safeboy43 said:My grandfather (now dead) went through paris island during WW2 and cornwallis during the Korean War. He said cornwallis was a walk in the park compared to paris island.....
scoutfinch said:Geez... and I am doing a reserve BMQ currently where we are NOT PERMITTED to do PT as part of the course materials! (I crap you not!)
Geez... and I am doing a reserve BMQ currently where we are NOT PERMITTED to do PT as part of the course materials! (I crap you not!)
we do PT 5 morning per week.
Gunner98 said:While on my SLT/French training back in 1995 (during the Great Referendum period), I witnessed a nap time that replaced a recruit PT session. The recruits did not leave the Mega at all until the Farnham week. Shortly after I departed from my SLT my course, a very overweight recruit suffered a heart-attack during a physical activity. The Sch Comdt (who was R22eR) at the time took a lot of heat for pushing recruits, standards began to fall and subsequent courses we put through at RCA BSL began to tell tales of naps and stress "cards"/hand raising requesting a time-out. The "Urban Legend" and anecdotes go back that far - more than a decade.
There is PT everyday on Basic TRG at CFLRS: on days there is no scheduled PT with the PSP staff, it is done with course Instructors at 0510. So basically, we were running by the time they are sounding your reveille !!Gunner98 said:... and we do PT 5 morning per week. Fall in at 0520, cannon fires and reveille is played at 0530. 150 officers (including 14 non-US officers) up at the crack of dawn. Something to be said for the US Army way of life. Lead by example - US Medical Basic Officer and QL3/5 level courses are out on the same PT fields at the same time.
All that stuff didn't last long, because I never witnessed any of it after 2000... before going to Farnham ,they do 3km, 5km and 7km ruck marches, and the obstacle course on a few occasions. And no naps !!!Gunner98 said:While on my SLT/French training back in 1995 (during the Great Referendum period), I witnessed a nap time that replaced a recruit PT session. The recruits did not leave the Mega at all until the Farnham week. Shortly after I departed from my SLT my course, a very overweight recruit suffered a heart-attack during a physical activity. The Sch Comdt (who was R22eR) at the time took a lot of heat for pushing recruits, standards began to fall and subsequent courses we put through at RCA BSL began to tell tales of naps and stress "cards"/hand raising requesting a time-out. The "Urban Legend" and anecdotes go back that far - more than a decade.
careful 2 CDO, I have taught many SQ and DP 1 INF REG, I again brought this up with several instructors and no one can confirm a time out card or an actual time out incident. I have had troops out of St jean try and pull the wool over me eyes. I called his bluff and came out correct.
2 Cdo said:..... but somewhere this private was, at the very least, given the IMPRESSION that a time-out was allowed! ...
Perhaps this private believed all the BS that has been passed around in regards to the "time-out" and thought he would "giver a go"!