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The moment you as a private standing in line at the range OSUT infantry training realize you should have not enlisted. (Original Post) Duncanpup May 2025 OP
HFS! Did that guy survive??? LearnedHand May 2025 #1
Plastic legs now k_buddy762 May 2025 #2
Ouch Duncanpup May 2025 #5
11B's AzTired64 May 2025 #3
I wasn't smart enough to be 11C or 11H😉 Duncanpup May 2025 #4
I wasn't smart enough to be 11C or 11H😉 AzTired64 May 2025 #6
1984 June I hit C-10-2 Duncanpup May 2025 #7
Germany AzTired64 May 2025 #8
Was that the 25th infantry bro In Hawaii Duncanpup May 2025 #9
And yes I agree the army is messed up in their logic. Duncanpup May 2025 #10

AzTired64

(39 posts)
6. I wasn't smart enough to be 11C or 11H😉
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:50 PM
May 2025

My buddy became an 11H, and I so grateful I wasn't an 11C. I saw them rucking the baseplate for an 81mm, my back hurt just watching them. I ended up as 11B10C2, a Dragon Anti-Tank gunner(many moons ago.)

Duncanpup

(15,651 posts)
7. 1984 June I hit C-10-2
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:10 PM
May 2025

Then 11 weeks in I caught recycle stomach hernia ended up going A-10-2 to finish OSUT.
Then across post to jump school then off to 82ND 2/325PIR bro I loved it there.
Caught PCS broke ankle on drop then West Germany I loved West Germany more so.

AzTired64

(39 posts)
8. Germany
Sun May 25, 2025, 11:38 AM
May 2025

I put Germany on my Dream Sheet, since I am half German and took German in high school. For my overseas post....they sent me to Hawaii. If I put down I was Hawaiian and wanted Hawaii, the Army would have sent to Alaska or Panama.

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