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Originally Posted by MtnGoat
He was cool with it and just told me don’t talk to the trainees just tell their DS. This Post has it rule and we, NCOs can’t use our General authority to correct a Suck-up (with a F). Living on a BCT base sucks because of the rule, at that time I was single so the few bars I would go to I had to look hard to ensure the chic I was talking to wasn’t a trainee.
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I just got back from tdy at Ft Jackson a week ago, and it's the same way. Part of the initial briefing when we got there was "don't talk to the trainees". One of the DSs I talked to told me that now they get to keep their cell phones, weekend passes every weekend, they can smoke and chew now, in BCT. The only time they really feel any hardship is the first two weeks, if then. Our billets were right next to a shopette used by all the AIT soldiers, and we'd constantly see them walking around jacked up, I saw one kid walking around with his winter PT jacket unzipped, one pant leg rolled up to his knees, like he was back on the block, it was an excercise in self restraint if ever ther was one.