Posted on 08/23/2021 5:56:03 PM PDT by Apparatchik
Yes, that’s the honorable way to do things. So that one day when your word, actions, really count, you can, what? What good is your word ? Please.
Priss pirates. Sleep in your rack, geniuses. That’s what it’s for.
Oh, heck I kept the bed taught with boot blousing in PNOC in Germany in the 70s. I used the dust cover blanket for sleeping and it was easy to fix everything back in shape the next morning. Remember that a breath on the brass reveals fingerprints left by the inspectors the day before....
Seems she's documenting her West Point days on social media. She cares more about her Likes than in actually being an officer, much less fighting a war.
I can imagine her posts.
My amazing cadet uniform! Pretty cool, even if gray's not my best color.
OMG, spinach for lunch! Bleach! The things I do for my country!
Super awesome sergeant dude across the room! He can drill me anytime!
Why isn’t there an inspection where some “fault” is found and the bed is torn apart ?
You have to learn to distinguish between the sstuff that matters, and the stuff that doesn't. Training all of your officers to be afraid of violating the tiniest rules is a great way to train self-important martinets. A bit of free-thinking and daring is necessary.
My one way of rebelling was to wear the same set of wash khakis at night for all 18 weeks.
I'll never forget the night we short-sheeted our "latrine queen" (the last guy in bed because he had to do a final cleanliness check of the showers and latrine). When he stuck his legs into his bed, the sheets tore so loudly you could have heard them in the next barracks. You have never seen a guy so pissed off. He seriously wanted to kill someone, but nobody (AFAIK) ever revealed to him who it was.
“The moment the “hack” was found out, all beds should have been tossed every night for a week. That isn’t ingenuity, that’s laziness and corruption.”
That!
If their bunks weren’t being tossed on a regular basis then someone was falling down on the job.
A buddy of mine did his USMC basic on Parris Island. By his account it took a couple of weeks for everyone to get their act together on the bed making thing, so many bunks were tossed every day.
When everyone got their act straight the DI’s didn’t toss a bunk....for two days. On the third day every bunk was tossed and they were informed that standards had tightened up.
He loved the Corps.
RIP
SSgt Ben Maxwell, USMC
Killed October 23, 1983
Beirut, Lebanon
These kids spend more time figuring out how to avoid work than actually working. Hopefully the Drill Sergeants will start trashing the sheets on any bed found "cheating". Or even better, trash every bed in the barracks except the cheater. I know my Company Commander did that at least once a week for our first month until every bed was perfect every day.
I was Army but I've seen a couple of videos about Navy recruit training. In one a recruit had failed to do something he had been trained to do and the CPO,while chewing him out,shouted something like "what are you gonna do when you're an F-18 mechanic on a carrier? Are you gonna do it your way,or the way you were trained to do it?" He made a pretty good point.
The academies are bull shit. Turn out idiots for the most part.
I went though Air Force OTS in early 60’s for three months and learned all there is to be an officer. Solved bed making problem by making bed perfectly..once.. then sleeping on floor rest of the time.
*****
So YOU get to decide which orders are important and which ones aren't??
Comforters?!? We had wool blankets.
On the floor? Yikes,you must have been hard core!
We got marched down for linen exchange. I guess West Point has maid service.
What I found out, was as I went along in Basic Training, I could easily make up my bunk in about 60 seconds. Forget sleeping on top wearing only my Army sweat clothes...
What I found out at Annapolis in 1977 was that you absolutely did not want to get caught sleeping on top of your bed. That was a punishable offense right there. Demerits were handed out like party favors for doing stupid stuff like that.
“That is really sad”
Very common. We did it in boot camp and OCS both. It was forbidden in neither.
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