Does anyone have any funny/crazy basic training/boot camp stories?!?

Posted: February 15th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Camping General | 7 Comments »

7 Comments on “Does anyone have any funny/crazy basic training/boot camp stories?!?”

  1. 1 BDZot said at 5:50 am on February 15th, 2011:

    When we went thru the line to get our uniforms, we were supposed to sound off ("SOUND OFF!!") with our last names as we got to each station.

    I was nowhere near the boisterous individual I am now…in fact, I was kind of meek and not loud at all.

    I got to one station, and there was a Drill Sergeant talking with the clerk. I said my last name (kinda meekly) and the Drill Sergeant yelled "I CAN’T HEAR YOU!". I said it again, louder, but he just cupped his hand to his ear and said "WHAT???". So I spelled it for him.

    I thought he couldn’t understand me. I was pretty clueless then about the whole "HUAH!", be loud attitude that I was supposed to have.

    He started laughing so hard he had to go outside. For the rest of the basic training cycle, every time he saw me, he busted out laughing.

  2. 2 Katy C said at 5:50 am on February 15th, 2011:

    My brother was so hungry in boot camp, he stole a roast beef from the mess hall, buried it, and dug it up later and ate it. It was wrapped, of course.

    I once had a boyfriend in boot camp. At mail call, they would call the soldier’s name and hand out each letter as they were standing there outside the barracks. I sent multiple, multiple letters, some with just a few words, so they would have to call his name over and over. He enjoyed it very much.

  3. 3 The1Boss said at 5:50 am on February 15th, 2011:

    red alarm, you know what i’m talking about

  4. 4 MissVic said at 5:50 am on February 15th, 2011:

    This one time, at … oh wait, that was band camp.

  5. 5 Nic D said at 5:50 am on February 15th, 2011:

    One night in the field me and my battle buddy were sleeping in our tent….and she just liek got up and started running….i guess she had to visit the potapotty REALLY bad. So i am trying to stay with her…you know the deal…and trying to put my clothes on, carry both our weapons and just run as fast as i can to keep up. Anyway….i tripped HARD on the rope from someones tent….Fell really hard and took down half of their tent….the DS’s came out….started screaming at me….at this point my battle buddy has already made it to the porta potty without me…it was awful….we ended up doing push-ups for an hour…Then we were forced to sleep in the destroyed tent. : (

  6. 6 howieian77 said at 5:50 am on February 15th, 2011:

    500 yards from the barracks there was a tree the drill sergeant orded the grunt run to the tree and tell him what it had to say off went the grunt panting on his return the drill sergeant asked well what did the tree have to say the grunt answered drill sergeant the tree wants to tell you himself

  7. 7 Dennis W said at 5:50 am on February 15th, 2011:

    Yea, we had this DS named Drill Sergeant Hartman and he was very mean to us. He use to make Private Joker show his warface all the time and Private Pyle got caught eating a jelly donut once and …… it was terrible. I can’t even talk about it. Private Pyle ended up shooting himself.

    He use to make racial jokes to Private Snowball too. That was really uncalled for.

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