Can someone explain? What is so bad about this bridge? Is it just a symbol of the hardships? Is it that you see it all the time? Are you 'mashed' here? Is it some espically hard part of OCS? Is it on the way to pt? How long is the bridge, is it across a brook, or across the Potomac or something else?
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That freakin' bridge
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The bridge is nothing but a sign of pain on and back from chow. It is over a railroad track. It is steel, pink in color and about 110m long with two sprial ramps on both ends. You are not allowed to run but only walk briskly. The thing about this bridge is that you are always playing ketchup no matter how close to the other platoon you might think you are. All rifles are held in port-arms. The last platoon definitely hates the walk because they have to run to catch up with the whole company.
Words cannot explain torture. It was fun being the duty platoon.
Words cannot explain torture. It was fun being the duty platoon.
I taught i was the only one that heard about the building of a new chow-hall. I always thought i was the only one that complained about the bridge. Infact there are a whole lot of people that just did not like the whole idea. Well a couple times the platoon staff route-stepped the company over the tracks. That was cool because you were at the chow-hall in no time.
If for nothing else, i think they will just keep that bridge there just to torture candidates. It is kind of like what people were saying about Parris Island. Some people say sand-flees are raised in colonies just to mess with recruits.
If for nothing else, i think they will just keep that bridge there just to torture candidates. It is kind of like what people were saying about Parris Island. Some people say sand-flees are raised in colonies just to mess with recruits.
USMCBebop
SergeantLieutenant
Damn you just opened up an old memory of that chow hall! Reading that I began to hear the OCS harass the candidates after pick up!Crowbar said:
All the shouting! I can still see my Sgt. Inst. SSgt Williams harassing my fellow candidate Mianna Sneed (pseudonym) for repeatedly calling him, "Drill Sergeant!" 
EA-6B1
PLC Jrs 1st Inc. Kilo-3
msuplaya8 said:
What's worse is having one of the instructors walk over it with you while a train is going under. He picks out a random candidate close by and plays the freedom train game... "Oh, so candidate X wants to look down at the freedom train, huh? That's good to go. I can get you on that freedom train real fast."
It becomes funny after a while though.
The bridge was a daily right of passage. Yeap, after the last liberty, we started counting how many more times we had to get on it.
When they ask you how many humps we had at OCS? well it would be a diffcult question to answer, because i think that was a hump ( a super one too). Moving at about 6mph, yet we were just stepping it out.
When they ask you how many humps we had at OCS? well it would be a diffcult question to answer, because i think that was a hump ( a super one too). Moving at about 6mph, yet we were just stepping it out.
wildflyin69
Grad of OCS 187 Charlie Co. 3rd Plt.
haha, craig0330..you wipe out too? at 0520 there's a nice thin film of ice over that thing...and that was in the Fall..I feel sorry for all those guys going in January..Oh wait..no I don't. 
Raptor2216
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s$%t, am I ever glad that I finished during the summer months! There is nothing I hate more than the cold and I can only imagine what it must be like going through the damn quigley or e-course in jan.
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