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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: DIRTYSECRET

“There’s pieces of guys like you in my stool”.

That has always been a favorite of mine.


121 posted on 11/15/2017 8:40:23 AM PST by T-Bone Texan
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To: laplata
I’m going to look up one of my Drill Sergeants

That was me and I remember you.......I've just been paroled after 35 years in prison for multiple murders......Lets have a beer together.

122 posted on 11/15/2017 8:45:17 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

Lol.


123 posted on 11/15/2017 8:48:37 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: PROCON
Fort Knox Kentucky, 1965... THAT MAN KICKED ME IN THE ASS...! I'm so.....emotionally drained.
124 posted on 11/15/2017 8:55:30 AM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: PROCON

My Dad’s advice was,

“Make your bunk so tight that a silver dollar will bounce up off it.”

I told him that was the old Army. The new Army probably didn’t do stuff like that.

On our first big inspection, the Captain walked in flipping a silver dollar.

Oh, Daddy.....you were so right.

I didn’t know bunk beds could fly so far.


125 posted on 11/15/2017 9:03:48 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: mass55th
Thanks. I'm old enough to remember that. Haven't heard it in years.

Col. (Ret) USAF

126 posted on 11/15/2017 9:06:04 AM PST by JoeFromSidney
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To: PROCON

What flames? Richard Gere was abused in that manner in 1982. (Extra points if you guess the reference correctly, y’all.)


127 posted on 11/15/2017 9:10:45 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Environ-MENTAL-ism is MENTAL)
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To: fini
Reading your post reminded me of this line from Full Metal Jacket...
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Did your parents have any children that lived?
Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, yes, sir.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I’ll bet they regret that. You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece.

128 posted on 11/15/2017 9:11:11 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: budj

What’s really funny is that drill sergeants can be some of the kindest, most decent people you’ll ever meet, unless you’re a new recruit.


129 posted on 11/15/2017 9:12:37 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Environ-MENTAL-ism is MENTAL)
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To: unread
Fort Knox Kentucky, 1965... THAT MAN KICKED ME IN THE ASS...! I'm so.....emotionally drained.

You must have bouts of despair from your physical fitness and tight discipline.

130 posted on 11/15/2017 9:29:33 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Environ-MENTAL-ism is MENTAL)
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To: Mark17
I was Officer of the Day every few months. One of our duties was to eat in the Enlisted Mess. The idea was that the OD was to make sure the troops were getting decent meals. Actually they weren't bad, considering how many they had to cook for. At least as good as what I are in my college dormitory dining rooms.
131 posted on 11/15/2017 9:35:58 AM PST by JoeFromSidney
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To: JoeFromSidney

You’re welcome. It’s one of my favorites. I’m 70. My mother loved Glenn Miller, and I guess I inherited her love of Big Bang Swing music. And thank you for your service.


132 posted on 11/15/2017 10:14:29 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: JoeFromSidney
I assume you were referring to USAF dinning halls. I thought they were pretty good too. I was referring to the few Army dinning halls I ate at in Germany. It was the worst food I ever had. It was really bad, EVERYTIME I ate there, no exceptions. It was always bad. And my dad wondered why I joined the USAF. 👍🤗😀

Mark in Davao Del Sur.

133 posted on 11/15/2017 10:41:46 AM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Fiddlstix
😀😀😀😀😀😀
134 posted on 11/15/2017 1:06:38 PM PST by patriotspride
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"An Officer and a Gentleman"

"Put your toes on the edge of that chalk line! I said, put your toes on the edge of that chalk line, ya' slimy worms! Where have ya' been all your lives? Listnen to Mick Jagger music and badmouthing your country, I bet."

135 posted on 11/15/2017 2:30:35 PM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: sima_yi

ping


136 posted on 11/16/2017 6:58:10 AM PST by Craftmore
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To: bushpilot2

I am at this very moment wearing a T-shirt with a fleur-de-lys, with Legion Logo with the DBLE inscription. I had a real cheesy one earlier; I spent a couple of months in Djibouti at the Embassy. I spent a couple of months in N’Djamena, Chad, the following year, 1983. There were no Marines at either post then. We told Marines at other African posts that we worked at that they sent us civilians out to those posts to make sure that it was safe enough to deploy Marine Security Guards. My photos of Djibouti look like the far side of the moon.


137 posted on 11/17/2017 1:34:39 PM PST by Ax
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To: PROCON

I will never forget the Drill Instructor the platoon had on PI... Sgt C Barnett. We were afraid and scared of this Mairine from day one until the last day of recruit training. He was a top notch Marine and performed his duties flawlessly.


138 posted on 07/26/2018 9:46:36 AM PDT by MGunny
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To: MGunny
My 2nd tour of Army duty I took AIT at Fort Sill, OK, home of the Field Artillery school.

Marine Field Artillery trainees were located in the building next to us and I remember their DI just hounding them from dusk til dawn, and this was advance training.

One thing I noticed from living next door to the Marines, you guys sure can march and drill, best marching formations I've ever seen.

139 posted on 07/26/2018 1:58:21 PM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: PROCON

Hey you, don’t be blue, my recruiter screwed me too.

As told to me by a buddy that was a squid.


140 posted on 07/26/2018 2:16:15 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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