When did a goofy army recruit nearly break their drill sergeant?

I had one recruit paying attention to a bunch of geese rather than us.

I made him get up and chase them all away.

As they flew in the air, we made him follow them for several hundred feet to make sure they wouldn't come back.

I was dying of laughter on the inside.

I can pass along a classic boot camp story.

I was in the Navy, and in the Navy, your final inspection as a division is before the division

officer, or DO, which is usually some junior officer nobody that got assigned that job, but we

didn't know that at the time. Anyway, before the inspection, one of our

RDCs, or the recruit division commanders, that's what we call the division officer in the Navy,

found a locker out of sorts and decided to beat us in our dress blues. That was not fun,

let me tell you, wool uniforms, if we lost our cover, we'd get beat more. It was bad. Anyway,

the DO rolls in for inspection, walks up to the first guy in formation, and the guy chucks

up.

However, this guy is a frickin' genius.

He chucked up down the t-shirt in his dress blues, saving the DO from the chunks, and

us from getting beat even more.

The division officer was so impressed at this guy's military

bearing that he called the inspection right then and there, a grade of five-star sailors

all round. We still got beat that night, but that one dude was our chucking hero. Standing

in formation at Fort Knox about to head to the range and everyone needed their gloves. One private comes out without them and the drill sergeant screams,

Private, where the frick of your gloves?

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