What are some memorable things that happened while you were in Basic/Bootcamp?
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My most memorable moment went something like this.
So we’re towards the end of 3rd phase and we’re a little half way through the crucible. And I being the perfect recruit I was and having all the luck in the world ended up getting stuck with the drill instructor that liked to wreck my shit the most ( Sgt. Henderson). But I would never get destroyed alone. This is because half way through the cycle he ended up realizing that I was best friends with another recruit. We’ll call him recruit Freckles. Once he realized that Freckles and I were in cahoots, it was pretty much over from that point on. Anytime you heard him scream my name, Freckles name would immediately follow after. Same thing the other way around. When one of us messed up, the other one had to pay the price for the stupidity also. If Freckles had two hours of watch, I had two hours of watch. Freckles and I were two of a kind. The crucible was no different. They even made a special acceptance and paired us together for it. But anyways, here’s the moment.
I was just standing in line waiting to go on the unknown distance shoot. (My first ever experience with the green Ivan army.) and Sgt.Henderson walks behind me and gets in my ear and whispers in the lowest raspiest voice he can while still maintaining some volume.
DI Sgt.Henderson: “Greekmaster69, why you always talking so sweet to me?”
Now I probably should have shut the hell up, but..I’m a smart ass and I screamed with out missing a beat.
GreekMaster69: “Sir! This recruit thinks that if he talks sweet to Drill Instructor Sgt. Henderson that Drill Instructor Sgt.Henderson will talk sweet back sir!”
Everything got dead quite and I mean everything. Every recruit in the vicinity just looked in dismay with mouths agape. My Knowledge hat was standing in front of me and turned around to look at me with just as much shock and ended up covering his face with his campaign cover and darting into the tree line to laugh it off. After what seemed like an eternity, Sgt.Henderson comes around to face me from the front and says. “Did you just flirt with me GreekMaster69?” To which I respond “no sir!” To which he replied “oh yes you did...FREEEEEEEEECKLES!” And off in the distance you can here running towards us. Freckles finally gets to us and stands by me and screams “aye sir!” He looks at the two of us and points his finger towards the tree line without saying a word. All we could say was “AYE SIR!” And then we got jacked up for what must have been a good half of the day and poor Freckles never knew why until after we became marines.
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