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TEB

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Sun Nov 12, 2017, 08:39 AM Nov 2017

Veterans Day get together as a 11B I wasnt smart enough to be a 11C or a 11H [View all]

Yesterday we had a cookout ,and we had several relatives and friends and families show up. And looking around at the fine company that was hanging out yesterday. I noticed a common thread amongst us. Well besides the obvious of our love of beer. The thread was that the majority of the guest who served were either graduates of fort benning army infantry and strangely we all attended airborne school . Or fort sill army arty red legs. Or Parris island 0311 infantry and one anglico marine who also attended airborne school at benning.

And the abuse started from my army friends. Who in some bizzare world as one was a11C mortars and the other was 11H anti tank. in humor they look down on 11 B infantry. Once again I had to go into the first day of infantry training at osut A/10/2 at Benning. I was 11x unassigned infantry and the first day of infantry school I was humping mortar baseplate and tubes across this field running with them. And clearly I had a moment where I approached the Drill sgt and asked if I could be a 11B. The Drill asked me why and I answered 11c is an asshole mos Drill sgt. he roared with laughter dropped me for 100 push-ups and after I recovered he said ok you are now 11B.

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