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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Basic @ Overseas
It was not a question - I intended to enlist in the USAF after having such a great senior year..
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Telling a mop I was sorry for stealing it !!
Basic training 1966 Fort Riley, Kansas, we were the first to occupy the barracks since the 50's so a major..
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My Friend, The Riifle
In autumn, 1946, at age eighteen, I reported as Seaman Recruit to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. On one..
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Basic 1973
Well my story is as a 17 year old. In platoon formation and drilling Ft Leonard, MO. Well, somewhere during..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
MCRD Parris Island 1955
I went to Buffalo, NY to enlist in the Navy. Getting off on the 4th floor all I saw..
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COLD-NATURED HAWAIIAN
I entered Army Basic Training October 1983 at Ft. Leonard "Lost in The Woods", Missouri. I don't think there could..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
BASIC TRAINING
I TOOK BASIC TRAINING IN SEPT '49. TWO THINGS STUCK IN MY MIND, FOOT LOCKERS & DRILL. YOU HAD TO FALLOUT,..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Fort Dix 1977
December 6th 1977. Arrived at Fort Dix for Basic Combat Training. None of us had any clue what we were..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Global Warming
I went into Basic Training at Ft. Bliss, Texas April 1966 (Bliss is not the correct name for it) and..
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VOLUNTEERING
Teaching English
Lake Hiawatha, NJ
I did my time in Vietnam, but to this day I cannot get the country or the people out of..
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MY TIME IN UNIFORM
Guard duty
Parsippany, NJ
I remember one time after I came home on an emergency leave from Nam' and was then assigned to a..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Hot, Humid and Invaluable
I entered Army Basic Training in June 1, 1988 at Fort Jackson, SC. I quickly learned to fear, then..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
The Amercian Legion
Went to basic in Jan 7,1972. helping Private Roberts, he was from Kentucky, become a Marine 13 weeks later.
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MY TIME IN UNIFORM
Army topographic computer
Sergeant Bluff, IA
I saw Lloyd A. Sturtevant in a post from January 30, 2015. I served with him. I served from Feburary 1966..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
THE FLYING 7
MY MOM SIGNED FOR ME, AS I WAS ABOUT 5 DAYS SHY OF 17, WHEN I CAUGHT A BUS TO..
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Home for 1967 Christmas
I was drafted on Nov. 28,1967 and sent to Fort Ord for Basic. About three weeks later we were told..
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Damp, Windy, Cold.
Sampson Air Force Base, Geneva, New York, October 1951. A former Navy base closed at the end of WW ll,..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Christmas Basic Training 1944
I was taking Basic Training at Camp Hood, Texas. We were on bivouac waiting for our 20 mile march back..
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OTHER
Christmas Eve
Mound, MN
It's Christmas Eve 1968, and I have been out delivering traditional gifts to family and friends when I see the..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Two Basic Trainings, Air Force and Army
As a young man, just out of high school in 1951, I joined the Rhode Island Air National Guard. ..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Eight Wet Weeks at Ft, Lewis
I spent my first two days in the Army on the Empire Builder from Fargo to Seattle. That was..
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Basic at Fort Jackson SC Autumn 1964.
The Vietnam involvement was just beginning. The Post was so crowded that our Company had to live in 5..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
The Drinks Are on Us
The only portable water supply, for the 3rd Communication Squadron at Kunsan AFB (K8) in Korea in 1952, was a..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Christmas Leave-1969
During Coast Guard Boot Camp in Cape May, New Jersey from October'69- January '70, we recruits were authorized Christmas leave..
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Hello Basic Training
September 18, 1967, I had to report in by 0600 hrs. My Dad drove me to Indianapolis, we shook hands,..
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OTHER
Right out of boot camp
Mabank, TX
I received orders after I got out of the Philadelphia Naval Hospital (Dec '58) after getting treatment for possible measles..
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Grenade Throw
Part of basic training is passing the big, final physical test. Part of my test was running a mile (as..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Navy Boot Camp - 1978
I enlisted in March 1978, delayed entry until November 1978. I spent Thanksgiving & Christmas at Boot Camp. The Navy..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
December 1950 Lackland AFB
Moved into squad tents with no winter issue. Basic had been cut from 13 weeks to 5 weeks and they needed..
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Home for Christmas
We lived in tents at Fort Jackson that winter (1967). We were out training in an ice storm that shut..
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