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Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Asst Coach [820]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 1:41 PM
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I can't be sure. I marched with Air Force ROTC around there somewhere. I was just glad I did not have to carry an M 1
like the army guys. In fact it was the exact reason for choosing Air Force, though I later served in the regular army.
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Orange Beast [6278]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 1:43 PM
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I did drill on Bowman Field, but many of my drill routines were on the Quad - particularly Pershing Rifles.
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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Pershing Rifles
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Jun 30, 2025, 1:59 PM
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Some of my bestest buddies were PR then -
Jimmie Catoe, Bobby King -- Army Officers
D ick McKissick - Marine Officer
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Orange Beast [6278]
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Re: Pershing Rifles
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Jun 30, 2025, 3:56 PM
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I may likely have met them, but I didn't remain in the Pershing Rifles for very long.
When I arrived on campus, someone told someone that I had spent 3 years in a military high school, so I was drafted into the PRs. On the first day, they realized that I knew how to march/drill, knew the Manual of Arms (rifle and saber) and so appointed me as a squad leader.
Later, they told me I was to teach the group how to march and perform rifle drill, but when I watched what those knuckleheads could and could not do (particularly with an M-1), I politely refused their offer.
Eventually, they all learn, but trying to teach someone how to drill is a job for a drill sergeant - not me...... I don't have the patience.....  ">">">">">">">
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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Re: Pershing Rifles
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:01 PM
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Yeah, I did it for my first semester along with all the hazing.
We were ushers at football games which was cool.
I just wanted to have "fun", and that was not it.
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Orange Beast [6278]
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Re: Pershing Rifles
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:04 PM
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I guess I was lucky - never hexperienced a minute of hazing from anyone my entire rat year.
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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Re: Pershing Rifles
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:10 PM
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The most fun anyone ever had at Clemson was as a "RAT". Too bad and sad kids are not up for that.
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 1:45 PM
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Aint no use in going home
Jodys got your girl and gone
sound off
-- one two
sound off
-- three four
Bring it on home
-- one two three four
-- three four!
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Orange Beast [6278]
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Asst Coach [820]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 1:54 PM
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Yeah, I liked the " I don't know but I've been told, Eskimo .,/.,/ is mighty cold.
Maybe so, and maybe not but southern girls are mighty hot."
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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Maybe it's just me...
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Jun 30, 2025, 2:05 PM
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but my mind went in a whole other different direction.
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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Re: Maybe it's just me...
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Jun 30, 2025, 2:08 PM
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Mine too, but in the day 100% were required in ROTC for two years.
If you went to Clemson got your head shaved on day one.
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Orange Beast [6278]
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Re: Maybe it's just me...
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Jun 30, 2025, 3:07 PM
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I fooled 'em. A few days before I arrived on campus, I got a buzz cut from my local barber - not a shave cut. So, when I arrived, folks thought I had already had a head shave, but had since regained some hair growth...... ">">">
Stall had the rat cap, though.
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Based on some of the responses, it clearly wasn't just me.
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Jun 30, 2025, 2:26 PM
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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wasn't just me.
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Jun 30, 2025, 2:34 PM
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Tbalm hijacks all my threads cause he likes me ~
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Hall of Famer [8580]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 2:06 PM
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I did, but I can't remember her name
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Mary McMuffin
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Jun 30, 2025, 2:14 PM
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5'2" blonde. We were walking back from downtown and could not make it back to her dorm
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110%er [4029]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 2:39 PM
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I lived on Bowman field. I commanded Co. B-2 in 1952, chosen Best Drilled Company. That's my uniform on the cadet statue on Bowman. My footprints on Military Heritage Plaza. Regular Army for 24 years.
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Letterman [189]
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Re: AFROTC 1986-1988!***
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Jun 30, 2025, 2:46 PM
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Game Changer [1845]
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Re: AFROTC 1986-1988!***
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Jun 30, 2025, 2:52 PM
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My dad did from 1940-1943 the on to WWII.
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Clemson Icon [26202]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 3:10 PM
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AF rotcie.
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 3:17 PM
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I spend about a year in Oklahoma learning to fire cannons - hot as SC with less trees.
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Clemson Icon [26202]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 3:40 PM
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Fort Sill. Oh my. OK has, surprisingly, some beautiful places, and Ft Sill aint one. But just outside Ft Sill/Lawton are the Wichita Mountains and Medicine Park, a 50x10 mile Eden-like oasis rising from the desert landscape. With buffalo and antelope. Dangdest thing you ever saw.
Glad you made it out of Ft Sill reasonably sane.
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Valley Protector [1435]
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Re: Former Redleg here
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:33 PM
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Did my Sill time. Meers, Old Plantation, Mount Scott. But yes Lawton, you could have walked across town from strip club, to pawn shop, to massage parlor, to Chinese buffet !!!
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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strip club, to pawn shop,
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:46 PM
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I did win a few $$ there with my pool cue.
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
Jul 1, 2025, 3:09 PM
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If it was beautiful ...... and remotely livable ...... they would not have put a military base there.
The Marine cannon cockers were some of my favorites until they unloaded their 155 howitzers on one of my combat engineer squads on a mountain top in Viet Nam. It really wasn't their fault (completely) as a Marine Recon patrol called in the fire, not recognizing us as friendly troops. A couple of my men were wounded, but four of the grunts that we were supporting were killed. What made it worse, we had called for artillery on the hill before we climbed up and the firing battery said they could not fire because there were friendly troops on the hill (which would have been us). But they fired for the recon unit!
OH, I was at Clemson the same time a Tug in Army ROTC, but think we mostly drilled on pavement.
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Valley Protector [1435]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
Jul 1, 2025, 3:19 PM
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Wow. I cannot even imagine the frustration and anguish you Vietnam guys felt and still feel for all those great Americans lost for something they were never given a chance to win …..
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Standout [243]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 3:16 PM
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I did Aug 1965-May 1969. One week later I was active duty at Laughlin AFB.
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 3:34 PM
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In the movies and in life folks make fun of "wet behind the ears" 2nd LTs.
The truth is they have been though years of military training, unlike the drafted or enlisted. Basic training is a joke compared to what they have been through.
Here is new LT Tug - ready to ??
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 3:36 PM
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darn, no wonder girls luved me back then - I was hot!
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Clemson Icon [26306]
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:22 PM
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In 1960 dad was a buck sergeant in Germany when LT cussed him out. Dad lost it and punched him thus landing my dad in the brig. He was busted to private. By the time he went to Vietnam in 65 with the first cav he was back to a e7. Dad had a country boy temper.
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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country boy temper
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:24 PM
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I have the same.
Being an officer did not mean I was different or weaker than others.
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Re: country boy temper
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:34 PM
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Tug I bet you were a great soldier. Thank you for having served. I never served in the military but I did work for DOD at fort Meade md for 4 1/2 years. I had a blast working and living in the area.
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Heisman Winner [83097]
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Dad lost it
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:29 PM
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To expand- joined the Army on the buddy plan with my best friend.
My buddy washed out of Officer school but went on to become a highly decorated Green Beret.
After VN we were again roommates.
Officers and enlisted are not at war with each other, just the opposite.
Experienced NCOs take on the new kids (no matter the rank), protect and teach them.
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Re: Dad lost it
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:39 PM
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Agreed. Dad had friends in nco and officer ranks. Dads best friend was an officer who survived the la drang valley fight that the movie “We were soldiers” is based on.
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Re: Dad lost it
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:51 PM
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Dad’s friend was LT that was badly wounded in that fight. He was actually placed in a body bag before they realized that he was still alive. I ran in to him while attending my uncles funeral in north Alabama a few years ago.
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
Jul 1, 2025, 3:19 PM
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Me (on left) as a 1st Lt. and newly named Company Executive Officer, during monsoon season, near Marble Mountain. My XO stint lasted about a week, as they took me out of the field for the last week or so as a "reward" for not getting myself killed.
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Clemson Conqueror [11939]
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Yep
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:12 PM
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And got drilled with demerits for long hair even though I had just come from the barber shop!
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Yea.
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:26 PM
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She was hot blond visiting from USuC during the game weekend. Those coot broads always went for the Clemson men lol. It was late in the night and business called lol. Drilled and bye bye. We won the game too.
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Re: Yea.
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:31 PM
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pigs or it did not happen
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ARMY ROTC 85-89
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Jun 30, 2025, 4:46 PM
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Many a day on Bowman, 1/2 the time in Pickle Green uniforms, 1/2 the time in Woodland BDU when not in Bs or As
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Re: Raise your hand if you drilled on this field
Jul 1, 2025, 2:36 PM
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I did for one year.
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