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In reply to the discussion: Leaving for Benning 1/2/2018 [View all]

DashOneBravo

(2,679 posts)
18. Ah Sand Hill
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:50 AM
Dec 2017

I went in the summer too. Road so hot it would blister your hands when you were doing push-ups. That's the first place I learned about prickly heat.

It's great you are helping him and not scaring him. One thing I tell guys is that whatever "abuse" they encounter usually has a purpose. Like low crawling or 3-5 second rushes in a field. They are trying to teach you how to survive. That's just the training. These guys who are Infantry are at some point going to be in combat. So it's a serious business.

Tell him don't be first and don't be last, or a problem child. He'll do fine hopefully.

Glad you were able to help this young man, TEB. democrank Dec 2017 #1
Oh I guess democrank TEB Dec 2017 #2
18 seems so very young. Scarsdale Dec 2017 #3
Thank you TEB Dec 2017 #4
i would be scared as well....glad you were there to help him. samnsara Dec 2017 #5
Its about the mind games... marcopolo63 Dec 2017 #6
Absolutely I filled him in TEB Dec 2017 #8
He will find out what he is made out of mercuryblues Dec 2017 #7
Thank you friend TEB Dec 2017 #9
LOL, Sand Hill alumni here! HAB911 Dec 2017 #10
Exactly he is worried over nothing TEB Dec 2017 #11
I went in on Feb 3, 73 and the very first thing I learned the first night - do not volunteer for... marble falls Dec 2017 #12
Never volunteer DashOneBravo Dec 2017 #24
Never ever but never volunteer in bootcamp. There are no Brownie points in Boot Camp. and precious.. marble falls Dec 2017 #26
Gotcha. Yeah never in initial training DashOneBravo Dec 2017 #27
Just a happy observation about changing times RVN VET71 Dec 2017 #13
I think it was because DashOneBravo Dec 2017 #25
I astonished myself at Fort Benning, May through July 1966 (Yes, I'm older than dirt) Glorfindel Dec 2017 #14
Yes TEB Dec 2017 #15
Sounds to me that the young man is very lucky to have you as a friend. Botany Dec 2017 #16
Thank you TEB Dec 2017 #17
Ah Sand Hill DashOneBravo Dec 2017 #18
Exactly I been telling him TEB Dec 2017 #20
What MOS is he going? DashOneBravo Dec 2017 #22
Oh man no way TEB Dec 2017 #23
Former training instructor aka TI aka recruit wrangler aka No Neck Monster here. sarge43 Dec 2017 #19
I told him TEB Dec 2017 #21
I went to basic training when I was 17 Victor_c3 Dec 2017 #28
He I feel is afraid of the unknown TEB Dec 2017 #29
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