It blew a piston rod clean through the oil pan. I never trashed a tranny, but I did blow up at HMMWV's engine one time on the Autobahn. Lee Ermey, the gunnery sergeant turned actor who portrayed the scene-stealing drill instructor in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, died Sunday at the age of 74. It was like sitting on the hull of a WW-II submarine after the captain has yelled "dive! dive! dive! I don't remember more than a day or two driving, but I do have vivid recollections of the day we took a Bradley swimming. Maybe it is done differently now but when I did it, you completed 11B training and then 2 weeks were tacked on the end and they just taught things like how to do PMCS, how to load and remove the chain gun, etc. I don't remember a whole lot about the mike part of 11M school. so, how much time was devoted to teaching you guys on the proper technique use to destroy a transmission. But the funny thing is that I don't remember any of the drill sergeants' names from AIT at Ft Gordon, jump school, or my "second basic training" when I did the AIT portion of OSUT about a year and a half later to retrain as an 11M. Of my three padlocks issued the first night, one was lost in a CAX in 1995, one's in the bottom of a seabag in my basement, and the third one is on my tool shed.Ģnd plt A-2-46 Inf, 4th Bde Ft Knox, January 1989: No idea what the story was about, but I remember sitting on the deck being totally fixated on it. Short and intense, had some wierd story about the rifle range he told us in 2nd phase. Dude could fucking run.Ĭompany Co Capt G.I. My green monster is still creased from where he threw it on the deck, missing me by an inch. My first impression of him was "who the fuck is he and why is he thrashing me?". Heavy-set tracker who came on at the start of 3rd phase. It got worse when he got angry, which was damn near constantly. Dark green commo Marine, I could never understand a damn thing he said. He went absolutely apeshit when he was running out of rained like a sonofabitch during the lead-up to initial drill, and I can still hear him in the back of my head screaming for someone to grab a trashcan for him to spit in while we drilled inside. He was a helo mech who had just come off a tour with HMX-1. Found out later that he had an Ivy-league graduate degree in chemistry.
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