MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Laundry and raisins

I sure do remember Basic Training! I was at Great Lakes Naval Training Station from November 1966 to February 1967...
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Memories

I went to Sampson, N.Y., for boot camp. At 17, I was 5’2” and 100 pounds. The first time we..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Tuba vs. sousaphone

A fond memory has to do with my membership in one of the training camp’s regimental bands during boot camp...
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

A former POW’s impact

I had never been much farther east of the Twin Cities in Minnesota than the Wisconsin line, and the free..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

A cold shower

Basic training memories caught my eye. I smiled, then chuckled because so many things happened. It’s an experience that should..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

‘Outstanding trainee’

Fifty years ago I was 19 and drafted into the Army. Some dodged the draft and fled to Canada, but..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Join the Air Force, ‘See the World’

Growing up on a small farm in southern Kansas, I was not looking forward to my high school graduation in..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Rubbing elbows with movie stars

My fondest memory of my Army basic training is seeing actor Steve McQueen in the summer of 1963 at Fort..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Infantry training

As a 20-year-old in 1953, I was inducted into the Army. Sent to Fort Meade for assignment, I stayed there..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Basic training in a ‘luxury’ hotel

I graduated from high school in 1942 at the age of 17. In November I enlisted in the Army Air..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

A successful, integrated ‘Rebel’ flight

I tried to join the Air Force the first week of November 1954 and was told to come back the..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Memories

I quit my last year of high school and at 17 years, 5 months, enlisted in the Army. I was..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Yes, SIR!

This is one of the worst memories I had at Fort Jackson, S.C. The year was 1954, and I had..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Ready, aim, …. Oh well!

As part of basic training at Fort Knox, Ky., we assembled on the firing range to familiarize ourselves with the..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

What’s up, doc?

It was May 1953 and a fellow trainee was on guard duty at Parris Island. As the sergeant of the..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Where’s the fire?!

My twin brother and I both went to Amarillo, Texas, Aug. 24, 1967, for basic training in the Air Force...
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Move that rock!

In 1970 while taking basic training at Fort Lewis, Wash., my company one day marched up a mountain where the..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Still doing morning ‘exercise’

My first night at Fort Knox, Ky., was a rude awakening. We were marched into a World War II barracks..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

No uniforms

A number of us from Syracuse, N.Y., arrived at Fort Dix, N.J., on Jan. 10, 1951. Due to a shortage..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Training in the heat

In 1945, just out of high school and a country boy, I was drafted into the Army. I was sent..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Lifelong friends

February 1966, basic training in line at the chow hall: I’m from Indiana, and another recruit was from Long..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Carrying foot lockers

In January 1954 while in Basic at Fort Knox, Ky., we failed an inspection of foot lockers, etc. So at..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Clothing giveaway

I entered the Air Force in January 1957 at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. After riding on a train..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

A family who served

I signed up in the Air Force back in August 1964 and spent 11 years as a fuel systems mechanic..
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Cowtown Stand Down
VETERANS HELPING VETERANS

Cowtown Stand Down

Fort Worth, TX
Texas District 12 American Legion volunteers from greater Tarrant County joined forces with support groups across North Central Texas during..
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Royse City Post 100 honors local woman who joined the Army
HONORS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Royse City Post 100 honors local woman who joined the Army

Royse City, TX
Royse City Post 100 took time on Veterans Day to honor a recent high school graduate who was leaving on..
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Post shows its support to the community
OTHER

Post shows its support to the community

Royse City, TX
On this night in the small town of Royse City, the men and women of Post 100 are busy volunteering..
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VETERANS HELPING VETERANS

Being heard is good medicine

Elk Grove , CA
The fighting wounded is the epitome of do or die. Sooner or later the fight is over. The immediate crisis..
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Veterans honored with final salute
OTHER

Veterans honored with final salute

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
Legionnaires joined several other veterans service organizations from across North Central Texas – to include the VFW, Marine Corps League,..
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Our Year of War by Daniel P. Bolger
IN YOUR OWN WORDS

Our Year of War by Daniel P. Bolger

Two brothers—Chuck and Tom Hagel—went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They..
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