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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Boot camp 'not like home'
At first it was hard to be in a place that was not like home. It was for sure a..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
You will always remember your drill sergeant
I arrived at Fort Knox, Ky., for basic training and advanced infantry training, where I met my drill sergeant, Ronnie..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Road guards out
There are numerous memories that remain a part of my military basic training history. One particular event still brings a..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
29 and feeling fine at basic
I got an age waiver in 1986 to join the Marine Corps. I was 29 years old and always wanted..
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LEGION RIDERS
Abraham Lincoln Cemetery, Illinois
Downers Grove, IL
Legion Riders and supporters placed wreaths on 25 graves. Mostly members from Post 80 in Downers Grove, Ill.
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Negron not Niggern
My first day in the Air Force and the following week is a time I will never forget. We..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Memories of basic training in 1962 at Lackland Air Force Base
I went through basic training in the summer of 1962 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. It was..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Warm memories from Marine Corps boot camp
Marines will tell you that they may not remember what they ate yesterday or where they parked their car at..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Navy Boot Camp
It has been 52 years ago that I went through my Navy training. I joined the Navy in 1964 and..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Idaho girl at Lackland
My favorite memory of basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, was the obstacle course. If I recall correctly,..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Getting up the rope
Marine Corps boot camp, March 1969, San Diego: Our platoon was at the 20-foot rope. Some poor kid (not a..
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MY TIME IN UNIFORM
Time at Fort Dix, N.J., and Camp St. Barbara, Korea
Grand Rapids, MI
I'm from the Midwest, so snow is no problem unless it's a foot or more. Was I surprised one morning..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Friendship better than gold: Basic with high school buddy at Fort Knox, Ky.
My hometown school friend Dennis Kreger and I joined the Army's delayed entry program in 1982, well before our high..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
The chow hall toothbrush of 1976 at Great Lakes, Ill.
At Great Lake Naval Recruit Station, you would have worked some place on base for two weeks. I worked in..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
A death at basic training
At Fort Knox, Ky., we were in temporary barracks used during World War II. One of the guys had never..
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MY TIME IN UNIFORM
Harlem Hellfighters
New York, NY
My unit with the New York Army National Guard is known as the Harlem Hellfighters of the 369th Sustainment Brigade...
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Basic training from Hell
In July 1968 I enlisted in the U.S. Army with the conviction that the United States of America gives us..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Brothers
Basic training, June 1966, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Playing cards over a blanket-covered footlocker wearing just my skivvies and my dog..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Many memories of basic training at Fort Knox, Ky.
After graduating from high school in 1959, I enlisted into the U.S. Army in January 1960 without a clue of..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
They don't fit
When I entered basic training for the Air Force in 1958, I was kind of standard-size. When we were issued..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Daily life of U.S. Coast Guard basic
It was late fall in 1967 in Cape May, N.J.—lots of close order drills, seamanship classes, seabag high porting along..
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HONORS & ACHIEVEMENTS
New Jersey post sends Coasties home for the holidays
Stone Harbor, NJ
For the second year in a row, Stephen C. Ludlam American Legion Post 331 of Avalon and Stone Harbor, N.J.,..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Remembering an embarrassing moment in basic training
In March of 1965, I enlisted in the Air Force/Women in the Air Force (WAF) Division from Chesapeake, Va., and..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Time to get serious
We were about two-thirds through basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., in 1963. It was time for bayonet..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Weekend pass
August 1969: graduation! I walked off the parade field to be congratulated by my girlfriend, her brother, her mother and..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Inspection
Halfway through basic training in August 1969 at Fort Knox, Ky., our company was informed we were to prepare for..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Unwilling service
Surprisingly during basic training at Fort Knox, Ky., we were assigned a drill instructor who was a draftee. Staff Sgt...
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Marines? I thought I'd joined the Navy
It was 1968; I had flunked out of college, and getting drafted was imminent. I looked into all the service..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
The Civil War saved me
One day at Fort Benning, Ga., the drill sergeant had us all open our lockers and then "toe the line,"..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Calling home
Toward the end of basic training at Fort Benning, Ga., a Reserve drill sergeant temporarily filled in for one of..
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