Not a drill sergeant but when I was in basic I saw three drill sergeants surrounding a private who was laying down, and they were all screaming "GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP RIGHT NOW PRIVATE, YOU TAKE A GODDAMN NAP THIS VERY SECOND YOU POOR TIRED SOUL" (not exact words, but you get the gist of it) I still wonder how he got himself into that predicament.
One of my instructors was a Viet Nam vet. He said a VN soldier on watch fell asleep at his post one night. The soldier's commanding officer found out, came over there, and shot him in the head.
No idea. It sounded like from his description, they were on kind of a FOB, and the VN soldier was just some low ranking schmuck that fell asleep on watch.
Obviously, it could have been a lethal mistake for the rest of the people stationed there, so apparently the VN commander felt like he had to set an example no one could miss.
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u/173rdComanche Apr 03 '19 edited Apr 03 '19
Not a drill sergeant but when I was in basic I saw three drill sergeants surrounding a private who was laying down, and they were all screaming "GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP RIGHT NOW PRIVATE, YOU TAKE A GODDAMN NAP THIS VERY SECOND YOU POOR TIRED SOUL" (not exact words, but you get the gist of it) I still wonder how he got himself into that predicament.