Basic Training Primer >> DOs and DON'Ts

[zerhash]

id just like to see the jacking he got for that one!

 

[m_a_c]

The instructors....there where 2 of them in the class tackled him and dragged him out of the class, one was screaming in true MCpl fashion, that he had killed everyone in the class room(as I mentioned before).  Something along the lines of holy f**k you stupid f**king idiot the rest I don't remember.  We could hear the staff screaming all the way down the hall in the course officer's office.  After that we never saw him again.  Later we where told, turns out that recruit screening process burped and they discovered his father was still a war lord or gun runner across the pond, the candidate had lied on his application. 

 

[Kevin_B]

Then it was somewhat a good thing that he did that otherwise they never would have found that out. Who knows what he would have done with weapons training.

 

[zerhash]

wow, that easy to get by CSIS?

if only the troop had some common sense, he probably could have gotten away with a lot.

 

[Bahamut]

.....or a box of grid squares
or a can of white and black checkered paint

Or the can of prop wash or a left handed monkey wrench (these more common for the post QL3 techs in the crwod).

 

[c4th]

1. Do (exactly) what you are told (now!) ask questions later.
2. Meet your timings
3. Tack rank on the end of everything you say.  Think of it as punctuation.
4. Drive the body.


Should be enough for top third.

 

[c4th]

What's a good number to be able to and in what time?

Running:  Fitter and or faster than the next guy to fall out
Sit-ups / Push-ups:  1 more than the instructor.

 

[Bahamut]

I'm not giving away any secrets here:

1. Attention to detail
2. Listen to the words of Command, do not anticipate
3. Help your buddies
4.The group is more important then the individual
5. When you get a blast (not if), don't take it personally and learn from it. Don't brood and feel picked on.
6. Willpower. The physiological is just as important as the psychical.

2 listen to words of command lol parade drills rofl yeah just learn early you will be told what to do and when to do it.. makes it easy to do drill after that don't to it until you are told to move hehe...

3 & 4 are the same thing really. Impressive someone actually came up and mentioned this.. The key to the whole training is TEAMWORK. Learn it and live it through basic and throughout your career..

5 is very accurate and a good point... You will get crapped on from dizzing heights many times... It is part of the stress they will put on you .. As RCA says don't take it personally unless of course you keep doing the same thing wrong... You are EXPECTED to make mistakes.. The point is you only make them once is what they are looking for. and that you will learn from others mistakes as well as your own...

 

[*Grunt]

Make sure you take care of those "dust bunnies" I remember my first inspection..our platoon did a crap job of getting all the lint balls or as the instructors like to put it 'dust bunnines' off the ground due to "poor time management ". So there I am standing at attention while our MCpl took one step into my little room, then jumped up onto my bed, as he continued to yell and point at the ground.. "holy shit pte, look at those dust bunnies!", following direction I looked at the ground were is finger was pointing to see a rather large ball of lint, dust, hair and w/e else skimming across the ground followed by a couple smaller ones. He continued to make a big deal of it pretending to be scared of them, until I picked them up and resumed my position of attention, biting my checks and pinching my legs though so as not to burst out in hysterical laughter.

See this MCpl was particularly big and hard looking, so this display was quite amusing...I honestly don't know how he held a straight face while doing that, because I just barely managed to keep a straight face..

 

[Ghost]

How do you get dust bunnies where there is nothing in your room?

 

[George Wallace]

They are nasty little critters.....They migrate!  They Multiply!

And don't press your face too close to the mirror or window.

Gw

 

[Dogboy]

Make sure you take care of those "dust bunnies" I remember my first inspection..So there I am standing at attention while our MCpl took one step into my little room, then jumped up onto my bed, as he continued to yell and point at the ground.. "holy crap pte, look at those dust bunnies!", following direction I looked at the ground were is finger was pointing to see a rather large ball of lint, dust, hair and w/e else skimming across the ground followed by a couple smaller ones. He continued to make a big deal of it pretending to be scared of them, until I picked them up and resumed my position of attention, biting my checks and pinching my legs though so as not to burst out in hysterical laughter.

See this MCpl was particularly big and hard looking, so this display was quite amusing...I honestly don't know how he held a straight face while doing that, because I just barely managed to keep a straight face..

my question is what will happen if you do louse it right their and fall on the ground laughing your a** off if they do something like that
lots of PT or what
because i cant see myself holding it together if someone dose that in front of me.

 

[Stomper]

Haha, dustbunnies. I remember someone in my old unit told me that one instructor picked up a bunch of dust bunnies from around someone's bed, held them out in his hand, and started shouting drill commands at them (the dust bunnies).

I've sort of cracked up a few times (just gave a tiny laugh, not cracked up completely) and the instructors didn't really do anything (they were obviously trying to be funny, in my case).

 

[Navalsnpr]

I remember back in '92, I asked my MCpl if he read the paper.... of course he said yes. So I then asked him if I could have the ones that he has already read for the section to keep up on current events..... and he did.

I ended up using the papers to do the glass and mirror as it is one of the better products around to clean those types of surfaces.

 

[Big Foot]

hey Navalsnpr, do you still use windex with the newspaper? I've heard conflicting reports about that, some say yes, some say no.

 

[Ghost]

Hey do they get pissed off if you spin your C7 around like they do in the marines.

Cause I have always wanted to try that.

 

[Navalsnpr]

hey Navalsnpr, do you still use windex with the newspaper? I've heard conflicting reports about that, some say yes, some say no.

Actually white vinegar works the best, if you can get it....

If not a small amount of windex does well.

 

[the 48th regulator]

Hey do they get pissed off if you spin your C7 around like they do in the marines.

Cause I have always wanted to try that.

If you do, make sure there is a round up the spout....

Of course you are not to do that.  It aint the circus or the Marines yer joining.

geesh

tess

 

[Ghost]

What about night vision do let let you use that?

 

[48Highlander]

What about night vision do let let you use that?

You'll use them once and then never want to touch the damn things again.