Dave Shutter
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Steve...
he didn't say what specifically he did, and I don't imagine you'd have ever met him, I guess you were in grade school at the time CG-50 was being built?
...your post brings me back to a story I was gonna tell on a topic that strayed to DI stories. It was about a year after graduation from FT. Knox and I was sitting in the Army burger bar in Grafonwoehr Germany (big muddy base where everyone in USAREUR goes to shoot off the big, noisy bullets and sleep in 100-man cinderblock barracks) at a table by myself, eating a pizza when my senior Drill Sergeant, SFC Dobine, walks up and sits down across from me with one of the biggest smirks I've ever seen on anyone. He was now an M-1 platoon Sergeant out there doing gunnery with another Battalion. Cool thing about that MOS, was that basic was taught by DI's in that actual MOS, increasing the odd's that you'll run into each other later. Regular Bootcamp is taught by NCO's from all over. Case in point, my first unit was B-2/68 Armor in Baumholder, but I was tranferred after 7 months to another unit up north that was really hurting for bodies: B-1/1 Cav in Budingen, real sucky base but we were right outside Frankfurt! Anyway, I'm back out in Graf' again and I'm in the bookstore when I see my Tank Commander/section leader from my first unit SGT. Luciano, the guy who taught me how to really drive one of those pigs, anyway I'm yapping with him and I don't see his new buddy, my old platoon's new top sarge, walking up behind me. Simply one of the most feared men in FT. Knox when I was there: DRILL SERGEANT LACEY. Don't let the name fool you, when I say he looked like SGT. Slaughter I am not exadgerating one MM. The jaw, the mustache, the eyes behind the glasses, the build, the voice, I swear on a stack of Bibles, he could be the mans identical twin!!! He could get in the ring and the wrestlers biggest fans wouldn't know the difference! And he ended up running the Platoon I got transfered out of! I remember a 6'4, 260 lb red faced monster; what did my old buddies have to say about their new PLTSGT though: Why, he's cool as hell, nicest guy you ever met!!! He didn't remember me, but boy I'll never forget him, and he wasn't even my Platoons DI!
Another thing that was neat about our basic, I remember the 5th platoon in our company was a COHORT platoon (I forget what that stood for) and they were all going to Korea together as an active duty platoon, and the DI's would be their Platoon Seargent and another Tank Commander. They'd pick up more NCO's and a LT. when they got there, but they all knew from day 1 that they would be serving together for the next two years.
D
Edited by - Dave Shutter on 05/08/2001 02:30:55
he didn't say what specifically he did, and I don't imagine you'd have ever met him, I guess you were in grade school at the time CG-50 was being built?
...your post brings me back to a story I was gonna tell on a topic that strayed to DI stories. It was about a year after graduation from FT. Knox and I was sitting in the Army burger bar in Grafonwoehr Germany (big muddy base where everyone in USAREUR goes to shoot off the big, noisy bullets and sleep in 100-man cinderblock barracks) at a table by myself, eating a pizza when my senior Drill Sergeant, SFC Dobine, walks up and sits down across from me with one of the biggest smirks I've ever seen on anyone. He was now an M-1 platoon Sergeant out there doing gunnery with another Battalion. Cool thing about that MOS, was that basic was taught by DI's in that actual MOS, increasing the odd's that you'll run into each other later. Regular Bootcamp is taught by NCO's from all over. Case in point, my first unit was B-2/68 Armor in Baumholder, but I was tranferred after 7 months to another unit up north that was really hurting for bodies: B-1/1 Cav in Budingen, real sucky base but we were right outside Frankfurt! Anyway, I'm back out in Graf' again and I'm in the bookstore when I see my Tank Commander/section leader from my first unit SGT. Luciano, the guy who taught me how to really drive one of those pigs, anyway I'm yapping with him and I don't see his new buddy, my old platoon's new top sarge, walking up behind me. Simply one of the most feared men in FT. Knox when I was there: DRILL SERGEANT LACEY. Don't let the name fool you, when I say he looked like SGT. Slaughter I am not exadgerating one MM. The jaw, the mustache, the eyes behind the glasses, the build, the voice, I swear on a stack of Bibles, he could be the mans identical twin!!! He could get in the ring and the wrestlers biggest fans wouldn't know the difference! And he ended up running the Platoon I got transfered out of! I remember a 6'4, 260 lb red faced monster; what did my old buddies have to say about their new PLTSGT though: Why, he's cool as hell, nicest guy you ever met!!! He didn't remember me, but boy I'll never forget him, and he wasn't even my Platoons DI!
Another thing that was neat about our basic, I remember the 5th platoon in our company was a COHORT platoon (I forget what that stood for) and they were all going to Korea together as an active duty platoon, and the DI's would be their Platoon Seargent and another Tank Commander. They'd pick up more NCO's and a LT. when they got there, but they all knew from day 1 that they would be serving together for the next two years.
D
Edited by - Dave Shutter on 05/08/2001 02:30:55
