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shortylickens

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we didn't need help with that lol. We were called "the dumbest, most immature and destructive platoon I have ever seen" by our company commander, our sergents hated us for it the first couple of months because of all the crap they had to take from the other platoons' sergents but after a while they realized as much as we usually sucked, come game time and we were the toughest and meanest soldiers they had ever seen as well. We were always victorious in any kind of competition with the other platoons and were always highly praised for our combat skills by whoever were evaluating us. They also admitted afterwards that they were generally amused by our constant shenanigans, and I was personally quite liked because I used to bribe them with candy to get smoke breaks.

I miss basic training.

You either went in much earlier or much later than me.

In 1997 we did not smoke, period. No tobacco on the base. If you ever got a package from home you had to open it in front of an inspector. He only let you keep non-contraband.
 
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Need to shit, brb
 

Broheim

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You either went in much earlier or much later than me.

In 1997 we did not smoke, period. No tobacco on the base. If you ever got a package from home you had to open it in front of an inspector. He only let you keep non-contraband.

I was in the Danish Army (think I need to put a disclaimer or something in my sig). also, it was in the 2000's.
 

SphinxnihpS

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I miss BT, but not AIT (both at Fort Leonard Wood.) BT was fun, for the most part.

'Smoke breaks?' What the hell was that? Ours was the first cycle at FLW that wasn't allowed to smoke (1986,) so at reception some of the guys had to dump cartons and cartons of smokes into the Amnesty Box... :eek:

I was born there. $8 baby.
 

Broheim

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I miss BT, but not AIT (both at Fort Leonard Wood.) BT was fun, for the most part.

'Smoke breaks?' What the hell was that? Ours was the first cycle at FLW that wasn't allowed to smoke (1986,) so at reception some of the guys had to dump cartons and cartons of smokes into the Amnesty Box... :eek:

that sounds awful, in the danish army there's an ashtray at every entrance to every building and usually some benches and tables to sit at as well. we had a lot of smokebreaks, probably once an hour. :D
 

Gibsons

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that sounds awful, in the danish army there's an ashtray at every entrance to every building and usually some benches and tables to sit at as well. we had a lot of smokebreaks, probably once an hour. :D

That sounds awful. Are there places for people who want to breathe? :(
 

bigrash

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My dad sent me an email with some interesting GIF's. Some of you might have seen it but I thought they were interesting so I'm posting them here nonetheless.

What a liter bottle of soda looks like before compressed air is added.
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CD's being made:
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Trombone being made:
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Springs being made:
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Pencils being sharpened:
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Pretty cool!
 

Charlie98

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that sounds awful, in the danish army there's an ashtray at every entrance to every building and usually some benches and tables to sit at as well. we had a lot of smokebreaks, probably once an hour. :D

Well, I don't smoke so it didn't bother me in the least. We took a Greyhound bus from the St Louis airport to FLW, and they announced on the bus that smoking was verboten once we got to post... that bus looked like something from Cheech & Chong with the pall of smoke rolling out of it! :eek:

It was kind of stupid, really... here you were, a volunteer, and you have to go through 9 weeks (more or less) of training... without smokes, soda, shit food, alcohol, TV... whatever, big deal... and the first thing some of these dolts try to do is sneak all of that in somehow. WTF?
 

Fritzo

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That's also what happens when you order fish in Long John Silvers... D:

I have a rule when eating out: NEVER ORDER ANYTHING THEY DON'T SPECIALIZE IN. Doing so is like saying "I'm going to eat old food that they never sell and hang on to just incase some idiot actually orders it."
 

uclaLabrat

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I have a rule when eating out: NEVER ORDER ANYTHING THEY DON'T SPECIALIZE IN. Doing so is like saying "I'm going to eat old food that they never sell and hang on to just incase some idiot actually orders it."
Truth. I ordered a steak from a fish house a few weeks ago. Ordered it medium, they served it immolated. Not happy.
 

Charlie98

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Truth. I ordered a steak from a fish house a few weeks ago. Ordered it medium, they served it immolated. Not happy.

When I was in high school I worked as a cook at Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant... about 5 minutes before we closed on a Sunday, two people came in and ordered the steak dinner... after I had already closed down the grill (and about 90% of the kitchen.) Let's just say they probably didn't like their steaks...