Fond Memories of Boot Camp
- Faceplanting off the cattle truck - right at my Drill Sergeant's feet.
- The first words I heard when I got off the cattle truck at my company barracks: "Welcome to 'The Rock'."
- "Shark Attack" - getting smoked within the first .00004 seconds of arriving at basic training.
- Running the bayonet course with my battle buddy Fiasco and almost gouging my eye out.
- The gas chamber. Nuff said.
- M16 Qualification day - Drill Sergeant Busick pinning a Sharpshooter medal on my body armor and saying "Good job."
- Night infiltration course - stopping in the middle of the course in a puddle of water and just lying there underneath barbed wire while they medevaced somebody.
- Grenade qualification - Vandal claiming he pulled the pin on a grenade before throwing it; but it was actually still in the grenade.
- U.S. Weapons - finished shooting the M203 grenade launcher, only to get smoked by the 1SG because my company was sitting in the bleachers talking: "I'm doing pushups because you're too loud!"
- 15k road march in the snow without field jackets or gloves.
- FTX - doing missions on no sleep during the day, pulling double shift guard duty at night, getting gassed in our camp, constant rain, the most fun I've ever had.
- Playing "nut ball" - you make a ball out of socks and try to hit the other players in the crotch (it hurts... a lot).
- Shaving cream fights
- Singing corny love songs in the shower
- Quotes from the Drill Sergeants:
*DS Perales: "Doing your own thing. Got it. Got something for that!"
*DS Lee: "Good freaking job, freaking you!"
*1SG: "You better pull your heads out of your 4th point of contact, Charlie company!"
- Playing the "Oh, I got you good, you f***er!" game with Shook.
- Brown wearing a neck warmer like a mini skirt
- Running around in 3rd platoons barracks with Meagher and Hufferd in our black trenchcoats and sunglasses dressed like Neo.
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Wow...
Some of these are really funny!
...But with others of them I wonder why you call them "fond". 
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Can you truthfully and conclusively answer, "No," to this question?
Old Mother Hubbard sat in her cupboard,
Drowning her sorrows in hay.
Along came a spider who sat down to chide her,
But he could think of nothing to say.
Warm-hearted sarcasm
- Brown wearing a neck warmer like a mini skirt
I wonder why you call them "fond".
I think this is that type of mild irony unique to those who have completed a phase of their lives that was not always pleasant, but that they shared with others with whom they developed a bond. You hear this same type of reminiscence referring to school (after graduation), jobs (once they're over), and other at least moderately difficult tasks and shared experiences.
-Scholarly Sangming
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
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We should take our comfort from God's word, not from the circumstances of our lives.
happy for you
I'm glad you had some fun, even if some of that "fun" sounds mildly disturding.
- Running around in 3rd platoons barracks with Meagher and Hufferd in our black trenchcoats and sunglasses dressed like Neo.
That's so cool! I've always wanted to do that!
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