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@halandhiwater2037 3 ай бұрын
C-11-4 June 1972. U.S. Drill Sgt! Drill Sgt Wise. I hate fricking new cruits!
@timm2020 6 ай бұрын
Awesome video, and great name McKinney. lol
@rogerhatfield8781 Жыл бұрын
D-18-5 NOV 71
@happyinparadise7812 Жыл бұрын
I went through basic and ait @Knox. 1967. Remember shoveling coal into the coal furnaces? I volunteered to be a fireman. Never volunteered again until at the Yakima Firing Center. Long story. Growing up quickly. Many friends didn't make it home....😢😢
@Dabebo-xk2bt Жыл бұрын
The summer of 1981. Echo 13-4 3rd Platoon, Live Proud and Die Proud Sergeant!
@gill5453 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting. A-19-5. Jan73 thru Mar73. Drill Sgt Duty and Drill Sgt Whitehead. 2nd Plt.
@brodocbetty4856 Жыл бұрын
Fort Knox BCT Aug-Oct 1974 D-8-4 anyone else out there, Memories forever.
@michael1242 Жыл бұрын
Ft Knox 1973. Charlie 1. 4.
@t23ev53 Жыл бұрын
Was at Ft.Knox for basic in September of 1970 was in C-8-4 3rd Plt
@frankrobinson4453 Жыл бұрын
Brought back many memories I was there I remember I was in the Echo company 13-4
@harrycraig3226 Жыл бұрын
E 123 FORT KNOX KY JANUARY 28 1968
@MrHiBeta Жыл бұрын
E 15 4 graduated Oct 71. Still have the cycle book.
@jovannyzakpata7021 Жыл бұрын
C 5 1,3rd platoon. Drill Sgt5. Harper.Bitter-sweet memories. Sept. 1972. Regards to all.
@robertmileyjr442 Жыл бұрын
OSUT Fort Benning 2005. 11B
@robertmileyjr442 Жыл бұрын
Awesome Man?😎
@MatArmando 2 жыл бұрын
I was at Ft Knox 70 Jul to 70 Sep, C-11-4 1st Platoon for basic training. I recall our barracks were within sight of the Gold Depository when we were standing in formation in front of our headquarters. My son did his basic training in 2003 we went down for his graduation I was able to find the reception center we were received at when we arrived. I could not find our old WWll barracks. I still remember my D.I Sgt Espinoza, other company D.I. I remember was Sgt Daughtery and Sgt Strong.
@terrenceprzybylski3226 2 жыл бұрын
I was a fort Knox in May 1970, I was in the Illinois national guard, we had RAs and US ,which hated the N G soldiers, after basic went to military police school at Fort Gordon. did 6 years in Illinois 33 military police Battalion, 833 MP Company. I was 19 at the time, and never forgot my experience in the army.
@lknanml 2 жыл бұрын
I was there in June 2008... Joined a bit late at 34...
@chichijima4257 2 жыл бұрын
Some of them never came alive or back home…
@Foomba 2 жыл бұрын
I took basic there in Feb - Mar 1971 and have not been back. I looked at it on Google Earth and I'm pretty sure all the WW2 buildings are gone. The first time I had KP several of us were waiting outside the messhall in the dark for someone to open up. A sergeant approached and the first thing he said was, "I have a case of the ass." He was like that all day long.
@marke8323 2 жыл бұрын
I'm sure they are all torn down. They don't do Basic Training at Ft Knox anymore and the Tank Training was moved to Texas...
@richeemills8533 3 жыл бұрын
D-11-4 July 1970 everything still looks the same.
@clydeoverstreet3289 2 жыл бұрын
E-11-4 July 1970. We were neighbors. Drill Seargeant Catledge.
@richeemills8533 2 жыл бұрын
@@clydeoverstreet3289 Well howdy neighbor.
@MatArmando 2 жыл бұрын
I was C-11-4 July 1970
@lindagonzalez2128 3 жыл бұрын
Muchos nostalgia . Saludos panama canal clayton..
@jeffw1124 3 жыл бұрын
I was at Fort Knox in Feb 81 for Basic and AIT, what memories. Foxtrot company. Retired 20 years later as Master Sergeant. As a matter of fact, weekend of Thanksgiving, wife and I are going there. They have the General Patton museum and the WW2 barracks building, which is what I stayed in. We were packed in there like sardines. I was a punk kid, just turned 17...best thing I ever did.
@MikeMcCue849 3 жыл бұрын
I LOVED FT. KNOX
@coreyhansen4241 3 жыл бұрын
Hi, Rek 550. I'm Corey, and I'm writing to say that I just saw your video of your U.S. Army Basic training at fort Knox. And as I was watching it, I thought about subscribing to your Chanel and writing a few comments to say that I watched it and I liked it. And even though you're an American and I'm Canadian, I appreciate your service. And, thank you for your service. I went to the Canadian forces recruiting centre 3 times, because I was interested in that kind of work. But, I didn't pass the Canadian forces aptitude test. Any way, I wish you all the best with your youbechanel, and you have my support. Any way thank your for your service. Corey. Corey Hansen from canada.
@connerkirk1043 3 жыл бұрын
Out of 250 soldiers I was 2nd place on the M-16 almost maxed the test 74 out of 80 rounds I was there July of 1977
@yorbaballestero2751 3 жыл бұрын
Conosi.mi.amor.Lois.clayton.panama.1971..
@watchman401 3 жыл бұрын
I was D-12-5, 4th PLT. March to May 1972
@jackfitzpatrick8173 3 жыл бұрын
Fort Knox...1969...Echo/13/4,we always come back for more...Echo,Echo,Echo galore!
@bodyboardingchronicles602 3 жыл бұрын
TANKERS LEAD THE WAY 👊😎
@jonnyfennessy9812 3 жыл бұрын
Shipped here in 2002 one month after signing as a 82C. Jesus was it a wake up call. 46th The Professionals...our last run to get out, where by the old barracks & parade ground you see in the video. I do miss it, some of the finest human beings I ever meet.
@insulater1 3 жыл бұрын
Fifteenth Battalion Company C Forth Platoon Drill Sergeant Metnzer Commenced Training 16 January 1978 Completed Training 2 March of 1978 Newer Barracks then off to Sheridan Turret Mechanic school and stayed in splinter village those old wooden barracks..
@2098elk 3 жыл бұрын
Too all my brothers and sisters who served during the Vietnam War, Welcome Home! Fort Polk, LA 65 to 67.
@Leeward54 4 жыл бұрын
C 12 5. January 1973.
@markwilliams3140 4 жыл бұрын
I was at Ft.Knox, for BCT early January to late February 1974, was with A-16-4. Drill Instructors were SSG Richard Pastora and Sgt. Clarence Seals. I remember too well "running up Agony and down Misery.
@marke8323 2 жыл бұрын
Misery Agony and Heartbreak!
@craigwood1216 4 жыл бұрын
That is me bottom center right of drill Sargent. 48 years ago Craig wood
@rek550 4 жыл бұрын
Isn't that you at 2:55 with Maurice Jemison? Good to hear from you Craig.
@rek550 4 жыл бұрын
Also at 3:30 with me on left and "somebody" in the middle.
@craigwood1216 4 жыл бұрын
Yes at 2:52 pinball, 3:27 Lt, 3:40 on tank, 6:30 pointing. This is first contact with anyone in 48 years. I member I always had a camera with me and you can see the strap in some pictures. I was the squad leader 4 squad start to finish. So very glad to hear from you.
@rek550 3 жыл бұрын
@@craigwood1216 Yeah, I noticed you carried that camera around a lot. Would love to see some of the pictures you took. By the way, where did you end up for permanent duty station?
@idunno4891 4 жыл бұрын
They were all bitches to climb after marching for 10 or twenty miles with a full ruck
@idunno4891 4 жыл бұрын
I could be wrong. And your right. It was a thousand years ago. U remember agony and misery all too well. But I can swear we went up a hill called tank Hill. I was in basic at Knox in 1986. I was there when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. We were in the chiw line outside when our d.i. came outside and told us about it....
@slicksterslickster3409 4 жыл бұрын
My dad wore that patch on his uniform at fort riley
@rosswalters9194 4 жыл бұрын
September 1970 drafted at age 19 (my number was 79 in the draft lottery) and assigned to Company C 10th Battalion 5th Brigade. Drill Sergeant Buck Sgt. Milne. A pretty decent guy who was going to ETS shortly after we completed training. I was selected to serve KP THREE TIMES - more than any other persons in our company and it was torture. Buffing the floors of those WWII barracks was a scream. Still, I had no trouble completing the physical and C-41 tests at the end of basic. The E.M. Club was pretty wild. WAC's so unattractive you had to wonder why troops were lined up to dance with them. Pay was $78 per month. I remember winning $50 in a poker game and the loser would have liked to kill me. Was given a Civilian Acquired Skill M.O.S. and ordered to work at the Ft. Knox Personnel office - no A.I.T. (I worked at an advertising agency prior to getting drafted). Spent my entire term of service at Ft. Knox and while it was no dream come true it was better than my Brother who wound up in Vietnam living under two shelter half's for months during the Monsoons building airstrips in the mountains. He was soaked by Agent Orange twice and came under sniper fire once. A different person when he returned. They killed his spirit. Never married and a nervous wreck. He's still alive, but barely. I consider myself lucky.
@ninemilliondollars 4 жыл бұрын
My older brother was drafted into the Marine Corps in '67 and also was wounded in Vietnam. When he returned I think he was kind of lost for a year and then re-enlisted in the US Air Force and served like 24 years. I was drafted in May, '70 and at the end of basic at Knox, heard the AIT "deciders" saying I should be a 13H - Field Artillery, and assigned to Ft. Sill in Oklahoma. And on my DD-214, there is a faint "13-H" in the notes that looks like it was erased, but not all the way. Well, I'm think they re-examined my aptitude scores and that I had gone to college and assigned me to 05B - Radio Operator at Ft. Jackson, Columbia, SC. After that, I was in a second AIT at Ft. Gordon, Augusta, GA and came out with as a 05C - Radio-Teletype/Morse Code Operator. Unknown to me, I was selected for a Top Secret/Special Intelligence clearance and assigned to the Signal Corps' Army Security Agency. This elite org normally required a 4-year commitment by enlistees. Weird I wa selected. Then I was ordered to Vietnam. At Oakland Army Transport Center in California, at the last moment, they said I could go to Vietnam or take a job at an Army Company at Ft. Bliss, El Paso, TX. I took Bliss and ended up in a company with nine experimental twin-engine Beechcraft aircraft loaded with electronic warfare equipment. My job was to serve as Security Admin, fingerprinting soldiers, handling classified badges and documents, and communicating with ASA HQ in Arlington, VA. Thanks to you for your service, and for your brother for his. US Army - 1970-1971.
@juliewhite7066 4 жыл бұрын
did basic in 74 the new barracks A-15-4 and ait C-2-1 tanker forever. don white
@rockstone5313 4 жыл бұрын
I was at fort know October 1973 c-18-5 drill sergeants sr drill Elmore and drill Sargent Lloyd. the trainees of today have no idea of how different is was back then lol. went from there to fort Eustis VA for my M.O.S. 67GU20 was a CH 47 helicopter mechanic mostly on the chinooks and door gunner in flight . my job was to fly on the chinook as a door gunner and if it got hit coming into a hot LZ repair it when we got away from there or if it wouldn't fly and crippled repair in under incoming fire so we could get out of there. I never will forget when we were marched from the reception station barracks over to the basic training barracks the drill Sargent marched us up to where the basic training barrack started and said platoon halt , platoon at ease ,then he said men turn around and look and we did he then said take a long look you are leaving heaven and entering the gates of hell! called us back to attention and marched us on over and was not long till we all knew just what he meant by that lol .
@rjapcok 4 жыл бұрын
A-11-4 "We are the best! Thank you sir!"
@paulbusse947 4 жыл бұрын
I was A-11-4 Sep '71-Nov '71!
@idunno4891 4 жыл бұрын
A-18-4. Alpha gators for life. January 86 to may 86
@rjapcok 4 жыл бұрын
@@paulbusse947 I was Jan-Mar 1972!
@respondertoashithead 5 жыл бұрын
March 1970 C !0 5. Vietnam December 8 1970 until November 1971
@ninemilliondollars 4 жыл бұрын
What was your MOS?
@marke8323 5 жыл бұрын
I did Basic at Ft Knox in the fall of '77, we still lived in the old 2 story WW 2 barracks. One day someone's boots came up missing from the second floor and since no one seemed to know anything about them, the Drill Sergeant determined that Gremlins must have taken them and made everyone from the 2nd floor go on a Gremlin hunt. Evidently Gremlins preferred to live under WW 2 Barracks as they spent the next couple hours crawling and searching underneath there. I believe the boots finally showed up at some point...
@connerkirk1043 3 жыл бұрын
I was there too July 7th 1977 in the WW2 barracks
@keithalan1 2 жыл бұрын
I was there June of 76
@herbiesnerd 5 жыл бұрын
C-19-4, Best damn fighting force United States Army, Ramrods Drill Sergeant! 20AUG76 2nd Platoon DS’s Pursely, Gallagher and Purdy.
@kayakerfl 5 жыл бұрын
D-19-5, May 1972
@ninemilliondollars 5 жыл бұрын
Forgot to ask - how about marching Agony, Misery, Heartbreak, and No Name (or Dirty Name) hills. I knew of all of them but only remember marching Agony & Misery. Ugh!
@marke8323 4 жыл бұрын
We had been out to the Firing Range all day and at dark we road marched back towards the Barracks and with the monotony of the march I looked up at the sky an observed an aircraft high in the sky and it kept getting closer and closer until I realized when it passed me was an ambulance that traveled with the Company! lol That was my introduction to Misery, Agony and Heartbreak!!!
@idunno4891 4 жыл бұрын
Brother I'm there with you! What about tank Hill???
@ninemilliondollars 4 жыл бұрын
@@idunno4891 We didn't go up Tank Hill as far as I can remember. If you can, tell us more about it.
@marke8323 4 жыл бұрын
@@idunno4891 I don't recall "Tank Hill", but we weren't tankers, just regular Basic Training and it was One Thousand years ago! lol
@idunno4891 4 жыл бұрын
Maybe when I was there, no name was tank hill
@ninemilliondollars 5 жыл бұрын
I was A-11-4 May '70 to Jul '70. Terrific pictures of the old barracks, aka fire hazards. Every night from lights-out 'til morning one of us had to be a fireguard for two hours and do anything they wanted except sit down. I'd take the second to last shift so I could shower before the hot water was gone. We had to wax the center aisle and once that was done, NOBODY was ever allowed to walk on it so we'd not have to do it again. Company orders were anytime we were outside and went somewhere, we had to run; no walking, unless it was a no-duty day. One of the other platoons DI would have his men, who just got cleaned up in the morning, go through the low-crawl sawdust pits every morning. Many of them would skip breakfast and take another shower so they didn't itch all day.
@marke8323 4 жыл бұрын
Ya Fire Watch sucked, but they said one of those old WW2 Barracks could go up like Fuel Tanker Fire if ignited.
@ninemilliondollars 4 жыл бұрын
@@marke8323 Faster than a tanker! LOL
@DDThornton51 5 жыл бұрын
D-8-4 Sept 1971, where are the helmet liners?
@bobbyt749 2 жыл бұрын
D-8-4 Also!
@ara13blackwater55 5 жыл бұрын
🙏💯🙏