MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

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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Washing by Hand

Great Lakes Naval Training Center - September - October 1968 Every evening we had to hand wash our skivvies (undwear) worn..
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Moonless Night Target Qualification

After being drafted, I entered Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. on 11-17-72 to begin basic training. To finish basic you had..
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Haircut Time

I joined the U.S. Navy in late September 1967. Being a typical 19 year old young man, living in..
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Grape Kool-Aid Gravy

GRAPE KOOL-AID GRAVY This is one of the many stories from my recently completed autobiography titled "Private Funny Man". I went..
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April Fool

My story began on April 1st 1970 (April Fool’s Day). That’s the day I raised my right hand and swore..
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Sleeping Beauty

I arrived at Fort Ord July '62 and assigned to USATC Infantry, Company D, 1st Battle Group, 1st Brigade (D-1-1). I..
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HOME FOR CHRISTMAS? I DOUBT IT!
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HOME FOR CHRISTMAS? I DOUBT IT!

“Home for Christmas?, I doubt it!” A Basic Training Memory By Peter Werner Mondovi, Wisconsin Those who completed..
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BIRTHDAY MEMORIES, SEPT 1962, MCRD, SAN DIEGO, CA

On 6, Sept 1962, I became a proud member of Platoon 165, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot,..
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Christmas Eve 1952

When I was 17, my Dad signed for me to join the Army NG. I have always admired..
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It Happened One Day

The walls shook with angry vibrations coming from our Drill Instructor, (DI), as each one of us stood in line..
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What more could you want?

I went to boot camp in San Diego in February 1962. Half way through, boots took a week away..
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Fort Knox 1976

I attended basic training at Fort Knox Kentucky in 1976. Our drill was SSG LaFevre. He was an..
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Memory Made the 2nd Time Around!

I can honestly say that I do not have any memorable moments of basic training, some 30 yrs. ago at..
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Joining the Cadre

I enlisted in the Army Security Agency in March 1959. On April 1st, I got on the train with other..
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Swim Lessons
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Swim Lessons

In the late 1980's, I was a 17 year-old high school kid with no real plans after graduation. I had..
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Not Basic but shortly after --- Christmas pass

Winter of 1958, I had just finished basic training and was stationed at Ft. Monmouth, NJ for 30 weeks of..
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Reading after dark

During Basic Training we lived in wooden barracks that were built in 1935 with a five-year life expectancy. The bunk..
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A Late Relief

On a hot summer’s day in July 1963 at Fort Gordon, GA, my basic training company marched to the rifle..
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Lost!

During my teen years my family lived in a thinly populated part of Texas - - our nearest neighbor was..
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Raise your hand to volunteer

During a hot summer day in August, 1966, I rode a train with other recruits from Baltimore to Trenton, NJ...
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No Sleep For Me

I went to Navy boot camp in great lakes 1988. I'll never forget just before we shipped out, I had..
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Reveille

Drafted in 1970, I went to basic training at Ft. Dix, NJ where each recruit had to perform one hour..
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Fun in Basic

I was drafted in 1960 & had my basic at Ft Knox. As usual, the 1st week was in the reception..
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Smoke em if you got em

I had a college deferment and was drafted into the Army in 1968, two months after graduating. After completing basic..
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ANCHORED

I learned quite a few things during the 13 weeks of Coast Guard Boot Camp in 1960 at the Coast..
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First Weekend Basic Training

May 1968, big drafts for Vietnam build-up, I was drafted into the Army along with two other friends. ..
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Dancing During Basic

1958, Fort Ord, California. In my platoon of recruits there were about 10 guys from Utah. One Tuesday night during..
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A New Yorker in Ft. Gordon , Georgia

Arriving at Ft. Gordon on july 5th 1967, with a bunch of guys from New York it was quickly obvious..
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Learning a lesson

In the late '70's, some guys thought it was 'cool' to 'go commando'. I fell for the hype and..
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