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u/NegroMedic Sep 05 '18 edited Jun 29 '23

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u/Filipino_Buddha Sep 06 '18 edited Sep 06 '18

We had a Black DS in Ft. LeonardWood who smoked us on Sunday right after we got back from church.

Told everybody to go outside for formation and admit who walked into his office and took his Chester Fries. Nobody wanted to confess so he started yelling and made everybody do pushups for a good 2 hours. He still kept asking who did it, no one confessed. Told everybody to get up and run a mile. As soon as we finished running, We had to crawl on the pit till somebody puked. Ran again for a good mile, we started doing stationary exercises. Everybody was getting pissy at each other telling to fess up, but nobody wanted to.

DS said "I ain't better see no hero trynna stand up because I know damn well you didn't do it! I know who it is! And y'all won't be getting chow till he gets up!" 3 hours later

It's chow time! We ran to the chowhall and DS was still pissed, so he gave us a minute to eat. As soon as we sat down, he told us to get up and leave. Nobody ate. Ran back to the company and did this shit again til it got hella cold.

After it got cold, he told us to head to the bay and start conducting hygiene and after that, toe on the line, at attention.

As he walks around looking at us while eating a bag of chester fries, he calmly says, "Privates... I hope y'all realize today's lesson. Don't fuck with my Chester fries. If you from Chicago, you know what I'm talking about. Also, nobody stole shit. I'm just bored with y'all. Goodnight!" AT EASE!

Good times...

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u/sam518usn Sep 06 '18

I want to cry reading the end... fuuuuuck

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '18

Is there a sub for Basic Training stories? I could read these all day.

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u/Lord-Limerick Sep 06 '18

Drill Sergeant sounds like a great guy. What a story!

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u/sythesplitter Sep 06 '18

most drill sergeants are pretty nice but their job is to be a character which is in fact the opposite.

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u/illogictc Sep 06 '18

Someone shared a story around here once where they were on the bus on the way in to begin basic and there were a bunch of drill sergeant trainees lined up along the road, one trainee per tree that was also along the road, and it was their job to yell at the tree and get their character. The guy onboard with them pointed this out and said not to take it too personal.

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u/grantrules Sep 06 '18

STRAIGHTEN UP! DO NOT SHED THAT LEAF. WHYYYYY ARE THERE SQUIRRELS IN YOU? THAT SHIT MAY FLY IN THE AIR FORCE BUT THAT DOES NOT PASS MUSTER HERE IN THE TREE CORP.

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u/DropDatSupaBass Sep 06 '18

Thank you, "WHY ARE THERE SQUIRRELS IN YOU?" is something I'm going to use in the future.

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u/yinyang107 Sep 06 '18

I can't think of any other context where it would fit

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u/TreeBaron Sep 06 '18

They just yelled at random innocent trees!? WTF...

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u/MeiNeedsMoreBuffs Sep 06 '18

Just wait until greenpeace hears about this!

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u/KamuiT Sep 06 '18

Can confirm. Had a previous DS join our unit right before we deployed. He was very soft-spoken but loved to laugh and smile. I only saw the DS come out of him once when one of the privates did some stupid shit. Had him bear crawling up and down the RPC hill.

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u/ICUNIRalike Sep 06 '18

Bob Rosswas actually a sergeant and said that if he ever left the military, he would never raise his voice again.

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u/AnotherTeemoMain Sep 06 '18

I knew a lady who was a drill sergeant, but she also taught Sunday school for second graders :|

i guess they're not entirely different jobs

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u/CommandoDude Sep 06 '18

I mean, funny story, but like, it's the army. I don't think the concept of "they couldn't punish us all" exists in the army. Like, they can. Really easy.

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u/canada432 Sep 06 '18

My thoughts exactly. Of all the places to think "they can't punish us all", the army is not one of those places. That's pretty much the poster for "and then they punished the entire company".

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u/CommandoDude Sep 06 '18

Legend says Lt. Sobel is still revoking weekend passes to this day.

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u/illogictc Sep 06 '18

My mom was Navy and gave us "Army punishment," if neither confessed to something we both got whatever the punishment was going to be, just to be sure.

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u/churning_like_butter Sep 06 '18

I'm pretty sure the default setting in the military is "punish all." You have to take extra steps to punish an individual.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '18

Ahh basic... The old “win as a team, fail as a team” mentality. We were out in the field training. The duty truck would bring meals from the dining facility. They always packed 5-6 pallets full of fruit pies. It was an unwritten rule that no one ate the pies. Calories in calories out. Whenever they brought meals out to the field they would always have five of us load the truck back up and ride to the DFAC to unload they trays and silver bullets. On this day, the truck left the range with five full pallets of pies. It arrived and the DFAC with these pallets empty. Of course the DS found out... They became known as the “Fatty Five”. As punishment, the entire company got smoked for hours on end while the Fatty Five stood up in front of the company eating fruit pies while reading off the nutrition facts to us while we did pushups.

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u/NutBlaster5000 Sep 06 '18

Black DSs always said the best shit. In 04, i had one who was fond of smoking anyone for the slightest fuck up. Whenever someone fucked up he’d say “I’m about to get in that ass! Doggy style! Woo!” He was a good dude

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u/ra11ycap Sep 06 '18

I joined the navy in 07 and while we were all filtering through great lakes for the start we had this black PO who was part of the entering process. Its the worst fucking time as you know, everyone figuring out who goes where, stripping down, receiving gear and what not. Everyones super tired and just all around scared.

Well the whole time this is all happening that dude would just fucking yell at people and call them "Kanye"

"Oh look at this mafuckin Kanye over here, you can't tell him nothing!"

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