re: Was There Ever A Time In Your Life When You Had To Hide Who You Were?

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I had a buddy that went to basic training after being a basic course ROTC cadet, including being on the ranger adventure team.

Because his drill sergeants were dealing with allegations of abuse, his nickname the entire cycle was "Private CID." (ETA: They made him observe everything that happened in the drill sergeant's office.)



Good times...

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This guy had an inordinate number of recruits end up in the hospital with injuries that either resulted in them being cycled back, or just separated entirely.

I went in and played the full tilt jerk off. Eating too much, talking in formation, not keeping up in PT, shot with my off hand so that my groupings were terrible. Showed up for AM roll call unshaved and or unbathed a few times.

This guy hated me and it eventually became physically abusive, including both him hitting me and him ordering other recruits to do so.

The investigation actually ended up with several people being arrested. Beating on a recruit isn't a good idea.

OH


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GOD



i thought we talked about your annoying threads and long-winded posts.
i couldn't force myself to read that if i wanted to.

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My cadre was outstanding. I learned a shite ton from them. SSG Kuhl was clear that he couldn't even touch us. But he could adjust the frick out of the uniform and LBE.

Good times... I remember he caught me trying to help a guy on the first aid exam (3rd platoon aced all the academic stuff) - while I was the casualty - he started banging on my helmet with a tent pole and saying, "What? WHAT? I can't hear you!"

That was the closest to trainee abuse I witnessed or experienced.

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Well, to be fair I REALLY pushed this guy, went out of my way to be the absolute worst recruit in the history of recruits, but still

Let me tell you, when you are already a squared away soldier who knows how to run, shoot, and fight, it's very hard to pretend otherwise, but the decision was made above my head, pretend to be the worst recruit ever and see just how far this guy will take it.

Besides being this guy's punching bag , and being literally starved because this guy would order me out of the chow hall practically as soon as I set down, there were nights of double night guard duty. It was like a cartoon, as if this guy was someone's imagination of what the most abusive instructor would look like.

And he was literally shocked that he would be arrested for his behavior .

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Damn! You really did take one for the team...

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Only one way to definitely weed assholes like that out of the military.

The worst I ever got was being called old man bc I enlisted at 28

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Was There Ever A Time In Your Life When You Had To Hide Who You Were?

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Yes.

Believe it or not but my real name isn't theenemy.....sorry for misleading everyone.

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Was There Ever A Time In Your Life When You Had To Hide Who You Were?

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I wouldn't dare let anyone at my San Francisco-based company know who I voted for in the past election.

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I'm not a cnn fan but always enjoyed Lisa Ling

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Same here. Actually, I do like Anthony Bourdain so that's how I even found the show and now I don't even really watch Bourdain anymore, but I like the stories she reports on.

Every day or so. I'm a sociopath with little care for others, but I pretend and it's exhausting.

[quote]How old were you when you did this if you don't mind me asking?

Were you "an e1 fuzzy"[/quote

1st Lt at that time.