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I had 3 DI's in 1965. One was a WWll and Korea vet, one was a Korean vet and the boxing champion of the pacific theater during the Korean conflict. The third was a Philipino who had already been wounded in Vietnam. I respected the hell out of all three!
They were real hardasses, but, everything they said or did was designed to keep you alive in combat!

I imagine today you could not get away with everything they did back then. Might hurt someone's feelings! Like combat wouldn't!

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I was going to say i bet the boxing guy had lots of practice with you all...LOL

It was pretty lame what we could and could not do to them, of course some people took it to far and thats part of the reason basic training is the way it is now.

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I was referring to "me" as being like a regular grunt in what I was doing.
There are several elite branches of each service I could have compared to. I was just picking oneo. I picked the one I was most familiar with due to the former seal that worked for me.
He was unpretentious, intense and a great problem solver. He impressed the hell out of me.
I am sure that all the services have better training and see more action than Seals. But I do know he saw enough and I know Seal Team 6 saw some recently. It could have been given to a different branch will the same results.

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Actually, we had very few problems. Most guys didn't want to be there, but they sucked it up.

I was RA (Regular Army) with a 4 year enlistment due to the length of schooling I had to have for the MOS and my security clearance, and I was in the minority. Draftees were US. Don't ask me what that stood for, but they had a 2 year enlistment.

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