Had plenty MRE's
C-Rats not so much
MREs for the win !
Had C rats 1st 4 or 5 weeks of basic july aug 83.
Then we got the new fangled MRE,s.
Actually more quantity of food in a MRE.
Which I know I appreciated at the time.
Still got my 1st C Rat P-38 and a original Harmony Church dog tag on my truck key ring.
Stupid things that mean something....
Went through 11b Basic Training in Ft. Benning, GA, Harmony Church in the summer of ‘88. Brutal, hard, and unpleasant, but one of the most awesome memories I have from my teenage years. We used to despise and ridicule the “wimps” that did the 13 week training in the air-conditioned barracks of the adjacent “Sand Hill”; (aka, “Sand Hilton”), lol! I wouldn’t trade those days/experiences for anything
Yep.....
D co 1/38th
Started OSUT with 144
Grad with 99 11b 14 weeks later.
Ronny Reagan sent the ash and the trash home.
Drills flat out told us only 99 were gonna make it thru.
Rest would be TDP,d Training Discharge Program.
All 99 of us COHORT privates filled in C co 1/12th mech at Carson.
2 yrs at Carson 2 yrs Germany
Mech....
Never so glad to get outta mech and go light infantry.
Learned alot on mech.
Learned alot about Mortar systems at hood when all e5 and e6 11b,s
Were given the option in 88 to either go to 2AD and go 11m bradley or go to a 1st Cav Task force as 11b
I raised my hand and said where is the cav patch
13 months dropping 4.2 mortar rds.
In the back of a 113...... SMH.....
Lol!!!
But that mortar knowledge paid dividends for years for me dealing with 60 mm company and battalion 81 mm mortars.
