I lived up the hill from that place from 1964 to 1980. My folks worked there and we lived on the grounds. I find it funny those kids were too afraid to go down the tunnels. Me and my friends went down all those tunnels very frequently. Also used to sit on the catwalk of the water tower, what a view it was. That area was fun to run around. lots of hiking in the woods, more freedom than what kids have today. It's sad to see that part of history disappear. When I was last down there a year and a half ago, they were in the process of tearing buildings down and moving houses out. The house I used to live in was still in place, but I'm sure not for long. All I have left are some pictures, and memories.
I graduated from here as a Gold Star Leadership student of my class that was there at the time, at time it was very challenging but also rewarding and I’m very thankful for what I went through here. The food was good, and there was also school classes during the day. I remember running up this 200-400 foot incline hill to the top and only a few of the students ever made it to the top and I was one of them. Also learned how to survive in the pure wilderness and search animal tracks and tie knots from lake beds. Very cool.
@@RaymondPowley-y1u Glad I wasn’t the only one who experienced it 😂 Made it up first try but it was hell, I think we did drills like running up a quarter way up than half than all the way but that hill was nothing to mess with man
@@RaymondPowley-y1u Mr Marty was crazy 😂 I remember that guy! Yeah we did all kinds of stuff, you remember the cadences we would all sing when running the trail?! lol and marching to breakfast every morning “Left, Left, Left, Right, Left!!!” 😂
Top notch elite first platoon wolf pack ooh rah !! I went to this and ended staying a year for a 6 month program I was in Brady 1 it was hella crazy there foreal I can't believe it's been over a decade since I was there
I know every room of that complex from the gym to the bootcamp to the laundry to the theater to the track to the woods around it i was in bootcamp 4 months at a go 3 diff times plus 9 months in the forestry camp located there too separate program
I grew up in boot camp there platoon 40 50 3063 and 3066 then onto living center A. Im 40 but look 25 can do 20 pull-ups right now still run a 5 min mile😂 Hard core 4 life
My crimes that got me put on juvenile department of corrections and sent to boot camp was 1..possession of alcohol bye minor...2 caught with weed pipe...3.. skippin school. I was such a bad kid😂
The bootcamp was like the movie full metal jacket... watch full metal jacket youll get a slight idea of what youth bootcamp in custer was like only we had 2 drill instructors plus and was longer and we didnt get guns juvie boot camp was 120 days plus weeks of holding in arival and professing marine bootcamp is only 3 months.. our juvie bootcamp was ran bye real marines... my luitentant was 52 and wanted to help kids change 😂 he was a former paris island drill instructor and taught drill instructor school. Im no marine but i prromise you those first groups of kids in custer before it went soft are probly more highly trained regarding bootcamp then actual marines... place was nutttttts the staff would even tell us we had it worse then actual marines
Platoon 40 50 eagles... September 10th 1999 to January 10th 2000 platoon 3063 eagles Dec 26th day after Christmas 2001 to april 23rd 2002 then immediately re started without getting out a new platoon may 3rd 2002 to sugust 23rd 2002 was in youth bootcamp.. then in 2003 to 2004 i was sent to the sister program adjacent to the bootcamp called living center a where it wasnt as rough and intense as bootcamp but superrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr regimended brainwashing crazy stuff groups all day... point sheets.. levels .. it was nuts
The kids there acted just like marines we slept at position of attention....marched where ever we went in 3 squads to cadence.... made our beds bye the numbers with counts and shouts and start overs that lasted hours.. we never broke the position of attention... it was stricttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt as a matter if fact it was damnn squared away i swear we were 14 to 18 I laugh at the bootcamp vids of real miltary not even close apsoloute weak sauce the intensity of custer youth bootcamp was a 11 outta 10 would be shut down in a hour today ... ide say watching the bootcamp videos I see on line ide say intensity is bout a 3 or 4... not taking shots here its truth... Custer youth bootcamp was something else man like fuckin special forces training on roids with no real checks or balances no cameras they simply got away with torturing kids induction week was 30 kids squished together in a mob head dwn into a billet.. theyd have 15 drill instructors on rotation it was nutso they rannnnnnnnnn theeeeee shittttt outtta us for dayyyyyyyys even blink the whole platoons getting there entire beds n footlockers destroyed we get msrched out to run in place pushups up dwn up dwn screammmmmmmed at spit in eyes.... up close very personal. Then we go make beds tell chow... eat chow standing up holding trays telll kids pass out from shaking.. up dwn up dwn bed at 930... up at 530 slamming trash cans at uss flipping lights on screamming as loud as mean as posssible wakeeeeeee thereeeree fuckkkkkkk uppppppppppp tooo slow get back.. sound offffffffff.... louderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr thats 100 percent not giving it justice
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I lived up the hill from that place from 1964 to 1980. My folks worked there and we lived on the grounds. I find it funny those kids were too afraid to go down the tunnels. Me and my friends went down all those tunnels very frequently. Also used to sit on the catwalk of the water tower, what a view it was. That area was fun to run around. lots of hiking in the woods, more freedom than what kids have today. It's sad to see that part of history disappear. When I was last down there a year and a half ago, they were in the process of tearing buildings down and moving houses out. The house I used to live in was still in place, but I'm sure not for long. All I have left are some pictures, and memories.
I graduated from here as a Gold Star Leadership student of my class that was there at the time, at time it was very challenging but also rewarding and I’m very thankful for what I went through here. The food was good, and there was also school classes during the day. I remember running up this 200-400 foot incline hill to the top and only a few of the students ever made it to the top and I was one of them. Also learned how to survive in the pure wilderness and search animal tracks and tie knots from lake beds. Very cool.
Boot camp hill was savage man
@@RaymondPowley-y1u Glad I wasn’t the only one who experienced it 😂 Made it up first try but it was hell, I think we did drills like running up a quarter way up than half than all the way but that hill was nothing to mess with man
@@chrislockmiller5968 your lucky bro we were doing backwards bear crawls with Mr Marty up that shiz 😭🤣
@@RaymondPowley-y1u Mr Marty was crazy 😂 I remember that guy! Yeah we did all kinds of stuff, you remember the cadences we would all sing when running the trail?! lol and marching to breakfast every morning “Left, Left, Left, Right, Left!!!” 😂
@@chrislockmiller5968 or the sound offs top notch elite can't be beat first platoon wolf pack ooh rah lol
Top notch elite first platoon wolf pack ooh rah !! I went to this and ended staying a year for a 6 month program I was in Brady 1 it was hella crazy there foreal I can't believe it's been over a decade since I was there
I was there in 99 2000 2001 2002 2003 and could tell you crazy stories... place was nuttttttttttttttttts i did my share there
I know every room of that complex from the gym to the bootcamp to the laundry to the theater to the track to the woods around it i was in bootcamp 4 months at a go 3 diff times plus 9 months in the forestry camp located there too separate program
We ran that track daily its 1 mile did up to 6 mile runs as platoons daily
I grew up in boot camp there platoon 40 50 3063 and 3066 then onto living center A. Im 40 but look 25 can do 20 pull-ups right now still run a 5 min mile😂 Hard core 4 life
My crimes that got me put on juvenile department of corrections and sent to boot camp was 1..possession of alcohol bye minor...2 caught with weed pipe...3.. skippin school. I was such a bad kid😂
I literally destroyed that building and got in huge trouble for it
No joke i musta did 1 million pushups there
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The bootcamp was like the movie full metal jacket... watch full metal jacket youll get a slight idea of what youth bootcamp in custer was like only we had 2 drill instructors plus and was longer and we didnt get guns juvie boot camp was 120 days plus weeks of holding in arival and professing marine bootcamp is only 3 months.. our juvie bootcamp was ran bye real marines... my luitentant was 52 and wanted to help kids change 😂 he was a former paris island drill instructor and taught drill instructor school. Im no marine but i prromise you those first groups of kids in custer before it went soft are probly more highly trained regarding bootcamp then actual marines... place was nutttttts the staff would even tell us we had it worse then actual marines
Remember Mr. Yates?
Platoon 40 50 eagles... September 10th 1999 to January 10th 2000 platoon 3063 eagles Dec 26th day after Christmas 2001 to april 23rd 2002 then immediately re started without getting out a new platoon may 3rd 2002 to sugust 23rd 2002 was in youth bootcamp.. then in 2003 to 2004 i was sent to the sister program adjacent to the bootcamp called living center a where it wasnt as rough and intense as bootcamp but superrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr regimended brainwashing crazy stuff groups all day... point sheets.. levels .. it was nuts
The kids there acted just like marines we slept at position of attention....marched where ever we went in 3 squads to cadence.... made our beds bye the numbers with counts and shouts and start overs that lasted hours.. we never broke the position of attention... it was stricttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt as a matter if fact it was damnn squared away i swear we were 14 to 18 I laugh at the bootcamp vids of real miltary not even close apsoloute weak sauce the intensity of custer youth bootcamp was a 11 outta 10 would be shut down in a hour today ... ide say watching the bootcamp videos I see on line ide say intensity is bout a 3 or 4... not taking shots here its truth... Custer youth bootcamp was something else man like fuckin special forces training on roids with no real checks or balances no cameras they simply got away with torturing kids induction week was 30 kids squished together in a mob head dwn into a billet.. theyd have 15 drill instructors on rotation it was nutso they rannnnnnnnnn theeeeee shittttt outtta us for dayyyyyyyys even blink the whole platoons getting there entire beds n footlockers destroyed we get msrched out to run in place pushups up dwn up dwn screammmmmmmed at spit in eyes.... up close very personal. Then we go make beds tell chow... eat chow standing up holding trays telll kids pass out from shaking.. up dwn up dwn bed at 930... up at 530 slamming trash cans at uss flipping lights on screamming as loud as mean as posssible wakeeeeeee thereeeree fuckkkkkkk uppppppppppp tooo slow get back.. sound offffffffff.... louderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr thats 100 percent not giving it justice
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