[XUSNORDIE]

WOW....with all the BS on here about the MARINE "recruit" expiring his much loved Muslim self on a LADDER (some of us here are no better than the liberal media).....

.....A parent of one of my football players has another older son in Army basic...and complained her Son is "miserable"....I asked "how do you know?".....she showed me a Facebook page his "command?" had set up so parents could see their spawn go through basic......I was appalled to say the least.....I mean really?....I had 10 seconds to call, tell whoever answered the phone at home that "I made it to Boot Camp" and then was screamed at to hang up.....now they get Facebook? and yes they get time to post things according to what this Mother showed me...wow....just wow.....

 

[M14E2]

FACEBOOK page? From boot camp?

I was watching that Discovery Channel(?) program Making Marines , where they followed recruits thru basic training , including a platoon of women!

Oi vey!

 

[twobyfour]

This is getting ridiculous. How in the heck is this even acceptable?

 

[dbb1776]

All personal items locked up until the last few days.
Pay phones on Sundays.
Lots of yelling,
Galvanized trash can kicked across barracks for 0430 wake up and Lord help you if anything was in it. Or if you weren't already up at 0430.
One of my fondest memories:
A guy named Alvarado.
First day in basic, July, Oklahoma.
Drill Sgts goal was to smoke us till Somebody puked. Then the guy that pukes gets to clean the entire barracks, and be the first name the Drill Sgts remember.
Up/Down Up/Down-Front leaning rest-Flutter Kicks
DRINK WATER
Over and over again till one guy finally loses it.
Here's the punchline
The guy that loses it is getting raked over the coals, cleaning up his own puke, and I see this guy Alvarado with this Cat ate the Canary grin.
"Why are you smiling" I ask
"I puked down my shirt" he said just as Proud as could be.
He wasn't about to let the Drill Sgts see him puke!

 

[USMC Gunny]

I don't think that the recruits get facebook. When my step son went to Army boot camp 2 years ago they had someone taking pics as they went through training and posted them on a facebook page for the families. There were no names just pics.

 

[Thedutchman]

The wussification of America gentlemen.

 

[PhrogRider]

If the individual recruits have access to posting that's just insane. Are you sure it wasn't just like the MCRD San Diego page on FB? I've got a high school buddy who has a kid down there right now, and we've spotted him in a pic training.

https://www.facebook.com/mcrdsd/?fref=ts

 

[XUSNORDIE]

I don't think that the recruits get facebook. When my step son went to Army boot camp 2 years ago they had someone taking pics as they went through training and posted them on a facebook page for the families. There were no names just pics.

If the individual recruits have access to posting that's just insane. Are you sure it wasn't just like the MCRD San Diego page on FB? I've got a high school buddy who has a kid down there right now, and we've spotted him in a pic training.

https://www.facebook.com/mcrdsd/?fref=ts

There were comments and the Mother states that she "chats" with him on facebook.

That link does look like what she was showing, but Army.


I posted this originally in Geedunk.......now it's in Your War?????

 

[SGAL1]

I don't think that the recruits get facebook. When my step son went to Army boot camp 2 years ago they had someone taking pics as they went through training and posted them on a facebook page for the families. There were no names just pics.

This was my experience while my son was in Army basic a few years back.
Individual recruits did not have access to Facebook.
It was either the drill instructor or one of his helpers that was posting pictures for the parents to follow. My son had no clue this was going on.

 

[danthman114]

I spent a year on an army base and it doesn't surprise me at all. they got to go to the pizza joint on base, drive go carts, and some even went to a bar out in town.

 

[Stevie Ray]

IIRC we were allowed to call home a couple of times during my basic/AIT at Ft. Sill in 1976 and while stationed overseas I came home once for a 30 day leave during my four year stay so other than the U.S. Postal Service our only form of communication to the Homefront was a very late night satellite phone call once a month (IIRC) which made us feel oh so privileged.

The older I get the less I am impressed with *some* of the technical advances since my old Army days.

Facebooking during basic training just cracks me up.

Oh Lordy.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Remember when Mail Call meant waiting in a mob for your name to be called and a letter to be thrown your way????

 

[Circlehook]

Facebooking during basic training just cracks me up.

Oh Lordy.

Facebooking at all..............

 

[Stevie Ray]

Remember when Mail Call meant waiting in a mob for your name to be called and a letter to be thrown your way????

Mail Call nowadays would consist of a group of huddled kids with perplexed looks on their faces ... "Mail Call?!?!"

 

[Circlehook]

Mail Call nowadays would consist of a group of huddled kids, ON THEIR PHONES, with perplexed looks on their faces ... "Mail Call?!?!"

Fixed it for ya!

 

[Gladiator0719]

It's not the internet gents, it's the crybabies and keyboard bigmouths using it. Policies change over time, but ultimately its the person behind the screen that controls the words. There will always be strong and weak people for different situations in life. The parent of this individual in boot camp needs to let his/her son/daughter struggle and succeed/fail in their endeavor, all by themselves. Otherwise they're doing them a disservice. Semper Fi...

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Mail Call nowadays would consist of a group of huddled kids with perplexed looks on their faces ... "Mail Call?!?!"

Fixed it for ya!

Exactly...I can hear them now...."where is this Mail Call app they speak of?"

 

[Lazerus2000]

This conversation about how things have changed since back in our day,
reminds me totally,
like TOTALLY man,
OF HOW IT WAS ALWAYS UPHILL,

BOTH WAYS,

through waist high snow,

on our way to school.

YAHHhhhhh ...
all us ol' timers can agree ...
this new generation is mostly PUSSIES.

But that same statement has been around since the Roman Soldiers sat around the camp fires.

And probably even longer.
(;-[)

PS: Actually, I DO agree that too many of the new generation are not up to standards ...
but whatchagonna do about it?

Can't spank them or they can sue for physical abuse.
Can't even yell at them or they can sue for emotional abuse.

Maybe the problem is NOT with the kids,
but with the PARENTS,
who taught the little darlings that they were ENTITLED

 

[PhrogRider]

Remember when Mail Call meant waiting in a mob for your name to be called and a letter to be thrown your way????

Or the feeling of disappointment and sadness when nothing came. Or the top-of-the world feeling when the next time it was three letters (omg, must read them in the correct order) and a care package.

On my last float the USS Essex had a token-ring network and my ops chief allowed me to send and receive emails on his account. It was such a luxury. We also got talked to because we got caught finding an aircraft with an operational High Freq radio and 'testing' it. There was a High Freq net, I want to say the call sign was 'mainsail', where one could request a phone patch, and depending on how cool the guy on other end was they'd put you through.