Military Service Memories : Making a Military Bed.

If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. Who remembers making their beds in the morning?
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[@mokgz169]

No attempt will be made to explain this too you We slept underneath the bed😂

[@OlizerVanAntoninus]

Yet, they'd klaar you aan for sleeping on the floor, so we just took the opvok for not having a great inspection

[@mokgz169]

@@OlizerVanAntoninus Hulle het. Maar hulle slaap ook. Die floor was soos hard soos die bed Allmal loop as een bed kak gemaak is

[@mikewood9514]

This is needed for every single young person today.

[@chuckbester8430]

Infantry School 1983 intake. Cpl Snygaans ! If things were not to his liking he would chase us around the amblition blocks " kakhuis gaan" if we really upset him we had to go up the hill around the flagpole "vlagpaal gaan" The crem of afkak was when the samejoor waited outside the camp backgate with the medics and the field ambulance. That was for a kompenie opfok. Not for the faint harted. It made men of boys.

[@markwillies7666]

I can assure you Mr Narrator there were no recruits amongst that lot.We were all conscripts.

[@bangochupchup]

I was in the USMC forty years ago. The 1st Sergeant would throw your mattress and bedding off the third floor into the muddy hedge if it wasn't right, lol. Much respect to the SADF.

[@WarOfootage]

0:54 nobody can convince me that that guy doesn’t look like Leonardo DiCaprio

[@triobros98]

He was in a movie where he played a rhodesian man

[@jaygatsby5013]

he doesn’t

[@ernestalexander3205]

When I saw this photo I thought it was me , then i saw the emblem , not a granaat . Agter elke Bok Kop staan n' f@*op , agter elke granaat staan n' soldaat . Gunners rule 😉😉😊👍

[@PeterNgola]

@WarOffootage the man in this video is in fact Danny Archer bru

[@hestervandermerwe7828]

Dalk sy pa😂😂

[@gerhaldlaubscher8321]

Ek was in die TDK. 8 SAI. Leër geveg skool, oorlog oefening Blits 2. Het af gekak in my tyd. Daar was geen liefde tussen die infanteriste en tiffies nie. As ons uit daai LWT gestap het is ons gedril solank daai infanteris seksie korporale hulle ons kon raaksien, maar dit het my hard en n beter mens gemaak. Ek is trots op wat ek moes deurmaak. N tiffie met n infanteris beret. So jammer ons geskiedenis is onder die mat in gevee en dieselfde gemors wat ons van skool af teen voorberei is, is nou in beheer van wat ons so hard voor gewerk het.

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

Dit was kak.

[@tripwire8457]

Wel gedaan boet! Respek. Ek het my basiese opleiding in die infanterie by 8 SAI gedoen. Taai tye, wonderlike herinneringe ook. Skeerinspeksie. Dril en merkeer die pas vir 'n volle 30 minute, knieë so hoog soos jou heupe. Ek kan steeds beter as die meeste by veteraanparades dril (gedenkdienste). Goeie ou 8 SAI.

[@jemtuck1]

I tried slinging a hammock under my bed, technically not on the floor :-). My corporal thought otherwise and that ended in a Opv*k

[@ZaraPoeta]

Jha... Die goeie ou dae... Kyk noord en...

[@frednel4326]

Dang I'll never forget those days lol.. then our military was still a force to be reckoned with and army life was hard, but it made men outta boys 😉👍.. 1979 jan to 1980 Dec at 1rst Sai mech division in Bloemfontien was my intake as a 20mm ratel gunner and I loved it and the bush .. maar ons het hard geveg vir vokkol man 👎

[@tripwire8457]

Not completely for 'vokkol' - at least 2 generations grew up in better circumstances.

[@francoisduplessis2413]

@@tripwire8457 en as die kak die fan strike wat dan?

[@jovanblom7742]

The edges of our beds had to be 'sharp enough to shave on' and we all slept under them, not on or in them.

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

I like the shaving foam trick: must try that!

[@endofunk2174]

We slept on the floor one time, and the corporal used a fire extinguishers to wake everyone up; huge mess than required massive after hour effort to remedy; wooden floors were permeated with white powder and we struggled to get it to shine. Spent the next few days carrying around sand bags during training as reminder to not try this again, and spent the nights cleaning our equipment, ironing and polishing floors.

[@wallaceminnaar7727]

Good old days

[@jack-ch5lr]

Well said

[@ernestalexander3205]

Did my Service at 10 Anti Aircraft Regiment in Youngsfield as an Instructor ( Bombadier ) Their we use to have a Witbed ( Hospitaal ) inspection. June 1971 to July 1972 Lekker Afkak . 😛😛😛😛

[@simonmccourt675]

Remember this..as if yesterday..tough but got easier.36 years ago.6 SAI.

[@LitoGeorge]

In Oudtshoorn, I was fortunate enough to receive a mattress that resembled a banana shape it was so old and used. But true fortune favoured me, because underneath that mattress was a metal frame whose slats were broken in a few places. I bent them every single morning in a bell shaped curve, which then propped up said mattress into a rectangular box shape after all the tricks. I never used shaving cream I dont think. I used water from a spray bottle, and with an iron + dixie it was enough to get perfectly crisp 90degree corners on my bed sides. We won about 60-70% of our inspections and they were intense given the JL's leadership course we were on. Charlie Coy, Infantry School 1991.

[@joeavent5554]

I had it easy in naval boot camp compared to these recruits. I remember sleeping on the floor night before a formal bay inspection.

[@Smitesaures]

Nou Kan Lesotho se vloot on wen.

[@user-xj8vm6me5m]

They forgot the washing line pegs between the frame and the foam mattress so your " beddens lyk nie soos n boot nie". Brings back fond memories which I don't want to repeat.

[@monikalupp1137]

Most of us slept beneath the bed 😂🇿🇦😂☺

[@danielfourie5500]

Well army taught me to drive and when i left they helped me convert to code 10 civvy licence.too bad you thought you wasted your time there.most wasters do waste time anyway!

[@africansinclair]

A long time ago in a place now far away, 12SAI, then SADF dog centre, BurkesLuck potholes. 1992-1994

[@Ginger4789]

1976 intake best time of my life loved it ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@deerasmus3870]

Reminds me on Instructors we had to Startch that f$cking seam😂

[@davecsa7286]

Who remembers ? How could we forget, our Corporals were much worse than these two at 5SAI

[@shadekiahpops8988]

This corporal seems very polite.

[@scottwarwick7514]

Can only be the cameras 😂

[@monikalupp1137]

If they where too bad corporal would find himself wrapped in his bed sheet randomly getting skopped

[@piet8803]

When I was still a child those guys looked like grown men to me, but now you can see they were only boys. Only on the outside obviously.

[@robert-trading-as-Bob69]

I was at 2 SSB in Zeerust in 1989. I ended up with the worst bloody bedframe and mattress you could think of. The metal cross slats were bent down as if the worlds fattest troep had jumped up and down on the the damned thing like a trampoline. The foam mattress cover was brand new, making me think the mattress was too... it wasn't. The foam was so old it had lost it's form. Try making a sharp looking bed out of that lot, I challenge you to try! I propped up the sagging mattress from underneath with tensioned clothes pegs and anything else I could find to make the bed look presentable, but nothing could have made that bed look acceptable in the eyes of a blind corporal. To my horror, after hours of work on it, the NCO grabbed the blanket and yanked it off the bed. Yeah... the way the pegs flew through the air like slivers of shame still haunt me over 30 years later. Later I would wish that an errant peg had staked the corporal in his black heart, and even wondered if I'd get a medal for ridding the army of that sadist... The next day School of Armour held selection for JL's, and I bullshitted my way out of Zeerust to Bloem just to get away from that damned bed. I did not make the same mistake at Pantserskool. Oh no, not me, I inspected the bed frame and foam mattress with a professional eye the second time around. Mind you, I still made a crappy bed no matter how hard I tried, despite making my bed everyday in boarding school.

[@tripwire8457]

I was the only guy in my entire bungalow with a 'chicken wire' bed. I don't know where the hell it came from, but there was always a piece of sheet poking through underneath, not matter what I did. That bed caused me a lot of grief, including a six hour oppie.

[@robert-trading-as-Bob69]

@@tripwire8457 6 hours is a bit drastic over a damned bed! F-ing up on the shooting range, yes, and deserved. It sounds like you just dodged DB and got a groot oppie instead. Were you the 'example' our beloved corporals liked to torture to keep the rest in line?

[@user-pe9wc4il5o]

Was in 7SAI Phalaborwa het van Burcksluck oor getrek was eerstes om nuwe basis te begin nie skeerroom kak gebruik nie baie mooi flash gehad ROOIKAT

[@nicolaasjansevanrensburg7543]

7sai 🎉

[@user-fq1hf4bn1g]

Todays kids are softys

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

Kids don't know a matchbox😢

[@felixyoghurt3291]

Snowflakes

[@aprilsmith3683]

I admire the Israelis when it comes to all citizens doing mandatory military service... After matriculating and attending Teacher's Training College for four years...my only option as a female in 1987 was the navy... Four years of military service plus two years of compulsory teaching seemed a long time at the age of twenty one... I taught for twenty-five wonderful years... I have always wondered though... 🇿🇦

[@manseljames]

We we not TRAINED fighting soldiers, we were canon fodder............................

[@mazambane286]

Hardloop om die bungalow tot EK moeg is! Weg is julle!

[@jovanblom7742]

Korporaal: "Troep, gaan haal vir my 'n blaar van die boom op daai koppie - daar gat jy, cheers!" And then, "Wat? Is jy terug? Nee, dis die verkeerde blaar - gaan haal die een langs hom!"

[@kingsman3087]

@@jovanblom7742 Afrikaans kan in die riool gaan

[@bolshoefeodor6536]

😂😂😂 Ja, ou beeu! Lat waai, julle vokken moes troepe!

[@wallaceminnaar7727]

Ja nee met n marble of n sand sak😂

[@alanthom4641]

Dang.......I was in the Air Force ......Valhalla Sands. There, the corporals made our beds for us!!!😂😂😂😂

[@adduplessis713]

I'm in the military,I use though a shoe brush to iron correctly against the sides of the bed,not a dixie.

[@nowhearthis5067]

Yes Corporal! How many men have said THAT in their lives? LoL

[@user-he4th4sy8u]

my dad was there no jokes

[@whangjohnlizhao550]

250 ADAG Hammanskraal.

[@antascii]

I did just 4 months short of a full two years in the airforce - the intake after me did just one year. Then did one month long camp during Mandela’s inauguration. In total the biggest waste of time ever. 21 wasted months I’ll never get back.

[@mikebacklund5044]

I did 2 years (79 - 81) Army and 13 camps. Last one was in 94 with the elections.

[@antascii]

@@mikebacklund5044 - I was in primary school when you did your national service: Started High School (Std 6) in 1982. Did you enjoy the military experience? I suppose if you love that kind of life then national service wouldn't seem so bad.

[@mikebacklund5044]

It wasn't too bad in retrospect but I wouldn't want to go through it again😅

[@antascii]

@@mikebacklund5044 - me neither!

[@Kevin-sp7wp]

English, coming from Randfontein. Difficulty in understanding afrikaans in the beginning.

[@sidewindersid4180]

This is how we do it in Sith Ifrika....

[@naguerea]

How I miss my military bed, I have one I my room and sleep well I it.

[@killermarfidyoh138]

What's the name documentary did this scene come from?

[@gandalf87264]

Where on earth did we talk English in the army back in the day? Jy is nou in die weermag. Of jy praat Afrikaans of Jy is gefok.

[@zenzeleluckymtshali8433]

different rstuarant ttype with london citizens for trauma for those abroad in mid country britain in 2003/4 continuity or a stall in services in that area yes foreign allowances for citizens like us

[@premierhoner614]

Today's mammas boys will take a domestic servant to do that for him. Did my time in 86/87.. 😅

[@Thebudokid87]

Wish my corporal was this nice😢

[@kingsman3087]

question: what was the point of the SADF ?

[@Thebudokid87]

@kingsman3087 the same as any other defense force. To protect the country and its people.

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

I am sure that guy will switch when the camera is gone 😅

[@wallaceminnaar7727]

Staff Fritz sal jou se jou ma is n hond, jou pa is n hond en nou stuur hulle jou army toe want n hond kan nie agter sy eie puppy kyk nie nou moet die army dit doen😂😂😂

[@wijpke]

Love the bed making routine 😅if you make it like the corporal wants every morning you will have very little sleep which makes you very docile and open to brainwashing....😅

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

That's wh we slept underneath

[@wijpke]

@@KonradvonHotzendorf I still sleep on the floor

[@DanTheZombieGaming]

Dienspilg moet terug kom. Die jong outjietjes van vandag moet bietjie afkak. Dan kan daar weer disapliene kom. Kort hare,netjies aangeteek staan regop as jy praat. Diesplig vir almal temisnste 6md of 1 jaar. Kies weermag,polisie of bewaarder .

[@willemesterhuizen8037]

If you were a real soldier you would have realised that the beds are not the same size you had to measure them and swap them out from adjacent empty bungallows everything had to be the same and be measured with a string !!! If the corp or Samajor comes in at the one end he has to be amased at the conformity of the bungalow as a whole once you realize that than you had won !!!!!!!

[@willemesterhuizen8037]

I realized a few things early and it made my journey through life much easier the military trainining made me and today i still live diciplined !!!!!!

[@YouTubePrimer-zm1xi]

That's pretty excessive

[@tuntuntumtum8887]

that like the dumbest thing ... whats the point ?

[@johankindberg7967]

Wtf🤣🤣🤣

[@billyjohnesterhuizen6340]

janee die bokkoppe het alles oordoen!!!!

[@user-pg7iq8zd5u]

I hated every minute of every day in the South African Defense force...thank God Mandela in 1994 was elected and that brought the end to the MADNESS

[@douwhurter8935]

So you must then hate all aspects of discipline. The new South Africa should suite you 100% then.

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

Was a continuation of boarding school We where well trained, equipped and our Officers cared about us You just soft. A squishy

[@jack-ch5lr]

Run back to mummys apron sonny !!!

[@gerhardvanderpoll7378]

Now we have a DEMOCRAZY...what can be madder....????

[@ernestalexander3205]

Slap Gat , you've got no Balls Wanker

[@CasperEloff-eo1lh]

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