Basic Training Story 4744

One day at an obstacle course as we were waiting in line to climb the tower, PVTs started talking and getting loud. Our DS then told us to grab a leaf, use our pens, and draw a face on them. As we did we were told that was our battle buddy, and we can only talk when they talk first.Well one guy saw a better leaf, so he ripped his up old leaf and picked up the new leaf. DS saw it and said "Did you just kill your battle buddy Private? Ok dig a grave for it" so he dug a hole with his hands and put the old leaf in it.

DS then said "alright go get a big rock" so he came back with a big rock and DS said "thats his headstone." We were all nearby so the DS said "everybody come here. PVT Snuffy here would like to say a few words about our fallen comrade." The kid struggled through a speech about his leaf as we held in laughter.To top it off, our battle buddy leafs then became inspectable items.