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Subdeacon Joe

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Believe it or not, Ssg Cordoba,  my assistant drill sergeant in 66 was a dead ringer for Jack Webb. Except he had an accent. :lol:

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If I was told I only had 15 weeks to live, I would want to go back to basic training...because that was the longest 15 weeks of my life!

 

Those 15 weeks included basic training, and then later, a stint in a P.O.W. exercise training group. Not everyone may have had to endure that, but those of us that were subject to being put in a location, sort of "behind enemy lines" (there really were no "lines" where we were going), they put us through this "training". 

I was never captured, but if being captured was 1/10th as bad as this training, then I don't see how anyone made it back alive, or sane.

 

The movie, the D.I., was pretty good, and pretty realistic, as far as it went. As the saying goes: "you just had to be there". 

 

 

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my dad had me watch it as a kid to show me being in the army was not that good of an idea.  he had been an army drill sergeant before going to vietnam.  After watching it i wanted to join the army even more.  My 4 children used to watch it over and over and copy it and pretend to be the D I or private owens.  now whenever we see private owens on gunsmoke or perry mason we point it out.

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My Senior DI was the boot that couldn't tell the sex of the flea.

I loved watching him catch H---. I watched that movie over and over!

:-)

 

 

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