It became a running joke amongst us that I hadn't been dropped for pushups. Word must have gotten out because one day after they dismissed us the drill sgt. turned around and said "Oh, yeah ________ DROP!" Everyone cracked up. He made it a regular thing to drop me just for general purposes. My basic was 16 weeks long.
The other story has to do with getting ready to graduate basic. Two fill in DS's (I think they were still in the DS school) were given our platoon to move some bleaches. They wanted nicer ones for the ceremony. So we picked up the bleachers and carried them aaaaalllll the way to where the Marines did their armor training at Ft. Knox. Might have been a mile. We unchained (someone had signed for them) the sets of bleachers, pulled one out so they could look them over, then another then another. Finally they decided on a set of bleachers and we carried them aaaaalllll the way back. At the end the DS's dismisses us and asked if there were any questions.
Me: " I hate to ask this but aren't those the same bleachers we took up there?"
The DS's looked at each other and laughed. One said "Welcome to the Army"
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