy - hense my 'squid' comment. Did the Marine routine.

Cleaning the M16 was a favorite pastime. And man... only 8 weeks? You guys lucked out.

I went through army boot camp also. It was much harder than Navy. Still only 8 weeks, though.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #26 on:** July 08, 2003, 10:17:36 AM »

USMC = 13 weeks.

We actually had a kid that would run the 3 mile PFT in under 15 minutes. Disgusting.

Dnil · « **Reply #27 on:** July 08, 2003, 11:18:47 AM »

hehe ya dinks....<---air force, was 6 weeks when I went through and no one was allowed to touch you. Sure they could yell but couldnt lay a hand on you and couldnt order you to do pushups unless it was part of the exercise program....no drop and gimmie 20. Although at my first tech school they could. After the 1st week it was cake.

While my retarded buddies joined the marines or army and slept in tents on deployment I had hotels and a government credit card. Still laugh at that.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #28 on:** July 08, 2003, 09:10:09 PM »

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Originally posted by Arlo
11? ... I thought there were only ten when I went through? Unless, of course, you include the infamous "extra general order."

WMBBMMSEWTF

Nope, there are 11. And the last one was WMBBMBFEWFF when i was in, LOL!!