Veteran Reacts to MODERN Basic Training!

[@NarratorWins]

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[@nevikthevol4life699]

Hey so that new uniform for the Army is called AGSU or Army Greens Service Uniform. I love seeing these videos been thinking about doing something like this myself. I am still serving going on 10 years this September. Thanks for all the videos you do and for your service as well keep up the great content. Love you and the boys

[@luckyswordsmen991]

We already know the pudding story high speed

[@BigBenMcgirkson]

Fort benning was renamed fort moore recently

[@FaithMcleod-t2i]

narrator you should reacht to uk army traning

[@jodyray]

Those patches are for turning green narrator

[@diamond-dog-6412]

When narrator said that guy is built like a giraffe, that guy is in my unit right now

[@iamthrawn]

no fucking way lol

[@YangX.L.]

Wait, how tf you able to watch KZbin?

[@iamthrawn]

@@YangX.L. he is probably out of basic ig

[@jaime4231]

The army is not prison, after BT you are allowed to have electronics like a computer and phone.

[@thomasvansuilichem3561]

@@YangX.L. it aint a prison

[@captaincouldverc]

HEAR ME OUT: "Narrator and his vet buddies, transform the boys into certified units by the end of summer" series?

[@ratman0199]

Then what start a PMC 😅 wait.....

[@ThePawsketeer]

@@ratman0199 PMC Boys! PMC Boys! PMC Boys! PMC Boys!

[@willlavine1105]

yes

[@keonyang3332]

Will 100% watch that if it happens.

[@Khornecussion]

​@@ratman0199 Yyyyes. You've heard of Blackwater, get ready for Whitefire.

[@the_sniping_guru]

had a guy in basic i'll never forget. it was the first week of White Phase where we did the rappel tower. This dude was absolutely TERRIFIED to go down. He got a quarter of the way, LITERALLY pissed all over himself and crying. At one point he let go of his rappel hand instead of his brake hand, and went upside down and didn't know how to fix himself. He was screaming and crying just hanging there for almost 20 minutes. The Drill Sergeants WOULD NOT let it go the rest of basic. They even told the story at graduation. It was hilarious and a story this poor bastard will never live down XD XD XD

[@mailesmyth]

We had a guy piss himself in a foxhole - just from holding a loaded rifle from what i heard. 1st platoon and pvt Abel were then firmly entrenched in the cadences we used when there were no DS around.

[@MastroGaming]

Story time: during basic at jackson, we just finished our first aid simulation course and were conducting our AAR. I may..or may not have been feeling sleepy, told my buddy to wake me if he sees me nodding. He did not realize I was asleep since I was sitting against a tree with a pen still in my hand. Another platoon's drill caught me and kicked my boot to wake me up and had me go see my DS (who I was shit scared of) who was in middle of conversation with 2 other drills. He took my name tape and said "I got you pvt". This happened on a thursday, nothing happened when back to barracks, nothing happened friday, nothing saturday. I was mentally f'd because all I wanted to know is WHEN..Sunday during area beautification I went back upstairs to my bed and found my name tape with a note saying "your lucky you didnt F up again"

[@ri.co_]

😂 what battalion were you?

[@robertgray3710]

Yeah drills did that to a lot of people when we got to black phase. Albiet they should’ve just gotten their pass ripped

[@azur_night]

Marine Corps veteran here, I remember the repel tower very well. We did have someone mess up on it. There was a recruit that was on the side of the repel tower that didn't have a wall. We called that spot the helicopter drop because it's like repelling from a helicopter. We had one recruit forget that there was no wall and swing into nothingness, swing up and hit the bottom of the platform, and drop the entire distance of the tower. He was able to get stopped right before hitting the ground and was swiftly taken out of sight by a Drill Instructor.

[@jonasspindler643]

Still serving in the Army, during OSUT at the repel tower we had WAY too many dudes who were unfathomably terrified of this tower they had to go down. Our Drill Sergeants knowing this motivated each and every single one of us by screaming that the rope was going to break and we had to go down faster otherwise we were going to die 🤣

[@ssgtwolverine6245]

Lol yes, had that happen with our DI during my basic a few times

[@mezmerizer0266]

60ft repel towers are the shortest I enjoy 1 bounding from.

[@garnettekken]

I thought the repel tower was really fun. But i’m a rock climber so i’d done that shit before

[@john2g1]

I joined the military during the 2005 - 2006 troop surge, so there was way too many of us to see what was happening in front. Once I got down I couldn't see what was happening behind me either. As far as I can tell no one was forced to go down, but there were a few who were so nervous they failed to release the tension long enough for gravity to take hold. There was an audible bell ring sound whenever a head in a helmet met with the metal tubing at the edge of the tower. I think at least one person might have face planted into the repel tower, but I can't say for certain as it was almost two decades ago.

[@IconIcon-p9j]

I would piss myself if I ever had to do that but I also feel like it would be something I would end up doing everyday after getting used to it

[@ChasTango]

Former marine corps here, wow watching this was a blast from the past. Phone calls in boot camp is insane. Also I remember going in with nothing but the clothes on my back and my ID. Love your stuff

[@zachbunch8701]

If you get it, they primarily use it as a reward for winning certain competitions between the platoons but it’s like an hour or two on Sunday. Highly dependent on your DS though some got it, some didn’t.

[@emosidios]

I always wanted to go into marines but my school only had afjrotc so I did that since it was there but I remember going to see a marine recruiter and he told me I was to fat at 17 I was 180 that killed my motivation afterwards. Ps reason for marines was my sister did her basic training while I was in high-school

[@roguespearsf]

@@emosidios shouldn't have been a disgusting fat body, not private

[@-slice-6103]

@@emosidiosthat shouldve motivated you to lose it all and join

[@Gruntman441]

Clarifying some points that he was wondering in this video: This Army video was filmed at Fort Jackson, SC (at least most of it was) and the training can vary depending on your MOS (ie if you did OSUT instead of BCT+AIT). 4:12 Trainees get to wear this patch after completing the Forge (last FTX of BCT) and wear it until they complete AIT. Afterwards that patch is replaced by their unit patch. 4:35 No, you cannot roll up your sleeves/pant legs on your own unless command orders the company to. They only do this if there's high risk of heat causalities. In the brief clip other trainees had their sleeves rolled up as well so command definitely ordered them to do that. 4:50 and 23:04 This is the Army Green Service Uniform (AGSU) which is replacing the Army Service Uniform (ASU). 7:41 The colors are from the Army's nutritional program, where green means the food is "high performance," yellow is "moderate performance," and red is "low performance." Most of the time the DFAC is only going to serve yellow and red tagged food anyways (you really only see green tags at the salad bar) so this program doesn't mean much. Also going to the DFAC three times a day through out BCT is a lie, for my cycle we only went once or twice a week until after the Forge, where it then became three times a day. 8:25 Trainees do get phone time on Sundays, but it really is at the discretion of the cadre. Your personal phones are kept in a box with the cadre, and they take them out when it's phone time. For my cycle it was usually 30 minutes on Sunday, but from what I heard from other people I met at AIT their cadre only gave them phone time twice through out their whole cycle. It also isn't a guarantee that we got phone time on Sunday, it really just dependent on if our platoon was good that week, and which DS was on shift that day. Mail is the only consistent way you can communicate with family/friends. 12:31 He's wrong here but his BCT was probably different than mine, or he's referring to the reception DSs. You do meet your training cadre right after leaving reception. 14:07 They're doing the "First 100 Yards" which is a Day 0 team building exercise that "officially" replaced the Shark Attack. I say "officially" because from what I've heard some BCT units still do some sort of version of the Shark Attack. 15:29 For whatever reason we didn't use PT belts in BCT. I didn't use one until AIT. 18:12 Yes, if you're lucky the bus driver will play music. I think one of them was a retired SSG or SFC, but he was everyone's favorite because he had a whole playlist and would always play a variety of music for us. 21:59 This is part of the Soldier Induction Ceremony that shows the history and past uniforms of the US Army. 23:22 I assume the heat was way too severe for the graduation ceremony to be held outdoors which is why they're doing it in the gym in short sleeves. In normal circumstances the ceremony is outdoors. 26:17 He's right. Chances are your DS is a 11B that has multiple combat deployments, is airborne or air assault, and is skilled in combatives. Apparently some trainee in my cycle tried to fight my SDS during locker inspections and he ended up getting laid out by my SDS and MPs had to come lock him up.

I'm guessing the color scheme for the meals also has an impact on those in the fat boy program. I was in the AF (EOD though so not "Chair Force") back in the early 2000's and when they switched to using BMI, I got put on the fat boy program for about a week until someone looked at me and said I shouldn't be. I was doing 30 minutes of calisthenics, 30 minutes of weights then a 3 mile run 5 days a week and was jacked. They said I couldn't eat things like donuts and cake but didn't really have a way to track it then. Maybe this is a way they can now: block your CAC from being able to get things in the red category.

[@KazamHD]

all lame shit they added to give participation trophies to gen z little turds

[@Daisyduke419]

TY TY I was wondering about some of this!

[@SubParPilot]

Most drill sergeant today have never deployed. E7 and below, maybe 10 percent deployed these days. Deployments are few and far now.

[@allysonmyers4182]

I love this video! At 23:45 that’s me and my best friend at his graduation!! I drove 10 hours to be there!!

[@jake51515]

During my time at ft. Benning, stupid they changed the name, there was a guy named woods, real skinny black guy. This was back in 2010, but his mother sent 4 boxes of honey buns to share amongst the platoon about 2 days before we graduated even though we all were told to not get sent any contraband. My drill sgts. Made him eat all 4 boxes and then immediately after we did a 5 mile company run. He was puking like crazy! Good times!

[@Captain_Razor_88]

Air Force vet (cue Chair Force jokes), we had a few who were intimidated by the repel tower. This was just after the TI/recruit scandal, and they were just starting to implement the "hurt feelings support" policies. We told our TI not to dare hold back on us, that we were there for the full ride and wanted everything that that entailed. The looks our TI got from his fellows and especially the blue ropes when he cussed us out for messing up were legendary, we had a sit down with the Master Sergeant where we had to explain that we requested to be treated in the traditional manner, that we were adults who expected to be broken down so we could be built back up into what the military needed us to be. Needless to say the swearing and team punishments continued as we shaped up as a flight. To motivate us for PT excellence, our TI offered an extra 15 minutes to our weekly phone call time for every PT belt color we surpassed as a flight, yellow, green, blue, Everyone made blue that first PT evaluation and maintained it for the rest of basic, lol. PT and academic excellence, expert marksmen, beast week, guess which flight was standing tall with chests puffed out when they were awarded honor flight and asked to be flag bearers for the graduation ceremony, a first for our TI who had forged several honor flights before us. Now they issue those hurt feelings cards to recruits where if they ever feel offended or such, they are allowed to complain (one TI had to make a public apology to a rainbow weeker). When they tried to give my flight those cards, we ripped them up in front of the Master Sergeant once he finished handing them out. He didn't know wether to be pissed or pleased.

[@EmilioRodriguez-cd2jo]

Tearing up those cards is badass, I would’ve been proud to see it honestly

[@RandomPerson-yl9ge]

They need to remove the "hurt feelings support" policies, I trust 1 platoon of true soldiers over a battalion of cry babies.

[@Quinmcgaming]

Honestly, my high flying friend. I wish i joined the air force. Ya’ll have nicer shit for the enlisted than the Army gives their NCO’s and Officers

[@XxToy_SolderxX]

hold on... ya'll got weekly phone calls, for more than 2 minuets, I had a total of 2 phone calls my entire training cycle at Fort Jackson, and those were when I got to my training unit and after blue phase...

[@zdr7420]

​@@XxToy_SolderxX bruh, I was literally about to say the same thing, I was at Jackson too and we got 3 phone calls total, 1 after each phase

[@Tsukidal]

I went to Navy basic training in 2017, one of my clearest memories of it was my RDCs telling us to shut the fuck up on laundry day so they could play the new Kendrick album. I quickly understood the game that was boot camp and ended up enjoying the agony of the people who took the yelling and bullshit commands/punishments 100% seriously, the hardest part ended up being trying not to laugh at the most unhinged shit the RDCs could come up with

[@NEEDbacon]

To be fair, one of the best descriptions I heard about basic was "it's a Comedy show you're NOT allowed to laugh at"

[@ARIOS44]

17:22 he said exactly what i was thinking 😂

[@jaydenmorris2560]

Yeah. In the Navy, we aren't allowed to speak in parade rest. When I got my peanut butter shot, the guy next to me when he got his, we had six of us getting it at the same time. He moaned.

[@UltimateSayan1]

Never seen anyone talk in parade rest either, must just be an army/marine thing. Peanut butter shot is still the worst medical shot to this day. Had someone get medsep in boot camp due to the guy finding out he had cancer.

[@jaydenmorris2560]

@@UltimateSayan1 This wasn't even a moan of pain. It actually sounded like he was getting penetrated in a different way tho.

[@williamhammond9090]

@@UltimateSayan1 Marines never talk at parade. Just like a squid to assume anything about the Marine Corp.

[@rabidwombat6665]

Had a guy when I was in basic (Army) get the peanut butter shot then turn to the DI and tell him he was allergic to penicillin. Our DI looked at him and shout "If you knew you were allergic why did you get the shot? Now go sit by the wall and DIE." It took everything I had to not start laughing at the new trainee.

[@driftspecs13]

Those dudes became your close buddies after that. You're standing there, asscheeks out, bent over a table, hands gripping the dude in front of you and you're all nervously looking around because the bastard RDCs have scared the whole division with tales of the peanut butter shot the entire time. Then, in it goes and you hang on for dear life. Finally, you sit back down on the cold linoleum floor of Red Rover and sway side to side, alternating asscheeks to try and ease the pain. It's the worst and I hate all you motherfluffers who had penicillin allergies who got pills instead.

[@vinniechapman9549]

True story. My gas tube went bad on range in basic and I was getting bolt overrides. I was sent to weapons truck where they had to replace entire barrel. Since it was near end of day, the drill SGT told me we'd zero it "tomorrow". I never fired it. We got back to a company inspection. Everyone was in formation, and in 3rd Platoon, the CSM was looking at rifles, yelling bad things and tossing them back. Then he gets to fourth platoon, mine. Same thing, except I was in the fourth squad, so eventually he gets to me in the back from. He looks and looks, "damn PVT, looks like this weapon has never been fired". My Drills SGT looks at me and lipped, "Shut up". He takes the weapon with two fingers on each hand and ceremoniously hands it back to me. "Third squad, you're all ate up! PVT Ch... rifle is perfect! Third squad, rifle jacks!". We get up stairs and the drill SGTs are laughing, well mine were. Across the hall I here drill sgts yelling, lockers being tipped over, and I think a mattress or two might have gone out window. I'm like, "I'm screwed!"

[@stevenbatrez4530]

Gotta love these stories😂😂😂

[@doom4067]

They couldn't afford to let him know that they were pencil whipping scores. There are two legitimate requirements graduate basic training: PT Test and rifle marksmanship.

[@MT-ig7bs]

Radio thing is so real. Literally my company's first training exercise when I was going through, the bus driver played "Hold The Line" by Toto on full blast and the entire bus was singing

[@Someguy12629]

This whole video is just narrator giving us a reality check on how easy we have it

[@EricHazlewood-cq1fm]

So, the pudding story is essentially what happened . He went in after his commander told his unit that they could not get the pudding but he came in after and he didn't get the memo so he got pudding sat down and got smoked by the NCO's and his nickname became pudding.

[@laserwtf]

Wasn’t he also forced to eat pudding in front of his barracks while they did exercises

[@EricHazlewood-cq1fm]

@@laserwtf yes he was

[@ThatAutisticDude82]

This is how Stanley Kubrick got the idea for the jelly donut lmao (if ykyk)

[@DarrellThomas-lg3ci]

100th like

[@bobknee4127]

Still in. We had a trainee freeze on the rappel tower (treadwell tower for my Fort Sill people). DS at the top was trying to “motivate” him and gave up. Finally all we hear is “fuck it, Trainee! THE HIGH JUMPER! STARTING POSITION, MOVE! IN CADENCE!” And he bounded down the tower off pure muscle memory and adrenaline. Funniest shit ever.

[@Carrots_0131]

I'm shipping to ft sill in June. Any tips?

[@penguinboy1991]

@@Carrots_0131 It'll be hot. Might rain a bit. Basic isn't bad. If you're lucky they'll take you to the 4th of july event. If you're doing AIT in Sill just know that there's nothing outside of the base. It's a run down town.

[@Carrots_0131]

@@penguinboy1991 Thank you for the tips. I'm doing ait in ft Sam Houston for 68W

[@penguinboy1991]

@@Carrots_0131 You're about to be everyones best friend. You'll get asked for profiles a lot. Its just paperwork that says a person can't do something.

[@MrCreeperYT_Official]

@@Carrots_0131 Rain & Tornadoes in April & May Very Hot Summer Very Cold Winter Rinse & Repeat

[@craigjones8041]

I wasn’t in but my buddy was during the rappel tower. He was having fun just jumping down enjoying himself. Then the guy takes the rope and just slams him into the wall lol.

[@robashley8216]

Civilians don't understand how being in basic is like being in prison and how desperate and creative people can get to get contraband in the barracks. I remember some dude was able to put stuff in his bed post because he found out he could take the top rubber piece off and replace it without the TI's noticing. We had people smuggle peanut butter packets in their web belts, the little airmans book they gave you, in their shoes.. you name it we tried.

[@Spiralredd]

Some dude found a loose ceiling tile and stuffed shit up there too this was AIT so people got away with it more though

[@cammeradethekidd3052]

I think I heard the pudding story before, I'm pretty sure it was something along the lines of narrator seeing some pudding on the table and didn't know he wasn't supposed to take it and got in trouble with an NCO, but I could be wrong here

[@jaydenmorris2560]

Yep. He got back from medical, so missed when his DI's said not to get the pudding, so he got puddint. When they got back to the barracks, they had everyone get on the kill square with him in the center. One DI came in and gave him a bigass bowl of pudding and said that until he finishes the bowl, everyone else would be doing push ups.

[@MrMinuteman]

@@jaydenmorris2560People will think that’s not a bad punishment, but in reality, you feel bad while sitting there and your buddies are doing pushups, but the main thing is every person you made do pushups while you sat there and ate pudding will make sure you get yours after what you did to them 😂

[@KurdtKrist]

I believe he shared that story on Unsubscribe

[@clanedward9166]

Repeal tower Story. Back in OSUT, I had a buddy who we'll call privet golf, who at first refused to go down the repeal tower, at some "encouragement" by the drill sergeant, he started coming down, but stopped shortly at his first jump off, he then presided to let go of his line, which flipped him upside down, private golf then presided to scream and cry, there was a drill sergeant at the bottom who was holding on to his line, ( well call him DS Golf). DS Golf being enraged by the privates actions, took to shaking the line which privet golf was attached to, after a minute of this DS Golf handed the line to a helping private, DS Golf then grabbed a trainees helmet, and hurled it at private golf. Privet golf now being more "complaint", slide his way down the rope, just to be yelled at and told to do it all over again.

[@dubitablykevin8299]

When I was in basic, I got my permanent assignment and had to make travel arrangements. I got a 2 minute phone call. I called my dad and said “Listen very carefully, buy me a plane ticket from Ohio to Charleston South Carolina. I will pay you back later. I love you, I’m fine, bye.”

[@ShriekingCrows-bp3vh]

I was in the navy we got like 3 phone calls from a pay phone. We also had shark attacks. I saw a prior service soldier at boot walk around by himself to the classes. I’m going to army basic in September as a combat engineer. This will be interesting.

[@elijahsmith5675]

Bro was spot on with the bus having music, that was the best moment in all of basic when our whole bus was screaming at the music, vibes were high only in that moment.

[@zabzachary]

Gotta love the lettkenny reference. Also, yeah they changed a good amount of names for the forts. Even Fort Hood got changed.

[@ElizabethWestin]

I was gonna say Fort Hood even changed and I’m still gonna called fort hood

[@zabzachary]

@@ElizabethWestin Same. Fort Hood will always be Fort Hood.

[@ElizabethWestin]

@@zabzachary yep I still say fort hood because u live next to the military base

[@john2g1]

I know you guys think it was tradition, but those camps/fort never should have had those names to begin with. Keep in mind if you were in the US military during the time of the man the forts were named after; they and the troops under their command would be shooting at you. Pretty much all of this naming happened in the 19 teens (1912, 13, etcetera) so feel free to blame Wilson! Shout out to all Cynical Historian fans.

[@clay5089]

Had a guy flat out refuse to do repel tower. DS played it off like "it's ok we'll just skip it" meanwhile another DS hiding in the background was getting ready to rush the guy and yeet himself with the recruit off the repel tower. It was glorious.

[@yummymoshgaming9795]

N.I.C ( Night Infiltration Course ) in basic training was my favorite part. Crawling under Live fire and going to the firing range at night!

[@chrisaguilar1410]

I enjoyed it. Just hated having Soldiers that couldn’t keep up with me on my team smh

[@jasonakin8635]

25:28 SDS Kirkland was my SDS when I went through good dude high energy all the time kept us ramped up.

[@tacocat2951]

7:50 the colors are basically on a code based on what’s in the food, colors meaning how often you should eat it if you do: green is eat often because it’s good for you, yellow is eat occasionally because it’s ok but not great for you, and red is don’t eat because it’s not good for you (don’t quote me on that, they did not explain it to us and we only got 1-2 minutes in the meal line at lackland (USAF))

[@davidliner7962]

twenty-year vet here. Joined in 1985. Some of my proudest moments and deepest nightmares come from those eight weeks at Leonardwood. The tower was an infamous mistress known to destroy all that flirted with her. The only thing I have beef with in this video is the mess hall. I do not remember any sort of calmness or casual moving through those lines much less the ability of you to choose what you wanted to eat. you walked down the line, answered yes or no to what they offered, had it tossed on a flat tray and you loved it. You had 10 minutes to eat...period. You did not want to be the last man in the last squad to get your food. FYI, we had our own "pudding" guy, but it was "soda boy". My PTSD memory was my birthday. Yep, birthday in basic training. I prayed nothing would happen, but my mom (bless her heart) told the church youth groups that I was in basic. Each and EVERY one sent me a b'day card. Little hint....you had to do 10 army pushups for each letter you got. I got 28 letters. I ended up having to be dragged to the bathroom to vomit because my arms were useless.

[@smalleyes6070]

I was in the company at 22:54, Alpha Co 2-13. I remember this whole graduation ceremony like it was yesterday. (Also the Colonial soldier was an actor, they were showing us the time line of how the U.S Army was formed and what they did)

[@justicekrenek2365]

ayyy a fellow 2-13 member, i was in Delta

[@NoahAdams19]

Aye also 2-13 bravo company 💙

[@smalleyes6070]

​@@justicekrenek2365 when did u graduate?

[@smalleyes6070]

@@NoahAdams19 when did u graduate?

[@justicekrenek2365]

@@smalleyes6070 it was either June 1st 2023, or the Thursday before that, i forgot the exact day

[@gkrees9509]

7:41 whaaaaat!? you’re telling me, color coded food is a MODERN addition to chow !? 😂 and also @8:22 yes, we did get phone calls, but we had a room dedicated to like 30+ telephone booths. I was in the navy tho so idk if the army do stuff very differently.

[@kingant6407]

The dfac part at 7:32 was actually my cycle at 3-60th Fort Jackson. The colors were meal indicators based off starches and other factors. Green was eat every meal, Yellow was often , and red was occasionally.

[@tony_m_km6mzp]

Narrator, Thank you for your service my brother, I am a Navy Vet and in Boot Camp in Great Lakes, Illinois (affectionately called Great Mistakes) and we didn't have a repelling wall. For some reason beyond me, they have a tear gas chamber. Great Lakes is the Navy's only Boot Camp. A little backstory on my Navy experience, I was assigned to BeachMasters Unit One Detachment Western Pacific forward deployed from Coronado, CA to Sasebo, Japan. BMU-1 DET WESTPAC for short is now the Naval Beach Group 7. What we did is directed all types of Amphibious vehicles, LCU's, LCAC's, AAV's, AAAV's onto the shore with our AOR war from the waterline to the High Tide mark.

[@elijahdawson6326]

Fun fact: narrator already explained the nickname pudding in another video on a different channel thats the @unsubscribepodcast

[@kyleknight1999]

Fun fact also: He did also tell the story on this channel aswell a while ago

[@phage1232]

Snitch

[@billsimkins9960]

I had six refuse to rappel til our DIs said go or gas chamber again... they learned to go fast on that rope.

[@Spiralredd]

We did the tower before the gas chamber.

[@Foehammer47]

God so much has changed in this new Army. I went into OSUT at Benning (Moore) back in 2006 and only got 2 phone calls the entire 14 weeks. In the DFAC we were not allowed to touch the food, they asked us what we wanted and then gave it to us. We were on the go all the time to "Hurry up and wait". Spent 2 to 6 hours a day cleaning our M16A4's just to pass the time when we didn't have any training.

[@roguespearsf]

You better be side stepping, private

[@Foehammer47]

@@roguespearsf LOL hell yeah, "side step - side step - side step march"

[@roguespearsf]

@@Foehammer47 red or blue Powerade?

[@roguespearsf]

@@Foehammer47 lol I did 2004-2012. Honor Hill grog. If you know you know

[@Foehammer47]

@@roguespearsf Had red drink when I was at Benning.

[@Dustinthewind03]

I was in basic training about 21 years ago in Fort Jackson and it changed quite a bit. We did get some phone calls sometimes from payphones. I had a flip phone at the time. Reception was a drag pain in the ass. I remember getting a bunch of shots. Roughest haircut I ever got in my life. That PT test is weird. We had set up push-ups in the run. I could say a lot more. Cool video!

[@gaugefortier9131]

Thanks for your service

[@wyatt1592]

Army vet. Yea we actually had a dude get kicked off because he wouldn't go. But that was Benning (NOT MOORE) in 2013

[@ghostassaultnocomenatary1877]

Love your videos bro keep it up. I love the military videos and content you do, and thank you for your service

[@pnbrwn318]

I was at Knox in 2004 for basic and our reception lasted about a week and half. The DIs came to the building we were in to receive us. They were cool for about three minutes, then the real basic started. We had to get all of our crap and they made us run to the barracks with everything we owned. To be fair our Sr drill was a combat patch 1st Cav guy and the other was a combat patch infantry guy from the 101st.

[@allendearborn5131]

Honestly the whole parade rest hands behind the back thing, I still often find myself standing in that position and I haven’t been in the service for about five years now lmao 😅

[@theabomb8305]

Not a vet, but trained in land nav by marine corps vets. Land guessing is awesome when you can make a half decent guess as to your current location before you start naviguessing

[@dragonzgaming5056]

THEY CHANGED THE NAME FROM BENNING TO FORT MOORE MY FATHER IS PISSED NOW

[@briannewman5614]

😮

[@victorcastillo-n3u]

At least still exist what happen to Fort Knox I did basic there and I guess it’s close now for basic.

[@sliktention]

My "Wingman" in Basic received an envelope of dry oats in the mail. Absolutely bewildered our Sgt.

[@britneydonivan6724]

Thank you for your service

[@CommanderWolfe]

18:36 The song that I remember set the whole mood for me when we were out on the field was “Best Day of My Life” by the American Authors which we heard on a bus to Land Nav. Would hum that tune whenever we did all our rucks. Little things like that kept my mind off the other shit.

[@Local_Menace]

HELLO OFFICER NARRATOR! WE ARE THE NEW PRIVATES HERE TO WORK FOR YOU!

[@ssgtwolverine6245]

SPC(Specialist) Narrator, but I like your enthusiasm private!

[@saintnoir5127]

92 had one guy no one showed up family day turns out his family disowned him for joining the military,he never got mail just alone. was the most driven hardcore sob i have ever met.

[@DelilahLovesCats23]

Another veteran video in the clutchh 🎉

[@andrewcappiello5585]

Good God I'm old. I went through Ft. Leonard Wood in 1985. We marched to "phone city" twice, once for a 98% first time go on BRM, and once later. Also they sent a guy to CCF(Army jail) - he came back with a broken arm. No busses either, we only used cattle trucks or went on foot.

[@bradleyreynolds9650]

i find it hilarious when narrator is talking about weapon cleaning, because as a company armorer when i check peoples weapons for cleanliness when they go to turn them in, ill be taking pieces off they're not even allowed to take off and go "ope looks like you missed a spot now f(*^*& clean it before i call your platoon sergeant over here" and gingerly hand it back to them with a smile. keep in mind im a spc (e4) and i do it with even ncos (e5 - e7)

[@Bryan-x8k]

Ppl must hate you then😂

[@crusaderknight6928]

My brother went to Fort Benning, it's a nice training area, if I went to any base training base it'd be Benning. (I know I won't get a choice but just let me be happy ok.)😂

[@Даниел-з6з]

8:00 narrator already explained pudding on Niko Ortiz lol

[@SpinoKing2001]

Alright I’ll say it…I request a Dungeons And Dragons video so henceforth I will be commenting this on every new video he posts until my request is met you have been warned…

[@BoomBoomTheGoblin]

And I shall also be commenting D&D or just even TTRPG stuff till a video is made of them.

[@Influxwafer]

cringe comment

[@SpinoKing2001]

@@Influxwafer 😎

[@DrOsHyDrO14]

​@@Influxwaferreal

[@michaelnichols9557]

👇fight this system here!

[@warhero2131]

Fun facts, I went through basic in 2015. We did get 1 phone call half way through basic (now they get to keep there phones in the barracks apparently?) and the peanut butter shot is now pill form to the best of my knowledge - dodged a bullet there.

[@inviduallytwisted5423]

I went through Army basic training at Ft Jackson, SC, 1987 (mid-July- Sept) Tank Hill, WW2 era barracks. We got all our shots in both arms with a pneumatic gun back then.

[@JacobSlaughter-pi7qx]

@ narrator there is no more Shark Attack, it is called “the first 100 yards”

[@effu9375]

Sad days....did Army get rid of the cattle trucks too?

[@_DMNO_]

​@@effu9375 I do believe so, and that seems more like a result of better funding rather than social change.

[@JacobSlaughter-pi7qx]

@@effu9375 yes

[@snowlynxgamernewchannel1702]

When I first got my orders for basic training it said fort Benning, but when I go there it eas fort moore, but everyone calls it fort Benning still, especially the nco's and co's, the colors are to tell you what's good or you and what's bad. DISCLAIMER If anything has changed I was last on a military base in November, I never made it through basic so I never went through most of this stuff

[@elxse4478]

Why didn’t u make it

[@chancesims434]

@13:04 that was actually my basic graduating class 2-13 b.co fort Jackson South Carolina I was 4th platoon boom squad. Spc moccia was a navy vet going natty guard and ssg ginyard was I think 3rd platoons drill sgt. Never thought I’d see my basic like this again.🫡

[@Skyeiicy]

13:27 that was my commander and drill Srgs in basic training, they used my company a lot in videos it was awesome, I’m not sure if I was in this cycle shown, might’ve been the one after Fort Jackson! (Also these DS were all cool asf especially the female yelling, she just got promoted to 1sgt during my cycle)

[@mr.bloodsmoke7803]

13:39 yoooo those were my drill sergeants, drill sgt movick and senior drill sgt Valencia they were absolutely great, drill sgt Valencia was built different and ran marathons for fun so we frequently got smoked by her

[@natanieldiaz7310]

There was a guy in my platoon that was scared of heights. My drill instructors made him repel down the tower 10 times back to back

[@dakoetawalters9401]

Currently 4.5 years in the US Air Force and i am a 3E7X1 i am a firefighter/driver operator. i love what you do bro keep it up and i enjoy seeing the other sides 😂

[@codyfenton7600]

I got medically discharged from the marines on receiving day 2. I looked forward to the 13 weeks I had to endure just to be turned away right before the peanut butter shot. That was back in 2021. 3 years later I’m now trying to enlist with the guard because their the only branch so far that hasn’t denied me a medical waiver yet for the eczema and a couple other things since I grew up with tri care and they now have access to all medical records.

[@jojodelivery5916]

try to go active guard or transfer to active duty as a way in. good luck

[@williamharmon2649]

so like the whole mre carrying thing is part of what's called the first 100 which is where the ds will have a set up of equipment like mre's, jerry cans, dummy weapons, and other little things. then you have to memorize where it all goes and take it an run 100 meters to another area and put it all back in the exact configuration.

[@stevetherex13]

went through basic about 2 years ago, you don't just get your phones whenever. You get 15 mins on Sundays to make calls, but it's common for the Drills to take that away (and at the end, we won a bet with our Drills on our Platoon winning something, I forget what, but we got 30 mins of phone time on the last Sunday). I only got my phone twice outside of Sundays, once because my card got hacked like 2 days before I shipped, so I had to call my car insurance and stuff to get it all on my new card. The other time was when a hurricane was hitting Florida, those of us with family out there got to call the day after to make sure our families were ok

[@michaelm872]

WHAT. I used to watch narrator a few years ago and now im a poolee getting ready for basic. Really came full circle

[@Mitchell1388]

Speaking on Drills taking stuff you brought with you. I read in a helpfully yet outdated BCT guide that I might want to think about bringing smokes because I might be able to have them. I made one or a few Drills happy. 2 cartons of smokes and a log of chew. Gone during bag check. They were tempted to let me keep them because I was honest about it. They even asked me if they let me keep them. Would I be tempted to smoke. I decided honesty was key so I told the truth hell fucking yes I'd be tempted, though at the time I was more timid so it was more of a "yes I would be tempted Drill Sargeant." ETA: I forgot about reception. That's when they took the cartons and log

[@seawolf8482]

'07 Jackson, 2 phone calls one on arrival 2nd at end. Company next to us every Sunday hanging out on their cell phones, the glares we be sending as we march by. fun fact sold a pack of skittles from an MRE by auction in the field and got $150 and a lemon poppyseed pound cake 🤣

[@sparejuiceBox]

This is super cool to see ! I'm currently a 4/C MIDN Marine op, so our basic is a lot different and then of course we have OCS that I'll go to in a couple years. I had no idea you were a veteran before this, so it's a super neat surprise! Absolutely love your work.

[@shawndowns2487]

I'm 6ft 2 without boots I had a shorter drill Sargeant of 5ft 5 and the shark attack I looked down and at as eyes as I normally would. For the next week I had to look at the sky when I talked to him. D.S Young of Ft. Sill, you were awesome.

[@mostunique5432]

Been watching your videos for a couple years now on and off and never knew you were a vet, thank you for your service 🫡

[@davidwardle4708]

Favorite memory from basic, we were coming back from a range in white phase, and the bus driver had on them classic country songs. On comes 'Don't Take the Girl' and the entire bus just started singing. Soon as we got back we got smoked, but it was worth it 😂

[@Swamp_Shenanigans]

When I was in 11C OSUT at Fort Benning one afternoon in the barracks a buddy of mine removed the paper towel dispenser out of the wall an saw a old dip can in the crawl space, we sent in the smallest guy to get it. The dip was dryer than the Sahara. He still packed it and threw it in. I’ve got a lot of good stories.

[@animenerd594]

when i graduate my plan is to join the military so this does kinda help give me an idea on what to expect and im really exited to live up to the rest of my family as my pappy/grandfather was a army officer and one of my uncles is currently in the coast guard and he is a Sargent so i am supper exited to join and follow there foot steps but i still have 4 years til that day when i can sign up

[@zanec8902]

my end of basic training for osut was the 48hr ftx with no sleep in the middle of the winter at benning and it was snowing when we had to run back to the barracks then march to honor hill. still remember that day like it was yesterday

[@briannavincent8540]

just graduated Army BCT from Ft Jackson and I'm now at AIT and I'm so excited to see your videos again and hear what you have to say. Please keep making these and being you!

[@gustavosuarez3096]

Dude, I got to go to the chamber so many times that you really get used to it. So much that at times when I had a bad cold, I volunteer to go just to clear up my sinuses.

[@crossmandoc18]

Hey brother I’m a Vet. Love your videos by the way. You asked for comments on the Tower, when I was in Basic first off the Tower took away my Fear of heights and I actually loved it. One of my Drill Sergeants was a Ranger so he had to show off Running down the wall and shit lol. There was this one guy and he was a big fellow but he was scared to death and on his way down he flipped upside down and started screaming and crying , never heard a grown man cry like he was crying and the Drill Sergeants laughed and messed with him it was good times. If I was younger I would love to run Basic Training again it was so much fun , met a lot of good people. Went from Basic to Fort Dix New Jersey and then from there to Bagram Afghanistan, then to FOB Ghazni back in 2006-2007. I was in my 30s when I joined , 48 now. Anyways man that’s my story , thanks for being part of the 1% Hooah . Enjoy when you Run with Twin Paranormal , peace out Brother 🤘🏻

[@hopelessmotorsports5922]

2:45 “you got 3 seconds to get of my buss and two of them are already gone, now move move move!”

[@kristinarobinson5277]

For some reason, the soldiers' creed sounds different than i remember it. And we didn't have busses. We had actual cattle trucks driving us around from range to range. If im not mistaken, we even got shipped from inprocessing to our unit in a cattle truck. Ft. Lost in the woods, C2/47 1999. HOOAH

[@nazeonrave2501]

Plan to go Airforce in September trying to shoot for Special Missions Aviator and you have generally been my motivation to do so

[@Sami-hh2yq]

We never had anyone refuse to repel. Been in for going on 12 years, its constantly changing with how new soldiers are being trained.

[@SpcKringUSA]

We had cattle cars or Ford trucks where everyone was nut to butt sitting on the floor of the Ford truck flat bed for most of our transportation when I went through OSUT at Fort Lost In the Woods, Missouri.

[@gustavosuarez3096]

😂😂 O man, I remember when I was the armorer of our battery. Those weapons must be clean af. I remember getting SFCs and SSGs bringing in their weapon that looked like they cleaned it with a snickers bar. Also, yes, Ft. Benning was renamed to Ft. More.

[@timmybailey9902]

a big salute to all who served and are serving....us army vet 84-93 basic traing ,tank hill ft jackson,sc...trained by viet nam vet rangers,,,,their is some fun for ya!

[@jonathanward1527]

I went to Ft Dix for basic in ‘87. We wrote a nice letter to our families saying we had arrived and having a wonderful time at reception. No phones. No more letters. Just PT, classes right after lunch, then getting smoked for falling asleep during those classes. My Drill was named Sgt Coffin. He was a pleasant guy. 😂

[@justicekrenek2365]

19:42 RAHHHH THATS MY UNIT FROM BASIC, THATS MY BOY, MALDONADO MY BELOVED. this was right after the Forge, we had just finished our induction ceremony, this was probably March 29th of last year. what are the chances id see this, amazing

[@jojodelivery5916]

RAHH? are you in the Marine Corps?

[@justicekrenek2365]

@@jojodelivery5916nah, just kinda absorbed that from my friends that are marines, army gang

[@ceronipepperoni]

SFC Valencia shown in the first 100 yards was my first sergeant in my company at A 2-60

[@shadowninja-fz2hq]

In basic training we 've had to clean weapons from Sun up to sun down. We also have to do our during OUST as well. No matter how well we clean those weapons, the drill sergeant's always found something wrong. If you thought they were clean, you were wrong. I was also there during the name changing ceremony of fort Benning, they changed it to fort Moore after general Howell Moore. He wrote we were soldiers once and Young. There's also a movie about it too. It was pretty good. We had a guy at the rappel tower who not even 5 seconds on getting up there. Started hanging down like Spider-Man for a good 5 minutes. The drills are yelling at him like crazy

[@KR4Qep]

back in... i want to say 2010.. a former drill instructor from the navy was telling me that they had emotional cards they could hold up in basic that basically meant "stop yelling at me" so he left the navy lol looks like this trend of pussifying the branches has been around for a minute

[@Xxjxcob]

I giggled when I heard the 3 hot meals a day part. I went through basic just a little over a year ago at Fort Jackson, and for a solid 2 1/2 months the water in the dfac I was supposed to be eating at was not heating properly or something like that, so for 2 1/2 months all I had were mre’s. No hot chow brought in mermites , just straight mre’s. That’s where my sds coined the term “earn your meal”, because it was be a blessing from god himself if you were able to get 2 mre’s a day. 3 a day was absolutely unheard of (happened I think only 2 or 3 times for me). So on a regular day, we’d get up, do pt, get smoked, do whatever we did until lunch, get thrown an mre, than finish the day out by trying to rat fuck the snacks out the mre’s by putting them in our camelbacks or just doing the 1 meal a day thing. Than the last 2 or so weeks of basic before graduation we finally started to go to the dfac, but 99% of the time we didn’t know dfac procedures so my sds would just smoke us during the time we’re supposed to have chow 😂 good times

[@azaleaakastephencrapse9126]

7:47 they had that when I was in basic training which was in 2011. And indicates the healthiness of the food. Obviously green is the healthier choice yellow is the middle choice and red is a very unhealthy choice. My drill sergeants would watch us and make sure we only took green items and if we were caught trying to take a red item then we'd get smoked

[@tylers7224]

I remember officer training at Fort Moore. One dude died after trying to jump off the repel tower. Coward thought he would repel safely and was yelling abuse on the way down. That night we all knew who the true Coward was, we'll cuz that particular person did not repel, but fell. And fell fast.

[@landen5863]

love the video and energy! I completed basic about 5 months ago, nice to see a veterans take on the new bct.

[@scottshepherd6656]

I haven't joined the military yet I'm on track but there was this one time the whole rotc class took a field trip to a military base and the instructors eldest son who was also in the military fell off the repel tower like the whole way and some how just walked away from it after like 5 minutes