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Thought it would be interesting to see where we went through Basic and AIT. I did basic at Ft. Sill(y); D-Btry. 5th Tng. Bn. and AIT with E-Btry. 7th Tng. Bn. I was there from 07/86-11/86. One of the Drill Sgts I had in basic was a 15D named Bankster. Saw him later when showed up in Aschaffenburg at 3/12 FA (was 1/80 when I got there but was redesignated.)
Tony

Fort Sill Charlie 5, Third Herd!! Parrachute Jimmy Finch was our DI. Also Staff Sgt. Cooper and Mckeena. It was one station unit training in Jan -May 1983. Finch moved from infantry to Pershing after and Coop moved to 82 Charlie I think.

I was in Delta-4, April-August 82. The drills I remember most are SFC Hall and SSG Brew. SFC Hall arrived at 2/42FA in Crailshiem Germany about 6 months after I did and ended up being my platoon sergeant. There wasn't any shopette or anything there yet just a couple of old wooden shacks, one for a little shopette and one for a snackbar.

Went to basic and AIT at Ft. Sill, Basic was at A 2/80th from sept 87 - dec 87 and AIT at D 2/30th.

Basic was 11/87 to 1/88 with C-Btry 2/30. Third
platoon aka "Dogs of War". SFC Atlas Davis
was our #1 drill sgt. Great guy. Won Honor
Platoon over the "Warlords" and
"Thunderbirds".

AIT was 1/88 to 3/88 with E-Btry 2/30. Class of
14 people. Can't remember drill sgt's name
but he was a short, intense little guy.

3rd Herd. Echo Battery, 7th BN (1984). We had warm up suites with "Bad Dream" and a nuke mushroom cloud. Did AIT at the same.

I can't remember our drill sergeants other than them being real characters. There personality's were real laid back once we were in AIT. The was one female drill sergeant (not our platoon). She came into our barracks...into the showers to chew us out. Why I can't remember.

5th Trng Battalion, F-Battery, 1st Platoon, training commenced 07/83 - 11/83. This was OSUT at the time. SFC Smith, SSG Elliot, SSG Jepson & SSG Porter were our DI's. We had our PT t-shirts that said, "Nuke 'em 'till they Glow!"

Yeah, we went thru E 7th around the same time, Tony. I was there Nov-Dec 86', just out in time to get to A-burg before the new year. You were upstairs in crazy Charlie. You used to hang a little with my first roomate, William (Ed-cause he 'ad a big head) Lowry. Yeah, crazy Charlie, leading USAREUR in positive piss tests! And the Strasse! Chipsies, Hellburgers, Logo's, THE PUB, Hermann Getranke, Gatsby's. I saw a Gatsby's in Carbondale, IL when I went to SIU there. Same blue dude with the cane & everything.

I don't remember the names of all of the guys up in Charlie, but I have a lot of them on video in Spain & at the Relik (Geno Abeyta's garage band) gigs they played at parties, clubs & local fests.

Then I roomed with Shaun Miller in Rm 207. He came down with leukemia in the summer of 89'. I got word from a friend of his that he passed in 93' or 94'. Too bad- he was a righteous dude.

Do you remember Mike Webb? He used to pull his front bridge out & put it in chick's drinks down at the Pub. They would gross out and he had a free S O Blue. Course a few times they flung it across the club & Mike was all drunk crawling under tables looking for his teeth!

TREE!! Actually, I was in SVC Btry... but yes I did run with all those fools in Charlie. We did have some fun!! I had all but forgotten about Relik. Steve Ivie was the singer and a good friend. He was in Svc as well. I remember when we took the bus up to see Shaun at the hospital. I *vaguely* remember Webb.... Where are you living now? Tony

I live in northern Indiana, up by Chicago. I just misse dyou I guess. I got out of the army in Feb. 2001. My last duty station was Ft. Hood- I was there from 98'-01'.

I got out right before the Gulf thing started in 90'. Then I kicked around, was a butcher for awhile, worked the factories, got married. I re-uped in 94'. Went to Ft. Knox for AIT and went to Ft. Carson, Baumholder,FRG & Hood.

I work for a transportation company now, & was n Wisconsin for awhile, then transfered to Chicago.

No dude... I've been a Civi since I got out in '90. Lived in Germany for 4 years after I got out in the A'burg area. Worked for a german construction company 'til i moved back to the states W/family in Jan of '95. We moved To So. Padre Island first, then to Austin in Mar '00. Been here since then.

I went to Basic at Sill Oct-Dec 87. I think it was 1/32 Alpha. I will always remember Drill Sgt Carmona. He called me Felix because I looked like "damn f***ing Felix the Cat" with those birth control glasses on. Did AIT across the street at 1/30th, have no idea who the DS was but I remember Jan 88 was extremely cold for Oklahoma and we had to march through the snow to get to class. Wound up in 1/12. They called me "Bernie" (last name is Bernard). Had great friends and great memories, even though I never left Sill for my whole time in.

i remember carmona also,

he was real mean.

Bernard....i've got a new email address....

davidrandolphhuddleston@yahoo.com

baytown, texas

peace, bernie.

I went to basic in July of '83 in Fort Sill OK. The 7th Training Battalion, B-Battery, 1st Platoon. We ran P.T. in these cool red shirts that had the Tasmanian devil on the front holding two missiles, a Lance and a Pershing. I'll never forget the open bays in the barracks and the mad pisser that finally got caught one night. LOL. I'm now a Captain on a small ship (270') in the Gulf of Mexico oil industry. I try to tell my shipmates about the lance and they look at me like I've got two heads. A nuclear missile? Yeah right....

Charlie 5 Third Herd!!! Parrachute Jimmy Finch was the DI with Mckenna and Cooper. Finch bit the head off a snake during a force march to show us he was a psycho ex green beret from nam. He was actually a good guy with a few mental problems and if I had to go to war he would be my number one draft pick to walk beside my big ass. Cooper was great: he stood up for us and got into a fist fight with our first sergent on a PT run at three in the morning. Needless to say he changed jobs that morning. Mac was the coolest of all and would hang out with us in the evenings and sneaks us a few cold beers if we deserved it ( I guess it was good cop bad cop). I hated it but love the memories that I found in the butthole of the world also known as Sill.

I went through basic/AIT from Oct 81 to Feb 82 at Ft Sill.

SGT Marino
SSGT Manning
SFC Williams

I thought basic would've been real tough, but it wasn't that bad.

The older I get, the more poignant the memories...

congratulations1972

Echo 4 2nd squad 4th tng bn Ft. Sill

June 1978

Ft. Sill, Basic & AIT, September-November 1981, SFC Sneethen and SSG Garrison. Was roomates (this was before the open bays) with Steve Borkowski from Cleveland, and a another guy whose name I can't remember (and who ended up in Leavenworth for drugs, I heard).

I enlisted from Salt Lake City with Brian Hadley and Jim Franko.

Got out in '84 as a SP4, carried mail for ten years in Indianapolis. Went to college (at 41!) at the University of Louisville, and got a degree in Physics.

Now, I'm in my first year of Law School at Brandeis School of Law, and will graduate when I'm (oh, *shit*) 49. Too old for JAG, and who'd want to be an officer, anyway? Like SSG Garrison used to say, "I'd rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother as an officer!".

The reason I mention it, is that I'm surrounded by vapid 23 year olds that don't even remember the Challenger explosion, let alone the Cold War, and (worse) can't drink NEARLY as well as we did!

I went to basic training in 1973 in Paris island,Sc.I did 4 years in the Marines,then jion the Army,when to Lance School,then went to Germany,in the late 1977,I love Germany,but the states side of the army,I hated,Ft chaffee,Ar.(Guarding Cuban).But does any one rember the old saiding FTA!!!!!!!

Basic Sep 1989-Nov 1989. AIT Nov 1989- Jan 1990. FT. Sill -C 2/30 FA -Dogs of War. Drill sergeants Vasquez, Cabrera, and Voster " The Hurricane". Good times, damn good times. The "Missile Inn", The Golden Dragon, The Lucky Lady, Hard Rocks W/ the $2.00 milk cartons filled with piss water beer while watching shitty bands from Texas, although, rumor had it, Pantera played there. Lawton. WOW! I actually witnessed one hillbilly throw another hillbilly through a wall at a local bar. Pawn shop heaven. Used car lots with 35% APR.Do I miss it. You bet your box of grid squares I do.

Basic Training October 1986 - December 1986 at B Battery 5th Training Bn, then Jan 87 - April 87 at E Battery 7th Training Bn for AIT and Missile Maintenence course to get the almighty Z3 identifier.

Reimbold All those places are gone now, no more strip clubs in the city limits and only 2 outside the city that I know of, however they are off limits to soldiers most of the time. Still have the pawn shops and car lots though.

E/7 Training Batt. With good old SFC Garcia, SSG Rearden (who grab a turd out of the toliet and threw it at us... thank god I'm only 5'6" and it missed me but hit all the tall fuckers) Cpl. Bennifield and the other Cpl. that used to say " You better moooove". Cpt. Bazan and his "life is a hole gentlemen" speech.