US Army Basic Training Fort Leonard Wood - 1986
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- Fun and nostalgic look at what basic was like before the cold war ended. One of those half canned, half original tapes that video companies use to make and sell to graduating soldiers. This was basic training class D-3-3. It was a mix of engineer, infantry, aviation, and MP MOSs. Started May of 1986.
the worse was making you pay for the damn haircut
nah nothing beats the BCGs
It was like 3 bucks.
PenTaFPS I got lucky some how..... they didn’t get me mine until the first time they let us have as much food and ice cream as we wanted.... lol
My barber earned every penny of it.
MrDaviso360 they charged me 13 bucks
Wow this really took me back, because I had joined national guard while I was in school. I went for basic training @ ft. leonard wood about April 1986. There are so many things in this video that clearly remember like the reception station, the barracks, the chow hall & various parts & location of training. What was more ironic I recognized one of the drill sergeants that I had Sgt. Hall. Needless to say I could go on but the list would get to be a little too long. What,a way to bring back some long forgotten experiences at challenging time in my life ☺.
were you in desert storm?
Marc-june B2-2 1986
I went through Basic Training at Fort Benning in 1987. I thought it was weak at best. It wasn't physically challenging, but certainly a culture shock for an 19 year old kid who has never been away from home. The challenge started as an 11B when I arrived at the 82nd Airborne. Incredible leaders who pushed us beyond our physical limits. Basic Training isnt meant to break you but just get you somewhat ready for your 1st duty station.
Good SOLID FOUNDATION FOR ANY YOUNG PERSON. I was at FT / W . in the winter of ‘88 . I thought the place was a hell, even though it was super cooled. I thought the DRILL SERGEANTS WERE CRAZY. But guess what?? . At the end of the training, I didn’t watch to leave the place. The D. Sergeants became the best people I ever came across. They pointed me the right direction in life. I’m a living prove. Thanks S. Sgt, Brown. He was at my chest level, but he pocked the hell out of me with that hat. It all turned out great. I wish I could meet him and some of his colleagues again. I’m about to retire as a police officer. HOOOOOOAAAA GO ARMY !!!!!!!.
You didn't attend and complete RANGER SCHOOL?
No sir
I Did My Basic, AIT (Sand Hill) & Jump School At Ft. Benning, Ga
In 1990, B Co / 1-19th / 4th Plt...
I don't know about you but my drill instructors where all Vietnam vets. I was punched in the nose my hands were stepped on when we were dropped. One of the guys in my platoon was kicked in the thigh by a drill sergeant while doing mountain climbers. I heard guys cry at night after lights out. MY basic training was hell till we got to white phase. I was at fort lost in the woods in the summer of 1987.
Great advices: 1.) avoid creating unwanted attention. 2.) observe everything around. 3.) be a team player. 4.) Don't quit / Never give up.
I was drafted into the Army in 1968 during the Vietnam war. I was sent to Ft. Leonard Wood for basic, NOBODY failed basic training during that period, the Drill Sergeants “fixed” it so everyone graduated basic training. Uncle Sam needed body counts in the ‘Nam!
E 2-2. October 1982 to February 1983 (Basic and AIT. Ft. Leonard Wood) I saw plenty of cursing, yelling, pushing, kicking, smashing, from the Drill Seargents. I even got smacked around a couple of times myself. Back then we even did PT in combat boots and BDUs. I do believe 1986 was the year the Department of Defense turned Basic training into a touchy feely type of training environment.
D-4-2 May 1986 at Fort Leonard wood. I can see my old Drill Sgt. The memories of the birth control glasses,banana suits,and heat (being in hot cattle truck). I would do it again.
Michael Brock I was there the same time you are... if I remember correctly I think ours was D-2-3
I was also there d42 sept-dec 85 . Was sgt Manuel n sgt korchek(spelling bad, tall white guy super cool) 1st platoon. Man I remember that cattle truck. I was 19 there
E 4-2
Don't forget salt peter so we wouldn't get a boner for two months!!LMAO
I would rather go to Somalia than do that again.
I went through this exact BT in July of 1987!
Me to!!! 372nd Eng. Battallion.
I do believe I saw Drill Sergeant Rafeall in this video on several occations; he was one of my BCT drill instructor's back in 1979 when I also got my carpentry training at Ft Leonard Wood; I went through in '79 and did 13 years.
The guy who was in charge of the music for this film...was subsequently shot shortly after the film's release.
i went through basic at flw june of 1983 i was with coB 3d bt bde the nick fits it right fort misery.but the respect and disipline i recieved was awesome.some years later i spent 8 months in desert storm desert storm what i learned in the army has made me a survivor and yes i will admit it was tough
I thought I heard a Drill Sergeant say if they needed to use the bathroom to do so now. We did not have bathrooms. Only showers and latrines.
Note the patches those two drill sergeants were wearing. Those were Army Reserve drill sergeants, so they spend most of their time as civilians.
he did.
+John Simpson yeah, ours wore TRADOC patches all.
IIRC we sometimes has a "shitter" on some of the ranges. LOL
I went to Leonard Wood January 7 1986. Charlie 2-3. 1st platoon, We are we are Charlie. Drill SSG Pietila, I still owe him some pushups.
My dad was there from september 1984 to December or so 1984. He was disappointed when I went to Jackson in 05 for basic. Interesting to see boot camp footage from the 80's.
+Amy E.O.D
I was in Jackson in 95 during training!
We have a family history at FLW. I went though BCT there Jun-Aug 1987 (E-5-10). He was based there in the mid-60s as an 88M and laughed his ass off when he found out where I was going.
Amy who is your dad? I'm pete markusic,C-1-2,same cycle
Peter Markusic He was a generator Mechanic. 1984-1987 got out as a specialist. I was a signals analyst, so I went to South Carolina and Pensacola, 05-2013 medical discharge as a Sergeant (Promotable)
I was there July 2003 to March 2004. Alpha 210 for basic. I remember the heat, the yelling, early wake ups, etc. I'm from Florida & it was so hot there in those BDU's. Some of the worst was trying to fire with a heavy helmet on, being hot, & sweat running in your eyes. We had some tough Drill Sgts, I remember Drill Sgts Williams, Robinson, Rivers, Pipkin, Fuss, Robling, Ellison, Dumore, Rutledge, Garret & Burnum. They knew there stuff & loved to scuff us up.
D-2-3, 1983. Brings back some memories!
I did my basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood less than 3 yrs. before in the fall of 1983. Many things shown here in '86 was the carbon copy of '83. Since then, some things have changed, like the combat boots. No more black boots to shine. A brown sweade boot is used now instead. When did this boot first started being issued? I have also found the bdu's have changed. I see the old steel pot and liner were still being used. I forgot when we were issued the new helmets they use now. I was in the U. S. Army from '83-'93
+Jeff Hill when I got to my first duty station in November 85 they already had Kevlar helmets, steel pot in basic though.
As a left handed shooter... The Range was My burning introduction to a device called BRASS DEFLECTOR!!!. 2 hulls dropped straight down into My bdu!
A-5-3 Summer of 84. Don't remember food like that. Mostly SOS and lots of potatoes, gravies bread etc. Had rabbit once there. I also don't remember getting time to eat much. It was sit down stuff it down and get up and outside. I learned to inhale food there.
Cattle cars were the transportation. Only got to go to the little PX a couple times. I remember standing in line for the payphone and a 2 minute call then it was the next guy. Never saw any women trainies.
Charlie Chicken Company was always a threat. And there was lots of screaming at us. The video was really toned down for the camera. I still have my smart book
I was in A-5-3 in November 22, 84- Jan 85, so cold that January, bad time to go to basic training
Thomas, Terry A-5-3 Nov 84, so cold in January. No time to eat, minutes at most.
I went through AIT in 1973 engineers! In December, cold as hell.
Yup; the all BDU in 86'; still got the Steal Pot and the Firing the M16 on Automatic with the spring bipod. God I loved that M16 A1.
Bipod, full MOPP gear and flip the switch. I remember trying to get the OPs Sgt who was graded my target to count the one that was half on and half the silhouette portion of the target. He said it didn't count and I argued that I'd blown the guys balls off and you couldn't make him any more combat ineffective than that.
I took basic training there in 1981
THOSE GUYS HAD IT GOOD COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAD!
I duffel bagged it to B577 to be a 51B(then) after basic.Heart broken...lol.
Summer time basic was a beast. Drill Sgt Schmidt was just crazy.lol.
I did basic at "lost in the woods" in 1980! Man I really miss wearing a uniform and my buddies throughout my service in the army
I remember on the weekends you could go to the px and order a "bucket of beer" it was 3.2 and it was like 2 bucks. I remember our DIs would pt the shit out of us after that! I was with A-1-3 the "Blue devils" I would love to hear someone i did basic with
Was in D-4-3 first platoon from july to sep 1986 (Drills SSG Scott, SSG Nelson, SSG Seinz) saw these guys filming these videos.
I was there in October 85 in remedial before going on to basic in 86 then it was D 53
Went thru in Nov 73 on basic here.
I never ate so good!!! The jello with all the vegetables was the best.
Well now this is a interesting video and brings back some memories for sure. I was drafted in 1968 during the Vietnam conflict and sent to fort Leonard Wood for basic from there I went to fort ord California for AIT and then to Vietnam attached with the 25th infantry division. Fort Leonard Wood was a lot different training there in 1968 and the drill sergeants we're not very nice. I'll just leave it at that and you can use your own imagination.
Went to basic there in 1996. Was fun. Wish I could do it again. But then again, its gotten so soft and easy now I'm not sure I would like it anymore. Just too damn easy now.
I don't recall PT in the daytime. Usually at 330 or 400am D 6/10 May to July 1990
B 310 1991 I like it l loved it I wanted more of it. House mouse died but no one cried we went to church just sleep but smokey was on the creep you were in some shit knee deep don't cry son drill Sargent loves every one.
I was there from Dec 90 to Apr 91. C-4-10 for basic, I had Sfc Julio Sanchez, Ssg Jimmy Bolden, Ssg Nathan Harp. My DI's were that nice. I got slapped upside the head for giving a wrong answer once.
i was there the winter of 83, it was brutal cold. I thought boot camp would be tougher than it was but it was a great experience, great place to become a soldier. I dont remember eating that slow though. B4/3.
Awwe throwing grenades, the only time. Your D.I. is soft spoken because he doesn't want to die!
Sorry, one more thing. Estimating the drill sergeants' age is 33, they're now 71--or dead; the soldiers are long-ago retired.
I was in E-4-3 January 1986. GOOD TIMES!!
B2-2 march-june 1986 3Plt..
I was there Jul-Sep 86, B-3-3. It seems about half of the drill sergeants shown during the drill sergeant oath were from my company. Like Danger Slane (his real name) at 2:47 and Ware, McCollum, etc. MOS was MI, and there were maybe 15 of us with MI MOSs in the company. At 9:37, there are members of my company, and you can see us again in the gas chamber scenes, including the guy who fell. Another guy, not in this video but in the version I own, was walking and shouting, "I can't breathe, I can't breathe." A drill sergeant follows behind him, mocking him, and then says, "He can't breathe, but he can talk!" haha
February 2020 is when I went there, no a whole lost has changed from the tone of the DSs to reception and the civies at CIF
LOL I got this same video from 1986 but with a different ending!!! lol The ending has me and our Basic Training crew. A-5-3!!! Great times!!! :-) I was there from Dec 26 1986 to Feb 17th of 1987.
***** My xwife was at Ft Jackson during that same time!!! lol She left on the 17th of Feb to meet up with me at Ft Lee.
+Real Tuff
This was my Basic Training Platoon!!
Im on the top row,, 4th from the right!!
The Drill SGTs are, from Left to Right,, Drill SGT Ramos,, Sr Drill SGT Austin,, and Drill SGT Wilbert E Williams!!
DS Williams is the reason I became a Drill Sergeant later on my career!!
I drew Our Platoons Logo and Our Moto was,,,,
Look to the Left Platoon Number,,,,
Platoon Number 2 Gonna Show Ya How It's Done!!
Look to Your Right Platoon Number 3,,,,
We Are the Best in Alpha 5 - 3!!
SUIDO - Suck It Up Drive On!!
WETSU We Eat This Shit Up!!
Me and You pulled Guard duty together!!
Im still in also!! 29 years as of 29 DEC 2015!!
I remember the Guard Duty but you still remember my face huh! lol 29 years and you a drill Sargent now! Cool! Drill Sargent Williams talked me into staying in Basic because I was ready to quit but he told me to stick it out. So I did.
You say yours had a different ending? Am I included in the ending and can you post it on RUclips?
+Real Tuff I was A-5-3 as well. Drill Sgt McCool. I think he changed his name.
Who remembers Pvt Doyen? Shot himself, ending his own life on the range in August of 1986 C-5-3.
I was there 15 August 1991 to 20 December 1991
End of the heat to the beginning of the COLD
15 years before I joined. Wow.
a lot of these dudes probably fought in desert storm
Trained here April - July 1991 12B-10 Delta
Brian Pippin
Never thought I'd hear patience and drill seargents in the same sentence
Wow, I was A 3/10 for BCT before getting sent to Huachuca for AIT near 10 years after this video was made, 1996....strange it all looks the same, but different....
C-4-2. August 1986. Anybody else?
LMAO!!! Really...? For real? I was there 1988! Ft "Lost in the Woods" Misery
A 3/10 "Blacksheep"
E-2-2 March - July 1982....I arrived with a close cut and didn't get that first haircut but got charged $2for it anyway! Sgt 1st Class Davis...Staff Sgt. Carter.. And Mother Fucking Staff Sgt Mitchell!
Roderick Schell charged us $7 for our first cut in 1987
Hi, I was there starting in Mid July 1982 - I had a Mitchell as drill instructor, but a-4-3? same one I wonder?
I had a drill named Sgt. Nathaniel Hoesey. I called him Sgt. Horse. He smoked my ass!!! LMAO
Any C-5-3 graduated from September 1986? Looking for some old battle buddies.
2017 Charlie 35 Eng Bn. COMMANDOS
This took me back. Thanks. I was there a month after 9-11. Not an act of patriotism, as I signed up a month before it. They had no patience at that moment of time. I remember 1 day they told us China was involved and we were all being deployed. Pack your duffle and get the fuck back in formation asap. Yeah. That was....fun. I also remember chow. You eat what they gave you. And you liked it. Seriously. Every hot meal you got 2 pieces of bread. Eat em or make a sandwich out of whatever you want. And lima beans. Fucking lima beans. But you ate them. Cuz they were calories you needed and your body knew it. Cattle trucks, fire watch, doing laundry at 2am cuz that's when you could. The rocks in the clay I had to low craw over. 800mg ibuprofens to deal with a hairline fractured foot to graduate. I would never take it back. But I would never do it again. Never would have thought I could carry a 200 pound guy up a hill. Or half the other things they made us do. Be all you can be.
Had to go to the bookshelf to get unit. Been a long time. A-1-48. DRAGOONS.
C. Company 35th Engineer BN (2005) checking in
I remember now I never could shoot straight, I was afraid of the rifle now I own 30/30
E-5-3 16 Jan. 1984 to 15 Mar. 1984 then B-5-4 for A.I.T. 64C. They called it Hotel Bravo!! Wouln't change a thing!!
I came in 1981-OG107 shade Fatigues and Khakis!
C-4-3 Nov 1986. We got a Christmas exodus, but they worked our asses when we returned!
c-4-3 july-sept 86.
Golden age
Echo 4- 2 1986! The Real Deal!
Post Commander was Maj Gen von lobensal if I remember correctly
A 1 3 october 1986 lost in the woods misery dang them rocks
Anyone in the January 1st 89 D-4/3. Sr. Dril Sgt. Jews, and Drill Sgt. Ohern. Frigid Bivouac. Broke my ankle and graduated with a cast, though I did not have to recycle (Thank the Lord)
A short little guy from Jersey got overbalanced by his mattress bag full of shit as we rounded the corner of the barracks coming out the cattle car. He went down and I tried over him. I hyperextended my wrist a spent the first 6 weeks if BCT in a cast. Qualified expert with the SOB on. LOL
Heading there June 29th
I tell you what, getting those new bdu's at CIF was a little like getting back to school clothes.
I hate to say it but this was a nice Basic Training lol. Nothing like going through E 1/79 FA at Fort Sill.
The music sounds like something I would hear from a Pokémon videogame.
I went through in 85, the drill instructors in this video are being very nice for the camera. They were never like this in real life.
I went through in October '85 ... you're right
@Wayne Corbett back in the 80s drill sergeants were way more brutal and cruel than they are these days😂
Summer of '85 at Ft Lost in the Woods. C-3-3. This brings back memories. A bit sanitized, particularly the Sundays. Church services yes, but no Px or Rec Hall. I don't remember doing a confidence or PEC. The bivouac was all rain everyday, the DSgts pretty much stayed in their tents and we were felt alone. Every Thursday in the mess hall was fried shrimp and steak for lunch. Great experience, but would not do it again.
I went through basic, summer 1980, was permanent party 1984-1987, HQ-4-4, at TA244, out there near the airport😁
I went to Fort Leonard in 1987 and it was hell. My drill sergeants where brutal.
I did my boot camp in 1984 at Ft. Leonard Wood. I remember a LOT more cursing and yelling from my drill sergeants. That was back in the days when Basic training was no joke. The most memorable things about my boot came was the food (Probably some of the best army food I've ever had.), and the night-time maneuver through live fire with the tracer bullets. I was probably too young to even realize how dangerous the whole thing was and was just full of adrenaline. It was like playing a video game.
I got to be a suicide watcher for a guy who'd never consider suicide. He had a standing 10AM appointment with Physical Therapy at the hospital. The first thing they did was issue us a chit for chow. The hospital's cafeteria was awesome.
Then we took a tour of the main PX and went to the post office so I could mail a letter. SSG Johnson, our platoon sergeant was walking in as we were walking out. Oh, shit!
"Joe Willy what are yo doing in the Post Office"
"Suicide Guy", " I had to mail a letter, sergeant"
Sgt Johnson to me, "Are you supposed to be watching him?"
"My orders are to never let him out of my sight and go whenever he goes, sergeant. I'm not big enough to stop him".
SSG Johnson, laughing out loud, "Well, Joe Willy, you two had better get back to the hospital before you get into trouble". "Yes, sergeant"
I went through the night assault course with A Company. It was the most pathetic joke ever. You could almost walk through the lanes that had been worn under the barbed wire. You needed to, too. The instructors had through all the large rocks they could find find in there to try to keep them from wearing down so fast. The machine guns were in bunkers on two hills and firing at least 20 feet over our heads. After clearing the wire "obstacle" , we were to wait until the flood lights came on before "assaulting" our way through to the back World War One suicide style.
While we waited, the guns fired (WAAAAY) overhead and the propane simulators fired off and we even had a couple of small demo charges fired off safety inside enclosures so nobody could get too close. I sat down behind a jeep that had been 'destroyed by enemy fire" and waited. When one of the propane flashes lit us up, this guy about twenty feet away yelled out, "What do we do now?". He was so terrified that he was literally shaking. I was amazed. I wondered where he could have come from to be so frightened of loud noises. "We wait unit until they turn the lights on and then we play soldier".
I went in the second batch. While we waited for the first group to go through, we saw the tracers through the windows of the building we were in. None of us knew at that point just how high those tracers were going to be. I was remembering the stories of my uncles from the the 1950's; including Uncle Thurman's story about the guy who crawled up face-to-face with a snake and stood up just in time to catch a round in the forehead. I was started to be glad that "Little Korea" was so damn cold in January.
We were watching the tracers and talking when this A Company guy popped up with, "Oh, hell, it's only tracers". Without thinking first, I said, "And what the hell do you think is carrying that tracer? A fucking bullet!" I'm surprised they didn't all kick my ass. I guess they were as blown away by his stupidity as I was.
Yep. Oct. '87 here!! Alpha 2-10. Gor my ass smoked several times!!LOL
In 1986, the army had just started instituting non-verbally abusive training. Not that they didn't slip from time to time but as explained by Drill Sergeant Moore, they wanted to instill a more positive approach. Man did they struggle with not ripping us to shreds! ))
I was at Fort Leonard Wood for Basic in Bravo 5-3 on July 1984. You are right this was the cleaned up version for the camera. The Drill Sergeants would cuss you up one and down the other. I even saw on several occasions put their hands on a recruit and dare anyone to say anything about it. Looking back though the eyes of a old man I would do it allover again. The best of times during what you think is the worst of times . My Drill Sergeant was SFC Velichek , and Sgt. Williams still remember them to this day.
@@danfunk7307 Dan, I think the Bravo units were next door to us in those old metal buildings. That was one Hot Muggy July in 1984. I remember countless times just hanging my head and watching the sweat drip off my nose. Too tired to wipe the sweat off. With all my experiences in life, that summer of 84 in Basic Training was the best. Even with the harsh conditions Basic used to be.
I'm deploying January 27 and I want to thank and show my respect to all the vets
Still serving?
Your cannot deploy till you finish Basic and AIT.
B--3-4 1986 Coldest place I have ever been and has all 4 seasons in one day sometimes.
Ken Knight yep kinda remembered nick name there is fort misery or something like that, I was there 1985
You said the same thing I said after I left there. I still remember 11-12-87 as the coldest I've ever been in my life at that time and I was from the mountains.
C-4-2 August 1986 here. 12B
B2-2 march 1986
Snows in the morning and is 78 degrees by noon. C 2-10
I went through in '89 and did 20+ years. I regret not getting my tape or yearbook.
What company? I was in D-4/10 2nd Platoon, June 6 of 1989. Just 18 of us started, and then a week later they brought in like 200 other soldiers, and so just restarted the whole cycle -- we got to do Week 1 twice.
Tim Johns
Yep I remember that. Too weird. I was D 4-10 4th Plt during the same cycle. We almost had 1 Drill Sgt for each Joe that came running off of the cattle truck that hot assed day. They had dudes crying, puking, and nearly blacking out from heat exhaustion during the shark attack/smoke session. I'll never forget when the Sr. Drill busted out the back door with a stack of papers in his hands and yelled "HOW MANY OF YOU PUSSIES WANT TO QUIT NOW?!?! I have the release forms right here. Raise your hand if you want to get out of the Army and we'll send you home today." I couldn't believe it when about 2-3 cry babies actually raised their hands and wanted to quit after only an hour into Basic Training. Then he said something like "FUCK YOU!!! You ain't getting out that damn easily." LOL. They were crushed. Good times.
Hey what do you mean your tape and know what a year book is. I as out of curiousity, i dont want to miss out on experoences while i go in for basic. I ship to leanardwood on the 1st or 2nd week of march 92f.
I was there in January 89. C35th.....
91. Front back go. We got reserve DS even through AIT. Not sure if there was a sergeant Campbell there. Drove a white firebird. One of my DS told me I could have a soda. Campbell eat me alive.
I don't remember having cheese burgers, pizza, hotdogs nor anything fried. All I remember sucking down was chili mac and mashed potatoes. I remember one time while on KP, I stole a apple pie off a rack and went into the latrine then stuffed it down my filthy sewer! lmao the wrapper is still hidden behind the ceiling towels I'm sure. July 1994
I wonder if they still have the family of civies who worked there cutting hair, passing out uniforms/supplies and maintained the pots and pans? I'm almost certain that they were casted as the imbread group on that movie The Hills Have Eyes.
Stan Mack lmao. those church revivals
Stan Mack
Stan Mack I’m sure they do. I went through basic in Ft Leonardwood in 87 and in 2005 i re-enlisted civilians were still handing out the gear
If you did that and got caught when I went through there in 1982,you would have paid dearly for that pie.
OMG! I trained there in 03' and I remember the older African American Gentle Man in gear issue. He was still there! Sir, I salute you.
I went to Fort. Leonard Wood for basic training and 12b10(Combat Engineer) training OUST from 6-Dec-1982 to 17-Mar-1983. I was in Alpha Co 1-2 . Will never forget that place or my time there, I do admit it looks a lot different on this video than when I was there in the middle of winter.
I went through april-june of 82 with. A2-2
Fort Leonard Wood, third platoon, Charlie-2-3, October through December 1985. Somewhere between the barracks and the M16 range, I lost about 20 pounds of me. Senior Drill Sergeant Benelli, Drill Sergeants Nance, Richardson, Stevenson, Matagi, and McElwee...I'll never forget these guys as long as I live. I retired on 1 July 2010 as a senior Major. What these Drill Sergeants taught me helped me survive tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. We were promised that we could go to the base movie to see "Back to the Future" if our Company passed EOCT. The whole Platoon aced EOCT but two of our retards snuck out of the barracks, bought a Polaroid camera, took a bunch of pictures of each other and got caught. The next night, SSG Richardson marched the Company through the freezing sleet and snow to the base movie theater. We could smell the pop corn and hot dogs. We were all so excited until he shouted, "Company, Half Right". What followed was a half hour of "Front, Back, Go" in the parking lot as our punishment for the Polaroid incident. We were ordered to "Attention", "Half Left" and "Forward March" all the way back to the barracks. SSG Richardson fulfilled his promise...he did take us to the movies, sort of.
I was in Charlie 2-3 third platoon March -May of 1987. Remember many of the same DRILL sergeants.
Ft Bliss they told us if we gave blood we would get a free bowling pass. Well we did and as we walked out the DS took it back and said, "Never said you would get to go bowling." Next we were told we would get to go see the Monkees and the Turtles in concert. We get there get in the stands and hear the Monkees play their last song. Then we got to police the whole area and march back to our barracks. Fun times and got to go to Juarez for the morning just before graduation. Some of the guys had to go to sick call after that.
They skipped all the hardcore screaming, cursing and calling us every name in the book lol! Charlie 31st 132 BN Feb- May 87.
Basic there in '80. Love those Hostess Apple Pies. I think that buffer is the same one I used. They didn't show the night live fire course which was fun. Good times. Thank you Drill Sargeant Rosario.
I was looking for that too
I loved the hostess fruit pies also , and when were able to actually drink a soda from the machine was pure bliss , tasted like heaven!!
I went through basic at Fort Leonard Wood in the summer of 1973, and a lot of the ranges and the barracks and the bowling alley were much the same as they were in this video. I seem to remember the haircut went very fast, and they used to have vacuum hoses attached to the clippers. The big Checker taxicabs were a cheap way to get around.
I just graduated in August 2023. They still have the vacuum hoses on the clippers. The base looks a lot different now, but it seems like only a few things have changed in the training experience. I'm sure the Drill Sergeants were a lot scarier back then, as well. Thanks for your service!
I have been in The PX at leonard wood a few years ago and it looked just like a civilian mall with a the typical fast food crap .when I was there in 85 there was none of that no fast food
I was there starting January 1988. I served 8 years in the Army. At the places I served, starting with basic training a lot of the government civil service employees treated the soldiers like chyt. At about 7:00 the soldiers are getting their gear. The civilian employees are handing the soldiers the gear, not throwing it at them. When I went to Germany and was issued gear, some younger civil service employee stood behind a counter and threw the gear at me. Could have just set the stuff on the counter, and I could pick it up and put it in my bag. This guy had to throw my flack jacket at me, shelter half, and all that. Had to talk the talk as well.
The civil service workers that had jobs at the base treated the soldiers worse than the drill sergeants. Kind of resented it.
There were exceptions. The guy in charge of the mess hall where I did KP was a really cool, older guy. Treated the detailed soldiers with respect.
The contractors running the chow hall changed just as our cycle started. It was so bad that the drills asked for the company to issued MRE's instead. One morning A Company went to chow first. There was 0 milk by the time we got there. We were, ahem, disappointed. We did not know that the milk had been sitting in the dispensers all night, with the power turned off. So many people in A Company got sick that the entire company lost a training day.
B/87th Engineers was the first unit to receive bayonet training since 1973. The guys in the next cycle of A Company got pugels, too. SSG Gentry was long-waisted but his short little legs could walk faster than the rest of us could trot. SSG Kelly marched with his hand on his nuts. SSG Johnson took care of his people. SSG "Ken Doll" was a former Misguided Child of Uncle Sam who like to sing "Up jumped a monkey from a coconut grove . . ." when he led marches. SSG Bowman was always a complete dick to us; but his platoon always had toilet paper we could steal when ours ran out. He made sure they had what they needed.
Senior Drill SSF Short was from the 10Worst and managed to keep a straight face when he spun around and lunged at my face with a fixed bayonet when I didn't flinch and the rest of the platoon pretty much fell down. I'd noticed he was carefully pacing off from me as he lectured and made up my mind that I WOULD NOT move - although I did pray that he didn't miscalculate or slip on the ice.
SGT Smith was a giant from Alabama whose shoulders reached the top of the doorframes - he had to bend door to enter a room. His arms were larger than my legs. He picked me up by my ear when I fell on the ice during a road march. But after SSF Short and I both had been unable to clear and double overfeed in my POS M16A2, he made two grunting pulls on the charging handle and out popped to fairly mangled rounds. I'm surprised the charging handle didn't break.
The first sergeant was a former motor pool guy who loved to try to convince people he was some kind of super soldier and bragged about how he was going on the road march with us. Of course, while we had full rucks, his was empty except for the ensolite sleeping pad he'd used to block the form. When he went back inside the orderly room for something, the nearest drill held up Top's ruck with his pinky. We all laughed. Without penalty.
SSG Bynum was determined to prove that she had the biggest nuts, but ABSOLUTELY hammered a slut in AIT who was trying to destroy a fellow soldiers life in AIT because he was the first guy to hit on her after she found out that the rest of her platoon laughed at her behind her back because she was such a tramp. The girl's room mate had told SSG Bynum that the girl routinely went onto the open platoon bay wearing her PT shorts pulled as far up her ass as she could them and I'd had to make a statement about how many times I'd seen her pretending to wait to use the pay phone at the other end of the barracks while letting everyone else go first so she could play with the dumbasses in line and how when the projector malfunctioned at the post theater and we all turned around when the house lights came up, there was no way to tell where she ended and the two guys she was wrapped up with began. Hell hath no fury like SSG Bynum at a girl who was busily destroying everything SSG Bynum had spent her career trying to build up and proving every bias and presumption that she'd tried to overcome. SSG Bynum earned tremendous respect from me that day as I stood at parade rest while words hurt my ears through a closed office door twenty feet down the hall.
Captain Cowder was the only one who never used profanity. I did see the man so infuriated one morning that he told the drills that, "A Company can go have sex with themselves". The short little bitch who commanded A Company from her Jeep with the, "Women are natural leaders, You're following one now" bumper sticker was so aware of her inferiority that she berated the hell our of me once because I failed to salute her as I exited the Mess Hall directly int the afternoon sun which was conveniently behind her back. Salute her? Hell, I didn't even know she was there. Then there was the morning in AIT that the Brigade Commander gave the new drill sergeant a ration of shit because I had called the couple of new guys working on the floor with to parade rest when I saw through a spinning fan what looked like the First Sergeant. Colonel Dipshit was wearing a yellow PT suit with no insignia at all and I'd only seen him once several months before and the new guys had never laid eyes on him at all.
I also started in Jan 1988. It sure does bring you back!
Where are those guys by now? Some of them, probably, E8-E9, O5-O6, may be WO5. Some of them are retired.....some of them are dead....
'89 and retired.
US Soldier 88 retired SFC
US Soldier My dad served in 1985-1989 he went to fort Leonard Wood and Fort Knox then stationed in Berlin he was a Berlin wall Tower guard
I was at lost in the woods Feb to May 85 with A - 42 as an E 1, I retired 29 years later in 2013 as an E 8! I deployed in Egypt (MFO), Iran 05, and finally Afghanistan 2012 - 13, returning home 7 months before retiring.
That should have said Iraq 05
1980 D42 Best by test masters of the front leaning rest
Make it hurt drill Sgt. Make it hurt !
Dawne Clayton , geez I was there 1985 sept-dec. Did u have nco named sgt Manuel? What a coincidence d42
Oh I get it now, this is just a parody of BT right guys? ...right??? We never saw hot chow but for breakfast on Sundays (c-rats anyone?). Never saw any PX-there was no free time -unless you went to Sunday morning church service- ever. Bayonet training was 1 on 1's with your battle buddy and not a second went by that some DS wasn't screaming in your face.
austin sullivan yeah this seems like a recruitment video of some sorts. Definitely not what I went through in 87’..
Man this makes me feel old. I was 18 when I went to basic there and I'll be 50 this year. I saw one of our drill sergeants , SSG "Danger" Slane, at the beginning of this film. I went through Sept through Nov 1986 Bravo 3-3 4th platoon. Our senior drill was SFC Phillips who never smiled and his favorite saying was "Bravo Company I don't mind and you don't fucking matter. Open ranks MOOOve". My knees are still bad from low crawling on the jagged rocks. Good times.......... E. Taylor
Basic Training 1986 March to June. 52 yo now... those were some pretty awesome times when i think back on it now.
I was at Fort Leonard Wood Bravo 5-3 summer of 1984. The Drill Sergeants were a lot rougher than this film shows. I got kicked once, slapped another time and cursed out so much I lost count. If I had it to do again I would not change a thing.
i was there in 77 best 8 weeks of my life..went in doing 10 pushups max came out doing 100 easy... had a lot of buttons undone ..lol for u that know
I trained there in 1988..FT Wood, The house of Pain,,
Alpha 6-10 ! 1988
Bryan Tracy E-6-10 1987 ...
Thomas, A-5-3 84
Bravo 6-10 1987
I got stationed there after doing basic training there, then AIT... When the Cadre read my orders, everyone in the room when "Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh....." and a small dark cloud entered the room... (best time of my life)... :)
I still remember to this day my first military meal. Arriving at reception, 2 am cold cheeseburger cold potatoes, milk. Then bed at 3am, wake up 04:30 hrs.
Yes...same here C-3-4 from 1985. 5 minutes to eat, sent to bed and they came soon after to get us processing.
13:43 "Everyone gets a chance to do KP... It's an honor you wouldn't want to miss, something to tell your grandchildren" bahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahah yeah right, get the hell outta here with that bullshit
Remember KP duty started early but we got to eat first and stayed away from the Drill sergeants for a day
Love the woodland camo i wish the army still issued it instead of this digital garbage!
Boy do I have news for you
I miss the BDU caps instead of those gay looking berets worn now...only a Ranger should be allowed to wear the black beret. I guess they do look better with dress greens versus the old overseas 'napkin' hat. Got into a debate with my 1st Sgt once when he questioned why my OS cap was 'crooked'. I got him good by stating that Army regulations stated the OS cap could be worn 'cantered to the wearer's right side'...he was about to unload a world of shit on me until another drill said I was right. Nevertheless I was inspected extra close by him afterward but luckily he never found anything amiss and I always nailed the questions he asked. Felt like a million bucks when he handed my M-16 back and said "excellent job, Private."
Army has been wearing PC since June 2011. And Rangers are wearing sand color beret.
I was in DLI (which has all four branches together) in June 2011 when they changed... The berets were a real source of pride there, since without it, from a distance, we were all too often confused with the Air Force.... Morale went down dramatically on post when they removed the beret. To be honest, they should have just had the beret decision made on a battalion level.
I think the Army looked cooler when they still used the ERDL camo pattern in the early to mid 80s I think it would help you blend in with the foliage better. but i'm a civilian so i wouldn't know. Personally i always liked the old green camo before the Army shifted to multicam shit when we started fighting terrorists.
you aint lived till u do basic and ait at ft.leonard wood!!anybody out there went through from3-83 ...nice memories...u had to be there
I did my thing at ft.Leonard Wood in 1968 and will never forget that place! It was called by some "Little Korea" because of the amount of rocks on the ground & the winters where so cold, the summer is very hot.
1981. Lost in woods summer into fall
93 - Was still Lost in the woods summer into fall
1986-damm rocks are still there
aka Fort Lost in the Woods
My experience at ft.lost in the woods.Otober 89- January 90. Pure HELL! But the best training EVER!!! HOOAH...💪💯
I was there the exact same time. Alpha company 31st battalion.
I was there starting in November of 1985. E-2-2 Company with Sgt.Slaughter,Sgt.Smith and Sgt.Silva.Some of the very best times of my life,without a doubt !!!!
Mates, I came in in . 92. No duckwalk at the meps. , no soldiers creed. It was way better.
I was there in the fall of 82, (c-5-3) 2nd plt.-sergeants Douglas and Beaty
the guy on the guitar at 32:00 starts to loose his shit.
lmao...yea he gets pretty wild there