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re: Soldiers, which drill sergeant do you remember the most?
Posted on 6/8/15 at 10:34 am to prplhze2000
Posted on 6/8/15 at 10:34 am to prplhze2000
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thought of him still drives fear into me heart
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Posted on 6/8/15 at 11:01 am to prplhze2000
Ortiz, Ft. Jackson - when he got really angry he would scream at us in Spanish and none of us spoke it.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 11:02 am to carhartt
I was there a year earlier. First year of Stress free basic. Hated it.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 11:03 am to prplhze2000
How long do DI's stay DI's? Don't they rotate out or does it depend on the branch?
Posted on 6/8/15 at 11:04 am to prplhze2000
DS Tsoukalis, Benning, 99. Greek guy that could barely speak English. He was single so he lived in a small apartment above the barracks. He would come down and frick with us whenever he got drunk. Once he claimed to have a stripper upstairs and tried to charge us $5 each to smell his fingers. Another time he chewed out a BDU shirt on a hanger for 5 minutes before he realized it was just a shirt. He also claimed that in Greek basic training "they send you across the border and you can't come back unless you have heads". He actually got in a fistfight with another DS over whose platoon was supposed to eat first. Called the other DS (a black guy) a "cotton-picking drill sergeant". Good times.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 11:05 am to N2cars
I think it's 2-3 years in the Army. Don't remember for sure.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 11:13 am to prplhze2000
Johnson at McClellan...
Posted on 6/8/15 at 11:16 am to prplhze2000
Not a drill instructor but my primary instructor at the infantry school: SSG Chester Nez, did a tour in Vietnam at 18 and also jumped with the 82nd into Panama. Full blooded Navajo Indian.
A really hard guy on training, we were always the first company out and the last one in and an absolute Nazi about drill and ceremony. A hard man.
He taught me how to shoot and I'm still a 36-37/40 guy on the pop up range 25 years later.
But he gave a shite about the soldiers, he gathered us after we got our web gear and showed us how to take the guts out of 550 cord and tie your canteen and magazine pouches onto your web belt in case the snaps broke or gave out.
He told us he knew we didn't have any money and he didn't want us to have to pay for any lost equipment. He personally checked everyones kit to make sure it was right.
That's just one example, I could give 50 more.
A really hard guy on training, we were always the first company out and the last one in and an absolute Nazi about drill and ceremony. A hard man.
He taught me how to shoot and I'm still a 36-37/40 guy on the pop up range 25 years later.
But he gave a shite about the soldiers, he gathered us after we got our web gear and showed us how to take the guts out of 550 cord and tie your canteen and magazine pouches onto your web belt in case the snaps broke or gave out.
He told us he knew we didn't have any money and he didn't want us to have to pay for any lost equipment. He personally checked everyones kit to make sure it was right.
That's just one example, I could give 50 more.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 1:20 pm to DesertTiger44
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E.Co 2/58 here.
I was A company. What year were you there?
Posted on 6/8/15 at 1:22 pm to Lakeboy7
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SSG Chester Nez
RIP.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 1:23 pm to prplhze2000
Kelly was just an angry little hateful man.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 2:25 pm to kengel2
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When was this?
I went through in 03. San Diego. I think the dude that drowned was going through water instructer training.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 2:53 pm to MudEngineer318
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I was A company. What year were you there?
Left 30th AG on Halloween 2003.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 3:02 pm to N2cars
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How long do DI's stay DI's? Don't they rotate out or does it depend on the branch?
Don't know how it is now but I believe back in my day, which was loooong ago, the Army drill sgt's would first have to pass Drill Sgt. School then serve in that capacity for like 2 years. Don't know if this is true or not but I heard back then that things like divorce rates, suicides, alcoholism for those guys was through the roof. Apparently it's a highly stressful job.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 5:34 pm to DesertTiger44
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Left 30th AG
That brings back memories. I was stuck at 30th AG for three weeks. Worse than the actual training. Pack duffel, get smoked, unpack duffel, get smoked, pack duffel, get smoked, stand in line.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 5:38 pm to N2cars
My senior drill instructor had been there 6 years.
Another alpha company senior DI was in his 50's. Dude had been there forever.
Another alpha company senior DI was in his 50's. Dude had been there forever.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 6:09 pm to BRgetthenet
I think Army is two years. Its a pretty stressful job with some pretty long hours.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 6:16 pm to prplhze2000
Our Senior DI's aren't doing the heavy lifting.
That's the job of the green belt.
Becoming a Senior is another school.
Once you become one, I think you can stay as long as you're effective.
Not sure though. I just know that there were some older Senior DI's at MCRDSD.
That's the job of the green belt.
Becoming a Senior is another school.
Once you become one, I think you can stay as long as you're effective.
Not sure though. I just know that there were some older Senior DI's at MCRDSD.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 6:17 pm to prplhze2000
My uncle was a lifelong sergeant in the Marines. was in WW2, Korea and Vietnam. I could always tell he had the potential to be really mean, which of course, he was not around us. He was a "gunny". Died in Bakersfield Ca. Fought at Iwo and Oka.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 7:25 pm to prplhze2000
I really don't remember, but I do remember Tank Hill and marching to the range up and down that damn thing. All the ruining as well.
I was in Jackson fall of '89.
I was in Jackson fall of '89.
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