While watching the Thunderbirds flying overhead it reminded me about the time in bootcamp watch the jets passing over us while marching. Got 9 kinds of hell for it. The Chief made me "fly" around for two hours making jet sounds. Was so funny looking back but it wasn't at the time.Keep your eyes forward !!!
We had the Sand Diego Airport right beside our Confidence Course.
Yes, I'm a "Hollywood Marine". Anyway, we would be out on the huge grinder, marching, doing rifle drill, and so on. If we looked at the PSA "Grinning Idiots" as my father always called them, we would catch it too. Unfortunately, our Drill Instructors we more old school. Get caught looking, it was push-ups, mountain climbers, and so on.
And on, and on and...
One thing it did, I can say, was make us stronger. They were big on "unit punishment", so one guy got caught looking at the planes, we allllll "payed the price". Did make us better at the confidence course, and really better come PFT time. We had some very high scores, after all the fun we had...
Thankfully, we ALL learned not to do that. Eventually
Have fun all!
Pat☺
