On 9/3/2014 11:42 AM, Califbill wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 03:33:08 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I recall the term for being sent back in training was being "asswalled"
or "azwalled" or something like that. It was my biggest fear and it
usually happened because you got sick or injured. I remember doing PT
sessions while running a high fever and being sick as a dog but I
refused to go to sick bay in fear of having to "go back" in any of the
training. All I wanted was out of there.

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That's all any of us wanted. I was in basic with a NYC transit cop
who took the final PT exam while he was sick. He collapsed unconcious
after completing the mile run and we never saw him again.

1965, Air Force was not physically as hard. We only lost one guy, and he
got a medical discharge. Doing push ups he got a shoulder separation. He
had them before, and the pre induction physical should have caught the
defect he was ttold, we marched. And marched. And marched some more.
Besides running, and running and running and jumping jacks while a cyborg
led us. Had to be a cyborg , as he never tired.


When I went through boot camp the various companies competed for
"flags". Our company commander was intent on winning the athletic flag
so we did a lot of PT drills, usually first thing in the morning and
after dinner at night. Still didn't work. Some other company won the flag.