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Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg |
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Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg ........ Excellent, Richard. I wish them all the best. Btw, I have two great nephews (brothers) who are inlisted. One-army, the other- navy. They make us very proud. |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! |
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On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! Brings back some memories, huh? :-) |
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On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:15:53 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! Brings back some memories, huh? :-) Yup. Been there, done that. Friggin' drill sergeants don't change much, do they? |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:15:53 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! Brings back some memories, huh? :-) === Oh yes. :-) |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. === I can't even imagine such a thing. There were certainly some images from my basic training that the army would not wanted distributed. It's too bad 'Airree never had the opportunity. |
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On 9/27/2018 12:44 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. === I can't even imagine such a thing. There were certainly some images from my basic training that the army would not wanted distributed. It's too bad 'Airree never had the opportunity. Harry would be horrified. To be clear, the pictures and videos of my grandson's experiences that are put on their company's Facebook page are taken by and uploaded *by* the Army. They do it daily throughout the bootcamp experience. They are not taken by family members. |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:15:53 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! Brings back some memories, huh? :-) The first night at boot camp is always memorable. They go out of their way to tell you your world is about to change. That is confirmed the next morning when you put everything you own in a box and send it back home. I have every confidence your kids will succeed and flourish in the military. Thank them for their service. |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H.
wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. |
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John H. wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. We got letters all through the 6 weeks of basic. Even got cookies from a girlfriend. :) |
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Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 9/27/2018 12:44 PM, Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. === I can't even imagine such a thing. There were certainly some images from my basic training that the army would not wanted distributed. It's too bad 'Airree never had the opportunity. Harry would be horrified. To be clear, the pictures and videos of my grandson's experiences that are put on their company's Facebook page are taken by and uploaded *by* the Army. They do it daily throughout the bootcamp experience. They are not taken by family members. My brother went in the navy in 1959. His boot camp had a “yearbook” of his time. |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. |
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On 9/27/2018 4:14 PM, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. I remember there was a "lounge" in the building that our barracks was in where smoking was allowed. Our bootcamp company commander wasn't a smoker so he never allowed a "smoke" break except for once. He came in the barracks room and hollered, "Ok girls, how many of you smoke"? I didn't smoke at the time so I didn't raise my hand. He then told those who smoked to go to the lounge and light up. then he said, "The rest of you, fall out outside for a snow shoveling working party". I realized later it was just a way of messing with you to see what you'd take. |
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On 9/27/2018 4:13 PM, Bill wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote: On 9/27/2018 12:44 PM, Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. === I can't even imagine such a thing. There were certainly some images from my basic training that the army would not wanted distributed. It's too bad 'Airree never had the opportunity. Harry would be horrified. To be clear, the pictures and videos of my grandson's experiences that are put on their company's Facebook page are taken by and uploaded *by* the Army. They do it daily throughout the bootcamp experience. They are not taken by family members. My brother went in the navy in 1959. His boot camp had a “yearbook” of his time. They still have yearbooks, even today. It's called "The Keel". You have to purchase them when you graduate. I never did. I can't even remember what the number of my company was in 1968. |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:14:57 -0400, John H.
wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. There was no beer at the canteen, only a juke box, snack machines and a soda machine along with some card games or something. I know there was always a "Hearts" game going on and usually poker. I just went up there a few times because I could and there wasn't much else to do on your "day off". |
Kinda proud ....
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:24:59 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 9/27/2018 4:14 PM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. I remember there was a "lounge" in the building that our barracks was in where smoking was allowed. Our bootcamp company commander wasn't a smoker so he never allowed a "smoke" break except for once. He came in the barracks room and hollered, "Ok girls, how many of you smoke"? I didn't smoke at the time so I didn't raise my hand. He then told those who smoked to go to the lounge and light up. then he said, "The rest of you, fall out outside for a snow shoveling working party". I realized later it was just a way of messing with you to see what you'd take. I didn't really smoke but I always took a smoke break, just to stand around and shoot the ****. I would smoke a cigar now and then but you usually did not have time to smoke a whole one, not even those drug store cigars we all smoked in those days. It was always outside tho and you had to really want "out" to go outside in February/March in Cape May. There was never any place where you could smoke inside in Cape May except maybe the canteen. It was certainly not the barracks or any of the educational buildings. OTOH when I got to the Navy school, it was "smoke'm if you got'm" pretty much everywhere. There were ash trays on the tables in the classroom as I remember. Same at IBM schools. |
Kinda proud ....
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:27:04 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 9/27/2018 4:13 PM, Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 9/27/2018 12:44 PM, Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. === I can't even imagine such a thing. There were certainly some images from my basic training that the army would not wanted distributed. It's too bad 'Airree never had the opportunity. Harry would be horrified. To be clear, the pictures and videos of my grandson's experiences that are put on their company's Facebook page are taken by and uploaded *by* the Army. They do it daily throughout the bootcamp experience. They are not taken by family members. My brother went in the navy in 1959. His boot camp had a “yearbook” of his time. They still have yearbooks, even today. It's called "The Keel". You have to purchase them when you graduate. I never did. I can't even remember what the number of my company was in 1968. We didn't have anything like that. No yearbook, not even an official company picture for sale that I remember although I am sure they took one. My mom had one she took at my graduation so they may have just not wanted to buy one. I do remember my company tho "Golf 57" (but "57" also appears twice in my serial number, 2057573) |
Kinda proud ....
On 9/27/2018 8:33 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:24:59 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 4:14 PM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. I remember there was a "lounge" in the building that our barracks was in where smoking was allowed. Our bootcamp company commander wasn't a smoker so he never allowed a "smoke" break except for once. He came in the barracks room and hollered, "Ok girls, how many of you smoke"? I didn't smoke at the time so I didn't raise my hand. He then told those who smoked to go to the lounge and light up. then he said, "The rest of you, fall out outside for a snow shoveling working party". I realized later it was just a way of messing with you to see what you'd take. I didn't really smoke but I always took a smoke break, just to stand around and shoot the ****. I would smoke a cigar now and then but you usually did not have time to smoke a whole one, not even those drug store cigars we all smoked in those days. It was always outside tho and you had to really want "out" to go outside in February/March in Cape May. There was never any place where you could smoke inside in Cape May except maybe the canteen. It was certainly not the barracks or any of the educational buildings. OTOH when I got to the Navy school, it was "smoke'm if you got'm" pretty much everywhere. There were ash trays on the tables in the classroom as I remember. Same at IBM schools. That "smoke break" that I mentioned was the only one the CC authorized in boot camp. We also never had a day off except for the 24 hours of liberty at the very end of bootcamp which was really to see if you'd return. I've mentioned it before but I spent Christmas day in bootcamp shining boots and shoes and ironing dungaree uniforms (that we washed by hand in a deep sink) using a plastic soap box. |
Kinda proud ....
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:42:00 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 9/27/2018 8:33 PM, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:24:59 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 4:14 PM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. I remember there was a "lounge" in the building that our barracks was in where smoking was allowed. Our bootcamp company commander wasn't a smoker so he never allowed a "smoke" break except for once. He came in the barracks room and hollered, "Ok girls, how many of you smoke"? I didn't smoke at the time so I didn't raise my hand. He then told those who smoked to go to the lounge and light up. then he said, "The rest of you, fall out outside for a snow shoveling working party". I realized later it was just a way of messing with you to see what you'd take. I didn't really smoke but I always took a smoke break, just to stand around and shoot the ****. I would smoke a cigar now and then but you usually did not have time to smoke a whole one, not even those drug store cigars we all smoked in those days. It was always outside tho and you had to really want "out" to go outside in February/March in Cape May. There was never any place where you could smoke inside in Cape May except maybe the canteen. It was certainly not the barracks or any of the educational buildings. OTOH when I got to the Navy school, it was "smoke'm if you got'm" pretty much everywhere. There were ash trays on the tables in the classroom as I remember. Same at IBM schools. That "smoke break" that I mentioned was the only one the CC authorized in boot camp. We also never had a day off except for the 24 hours of liberty at the very end of bootcamp which was really to see if you'd return. I've mentioned it before but I spent Christmas day in bootcamp shining boots and shoes and ironing dungaree uniforms (that we washed by hand in a deep sink) using a plastic soap box. Maybe that was why they got so much nicer in "A" school ;-) They screwed you so badly in boot camp. I always felt like A school was more like college. It was really pretty "un military" to me being right out of boot camp. |
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Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 9/27/2018 4:13 PM, Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 9/27/2018 12:44 PM, Wayne.B wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. === I can't even imagine such a thing. There were certainly some images from my basic training that the army would not wanted distributed. It's too bad 'Airree never had the opportunity. Harry would be horrified. To be clear, the pictures and videos of my grandson's experiences that are put on their company's Facebook page are taken by and uploaded *by* the Army. They do it daily throughout the bootcamp experience. They are not taken by family members. My brother went in the navy in 1959. His boot camp had a “yearbook” of his time. They still have yearbooks, even today. It's called "The Keel". You have to purchase them when you graduate. I never did. I can't even remember what the number of my company was in 1968. I loved th I turn of my brother coming out of the tear gas building. I guess I am an evil brother. ;) |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:24:59 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 9/27/2018 4:14 PM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. I remember there was a "lounge" in the building that our barracks was in where smoking was allowed. Our bootcamp company commander wasn't a smoker so he never allowed a "smoke" break except for once. He came in the barracks room and hollered, "Ok girls, how many of you smoke"? I didn't smoke at the time so I didn't raise my hand. He then told those who smoked to go to the lounge and light up. then he said, "The rest of you, fall out outside for a snow shoveling working party". I realized later it was just a way of messing with you to see what you'd take. 'Butt Cans' were a common thing at LW. But, God help you if the drill sergeant found a speck of ash in one during the morning inspection! |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:42:00 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 9/27/2018 8:33 PM, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:24:59 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 4:14 PM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. I remember there was a "lounge" in the building that our barracks was in where smoking was allowed. Our bootcamp company commander wasn't a smoker so he never allowed a "smoke" break except for once. He came in the barracks room and hollered, "Ok girls, how many of you smoke"? I didn't smoke at the time so I didn't raise my hand. He then told those who smoked to go to the lounge and light up. then he said, "The rest of you, fall out outside for a snow shoveling working party". I realized later it was just a way of messing with you to see what you'd take. I didn't really smoke but I always took a smoke break, just to stand around and shoot the ****. I would smoke a cigar now and then but you usually did not have time to smoke a whole one, not even those drug store cigars we all smoked in those days. It was always outside tho and you had to really want "out" to go outside in February/March in Cape May. There was never any place where you could smoke inside in Cape May except maybe the canteen. It was certainly not the barracks or any of the educational buildings. OTOH when I got to the Navy school, it was "smoke'm if you got'm" pretty much everywhere. There were ash trays on the tables in the classroom as I remember. Same at IBM schools. That "smoke break" that I mentioned was the only one the CC authorized in boot camp. We also never had a day off except for the 24 hours of liberty at the very end of bootcamp which was really to see if you'd return. I've mentioned it before but I spent Christmas day in bootcamp shining boots and shoes and ironing dungaree uniforms (that we washed by hand in a deep sink) using a plastic soap box. We didn't pull guard duty at all during basic. I reckon the Army thought we were still too stupid to tote a rifle (which we hadn't learned to shoot yet). During AIT I pulled guard duty for a married guy on Christmas Eve. A very nice black family had a couple of us to dinner on Christmas day. We watched a Bing Crosby special and had the best dinner I've ever eaten anywhere - to include my own house! |
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:42:00 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 8:33 PM, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:24:59 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 4:14 PM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. I remember there was a "lounge" in the building that our barracks was in where smoking was allowed. Our bootcamp company commander wasn't a smoker so he never allowed a "smoke" break except for once. He came in the barracks room and hollered, "Ok girls, how many of you smoke"? I didn't smoke at the time so I didn't raise my hand. He then told those who smoked to go to the lounge and light up. then he said, "The rest of you, fall out outside for a snow shoveling working party". I realized later it was just a way of messing with you to see what you'd take. I didn't really smoke but I always took a smoke break, just to stand around and shoot the ****. I would smoke a cigar now and then but you usually did not have time to smoke a whole one, not even those drug store cigars we all smoked in those days. It was always outside tho and you had to really want "out" to go outside in February/March in Cape May. There was never any place where you could smoke inside in Cape May except maybe the canteen. It was certainly not the barracks or any of the educational buildings. OTOH when I got to the Navy school, it was "smoke'm if you got'm" pretty much everywhere. There were ash trays on the tables in the classroom as I remember. Same at IBM schools. That "smoke break" that I mentioned was the only one the CC authorized in boot camp. We also never had a day off except for the 24 hours of liberty at the very end of bootcamp which was really to see if you'd return. I've mentioned it before but I spent Christmas day in bootcamp shining boots and shoes and ironing dungaree uniforms (that we washed by hand in a deep sink) using a plastic soap box. Maybe that was why they got so much nicer in "A" school ;-) They screwed you so badly in boot camp. I always felt like A school was more like college. It was really pretty "un military" to me being right out of boot camp. Our tech school out of basic was good except for the squadron commander. **** poor 1st Lt. they passed him over 3times for promotion and was out of the service. Replacement was a Capt. he turned in to a real ahole. White glove barracks inspections with the newly arrived Lieutenants. Had been a pilot and was grounded for wrecking an airplane by not waiting for,a wing walker to guide him in to the hanger. School was good. |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:15:40 -0400, John H.
wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:42:00 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 8:33 PM, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:24:59 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 4:14 PM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. I remember there was a "lounge" in the building that our barracks was in where smoking was allowed. Our bootcamp company commander wasn't a smoker so he never allowed a "smoke" break except for once. He came in the barracks room and hollered, "Ok girls, how many of you smoke"? I didn't smoke at the time so I didn't raise my hand. He then told those who smoked to go to the lounge and light up. then he said, "The rest of you, fall out outside for a snow shoveling working party". I realized later it was just a way of messing with you to see what you'd take. I didn't really smoke but I always took a smoke break, just to stand around and shoot the ****. I would smoke a cigar now and then but you usually did not have time to smoke a whole one, not even those drug store cigars we all smoked in those days. It was always outside tho and you had to really want "out" to go outside in February/March in Cape May. There was never any place where you could smoke inside in Cape May except maybe the canteen. It was certainly not the barracks or any of the educational buildings. OTOH when I got to the Navy school, it was "smoke'm if you got'm" pretty much everywhere. There were ash trays on the tables in the classroom as I remember. Same at IBM schools. That "smoke break" that I mentioned was the only one the CC authorized in boot camp. We also never had a day off except for the 24 hours of liberty at the very end of bootcamp which was really to see if you'd return. I've mentioned it before but I spent Christmas day in bootcamp shining boots and shoes and ironing dungaree uniforms (that we washed by hand in a deep sink) using a plastic soap box. We didn't pull guard duty at all during basic. I reckon the Army thought we were still too stupid to tote a rifle (which we hadn't learned to shoot yet). During AIT I pulled guard duty for a married guy on Christmas Eve. A very nice black family had a couple of us to dinner on Christmas day. We watched a Bing Crosby special and had the best dinner I've ever eaten anywhere - to include my own house! We didn't really have guard duty, we had fire watch. I remember my first night there I saw a guy wearing a cartridge belt walking around and thinking he was a guard. My first thought was "I could take that guy". A couple nights later I was wearing the cartridge belt and walking around ;-) |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:15:40 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:42:00 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 8:33 PM, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:24:59 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 4:14 PM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:02:02 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:19:54 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:52:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:34:05 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:35:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/27/2018 9:14 AM, John H. wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:09:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Our grandson starting his first week of US Army bootcamp. (on right marching away from camera). Following completion of bootcamp he will attend a Navy SeaBee Carpentry and Construction school in Mississippi. Meanwhile, his older brother serving in the United States Coast Guard just returned from a lengthy drug interdiction patrol where a record amount of cocaine was captured and recovered from drug smugglers. Proud of both of them! http://funkyimg.com/i/2LAj6.jpg Good on 'em! John, it's amazing how social media has changed the whole experience of basic training today. In the Army each company has a dedicated Facebook page that is established when the company is formed. Parents, family and friends can follow the progress of their "boot" as they go through training. Pictures are updated and uploaded daily to the Facebook page documenting the various parts of training. When we entered the military back in the dark ages, we just disappeared into a black hole and emerged 9 or 10 weeks later. Other than mandatory letter writing and receiving mail occasionally, we were out of touch. I am not sure I go along with the way it's done today. The transition from being a young family member to a member of the military includes "snipping" some of the ties .. and it's true for both the service member and of his parents/family. I am witnessing the reaction my daughter has to her son's Army Facebook page and I don't think it's all necessarily good. I had no idea anything like that was going on. We didn't even have a telephone in the barracks. Someone may have smuggled in a radio, but I don't remember ever seeing one. We got a weekend pass on the weekend before graduation (during Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood). That was the only time I saw or heard from any family the whole time. I agree with everything you said. I think it should be a 'growing up' time, not a 'whining on Facebook' time. Same here. No TV, no radio, not even a newspaper for the whole 12 1/2 weeks I was at Cape May TC. If they thought we needed something they gave it to us. It was a few weeks before we even got up to the canteen where you could hear the juke box and drink a Coke. It was a pretty spartan place tho. You could write letters and by that 3d (or 4th?) week when you got up to the canteen, they had phones. We had no canteen or PX at Leonard Wood. Once I got to Ft. Sill for some Artillery Fire Direction Control, we had beer and all that good stuff! The canteen was a perc for people who were doing well in boot camp. I think you needed 80% or higher on your tests to get the pass. I was 100% the whole time so it was not an issue for me. If I didn't have 2 "hits" for discipline I would have been the top recruit. That gave me an overall 98 so I got edged by the guy who had a hit free 98. One of those hits was real (breaking formation), I still think the second was bull****. I had braided an aguillette out of 3 marlins pike lines and the guys thought I should wear it down to the smoking pit on the last full day because I was the top recruit at the time. The chief was not as enamored with the idea. ;-) Well, I was an 'Acting Jack' platoon sergeant during the cycle - and had my platoon. The guys in the platoon thought I'd already completed basic, but I'd had only an extra week up front to learn to march and give commands. I did get selected as trainee of the cycle and got an early promotion to E-2 out of it. But...I still didn't see the inside of a canteen or PX beer hall the whole time I was in basic training. I remember there was a "lounge" in the building that our barracks was in where smoking was allowed. Our bootcamp company commander wasn't a smoker so he never allowed a "smoke" break except for once. He came in the barracks room and hollered, "Ok girls, how many of you smoke"? I didn't smoke at the time so I didn't raise my hand. He then told those who smoked to go to the lounge and light up. then he said, "The rest of you, fall out outside for a snow shoveling working party". I realized later it was just a way of messing with you to see what you'd take. I didn't really smoke but I always took a smoke break, just to stand around and shoot the ****. I would smoke a cigar now and then but you usually did not have time to smoke a whole one, not even those drug store cigars we all smoked in those days. It was always outside tho and you had to really want "out" to go outside in February/March in Cape May. There was never any place where you could smoke inside in Cape May except maybe the canteen. It was certainly not the barracks or any of the educational buildings. OTOH when I got to the Navy school, it was "smoke'm if you got'm" pretty much everywhere. There were ash trays on the tables in the classroom as I remember. Same at IBM schools. That "smoke break" that I mentioned was the only one the CC authorized in boot camp. We also never had a day off except for the 24 hours of liberty at the very end of bootcamp which was really to see if you'd return. I've mentioned it before but I spent Christmas day in bootcamp shining boots and shoes and ironing dungaree uniforms (that we washed by hand in a deep sink) using a plastic soap box. We didn't pull guard duty at all during basic. I reckon the Army thought we were still too stupid to tote a rifle (which we hadn't learned to shoot yet). During AIT I pulled guard duty for a married guy on Christmas Eve. A very nice black family had a couple of us to dinner on Christmas day. We watched a Bing Crosby special and had the best dinner I've ever eaten anywhere - to include my own house! We didn't really have guard duty, we had fire watch. I remember my first night there I saw a guy wearing a cartridge belt walking around and thinking he was a guard. My first thought was "I could take that guy". A couple nights later I was wearing the cartridge belt and walking around ;-) Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up. |
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17:08Bill - show quoted text - "Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up." Huh? Please restate in the Queens English. |
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True North wrote:
17:08Bill - show quoted text - "Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up." Huh? Please restate in the Queens English. Bilious out drinking beers with Brewski Brett Kavan-ugh? -- Posted with my iPhone 8+. |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 18:12:34 -0400, Keyser Sze
wrote: True North wrote: 17:08Bill - show quoted text - "Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up." Huh? Please restate in the Queens English. Bilious out drinking beers with Brewski Brett Kavan-ugh? === More likely he lost a battle with Oughta Correct. |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:45:23 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:
17:08Bill - show quoted text - "Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up." Huh? Please restate in the Queens English. A couple years serving your country in the military would clear that right up for you. |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:08:35 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: wrote: We didn't really have guard duty, we had fire watch. I remember my first night there I saw a guy wearing a cartridge belt walking around and thinking he was a guard. My first thought was "I could take that guy". A couple nights later I was wearing the cartridge belt and walking around ;-) Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up. There were not any live rounds on our side of the base and our drill rifles did not have firing pins in them. I am not quite sure what arms we were under. ;-) |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:26:52 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 18:12:34 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: True North wrote: 17:08Bill - show quoted text - "Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up." Huh? Please restate in the Queens English. Bilious out drinking beers with Brewski Brett Kavan-ugh? === More likely he lost a battle with Oughta Correct. I had no problem with it. Cartridge belt implies cartridges (bullets to the gun dumb) If you have cartridges you are implying you have a gun. (Under Arms) I am not sure I agree with the logic but I understood the statement. I just assumed they wanted something to differentiate you from the rest of the people walking around and to remind you that you were on watch. They also had leggings but nobody ever told us to put them on. |
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True North wrote:
17:08Bill - show quoted text - "Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up." Huh? Please restate in the Queens English. Trick. To bad you lack parsing brain power. |
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Keyser Söze wrote:
True North wrote: 17:08Bill - show quoted text - "Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up." Huh? Please restate in the Queens English. Bilious out drinking beers with Brewski Brett Kavan-ugh? Seems as if you spent all your tax money on booze. Now can not pay taxes owed. |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:08:35 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: We didn't really have guard duty, we had fire watch. I remember my first night there I saw a guy wearing a cartridge belt walking around and thinking he was a guard. My first thought was "I could take that guy". A couple nights later I was wearing the cartridge belt and walking around ;-) Same thick with air force. They explained making you wear the cartridge belt made you under arms and more liable if you screw up. There were not any live rounds on our side of the base and our drill rifles did not have firing pins in them. I am not quite sure what arms we were under. ;-) We had the belt. That was all. |
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