re: Army basic training in Oklahoma, what’s it gonna be like?

he will be fine. Basic is pretty simple if you come to the realization sooner rather than later that they can't hit you and the worst they can do is smoke you for hours. Everything is mental. Sure there will be times when it is physically overwhelming, but once you realize its the worst they can do and you try and enjoy it, it can become fun.

The hardest part is realizing the rest of the world turns while you are there. The world doesnt stop and that plays mental game on you.

as far as training, it will be traditional basic. Tell him to try and enjoy the weapons training.

Fort Sill isnt bad from what i have heard and not nearly as hard as Benning or even knox.

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On the dirt road we rucked on deer would join the column and walk with us. Bear, eagles, wolves, coyotes you name its there.

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I’m confused...this was in Oklahoma?

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gonna be cold as shite and miserable.

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for the first 3 months. Then it will be hot as shite and miserable. The bright side is in the middle they may get a break from training because of a tornado.

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And its not what you think of when you hear Oklahoma, it has flatland, wooded mountains, hills you name it.

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Eastern and parts of central Oklahoma are mountainous as shite.

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Eastern and parts of central Oklahoma are mountainous as shite.

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Eh, not really... eastern OK is just a continuation of what you'd find in Arkansas. Down around Ft Sill there is what you might call "mountains" but they are quite small really.

Note: I live in OKC, which is central OK and there is nothing resembling a hill for miles and miles in any direction.

As far as the weather, yeah it will be cold in January, but it won't be that bad. You're about as far south in OK as you can be.

Summer camp. No worse than football practice.

And AIT will be like college. Except with PT in the morning.

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Stress cards LOL what a bunch of pussies. In my day a DI could and would knock a private's dick in the dirt and nothing said.

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I remember seeing a Drill cold cock a pvt. in formation one day because his cover was not squared away. Hit him square in the jaw and the dude went down like a sack of potatoes.

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I was one of the last classes to go through Fort Dix in the summer It was so hot there a lot of days that even back in 1988 they weren't allowed to use exercise as punishment, well not outdoors anyway.

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Yah. The old “wet bulb” thermometer. I did OSUT at Ft. Knox the summer of 88. One Sunday they had the guys who couldn’t pass their PT tests out doing remedial PT. I was on KP that day and remember seeing them run past while we were out behind the mess hall sneaking cigarettes the little Korean ladies who worked in the Chow Hall had given us. This one kid was lagging behind the rest of the PT guys. Really seemed to be sucking wind. Little bit later we heard the ambulance coming. Turns out that after he got to the top of the hill and around the corner of the block, he collapsed and died. And to make matters worse, the wet bulb was in the red that day. We lost a couple of Drill Sgts. over that frick up.

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The toughest Army basic training posts are at Fort Benning and Fort Knox

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I’m not 100% sure they still train combat MOS at Knox anymore. A few years back they moved the US Army Armor School from Knox to Benning. As an old tanker, it still chaps my arse they did this. It’s blasphemy.

As for Sill, unless things have changed, they should still be training field artilley soldiers there. If so, then Sill does train combat arms soldiers.