Army drill sergeants suspended in sex assault probe...

[RichL025]

Not a DS or basic training story, but related...

I went to PLDC in 91 at Bragg - division was in the sandbox waiting for the first Gulf War to start, so the only PLDC students were the ass-and-trash from 18th Corps, and a handful of pre-Q course guys like myself.

Because we were the only things close to real soldiers, the PLDC cadre kind of confided in us pre-Q course people - they were mostly 11Bs from division, and aside from a few Old Guard guys, us pre-Q course people were the only combat arms types around...

One night one of the cadre grabbed me to accompany him as he was doing his nighttime rounds (he was kind of a wannabe who tried to suck up to all of us pre-Q course guys, but whatever...). He told me to look through the window into the female's barracks (yeah, not appropriate, but still, this guy was one of my cadre, so OK...). It was January in Ft. Bragg, so pretty cold, all the female soldiers were snug under their OD blankets, right?

Then we entered the barracks with a loud "Man on the floor!" as I guess was required. Wouldn't ya know, as we walked down the hall of the open-bay barracks there were all sorts of legs, breasts and asses sticking out of the covers, despite the 50 degree weather.

While I have worked with many female soldiers for whom I have the utmost respect, there is a certain "regression" to pretty basal behavior in settings like basic & PLDC. Damn sure those DS should have known better, but I'll bet that some of them were ensnared in traps of female privates who knew exactly what they were doing....