I have fond memories of basic and it's been 25 yrs. started in a platoon of 144 and dropped down to 68 by week 4. Then we surged up to 102 with replacements who were coming back from injuries or whatever. Never really found it hard, just learn to play the "game" and don't take anything personally. But we had a lot of drop outs more from "cracking" then injuries.
I have no idea how it's run now, the base that I trained at, Cornwallis, I believe is no longer used. And I'm sure the stress is a lot less then it used to be, the nco's could be more "liberal" back then.
As for these impostors, lock em up and flush the key. Such a disgrace and kick in the nuts to those of us who have served over seas and were put in harms way.
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