Hey all you boot camp and basic training survivors...any good stories about...

[micshys]

...your experience? Mmm?
Geez you guys, I was looking for a bit of humor here. I try to forget the bad and remember the funny like when we were getting ready for an inspection and Charlie the buffer broke so all of us girls whipped out our kotex and started buffing with them...Doesn't work at all well. Or perhaps the one girl who never bathes so she got a good ole GI bath. lol Mmm

[ShortBus XLIII]

Sure only 3 people died from training and one suicide.

I went into anaphylactic shock from one of the shots you get and was in a coma for a week.

Oh and the DI beat the Jewish guy almost to death. Because he wouldn't convert to protestant. We all had to go to the same religious service and Jewish Guy wanted to go on Saturday. We were protestant because at our base the Catholic services were to early for the DI.

Oh and everyone had to smoke Camels even the guys that didn't smoke had to start smoking. That was the DI's brand.

[Dave]

I did a three day survival course back in 1985. Our group of 100 was broken up into small squads of 10, each with an instructor. Our squad instructor wanted us to do certain things when we got in the field. (Inventory what we have, find out where we are, plan how to either get rescued or hike out.) One guy who was a former Green Beret was insistent we all get a big stick. I mean he was REALLY insistent. Finally the instructor asked why. The GB said, "We have no guns and only small knives. We need a weapon of some kind. It can also be used as a hiking stick." The instructor said OK just to shut him up so we all went and got big sticks. Then the instructor left and told us we were on our own for a while. So we started checking out the area to see if there were any landmarks that matched our maps so we could figure out where we were. As one group went down a path, a deer popped. The lead guy clobbered it with his big stick and killed it. Then they hauled it back to camp.

When the instructor came back and saw the deer, he asked how we got it. And we all yelled, "WITH A BIG STICK SIR!"

For the next three days while the other squads were eating bugs and wild onions, we feasted on venison. Fried, stewed, jerked, smoked, did not matter, we were the best fed squad out there.

It is now 22 years later, and I still have my BIG STICK!.

[Jelly]

Lots. What kind of story are you looking for? Something to convince you to go or are you writing a book? Kind of a vague question. Everyone's definition of "good" will be different when it comes to boot camp because everyone gets something different out of it.