Back from Basic Combat Training, and I feel like a badass
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I'm back motherfuckers.
Two and a half months. that's how long I've spent sitting in the broiling hell that is Fort Jackson, South Carolina. I'm sitting in the Food Court of the Post Exchange at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, typing on the laptop that my mom brought to me from home. About five hours ago, I, along with over twelve hundred other men and women from the 313th Battalion of the 193rd Infantry Brigade, marched across Hilton Field and officially graduated Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson.
At the moment, I'm sitting here with several battle buddies from my company, C Company, eating Burger King and killing time until our hit time for curfew. Right now, I'm pretty stoked that I've managed to make it through what can be considered by some of you to be two and a half months of absolute hell on earth. But, in the time I've been here, I've learned countless volumes of stuff, done things you've only ever dreamed of.
Where I stand, I can save your life with a tourniquet and a roll of gauze, field strip and reassemble a half dozen different military weapons,[I] in the dark with a gas mask on[/I], and run four miles flat out without tiring. I know how to navigate woodland terrain equipped with just a compass and a map and the clothing on my back, how to make a harness for rappelling out of an eight foot length of rope, and how to save my skin during a chemical attack. I can march ten miles or more with an eighty pound rucksack on my back and another thirty pounds of gear attached to me, nonstop with few or no breaks. I can hit a target with the ironsights of an M16 from three hundred meters away with a strong cross-breeze. But most of all, I now know what it means to be a U.S. soldier. The Soldier's Creed. The Seven Army Values. Countless other bits of relevant information. I know it all by heart and live by it.
If I tried any of what I can now do with ease three months ago, when I was still dicking around in Texas doing shitty Retail work, I would have killed myself. If I'd been told I' be doing this, I'd have laughed at myself. But here I am, a soldier, proud to serve my country, glad that I have the opportunity to do so. After today, I ship out to Fort Gordon, Georgia, where I'll go to AIT, (Advanced Individual Training) for my MOS(Military Occupational Specialty). From there, I'll go to what's basically a military style college, to learn the advanced stuff for my job.
So, if any of you Facepunchers want to know of what I've been doing these last ten or eleven weeks, I'll be posting info, and talking about what I've been doing here and there. There are a few stories I want to share, and few people I want to talk about. Maybe a few pictures I want to post as well.
I'm glad I'm back on Facepunch, and I'm glad I'm posting again.
I respect what you did fully, but you do not know what it is to be a soldier just from basic combat training.
You sir, are a badass.
Welcome home!
Erm, cool. Welcome back then. :v:
We didn't miss you.
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Welcome home, please don't kill me.
I'm not going to say welcome home because Facepunch is more like a daycare center or half way house. Good too see a good member back though.
[QUOTE=exhale77;23851665]We didn't miss you.[/QUOTE]
Sorry... Who are you?
Let me see your war face!
Did you learn to make RDX from timber, sand and your own excrement?
oh i wondered where you went
good to see you back i guess
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Congrats man, Good job completing what few have the cojones to attempt.
So that's where you were lol.
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Four miles?
I can run [I]a[/I] mile.
Congratulations, it really must feel great to complete basic combat training.
[QUOTE=exhale77;23851665]We didn't miss you.[/QUOTE]
Who are you and why are you an asshole and don't say "we"
That's awesome, man.
My brother just also graduated Basic training, he's in the 1st Cavary division, he just got shipped out to Fort Hood in Texas yesterday actually. I miss him already :saddowns:
Oh, and you're badass. Congratulations and I'm glad you lived.
I live near Fort Jackson, so I always hear the tanks and machine guns firing, bombings, and lots of AH-1Z helicopters flying over. Congrats on your accomplishment.
All right dude, you passed.
Cool you passed something basic and now you feel badass.
It's cool that you learned useful stuff tho. Like basic first aid and shit. That's neat.
OP put the difficulty on veteran at LEAST before you come bragging up in this bitch.
Congratz!!!
You're super badass!
The skills you learn in the military alone make it a worthwhile experience. I know that the military background in my family never regret their decision to join the military.
Welcome back!
I'm going Canadian Forces, our BCT is longer, tougher, and more in-depth than the cannon-fodder that yours prepares you to be.
[QUOTE=sami-pso;23852000]Cool you passed something basic and now you feel badass.
It's cool that you learned useful stuff tho. Like basic first aid and shit. That's neat.[/QUOTE]
Basic training is, by no means, easy.
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Soldier, you've been recommended for a promotion.
[QUOTE=exhale77;23851665]We didn't miss you.[/QUOTE]^^^ Thinks he speaks for everybody when he really doesn't.
get some
Yeah I know all this and I could survive because I played America's Army 3 I can do this stuff too
[QUOTE=sami-pso;23852000]Cool you passed [B]something basic[/B] and now you feel badass.
It's cool that you learned useful stuff tho. Like basic first aid and shit. That's neat.[/QUOTE]
You make it sound like he just won a game of chess against a down-syndrome three year old.
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