Drill Sergeants Share The Funniest Things They’ve Heard Recruits Say (24 Stories)

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“DS starts yelling at me in my face about god knows what, on and on. He is from the deep south and has a super strong Mississippi accent. I am an immigrant from South Africa (my accent sounds English or Australian to US people) only been in the USA for a few year and have been living in Oregon, and honestly I can only understand a bit of what he is saying. At the end he concludes with “DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH PRIVATE?”

I replied “Drill Sargent. No. I am really struggling with your accent Drill Sargent.” There was silence for a bit then they all started laughing.” –lodelljax

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“Our DS called us a bunch of assholes who were not team players. So we came up with a cadence that had us yelling “week to week. Cheek to cheek. Us assholes stick together”. The DS would try to hide his smiles when we pulled that one out.” –A1850

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“Required to have creases in your uniform, and if you know anything about it you can sometimes fuck it up and give a shirt two creases. Commonly referred to as ‘railroad tracks’ On morning in formation for uniform inspection it was discovered someone had done this to their shirt. So in come the DIs. At one point one of them yelling asked “Recruit X are you a train conductor?” And sure as shit, he was before he joined. So he answered sir yes sir. Everyone got awkward quiet for what felt like 5 min but I’m sure it was only 5 seconds. And then the group of them went on yelling at the next person in formation.” –dutchman195

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“We were on the grenade training range in groups of 3. This is where there are various stations where you and your group have to throw dummy grenades at things. When you’re the one throwing, you were supposed to yell to your group: “Cover me while I throw my grenade!” This one guy from the south with an accent to match yelled “Cover me while I throw this here grenade!” before he lobbed it. I had never seen the DS monitoring that station laugh so hard.” –1WomanSOP

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“When I say down, you say ‘we are’; when I say up, you say, ‘weak-hearted’! DOWN!” ”WE ARE!” “UP!” ”RETARDED!” I legit had to turn and walk away for a minute.” –RistaRicky