Hardest obstacle inside boot camp.

smelvanzq · 09-08-2006, 02:58 AM

To all Boot camp survivors please share to me your hardest and unforgetable experience inside the camp..I really love to know! Thanks Sir!

**Batgirl** · 09-08-2006, 04:16 AM

There are several threads in this forum and also in the armed forces discussion section of the board that talk about boot camp experiences. Here's a few you can have a look at....

http://www.goinfantry.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18399

http://www.goinfantry.com/forum/show...light=bootcamp

http://www.goinfantry.com/forum/show...light=bootcamp

**cincymarsdad** · 09-08-2006, 06:13 AM

For what it's worth, my son and daughter both said the first 3 days or so were hardest ... after that, you get a feel for the place and have some structure around you that isn't constantly changing. My daughter's military ID photo looks worse than most prison photos ...

**Vulture6** · 09-08-2006, 06:59 AM

^ He's right... at least for Marine boot camp. The first week and a half to two weeks -- that's receiving through forming to about training day 4. It's all confusion, sleep deprivation, yelling (without understanding a word being said), running around in circles, bad smells (nothing smells as bad as a platoon of new recruits), and just generaly misery. After that, you start to get into a schedule and routine.

Grimmy · 09-09-2006, 08:29 AM

Heck. Somewhere around week 4, I couldnt really remember ever having been anywhere else but bootcamp lol. It was all starting to feel perfectly normal.

crazy bay · 09-11-2006, 07:20 PM

Sand Hill is such the biggest blur in my memory. I hardly remember going.

....I went...and did what everyone else was doing. Even if it was wrong and I knew it was wrong. Thats about all I remember.

CadetFredendall · 11-09-2006, 03:04 PM

Getting railed in the nuts during GFT and requiring emergency surgery to save my balls, literally, haha. Walking around bow-legged for 2 weeks prior to FTX being called "Fredenballs" by the DS's and other Privates.

Last road march was killer, 25 miles. I had the 240B and 2,000 rounds of ammo in my ruck. I was up front with the Guidon though.

Grimmy · 11-09-2006, 04:10 PM

^ Gawd!! I was cringing just reading that. Glad you made it through ok.

**Covertness** · 11-09-2006, 07:59 PM

Not touching this one..........................

USMC Chuter · 11-11-2006, 03:11 AM

There were a lot of things about boot camp that were demanding, and I'd be hard pressed to think of one particular training event that sucked any worse than another. However, one thing always seems to come to mind, and it had nothing to do with training..

I woke up 1/4 a second too late one morning, and didn't have time to grab my portholes (glasses) off of the corner of the rack where they hung by the brainstrap. There I was, on line for count w/o portholes, when the drill instructor paused in front of me.. "Where's your fuckin' goggles, recruit?" There wasn't a correct answer, of course, and he proceeded to throw my glasses out the third deck window while loudly proclaiming, "Praise JESUS! He's healed! He doesn't need his goggles! The blind can see!"

Crawling on hands and knees outside the barracks, looking for my portholes while the rest of the platoon pushed, may not have been the hardest obtacle.. But it's one that I remember clearly.

Grimmy · 11-11-2006, 04:01 AM

The most vivid memory I have is the first night we actually got to sleep in receiving. I was laying on my belly in the rack, looking out the window and the jetliners taking off and landing at the airport next door, rubbing the stubble on my head and wondering just what the fuck I'd got myself into.

Everything after that was just getting through the day.

333MP · 11-20-2006, 07:34 AM

I hated recieving. Too much hurry up and wait for me. But the first few days of training was pretty crappy. You don't know who the 'good' and 'bad' DS are, where your going, who everyone is. By week 2 it was all good though. You feel like you've knowen everyone there your whole life. And you know which DS you will hate the most while your there.