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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Xargos on February 20, 2007, 07:22:43 AM
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Who was your DI in basic training?
My Grandfather was a DI at Fort Jackson, S.C. during the Vietnam era and at one time he was a instructor at Fort Bragg, N.C. for the Green Berets. His name was Master Sergent Benny Smothers. If any of you where trained by him I would really like to hear from you.
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My father was a DI. Not sure where he was stationed but it was stateside, I know that much...1951-1953, Army 101st Airborne. He was my personal DI growing up! :)
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That was 25 years ago!
I do well to remember what I had for lunch yesterday.
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no dice here... was at Benning.
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parris island, spring of 62, gunny sgt mad dog arnold.
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Jackson basic and Lee for AIT 1993....For people considering military go quatermaster..lee is the bomb!
90prf
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Guy called tom Lundy and another guy called Rafferty, them 2 took great delight in what they did, best advice I ever got from them was to be more aggresive in my actions,I was quiet and and a bit reserved, they saw that and basically beasted it out of me.
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LOL - 30 years ago and I'll never forget him:
M/Cpl Wally Renough, RCR.
Hard bastard. Good guy :aok
asw
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Fall/winter 1987 Ft. Leonard Wood Mo. staff sergeant Luster for basic, Staff sergeant Lago for AIT.
What really sucked in basic, is there were 3 sergeants named Johnson in the company.
Don't you know they had fun with that.
Bronk
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OH-124 USCG TRACEN Alameda BM1-Diekel
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We had three. Senior Drill was Drill Sergeant Suava. A huge Somoan E-7 who could literally pick up a 175 pount soldier with one hand and administer wall to wall counseling without breaking a sweat.
Drill Sergeant Mojica was an E-6 and actually was a pretty good guy. He only smoked us every other day.
I can't remember the E-5 (Coleman, now I remember) that tried to kill us the last three weeks of basic. He was at BNCOC while we were in the red and white stages of Basic (at Fort Dix in 85-the stages were red, white and blue during the course. Your platoon would carry a new guideon when the next 'stage' of training was completed).
He was a mean sob, I guess he had to get his licks in on us before we graduated.
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MCRD San Diego 1988: Senior Drill instructor Sgt. Dominguez, Sgt. Garcia, Sgt. Fresquez, and Sgt. Maddox.
One guy, well ok it was me, wrote home something about our DIs being the "3 amigos" with a sidekick.. of course they found it. I got a good bit of torture for that.
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Originally posted by bzek74
Jackson basic and Lee for AIT 1993....For people considering military go quatermaster..lee is the bomb!
90prf
Funny you would say Lee was good ;)
I was there from 99-01 as an MP....you know those little bananas now get to stay in the perm. party barracks?
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PO1 Garland (My CC in USN Boot). You knew he had to be a badassed Sailor to be a CC as a PO1 (at that time at least, saw several PO1 who were CCs when I did a couple months at RTC Orlando while recovering from some owies...years after I went thru RTC myself).
Total UberSalt Fleet Sailor, great CC, etc.
We got word from his boss that he had made CPO while we were in boot.
Organized an off-base nighttime 'raid' to the nearest 7-11 (target data bought from another CC, currency = pizza) to accquire a 6 pack of beer, a really dirty magazine, and the closest we could get to a 'congratulations' card. Raid went off flawlessly. One of the scumbags in our company (not trusted with the raid planning or execution, because he was a worthless rat) saw the beers in 'my' locker in the CCs office (I was our yeoman).
So they raid us. A bunch of CCs, the Division Boss, etc. They've got me and the RCPO (a great guy from Texas who stuttered under pressure...if I had a tape of the interrogation before they coerced me into opening the locker...comedy gold) and it's another evening in Gestapo HQ. I only opened the locker after getting the gurantee that only the RCPO and myself would be held accountable for the contents, we were the sole conspirators, etc. - Texas Stutter-Boy walked the plank with me like a true Pirate Hunter. Still wonder where that guy is today, he was a great dude.
So our CC is at the forefront when the locker gets opened. Beers in plain sight - busted. Skin mag - busted. "Congrats to the best CC ever, about time the handsomehunkes made you a CPO", signed by the Company...
We got PT-hammered on the parade field that night (only the RCPO and I) by our CC, with the Div. Boss watching. After the hammering, they split the beers with us. :)
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Remember Rafferty exploding once when he caught the fact that someone had writen their name on the inside of their combat jacket, broke the guys nose if I remember correctly.
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1983
Ft. Knox KY
SFC Fields
SSG Johnson
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(http://www.icongrouponline.com/health/jacket/0497003430.jpg)
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12 MAR 75 ~ 08 MAY 75
Ft. Jackson, SC.
Bravo 5, 1.
SFC Mathis
SSG Bryant
SGT Shook
Mac
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I- 102 (Oct-Dec 78) TRACEN Cape May NJ
We had 8 CCs:rolleyes:
The week before us was the first all female company to go through Boot Camp. During our forming week (1st week, when you technically have no CC) our "to be assigned" CC (BMC Ford) was caught ordering new female recruits to do things they weren't required to do. Since all CCs were on a 9 week rotation (8 weeks with their company, 1 week off while their next company was in forming) they decided that each CC would have our company for the one week they were supposed to be off. None were very happy about it and made sure we were aware of that!
Some of them that I remember:
BMC Steinhart and BM1 Warren (nick named Batman and Robin). They would work tag team with the whistles or yelling "GET DOWN" " GET UP" from across each side of the quad. They had a QM1 that would run around with them acting like he was a CC that everyone called "Batmite" :lol
BMC Tucker (affectionately referred to as "Tucker the M F"). Loved giving white tornados :mad:
Ran into BM1 Ford when we were checking out at the end of Boot Camp. He was working in Admin doing crap jobs awaiting his discharge :eek:
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Ft Campbell Ky
Jan 1970
SSG Johnnie Coles
A Splendid Time Is Guaranteed For All..............
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Can't remember his name but he was straight of the big book of cliched drill sergeants. He really had it in for my platoon. 'We were the worst shower of useless lazy barstewards ever to disgrace the uniform of the Republic of Ireland'. We were up at five or six every morning square bashing and ritual humiliation and running around the parade ground with our rifles held above our heads, elbows locked. I assumed this was normal, after all I had seen all the movies, until an officer interrupted his screaming, complaining that he was disturbing the sleep of other units still abed. He quieted down, muttering foul imprecations against the officer's parents and carried on torturing us. It turned out we were the only platoon to get this treatment. He was right though, some of us (not me) were useless beyond redemption.
Like all good drill sergeants he was funny too. But you dare not laugh or he would single you out for a diatribe of epic proportions.
Bear in mind, we were all volunteers and part timers who could go home any time they wanted without penalty. No one did though.
A few of us went on to greater things. Some went to military college as officer cadets, others the Foreign Legion, others to the British Paras, and one to the US Marines. They were well prepared.
Later when I watched 'Full Metal Jacket', it looked really familiar.:rofl
Great fun.
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One DS of mine looked just like the man in the yellow hat (curious george) when he put his brown hat on. I don't remember his name thought. Once he heard one of the gals call him that & smoked us all. He sure wasn't nice & sweet like the man in the yellow hat.
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It's amazing that we all remember our DIs names. It's something we never forget.
As a current "Hat" I allways tell my troops right before graduation that they will never forget me and that is one of the most single greatest pleasures of this god forsaken job. I get emails all the time from my former Trainees telling me how much I changed their life. It's a good feeling. :)
EDIT:
MCRD San Diego 1996
SDI Sgt. Dixon
DI Sgt. Robinson
DI Sgt. Fletcher
DI Sgt. Singer
DI Sgt. Reid
2nd BTN
Echo Company
Plt 2078