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I Was Verbally Abused And Humiliated By My Army Drill Sergeant in 1969 (*SOB*)
Vanity | Nov. 14, 2017 | Vanity

Posted on 11/14/2017 8:09:48 PM PST by PROCON

It's true, I can't believe I've held this incredible pain inside me for so long but I have to tell somebody how cruelly and unfairly I was treated, Oh so long ago.

I was new to the Army, heading to Basic Training in 1969, wanting to make a difference and serve my country and America but what I encountered shook me to my very core.

Me, a wide-eyed recruit, got off the bus at Fort Lewis Washington and was immediately yelled at and verbally abused by this looming, big, (and mean), Staff Sergeant named SSG Gritman.

He singled me out immediately because he hated me and made me fall into a position I would come to know and hate, the FRONT LEANING REST Position, (*SOB*), to do push-ups I didn't deserve to do because I was nice person!!

This monster of a man continued to demean and harass me throughout the entire 8 weeks of training, always singling me out as if I were his pet DOG, never relenting, never cutting me slack, never saying he was sorry!

Well, here it is, the reason I confessed my pain and suffering from so long ago; I want to find former Drill Sergeant Gritman, and have Congress indict him on charges of having been mean to me those many years ago.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; FReeper Editorial; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: 1969; metoo; satire
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To: Fiddlstix

“I’m very seriously considering suing the doctor who slapped me at birth......”

Me too. But I was so ugly at birth the doctor slapped my mother.


61 posted on 11/14/2017 9:06:52 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: PROCON
Thank you Procon! Your bravery has inspired me to come forward and tell others that I too was treated inhumanely by my drill sergeant. He even called me a maggot. *sob*
62 posted on 11/14/2017 9:09:24 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Rebelbase

Actually that is a very sad tale. Lol!


63 posted on 11/14/2017 9:11:06 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: smokingfrog
MAGGOT?!?!

Oh, the Huge Manatee!

64 posted on 11/14/2017 9:12:24 PM PST by PROCON (#MAGA)
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To: rockinqsranch

Yuk, Yuk - we were neighbors. I was A-2-1 Fort Ord June ‘66


65 posted on 11/14/2017 9:13:09 PM PST by Baynative ( "If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.")
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To: McGruff

Those cattle car trailers still exist at some of the BTC forts.


66 posted on 11/14/2017 9:13:27 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: PROCON

Later in life, I had a “cathartic healing event”.

While building a new BCT complex, I got to tear down the Ypres Gas Mask training building where I took CS Gas exposure training 40 years earlier. It was a weird feeling when I took possession of the site as it was old Missouri post oak timber, park-like setting, old picnic tables and looked just like it had all those years ago.


67 posted on 11/14/2017 9:18:15 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: PROCON

When I got to boot camp I was totally prepared -———
Eight years in grade school with the Sisters of Notre Dame followed by four years in a Jesuit High School AKA a Jesuit
Penal Colony. Drill Sgt’s were pussies compared to Father
Donovan and Sister Martina! Oh for the goode olde daze!


68 posted on 11/14/2017 9:21:45 PM PST by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2018!)
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To: PROCON

I was beaten by two drunk off duty police officers back in ‘96 for sitting on the wrong public bench.
Their wives were cheering while they did it.

This is NOT Satire....


69 posted on 11/14/2017 9:23:36 PM PST by Zathras
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To: mass55th

Well, I had to save that tune!


70 posted on 11/14/2017 9:31:32 PM PST by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: Baynative

Well Howdy neighbor. I arrived in May, so just a few weeks before you.

From Ft. Ord to Ft. Gordon, Georgia, to SeaTac headed for Viet Nam. Last minute orders for seven of us changed to Korea. Spent all my time in Korea, extended, came back on early release.


71 posted on 11/14/2017 9:32:02 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: LUV W

I’m glad somebody enjoyed it. I love Big Band music, and have that recording on a Benny Goodman album. Johnny Mercer wrote some great tunes. That’s just one of them.


72 posted on 11/14/2017 9:33:55 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: PROCON

In the eighth grade I had volleyball in PE. If I hit the ball with a closed hand Mr. Hungerford hit my behind with a paddle. I have never been the same again in the intervening 58 years.


73 posted on 11/14/2017 9:33:56 PM PST by Retain Mike
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To: mass55th

I love big band too! Play lots of them on the weekend Tunes Canteens! Along with random tunes from many genres. :)


74 posted on 11/14/2017 9:35:18 PM PST by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: rockinqsranch

Mine was a black fellow about the size of Sammy Davis Jr, even had a pencil mustache. Nice guy, but everybody jumped when he said jump.


75 posted on 11/14/2017 9:35:45 PM PST by umgud
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To: Zathras

The day after President Roosevelt died in 1945 our teacher Miss Wilson was very much in mourning. On the playground I happened to say to another kid that “everyone has to die sometime”. He ratted on me. Miss Wilson ( an old Maid, or un-maid) took me into the cloak room, made me drop trou, took off her shoe and paddled my butt. None of the class saw it.


76 posted on 11/14/2017 9:36:10 PM PST by Islander2 (Some of us are here because we are not all there.)
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To: Retain Mike

I’m finding inconsistencies in your statement. You’ve got 24 hours to admit you liked it, and have been collecting paddles ever since.


77 posted on 11/14/2017 9:37:00 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Isn’t that line more appropriate for Bill Clinton?


78 posted on 11/14/2017 9:37:05 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are silly those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Islander2

Oh my God that’s funny. I’ve got tears in my eyes. So you basically got paddled for saying something you probably heard your parents, or some other adult say.


79 posted on 11/14/2017 9:40:37 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: PROCON

Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!


80 posted on 11/14/2017 9:41:35 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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