the pill i took in boot camp, page 2
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reply posted on 20-6-2011 @ 01:34 PM by granpabobby
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I remember not thinking about sex in boot camp .Was it something in the punch or were we just too tired ? The pill may have had something to do with that as well as curbeing our urge to drink on liberty..There was no follow up on this other than who came back drunk and who didnt and those who did not return .



reply posted on 7-7-2011 @ 07:08 AM by van001
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My father went to Great Lakes boot camp in '59. I remember him telling me once that while he was in basic training. He and some other guys in his division were given an "experimental vaccine" in the form of a shot. He said that he and about four others became extremely sick. Flu like symptons, fever chills weakness. He had to spend over a week in the infimary and almost had to repeat his basic training. He was so scared he had to repeat that he actually forced himself through it. He said he remebered it took him a good month to totally recover. When my father left the navy they would not give him his medical records. They claimed that they were sealed and that he was not allowed to take them with him or even have a copy.


reply posted on 9-7-2011 @ 02:01 PM by St Udio
reply to post by granpabobby


...half way through boot.we all agreed and men in lab coats came in . we were each given a large red capsule to swallow.and our name was checked off a list..
the next day we went on liberty i went to town and found it discusting ..everything stank...

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well... maybe the red cap. had increased your sense of smell...

you did not say IF there was any follow up by the lab technicians in white coats...

the only pass us guys in the Army ('65, fort jackson, A-7-2) ever got was myself and two other guys for making "Expert" on the firing range... we all got a 3 day furlough/ leave after Basic,...(C-16-4) was AIT


Never participated in anything like your tale... but we all 'agreed/volunteered' as any situation arose to show that one was a 'team player' regardless of the request --
- Except that no-body, including us Volunteers along side the Draftees. agreed to go to Ranger School in Georgia, for Jungle Training =(vietnam was just ramping up then, & the thinking was that a 12 month tour would mop up the mess over there) but i'm sure no body in A-7-2 wanted that career choice or were swayed with a promise of a longer 'Leave'


i prefer to think your episode was a psychological test...
a lot changed from '65 to '68... so that there might have been more testing of Ones' patriot stance with all the anti-war drama's in the society in '68 (i guess your pass was pre-convention there in Chicago, ... when all the hippies and anti-war activists/weathermen/SDS got their heads busted by the police under the direction of the Mayor Daly Machine...)





~sidebar~

LSD in '57.... wow, i got marijuana . '60) and LSD thru my older beatnik friends in '64... They, (peter & jane) did bring me a 'Supremes' album when they visited me in the Psyche Ward... not because i ever freaked on acid or pot--- but because they were friends--- they also visited me over in Germany, a year later where i was stationed.




~general~

sure there was cointel back then..('57) just when did thoughts arise to produce movies like 'Manchurian Candidate', or have 'Seven Days in May' get born... there's plenty of culture medium in the movie stories that can chronicle the development of the social rift which came to a head in the '60s decade
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