If We Could Turn Back Time….
Mother Goose babysits her own and the rest of the flock
I was going to post this to bolster some conversation about the newest trend in the military, to put everyone on so-called “equal footing”, since the video was produced in 2017. If any of you went to Fort Benning, I’m sure you have fond memories of the place.
The video is a tad over an hour long, so pop some popcorn, make some snacks and grab a cold beverage. Maybe it will recall some memories for some of you.
With today’s SHJW code invading everything, including basic training, perhaps a comparison could be drawn. In this haste to be “inclusive”, the do-gooders forget that not everyone, male or female, of any genetic association, may be physically up to performing to meet requirements for something. That does not mean requirements should be lowered to make everyone “equal”. It means those who are not up to the physical tasks can be given extra training to try to solve that problem, but male individuals have a skeletal and muscular physiology that is different from that of female individuals. The sooner this is recognized by the dipsticks in the Bright Idea Club, the better.
Army training at Ft. Benning in 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=277ICztS43M
I hated Benning.
Spent damn near a year and half of my life there but was was never “stationed” there.
1/50 Hell’s Kitchen (OSUT), IOBC, Airborne, Ranger, numerous smaller courses, fucking LTO Office time (not all in any particular order).
HA! I was born there!!! Spent some of my real childhood there … went to kindergarten, 1st grade, and 4th grade there. I remember living in the housing that was close to the old polo field; in the summer a truck would drive around in the evenings and fog for mosquitoes — I and my friends would run behind it in the “smoke” ….. D’oh!
1952: Born at the Old Hospital
1957: OCS (my Dad)
1964: IOAC (my Dad)
1979: OSUT
1980: OCS, IOBC, Ranger, Airborne
1985: IOAC
Don’t think I’ve been back since ’85
“He rode a Power Point, and Good Idea was his name.”
BTDT. 1974, HHC, 3/7 IN, Bullet Brigade.
Me and my brother lived over the river in a different time zone. Loved going to the East Alabama Motor Speedway to throw empty beer bottles at the crappy stock car drivers./s
Then I went to Germany and we were never stationed together for the rest of our careers.
RIP, Danny.
Cottonbalers!
A Fort named for a True Warrior, that trains multitudes of Warriors. RRRRMY TRAINING SIR!
“Mother Goose babysits her own and the rest of the flock.” Kinda what BG Henry Benning’s wife Mary did while he was off to war…her own and all of the rest, including her BiL’s family after Gnrl Benning’s Brother was killed.
I have ZERO (0) Problems with any person doing any job that they are qualified and physically able to do. Lowering the standards to make a “feelz good”? THAT I have a problem with.
Great video Mi’Lady…Tanks! Never stationed at Benning, my Boy was OSUT there. Been there many a time, the Infantry Museum is FIRST (ht 2 API) Class. The National Civil War Naval Museum was pretty good til the PC Crowd took it over.
Columbus GA is a bigger sh^thole now than it ever was when any of you were there, even if you were there last week. And gets worse every day.
I spent a quarter of my career stationed at Ft. Benning. Twisting wrenches on Hueys at the airfield (75), OCS (78), basic infantry officer (78) and advanced infantry officer (82), and an assignment as an advanced course instructor (84-87). I enjoyed my time at Benning, and I like to think the women in Columbus had nothing bad to say about me (other than being a bad boy.)
I visited Ft. Benning 25 years after I retired when a guy I worked with son was in the final week of airborne, and we traveled to the post to watch his jumps and graduation. In a way, I wished I had never gone back to visit, given the amount of changes I saw.
I was stunned by the amount Ft. Benning changed since I left the post in 87. Building 4 had a makeover. The officer’s club had become a meeting center. The Fox Hole (I Bar) turned into a pizza joint. The visit disconnected me from some of my memories.
However, progress requires change. I was glad to see Ft. Benning is still training the best infantry soldiers in the world.