Alpha Troop, 5/15 '09. Heartbreak, Misery, and Agony were still alive and well. We also didnt sing cadence while running, because we were running too fast. Last cycle that "wall-to-wall" training was allowed. 50% attrition rate. The most fun I never want to have again.
@gerardzacharski1296Ай бұрын
Willard field
@RedlionProductions2 ай бұрын
October 1993. E 2/46 3rd Platoon. Bushmasters! Love these stories!
@williamdoughty34892 ай бұрын
Mike, I lived there 73-74, and am going back to visit June 2024. Do you have any idea how to get to TJV (Thomas Jefferson Village) housing? Thanks!
@Explor52522 ай бұрын
It is not far from Taukkunen barracks, you take the tunnel under the tracks which can be seen from barracks now a hotel. Once you go thru the tunnel it is on the left.
@williamdoughty34892 ай бұрын
@@Explor5252 Many thanks! Can’t wait
@setaf1003 ай бұрын
Long lost memories....or maybe not so long lost. D-15-4 Fall of 75.
@Cinnamon_cake2494 ай бұрын
D-19-5 feb 25,1972-april 1972
@Cinnamon_cake2494 ай бұрын
I was there
@jameshuckaby-ie2wv5 ай бұрын
AIT 63Y Track Vehicle Mechanic. Oct - Nov 1981.Co A 2D Battalion 4TH AIT/OSUT BDE FT Knox. concrete barracks. best friend Arthur Gonzales from Corpus Christi, Tx. we last spoke june 1984. n
@kencampbell58555 ай бұрын
I arrived for basic Feb 4, 1972; E-16-4
@blackieskinner30736 ай бұрын
Went thru basic there in 2000 in A 2-46 it sucked
@marynnormpyett60116 ай бұрын
It Jan. 15th, 1973, I was 19yrs old grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida when I got off the bus at Ft. Knox, Kentucky I'd thought I stepped into a whole new world. Cold to the bone and shaking due the winter. My draft number that year was 55, and I knew where they would send me if I got drafted. So, to avoid being drafted I joined the Army for 3 years and was promised (not that I believed them) stateside for one year. Wouldn't you know 12 days later Nixon dropped the draft. Spent the next eight weeks in Basic Training in the cold part of my known world. From here I went to Fort Gordon, Ga. for A.I.T. as a Military Police. First duty station Ft. Stewart, Ga, then south again to Opa-Locka, Fl with Awol/App team, then southeast to San Juan, Puerto Rico where I remained until Jan. 15th, 1976. Looking back, I wouldn't have changed anything. Norm
@edwardmiller96117 ай бұрын
B co. 18 . 5th training brigade. Old 2 story WW2 barracks..
@WarrenHolly7 ай бұрын
This eas like being back together with my old company. I wish all of you well and happy Holidays 🤓🙏🏾
@briansampson37177 ай бұрын
I was there 1991-93. I was an Army x-ray tech with the 13th Medical Detachment . We were deactivated in 1993. What a great community we were.
@eddie53257 ай бұрын
Hi Mike, I liked your video about Worms,I lived there myself before I relocated to Great Britain Lots of good memories
@tonysanchez72467 ай бұрын
Basic there in 73 ,then Ft. Campbell Ky . Like a rock 😎
@margaretbertram59507 ай бұрын
I was stationed at Tompkins in '76-77. 649th Engr. Batt. Went back once in about '86. Would love to go again. Thanks for the tour!
@davidwallace13908 ай бұрын
Thanks for the reminder. I was a Drill Sergeant at D-16-4 at Ft Knox from 72-75.
@peterjuhasz76318 ай бұрын
Mike , I was there a year later in Jan - Mar 73. Very similar story . Hated long marches on Agony and Misery . Got URI and was in the same hospital and almost got sent back . I went Germany for 1st and 37 th out of Ansbach for the rest of my tour . Thanks for posting this . Brought back memories .
@Leeward549 ай бұрын
Thanks. I was there Jan ‘73 C 12 5
@msrose6019 ай бұрын
I was there the years 1970-1971 please do anyone remember the statue of 2 little boys facing each other look's to be holding a large tall basket of fish. I had my picture taken with 2 veiws in 1970.
@horstb2910 ай бұрын
Thank you for this nice video Mr. Kurtzman. My father was also stationed at Taukkunen Barracks in the late 50's.
@jjt109310 ай бұрын
man I was there in the 90s with a joint training barracks buildings still standing then :) Remember some "art" on the walls from I guess the 70s pretty cool and the old cook with a cig in her mouth asking about grits LOL
@rogerhatfield878110 ай бұрын
D-18-5, Nov 71. Fort Knox. Then AIT at Fort Jackson 11B10. Remember like it was yesterday!
@stephenandkarenlee551610 ай бұрын
Ft. Knox, August 72 to Oct. 72, A co. 13th Training Battalion 4th Training Brigade. I was the platoon guide for my platoon. I lost 35 lbs. And was tough as nails. I did not enjoy every minute, but overall, I obviously made it. A.I.T. at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. MOS 17L Airborne Sensor Specialist later changed to 96H, Aerial Intelligence Specialist. Flew Right seat in an OV-1 MOHAWK. secondary MOS 71P Flight Operations Specialist. Fond memories now. I wish I knew where my old buddies are now?
@jhonyermo11 ай бұрын
Good Gawd. VOLAR Biggest cluster in the history of the military.
@bobbysimpson623911 ай бұрын
I graduated AIT recon in February 1972 at Ft Knox . I was what our senior drill sergeant called us Nixons Guerillas ( National Guard).
@carlos0629196011 ай бұрын
I did my basic and AIT at Ft Knox in the fall of 1980...
@jameshuckaby-ie2wv5 ай бұрын
AIT 63Y Track Vehicle Mechanic. Co A 2D Bn 4th Brigade. FT KNOX OCT-NOV 1981. Concrete Barracks
@charliewooliver188211 ай бұрын
I went to Ft Leonard Wood in March 1972. I did all that this guy did.
@joynerstephen11 ай бұрын
I miss sounding off during PT. I haven't heard those "SONGS" in over thirty years and I still remember them. It literally takes your mind away from fatigue. You could run all day!!!! 92Y "Quartermaster Soldier"!!!
@WarrenHolly7 ай бұрын
I got goosebumps hearing them call cadence. We were in the new buildings and the sound bouncing off of the buildings was cartoon loud but sergeant loved it.👍🏾
@jerryprice548411 ай бұрын
I took basic and AIT here in 1975 for the Michigan Nat. Guard. B-17-5. I understand all those wooden WW2 barracks are all gone now. "Disneyland," was where we took tank training. Also, there were only two of us who knew how to drive a stick shift so we ended up with cush jobs driving trucks.
@rollinntumblin11 ай бұрын
I did basic training at Ft. Knox about a year earlier than you, Mike. I remember the two hills, Misery and Agony. Good times! Thanks for your video.
@WarrenHolly7 ай бұрын
Why we did three hills? I knew something was wrong with our drill Sargents. Spider man seemed to pop up anytime. We knew he didn't have a girl.🤓 Yeah! Agony Misery and Heartache. One guy dropped midway Up misery we had to carry him to the top where the ambulance waited.
@kennethcurtis185611 ай бұрын
Dad-' boot camp was at Ft Knox in 1943. Transfered to the 7thAD and fought in Holland through the BoB.
@duanedragon211 ай бұрын
I chose 19D and was assigned to Disney barracks Ft Knox KY, Jan 1991 for OSUT Basic training/AIT with Charlie Troop 1/15th Cav. I had forgotten many things before you showed them in your video including Initial Issue. Zero Week/reception was so weird. It was the first time I slept in WW2 Barracks and man those things were the best. The shower was so strong it made me feel cleaner than I had ever been in my short life. Marches, Classes, Ranges, Land Nav, Call for Fire, PT Tests. My cereal froze over during the first field exercise. My M16 was made by GM Hydramatic who also built transmissions. My ASVAB scores were very high and like an idiot I turned down the opportunity to learn Mandarin or Farsi at the DLI on the Presidio of Monterey in California. Went to jump school after Ft Knox, then got stationed at Ft Bragg in 1/17 Cav driving a HMMWV. Good times.
@WarrenHolly7 ай бұрын
Don't feel bad I turned down OCS. Dumb 16 year old.
@brucekish757611 ай бұрын
I did my basic at Knox between August-October 1988, then off to Ft Benjamin Harrison for AIT.
@brucekish757611 ай бұрын
So I'm now a contract instructor for ROTC and was back at Ft Knox for cadet Summer training earlier this summer, 35 years after I did basic. What a shock! All the old WWII buildings were gone. Since the armor had relocated, a number of major commands had moved their Hqs on post. Knox feels more like an office park now than a military base.
@WarrenHolly7 ай бұрын
I went on Google earth and hardly recognized the place. I went a similar route but 10 years earlier. Ben Harrison I had a great time up there. Females all over the place. First time away. We had a ball🤓👍🏾
@bl838811 ай бұрын
I have beak... I wonder if I can peck everyone around me? - Crane
@philipfrancis2593 Жыл бұрын
Basic 69 thanks for the video it where I grew up from a punk kid to a man THANK YOU DI CATLEDGE
@michaeldischer5634 Жыл бұрын
E-12-5 June 1970.
@Explor5252 Жыл бұрын
2nd platoon?
@michaeldischer563411 ай бұрын
2nd or 3rd, sadly I don't recall. DS Hensly and DS Thomas.@@Explor5252
@gregorywilson6425 Жыл бұрын
I was there. E 8 4. ALL EXACTLY AS SHOWN!!!!
@tabo01 Жыл бұрын
BS. You would not have been offered OCS with no college.
@Explor5252 Жыл бұрын
I would not normally reply to comments like this, but your ignorance is noteworthy. Yes, I was offered OCS during my AIT. Who said that I had no college? I had one year completed at OSU, while in Europe I completed an AA degree from the University of Maryland and completed my first BS degree when completing my active duty. Oh, they also offered me helicopter flight training while in basic. I was honor graduate in all of my military training. Before getting off active duty I was teaching physics and chemistry at a school in Fort Belvoir. The only BS and ignorance come from your short, uninformed comment. But thank you anyway.
@tabo0111 ай бұрын
@@Explor5252 more BS
@Explor525211 ай бұрын
Just more ignorance@@tabo01
@visitors98479 ай бұрын
I was eligible for OCS by virtue of my test scores. College had nothing to do with it. 1965.
@justinriley8651 Жыл бұрын
my dad was there in 1964 ! reminds me of the pictures i saw as a kid . those gloves are something special.
@j.b.macadam6516 Жыл бұрын
I went through basic and AIT (OSUT) at Ft. Knox from March '77 to June '77. It seems not much had changed during the 5 years from this video to my time. 11D Cav Scout - Scouts Out!
@WarrenHolly7 ай бұрын
I got there right behind you jul 77. Bravo 15th bn 4th trg bde. Hot summer that year. Turned 17 on my graduation day. Still didn't have no hair on my face yet 🤓✌🏾
@j.b.macadam65167 ай бұрын
@@WarrenHollyYeah, it was a hot summer in '77. I was only 17 and had no facial hair as well! We grew up fast, Brother, and here we are. Have a great Holiday!
@WarrenHolly7 ай бұрын
@@j.b.macadam6516 Happy holidays to you and your loved ones 🙏🏾
@emmetttaylor1739 Жыл бұрын
I was at Fort Knox at that, time I was a19D carvery scout, I went back to Chicago IL to the 85 Div I was in the NG too, I remember as a good time,
@roastbeef441 Жыл бұрын
4march 1991....forever remember
@bettyschulz6449 Жыл бұрын
thank you.
@tonimoon6346 Жыл бұрын
I went to basic at knox, i stood out like a sore thumb coz i went to language school in monterey, ca afterwards, they were mean to me 😭
@WarrenHolly7 ай бұрын
They were mean to everyone.
@mattharper588 Жыл бұрын
1974 D/17/5
@markt4297 Жыл бұрын
I was there a year later. I still remember SFC Jackson who called me slim. The day at Reception we got hair cuts it take a day to sort out who was who. The day we received out M-16, the company lined up at one of those single story warehouse Bldg and we just ran by the door and the threw the M-16's out the and you prayed you didn't drop it. A guy about 10 to 15 people ahead of me stopped just before the door. His M-16 hit the blacktop an and cartwheeled across the road. We all just froze and watched. The SGM was there also frozen in time. A sec later he was face to face with the trainee using soon very choice words. I remember the trainee say he was a conscious objector and would never touch a gun. Some more colorful language. We never some him again.