Butch Ammon
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2004
- Messages
- 249
Re: Skipping out on Army - What is penalty?
You never know... Bootcamp could have a better effect on her and change her ways. Speaking from experience, it did with me! In 1979, I enlisted in the USCG and had long hair down to my shoulders and an attitude to match. The USCG has seen my kind way too many times, and knew exactly what to do.<br /><br />Long story short, they took a wise-a$$ little 18yr old punk kid, broke him down to the lowest common denominator, and built him into being a fine upstanding, decorated, USCG sailor!<br /><br />One of the funniest stories I recall was the arrival greeting at USCG bootcamp in Cape May, NJ. There was a whole room full of us fresh off the bus, still with long hair, still in "civvies". Before we could proceed any further, a Chief (E-7) came into the room to speak with us and also warn us. I remember it well... He said in street language, "Yo, look man, I know some of you all brought some sh** with you. I ain't dumb. This ain't the place for it, man. See that big table over there in the corner? Tell you what... I don't want to know nothing, I don't want to see nothing, okay? Like, there ain't no cops, ain't no security guards, there's just me. So, you be straight with me and I'll be straight with you. You trust me and I'll trust you. I'm gonna leave this room... While I'm gone, I want you to put all your sh** on the table. Do it and do it now while you can - because if you don't and you leave this room, it will be a whole new ballgame!"<br /><br />Man, you should have seen all the paraphenalia on that table!
Rolling papers, bags of weed, pipes, little vials of coke, straws, small tabs of blotter acid, etc...etc... I don't know what the USCG did with it once we left the room. But, it was hilarious seeing people one by one sneak up to the table. I was clean and just stood there watching it all and snickering.<br /><br />Military boot camp can have a lasting impact on a person. You get a doze of reality in 0.2 seconds and learn to become something. You get as much out of it as you put into it. Since I am now retired from the USCG, if there were any way I could come back out of retirement, I'd step right back into my uniform!<br /><br />Butch A.
You never know... Bootcamp could have a better effect on her and change her ways. Speaking from experience, it did with me! In 1979, I enlisted in the USCG and had long hair down to my shoulders and an attitude to match. The USCG has seen my kind way too many times, and knew exactly what to do.<br /><br />Long story short, they took a wise-a$$ little 18yr old punk kid, broke him down to the lowest common denominator, and built him into being a fine upstanding, decorated, USCG sailor!<br /><br />One of the funniest stories I recall was the arrival greeting at USCG bootcamp in Cape May, NJ. There was a whole room full of us fresh off the bus, still with long hair, still in "civvies". Before we could proceed any further, a Chief (E-7) came into the room to speak with us and also warn us. I remember it well... He said in street language, "Yo, look man, I know some of you all brought some sh** with you. I ain't dumb. This ain't the place for it, man. See that big table over there in the corner? Tell you what... I don't want to know nothing, I don't want to see nothing, okay? Like, there ain't no cops, ain't no security guards, there's just me. So, you be straight with me and I'll be straight with you. You trust me and I'll trust you. I'm gonna leave this room... While I'm gone, I want you to put all your sh** on the table. Do it and do it now while you can - because if you don't and you leave this room, it will be a whole new ballgame!"<br /><br />Man, you should have seen all the paraphenalia on that table!
Rolling papers, bags of weed, pipes, little vials of coke, straws, small tabs of blotter acid, etc...etc... I don't know what the USCG did with it once we left the room. But, it was hilarious seeing people one by one sneak up to the table. I was clean and just stood there watching it all and snickering.<br /><br />Military boot camp can have a lasting impact on a person. You get a doze of reality in 0.2 seconds and learn to become something. You get as much out of it as you put into it. Since I am now retired from the USCG, if there were any way I could come back out of retirement, I'd step right back into my uniform!<br /><br />Butch A.
