MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

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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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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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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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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Teaching English
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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Guard duty
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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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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Army topographic computer
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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THE FLYING 7
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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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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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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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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Right out of boot camp
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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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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DO NOT dress for the occasion!

Delayed enlistment initially my senior year in high school, I had joined the West Virginia Air National Guard, the 130th..
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Christmas at Basic? Gee, Thanks!

I entered the gates of Navy Recruit Training San Diego just after Thanksgiving 1984. By the time Christmas rolled..
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