Rainy Day at FT. Knox (539 hits)
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Submitted by ColonelAngus <colonel.at.angus.org> (View user info) at 2004-09-01 05:11:55 EDT
Ok. I've been reliving alot of past military expriences on Ubersite. It kinda makes me miss the Army. It was , seriously, the best times of my life.
I was a 45K (Armamnet Repair). In a nutshell, I was a weapons and weapons systems technician. It was a pretty bad-ass job. Most of the time, I was just running communication equipment to other units to get fixed and then playing Playstation in our shop. Occasionally, a tank or a Bradley wouold come in that needed to be bore-scoped or a control unit needed to be replaced but that was on rare occasion. Enough of that bullshit. I really decided to post this to tell you all about my favorite part of the militay...Basic Combat Training.
BCT was bad-ass. Yeah, we got yelled at and did more push-ups and flutter-kicks than anybody that ever wore a uniform, but that was just a small part of it. Now, I hate to say it, but I was a very overzealous soldier. I was so "hooah" about everything. I couldn't get enough of the discipline , regementation, ect. that was thrown at me everyday. Not only that, but you never had to worry about doing the wrong thing. If the Drill Sergeants did'nt tell you to do it, you didn;t do it. They told you when to eat, sleep, pray, shit, run, walk. Basically, you had all your decisions made for you.
Now, one fine afternoon, my company was scheduled to go on the repelling tower (remeber this Blitzkrieg_Bob?). It was raining like nothing I had ever seen before. I'm from Michigan and I had to go to BCT in Kentucky where the rain fucking sucks! It just would'nt stop. My fellow trainees were moaning and bitching about the weather but I was all like " C'mon guys! This will make it more fun! This shit is gonna be fucking dope!"
As we all took our turns repelling, the DSs were getting annoyed with the better part of my comrade's attitudes. Guys were dropping left and right, front-leaning-rest here, flutter-kick position there. The DSs were PISSED! They never touched me though. In the 3 weeks I had been a PVT in the US Army, I had learned that when one person fucks up, the whole army gets punished. I was confused.
After we got back to the barracks from the repelling tower, everyone was wet,tires, hungry, and pissed off. Everyone except me nd my 2 buddies Hill and Daniels. We were the only ones in our platoon that put effort intothe day and we felt good about it. Us 3 ad been friends since BCT started. Daniles and I were both from Michigan and Hill and I would play Hack with a sock and penicl pieces during personal time.
" Hill, Stein, Daniels! Come to my office!," came the First Sergeant's voice over the PA system that was installed in the company's ordely room/day room/ barracks. DS McMillar excused us to see 1SG.
When we got there, we figured that somehow we were in trouble. I mean, why else would TOP want us in his office during training time.
" I want you 3 to stand under the phone shed and just wait." TOP instructed.
The 3 of us stood at Parade Rest under the phone shed ,aiting, like we were told. all of a sudden, we hear doors slam open and a shitload of footsteps running to our direction. Our platoon was heading into the formation area. DS McMillar called them to attention, gave them a half-right face and put them in the front leaning rest.
TOP came out.
" I want you to look at Stein, Daniels and Hill. Look real fucking godd, private! While all of you were bitching like fucking women about the rain, these 3 showed motivation, teamwork, and leadership and didn' give a flying shit that they were getting wet."
TOP the turned towards us.
" Stein! Daniels! Hill! Atten-Hut!"
We snapped to attention.
" About-FACE!"
We spun around.
" Approach the phones. You each have 20 mintues while the rest of your platoon does PT."
So we got to call our families whiole all the other privates in our platoon got the shit smokedout of them, in front of them. After that incident, our platon ended up coming together very well. We ended up wining the battalion D&C competition, had the highest percentage on rifle marksmanship and the highest PT score. we were honored by the Post Sergeant MAjor at Graduation.
But I'll never forget the lookson those motherfucker'sfaces when they got PTed to death while I talked nasty to my girlfriend back home.
Love,The Colonel
User Reviews
Submitted by ColonelAngus (user info) at 2004-09-05 07:26:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Beautiful?!?!?! Fuck that. Ft. Knox is a shithole. the worst post I have ever been too. Even Ft. Irwin and Aberdeen Proving Grounds were better than that crap post.
Submitted by lrw (user info) at 2004-09-01 14:04:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Excellent story... I had sex @ fort knox. heh. its really beautiful there.
Submitted by Lady_Emily_03 (user info) at 2004-09-01 14:04:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by runninginplace (user info) at 2004-09-01 11:20:29 EDT (#)
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Submitted by boomslang (user info) at 2004-09-01 10:56:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
good story
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2004-09-01 08:57:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Who needs paragraphs, proper spelling and punctuation when the story is so great?
I SURE DON'T!
Submitted by The Maniacal Child <MikeyP3184.at.yahoo.com> at 2004-09-01 08:22:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It's been over a year since I've had the pleasure of being at the School of Hard Knox. Glad to see I wasn't the only one who enjoyed the place. If you haven't met Agony, Misery, and Heartbreak...you don't know shit.
15R Apache Longbow Maintainer
" I fix aircraft and kill motherfuckers....What do you do? "
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2004-09-01 08:16:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I hated flutterkicks, but they would definately make you tougher for the effort. Our DS in AIT, SFC Bader, would get down with us for flutterkicks, and he would do it in BDU's with his pistol belt on! He could throw out well over 100 flutterkicks without so much as breathing heavy.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-09-01 08:06:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
My 1SG in basic hated all of us. One time he had his brand-new pickup parked outside of the orderly room, and we were drawing rifles for the day. The drill sergeant marched us really close to his truck at port arms and a couple knuckleheads in the formation scratched his truck with their rifles.
The repelling tower freaked a couple of guys out that were afraid of heights, but it wasn't a problem like you guys had.