Basic Gone Soft

[jwt5]

Originally Posted by Pete

Next thing ya' know somebody will want to know how many Trucks are on Ft. Bragg.

Should I run for the bunker now?

The Airborne has trucks???

[Pete]

Originally Posted by jwt5

The Airborne has trucks???

That didn't take long.

When you throw out a baited hook something is going to nibble.

You older guys let this soak a while.

Pete

[Pete]

OK you young guys, this subject has soaked overnight and you appear to be avoiding the subject.

By tradition, if you go on Post and break a Truck you find........

[jbour13]

Originally Posted by Pete

OK you young guys, this subject has soaked overnight and you appear to be avoiding the subject.

By tradition, if you go on Post and break a Truck you find........

A means to properly cut up, and dispose of the flag, and a .45 Cal round to defend it.

That was one of my Soldier of The Year questions when I was in Hawaii. Thank god my S-3 SGM asked me the question beforehand at a practice session.

"PFC *****, how many trucks are on post?"

I about chit myself trying to go through MTOE in my young mind about how many trucks the 25th ID (L) had on post. He thankfully stopped me before my brain reached a full rolling boil.

[SF_BHT]

Originally Posted by Pete

OK you young guys, this subject has soaked overnight and you appear to be avoiding the subject.

By tradition, if you go on Post and break a Truck you find........

Pete
By the time we made it through the Q Course we were flushing that basic Army crap and filling our heads with medical journals, IMPOC formulas, demo tables oh and very important which bars were SF friendly and how to fill out TDY orders and vouchers. That soldier of the year stuff was for the support guys and the brown nosers who wanted to be a 1SG of HSC. You know what is scary I have a soldiers guide for taking the board still in a box. It is yellowing a lot but has things like how many Trucks are on a Post and what is in it. I am such a pack Rat. May be a good thing for the Museum.

[sg1987]

A means to properly cut up, and dispose of the flag, and a .45 Cal round to defend it.

SF-BHT,
With all due respect, This is NOT basic Army crap......this concept conveys an important principle! The concept of the lesson is still in my head after many years.(even if the grey matter has started leaking out)

[SF_BHT]

Originally Posted by sg1987

SF-BHT,
With all due respect, This is NOT basic Army crap......this concept conveys an important principle! The concept of the lesson is still in my head after many years.(even if the grey matter has started leaking out)

You missed my point. As QP's we filled up our Grey matter with so much additional info that is why I or others were not Picking up very fast on Pete's "Truck........." comment.
We all came up in the army and hopefully learned that type of info but most teams are made up of Sr. E-6's E-7's and an E-8. Quite different than a platoon in the Regular Army. I remember getting a E-5 right out of the Q Course and it took all of us to get him ready for the board and we also made him go to the Soldier of the Month just to drive him crazy. We all had to put our heads together to get him ready because we had not needed to do this kind of thing in years. We had moved past that type of thing and had to dust off the cobb webs to make sure the info we gave him was correct. SF is a little detached from the regular Army in my day and I bet it still is. Not knocking the Regular Army. We get all our people from them. You have to start some where.