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Military members try to answer simple questions in tear gas...

lol.

I remember the instructors saying about 100 times before we went in:

If you can say "I can't breathe", you are breathing just fine, so if you DO say "I can't breathe!", we will take it as an invitation to fuck with you.
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About 10 seconds after the door closed, dude next to me is grabbing his throat, saying it. Sigh. Gas mask soccer game commences.
 
Anybody else have this pop in their head?

WHAT is your name?
WHAT is your quest?
WHAT... is the capital of Assyria?
 
pansy ass gas... when I went, there was so much yellow haze you could barely see. I had like 3 feet of snot hangin from my nose. People were throwing up all over the place..... good times.
 
what did the last girl say when he asked if she was a steer or a queer?
went through all the youtube comments and saw other people asking but never saw an answer.
 
Train said:
lol.

I remember the instructors saying about 100 times before we went in:



About 10 seconds after the door closed, dude next to me is grabbing his throat, saying it. Sigh. Gas mask soccer game commences.
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lol.

this is very accurate, though. the way we did it, everyone (a 30ish man platoon) files in with their masks on and stands in a circle around the pit that the gas comes from. the DI's can make it more or less intense, i'm not sure exactly how it works, but it's not like they just chuck grenades at you...although we got inert ones thrown at us all the time, and you either had to mask up super quick (for CX) or somebody had to dive on it (for frags).

anyway, everyone stands there, every exposed part of your skin burns, and it slowly creeps up loose clothing (like shirtsleeves). they'll talk for a bit just make sure you get a good coating of itchy burning on you. then you lift your masks temporarily. the smart people have a good clean breath in their lungs and do not open their eyes (i used the lower lip of my mask to conceal that i didn't open them). then you put it back on and clear it. i was 100% fine. others either breathed gas with the mask off, or didn't clear it right...rough fucking time for them.

one guy, a slightly older (than 18, at least) big beefy dude that was one of our squad leaders and generally VERY competent, panicked, threw a drill sergeant to the floor and ran out. mild hilariousness.

the rest of us stood in a line waiting to get out. one at a time, the drill sergeants stop you at the door, and you pull your mask completely off and MUST show them open eyes and breathing. again, the dumb ones did really bad here, and the DS's would keep them there as long as they could just to mess with them.

me, i took the mask off with open eyes and immediately sucked in a big obvious breath- and immediately began choking as if someone was standing on my throat. i got let out immediately with no questioning/fucking with, heh.

afterwards everything, especially your mucus membranes, of course, will burn badly for a bit and then just be an extended mild sting.

best advice you can possibly get- if you have to use the bathroom afterwords, do not, i repeat, DO NOT, TOUCH YOUR DICK.

oh, and yeah, the OP is some weak shit. they made up walk in a big circle for a while yelling 'MY ARMS ARE FLAPPING AND MY EYES ARE OPEN,' all the while trailing tears and snot to the ground. not a lot of vomiting, though.

edit- also we had a brick or concrete building that was EXTREMELY foggy. not trying to be e-tough, i'm just confused by that clear tent in the OP. i guess that's how relaxin' jackson does it.
 
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A friend of mine joined the Navy right out of high school and had to do this in basic. He said it was pretty unpleasant, and that was putting it lightly. 😀
 
I had to do this. I love the smell of CS gas!

Also I knew that guy would say COORS was his favorite beer. COORS sucks but it was all he could think of.
 
adairusmc said:
This. Especially if the drill instructor loves flutter kicks alternated with mountain climbers.
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have done both of those, but not alternating. army likes what's called the 'frontbackgo'- pushups, flutter kicks, and running in place (get those knees in your chest, private!). eventually they start switching exercises so quick that you're basically just wallowing in sweat and sawdust (or sand, we had a few different 'pits') with an intermittent pushup.

props for the marines. i'll mock the air force guys and the army guys that went to coed basic. but i have no problem acknowledging you got your ass kicked (in a good way) a lot more at paris island than i did at fort knox.
 
brblx said:
long story...
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This is much the way I remember it at Paris Island in 1994.

If you don't have snot, saliva, and tears exploding from your face, you didn't get the "Full Monty".

For what it's worth, my yearly re-qualifications were pretty much like the video though. Much easier.
 
and another semper fi to you, dude. 🙂

i'll admit my training was still a little 'pussified'...i went through in 2004, though it was as a troop (company) of all-male cav scouts. so it was harder than some (inf probably had it worse at fort benning), but shit, in 1994 they were probably still smacking people around at paris island.

it's not like they couldn't torture us...but they couldn't hit us, couldn't restrict our food (though that hamburger or piece of pie might cost you dearly in exercise-induced pain), ect. we even had a DS get in big trouble for not letting us water up after the gas chamber...during the mild ~5-10k road march back to the barracks, at least five or so privates fell out and had to get stuck with IV's (knox is MISERABLY hot in the summer).

anyway, end random post. i just like talking to other prior service guys, especially jarheads. =D
 
Jan 1993 -

FontBackGo - miserable!

gas chamber with snot hanging to my knees, eyes dripping, skin burning - more miserable!

Platoon Indian run after being taken to the shopette after winning a Company challenge and watching 80% of your platoon puke, then be told to get back in line and keep running - more miserable

Getting smoked in a moist sand pit for hours on end - priceless!

We did OSUT - all of our DI's were our exact MOS, we graduated from Basic with more hair on our heeds than we did when graduating AIT - we stayed in the exact same barracks and had the exact same DI's for AIT.

Fire Watch in full gear was also a fun game they used to pay - reporting for duty with full web gear and kevlar helmet was alwasy fun. Try scrubbing the crapper in full gear at 3am.

We did push-ups damn near every other day during mess, if you accepted the food you needed to clean your mess tray. No wasting food!


I look back and laugh - then I was really fuckin miserable!


we got gassed on our 12-mile ruck march as well.
 
Fmr12B said:
Jan 1993 -
We did OSUT - all of our DI's were our exact MOS
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i think this is why your combat MOS's get more of the 'classic' experience than privates being trained for deskjobs (though since you said 'DI' i'm assuming you're also USMC, so nobody has it easy).

the difference between the OSUT training of an infantryman, combat engineer, scout, tanker, et al and the coed training offered no non-combat people at places like jackson and leonardwood seems like it can be pretty dramatic, imo.
 
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