Transformative Journey: Basic Training Story 4143

Okay so it was 2010 and we where headed to Zero Day. Everybody was a little on edge because while we where sitting there waiting to get on the bus we caught our first glimpse of our Drill Sergeants. They where all standing there as if they were analyzing who they are going to mess up first. They were standing with their arms crossed and a wide stance. I've never been scared of a man, but I was terrified of these guys. We get on the bus and one of the Drill Sergeants started yelling at us to put our heads down. He was slamming anybody's head that didn't immediately comply. We pull up to the barracks and the shark attack began.

Everybody began running off the bus and they instructed us to iron mike to the staging area. The guy next to me, PVT F, mentally broke and you could see it. He began screaming and yelling that he couldn't do this. The next thing I know is I smell sh*t. Turns out PVT F sh*t his pants doing high knees and started sobbing. He yelled that it was running down his leg and that he could do anymore, so he laid down. Well, DS L and DS C come over with the ice blanket and throw it on him, and he proceeded to sh*t again. This time furiously and loud!One of the Drill Sergeants threw up and the other was gagging at this terrible smelling human. The next morning we get up to go to formation and PVT F says he can't do it anymore and jumps down 2 flights of stairs. He spent the next 3 months in the psych ward because of it and our pass phrase for FTXs was always, "What happened in 11 minutes?" "F sh*t himself!"