Craziest thing you did in Bootcamp and didn't get caught

[hmxsgt]

I think I may have already posted this somewhere but here is mine.

I was picked for the 0200 firewatch with another recruit and we were to watch the 3rd Battalion HQ building. Well I told the recruit I was with I was going inside the building to make a call. He said go for it. So I opened the main door where it was totally pitch dark inside, now I had been at boot about a month and a half at this point and had never spent any time in this building and did not know where the phones were so I had to spend a little time finding the pay phone which including sneaking past the Duty Staff NCOIC. I got to the phone made the call to my then 4 1/2 month pregnant girlfriend at about 0220 and spent about 5 minutes on the phone. Snuck back past the Duty and back out to the post with the other recruit. We were the only two who ever knew that I did it. I remember being so F'ng scared. Who the hell knows what would have happened if I got caught. All for 5 minutes on the phone with my future wife. My mom was pissed!!!!

[ja_swanson]

ya got to do what ya got to do!!!!!

[kmarier2001]

I think I may have already posted this somewhere but here is mine.

I was picked for the 0200 firewatch with another recruit and we were to watch the 3rd Battalion HQ building. Well I told the recruit I was with I was going inside the building to make a call. He said go for it. So I opened the main door where it was totally pitch dark inside, now I had been at boot about a month and a half at this point and had never spent any time in this building and did not know where the phones were so I had to spend a little time finding the pay phone which including sneaking past the Duty Staff NCOIC. I got to the phone made the call to my then 4 1/2 month pregnant girlfriend at about 0220 and spent about 5 minutes on the phone. Snuck back past the Duty and back out to the post with the other recruit. We were the only two who ever knew that I did it. I remember being so F'ng scared. Who the hell knows what would have happened if I got caught. All for 5 minutes on the phone with my future wife. My mom was pissed!!!!

Ha, that is a crazy thing to do! Good thing you didn't get caught or we'd be hearing from you the craziest things your DI made you do in boot camp:D!!!

[hmxsgt]

Ha, that is a crazy thing to do! Good thing you didn't get caught or we'd be hearing from you the craziest things your DI made you do in boot camp:D!!!


ahhhh you should start that thread!!!

[epmosich]

lol when i was at bootcamp, i paid one of the civilians that worked in the chowhall 20 bucks for a pack of smokes, and had cigs at while we were at the rifle range...it was awesome. lol

[hmxsgt]

lol when i was at bootcamp, i paid one of the civilians that worked in the chowhall 20 bucks for a pack of smokes, and had cigs at while we were at the rifle range...it was awesome. lol

You had civilians in the chow hall. Damn I don't remember any civilians in any of the chow halls I went to. Hmmm maybe I was to busy eating

[gunga55]

Things have changed a bit on the last decade or so.

[epmosich]

i was a coolier filler...we left with early chow and came back with late...it was the best hookup...plus the ice machine was in the back, and we had to walk past the civilians smoke pit to get there...one thing led to another...and i had cigs. lol

[marine4life]

Mess and Maintenance week is now Team week

[epmosich]

yep, but it's the same thing....you just work, for a week. lol

[grumpygy]

Well In Boot camp I was Allowed to keep a Pack of smokes on me and when the call for "Smokers" I was the only one to go outside. They put us thru a whole lot of hazing to get us to stop I was the last one still smoking. Or so they thought cause I knw if I inhaled with what they had us doing I would puke. So I was allowed to continue smoking.

What was crazy was one night late I decided to have a smoke. Did not get caught and was real lucky I didn't.

[hvtinoswife]

well i've never been to boot but my husband (John) just got out not to long ago and one story he told me was him and his rack mate was acting like the DI after lights out and his rack mate started running accross the tops off the bunks and the DI's door slams open so that guy just drops and lays in the bed with another guy. then after a few mins the DI goes back to bed and john's rack mate jumps back to his rack and they go back to sleep. without getting cought. lucky.

[Trapper]

well i've never been to boot but my husband (John) just got out not to long ago and one story he told me was him and his rack mate was acting like the DI after lights out and his rack mate started running accross the tops off the bunks and the DI's door slams open so that guy just drops and lays in the bed with another guy. then after a few mins the DI goes back to bed and john's rack mate jumps back to his rack and they go back to sleep. without getting cought. lucky.
That is pretty hysterical! I think having to testify at a court martial for a drill instructor was pretty crazy. Not something I wanted to do.

[epmosich]

yeah, i never slept with another recruits rack in bootcamp. lol

[HMC8404]

Sorry to disappoint you Tom .... but I played by all the rules.

Unless you consider "lying" about smoking? It only took once just after my company was formed and we were having a field day in our barracks to learn that smokers were given more breaks than non-smokers. When my CCs (Company Commanders -- your DIs) announced that the smoking lamp was lit for the smokers and that non-smokers had to continue to clean? I was POed. On the next trip to the Exchange I bought a pack of ciggies. Next "smokers break" I was out in that outdoor stairwell with the smokers pretending to smoke. None of the smokers ever busted me.

[gunga55]

I started doing that at work some times to take advantage of those free 10 minute breaks.

[HMC8404]

After boot ... when someone said they were going on their smoke break ... I used to tell my Chief or LPO I was going on my "fresh air" break. I always bucked the rules ... I'm still snickering that they gave me anchors in the end.

[HMC8404]

You had civilians in the chow hall. Damn I don't remember any civilians in any of the chow halls I went to. Hmmm maybe I was to busy eating
This amazes me!!! We had a week where we HAD to "work" around the base, and that was 90% of your chow hall staff -- fellow boots. Most of my company worked in the messhall during "work week". Those of us who had made the Drill Team (precision marching), had to spend the days practicing. We performed every Friday for the graduation.

[Trapper]

I do not rememebr anyone getting smoking breaks in boot camp. I rememebr the lamp going on at ITS, but not in boot.

[HMC8404]

I went through March 1980 ... and it was Navy. ;)

[gunga55]

I think it was late 82' or early 83' the lamp blew out for good. I know for sure that by Aug of 83' there was no smoking in boot camp.

[epmosich]

yeah, you are DEFF not allowed to use ANY tobacco products in bootcamp or MCT anymore...

[HMC8404]

I remember working in offices where I was the only non-smoker and you could literally "cut" the smoke in the room with a knife! I know I'm going to die of lung cancer one day. :(

[marine4life]

yeah, you are DEFF not allowed to use ANY tobacco products in bootcamp or MCT anymore...

That's bogus, at least at MCT. Unless they changed the rules since I went through. Even the boot LCpl I work with said people could still smoke and dip

[justme]

We were allowed to smoke in boot camp. Probly only 3 a day though. We rocked the SDI final drill, & she allowed the smokers to take the whole pack outside with us instead of just the one, & they'd come get us 'whenever'. After our first, they didn't come get us, so we fired up another, then another. During the 4th cig, most of us were sick....lol

[justme]

Then of course was that 'free' Sunday at the end of boot camp. There were only 5 of us 'die-hard' smokers, everybody else had quit. But on 'free' Sunday, everybody was smoking. It pissed off the LT so much, she pt'd the hell out of all of us the next day.

[HMC8404]

When did you go through boot justme? Were you on the PI?

[justme]

It was January-March of 1982. Such a long time ago! Yes, it was at PI.

[HMC8404]

That was a year before I went to Beaufort. I was just wondering. One night on duty (Pt Admin watch at the hospital), we had a young WM come in Code Blue from the PI. I did Decedent Affairs on that watchbill so I didn't want an active duty death, but she died. She hadn't even been there for 24 hours. I was just wondering if you were there during that time, but you were long gone.

[justme]

That had to be the worst for you. But she'd only been there 24 hours? She must have had a pre-existing condition of some sort. Yes, I was long gone, but I kept going back. Was there again from 86-89, & again from 99-06, & still technically work there. Just can't seem to get away!

[HMC8404]

Forget me, I felt badly for her and her newly forming company. It created quite the fiasco between the PI command and the hospital's. You're not allowed to move a body from the ER to the morgue until the pt has been positively identified. There was no one to do that, no ID yet, and only 2 other recruits who came down from her MEPS with her with the ability to clearly do it. Her DIs were there but couldn't say that yet. For three long hours she laid there in the ER while the two commands argued this out. The PI didn't want to have those two other recruits come over to ID her because it would be difficult for them starting off. Eventually they had to. There was no other way.

Yes, she did have a congential condition detected only upon the autopsy. It had gone undetected by any physcials throughout her life. That was my department in the hospital at that time, so I had to do everything associated with her.

[justme]

And that war between the commands is still going on...

[HMC8404]

LOL ... really? But that war goes on between recruit side of Great Lakes and the hospital as well. I was stationed there, too, and I did the medical boards on recruit side. I can't tell you how many kids we'd turn right around and send home. I used to joke that if someone had been missing a hand, a recruiter would've told them to just keep their "stump" in their pocket so no one would notice.

I think that is more about medical vs retaining troops.

[justme]

Yeah. Must be why they're rebuilding medical on PI. It's huge. But then, they're rebuilding everything there, it's all changing.

[marine4life]

justme, you on the Island? I'm over at the Air Station.

The Naval Hospital seems to take better care of recruits than anyone else. I talked with one of my friends who's a pharmacist and she said the command philosophy is recruits first

[justme]

I work at PI & MCAS, from home. I moved last summer, so I don't get back to either place too often, but was there last week. There is STILL nothing to do in Beaufort!

[marine4life]

Nope, there is not. I'm glad I'm out of here in less than 2 weeks

[HMC8404]

There is STILL nothing to do in Beaufort!
LOL :eek::eek::eek: Really? Still driving into Savanaha?

Still ... one of these days, I'm driving back down that way.

[marine4life]

Well, if it's before May 11th, let me know

[HMC8404]

Not that soon ... no way. But I will. I loved the spanish moss on the trees ... hated the sandfleas while standing in formation though. Wait ... never mind. ;)

[marine4life]

I'm hopefully going to Hunter AAF when I go JV

[justme]

The sand fleas are still a bother. Although I wasn't in formation, they still come around when you're sitting outside having a beer. And ya have to do that out in town.... when & why did they close the E club?

[HMC8404]

http://www.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2047389/eHowskinsosoft_Full.jpg
Skin So Soft by Avon ...

thats what the old fisherman told me to use down there. It works, too. Not the new "fragance" one (pink), but the old fragrance. It really did help. I'd put some of that on my legs before putting on my pantyhose and it did a really good job!

[marine4life]

On the Air Station, because not enough patrons

[marine4life]

Skin So Soft by Avon ... thats what the old fisherman told me to use down there. It works, too. Not the new "fragance" one (pink), but the old fragrance. It really did help. I'd put some of that on my legs before putting on my pantyhose and it did a really good job!
OR you can just shave everything and they can't latch onto everything

[justme]

yeah, skin so soft...they couldn't bite you through it, they drowned & died in it first!

[HMC8404]

OR you can just shave everything and they can't latch onto everything
I shaved my legs you nim-com-poop! :eek:

[don't worry, I know what you meant]


yeah, skin so soft...they couldn't bite you through it, they drowned & died in it first!
That is some nice thick skin oil and it leaves your skin so baby soft. I have never stopped using it since then. I have bottles of that stuff at home.

[epmosich]

no, they like like told us if we smoked on the free sunday, then we wouldn't graduate...tryin to scare us...and i went to mct in august of 07, and tobacco was NOT allowed.

[grumpygy]

Do not remember what year it started but it is now The Smoking lamp goes out your 1st day and does not come back on till you are on your way home from Boot Camp. That woulkd be a good time to quit for goo.

[epmosich]

That's bogus, at least at MCT. Unless they changed the rules since I went through. Even the boot LCpl I work with said people could still smoke and dip
i dunno, but as of apr 30 2007 at parris island, 3bn I co, you can't. lol

[marine4life]

It's crazy how fast things change in the military

[epmosich]

yep, all the time, it's a full time job to just keep up with the maradmins. lol

[CheetahRat]

Maybe this is the stupidest thing I did in Boot. I was told I was in the top three for PFC out of boot camp. So when my DI took me aside, at mess hall, and actually talked to me like I was human, I just knew it was a TEST. He asked me if I would like to be in the Marine Corps Drill Team. I figured he was testing my resolve to go to VN. So I replied "NO SIR, I want to go to VN and kill the enemy. He looked at me somewhat puzzled and he said The President needs a helicopter guard. So I'm thinking Yeah, next he'll tell me the Commandant needs a golf caddy. So I said "NO SIR, I want to go to VN and...." So he says OK Miller send in Mitchell. It wasn't until after Graduation when we recieved our MOS's and Orders that I realized what an IDIOT I was. First off, I didn't get PFC, I did get 0311 and West Pack orders and Mitchell got Intelligence School. I'll know better next time, HA!

[gunga55]

live and learn so it is said but still you can't go back in time and do it over

[epmosich]

lol, that sucks...oh well, better luck next time right? haha

[nightwolf]

Heh... I have to admit: I am looking forward to hearing jenniferyearta's Crazy Boot Camp story after she graduates from Boot.

[epmosich]

lol, knowing her, she'll have something crazy, her town is really boring, she'll go crazy in bootcamp. lol

[nightwolf]

lol, Yeah that sounds about right.

[rkdian]

I hope they don't scare the bejeezus out of her!

[nightwolf]

I'm willing to bet that they will.
I dont mean to sound cruel but many people on this website have stated that nothng can prepare you for Boot Camp so chances are she's bound to get freaked out a bit.

[epmosich]

yeah, it puts a smile on my face just thinkin about it tho....:schilder017:

[Trapper]

Jenn is the most moto individual on here. She won't let anything stop her!

[rkdian]

I would have to agree with you, CJ. And once she gets over that initial shock of "own you", she will be motivated BY the negativity.

[Trapper]

I would have to agree with you, CJ. And once she gets over that initial shock of "own you", she will be motivated BY the negativity.
So did she ship? Her myspace says she is in bootcamp to return August 22. I thought she did not ship until June 9th?

[epmosich]

no she left early....

[Trapper]

no she left early....
So she is still in recieveing then, not picked up perhaps? Learning that perfect corner on the rack?

[gunga55]

I don't think that she will have any crazy boot camp stories for us though, out side of the crazy DI stories. i.e. side straddle hops in a circle till you get so dizzy that you fall down giving the DI an excuse to berate you.

[epmosich]

I don't think that she will have any crazy boot camp stories for us though, out side of the crazy DI stories. i.e. side straddle hops in a circle till you get so dizzy that you fall down giving the DI an excuse to berate you.
i think you might be right.....

[innersanctum]

I had chewing tobacco sent to me in plastic baggies from my friends and I would dip at night when I should have been sleeping. I wasn't really a trouble maker in boot so much.

[Trapper]

I don't think that she will have any crazy boot camp stories for us though, out side of the crazy DI stories. i.e. side straddle hops in a circle till you get so dizzy that you fall down giving the DI an excuse to berate you.Side stratle hops in a circle? Never heard of that one...

[gunga55]

It was one of my DI's way of screwing with people. Funny stuff in retrospect