Ok ill be goin to Ft. benning for basic, just heard about this sand hill, what the hell is that.

Ft. Benning is a big place. Many different parts. Sand Hill is where the Infantry trains! Ah, good times. I'm not sure if BCTB also train there, but I don't think they do.

ahh, thanks,

It's a mountain in the back woods of Benning that all recruits must low crawl up to earn their blue cord and cross rifles. The surface is bare sand because all vegitation has been worn away over the decades. It is covered with concertina wire, broken glass and booby traps. If you reach the top alive (mortality rate is 37%) you will likely be drenched in blood (yours and others) but will have earned the right to call yourself a US Army Infantryman. Only the strong survive.

that sounds gnarly i cant wait hahahah

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Originally posted by gojeero:
Ft. Benning is a big place. Many different parts. Sand Hill is where the Infantry trains! Ah, good times. I'm not sure if BCTB also train there, but I don't think they do.

Uhhhh.... yeah BCTB trains there too! I've got the orange-stained ACUs to prove it!

2 1/2 months at D Co., 2-47 Inf. (closest barracks building on the same side of the street as the Sand Hill PX).

Geez, you forget I was there at the same time as you?

Matt
SPC, US Army
15U

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Originally posted by Mad_Matt:

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Originally posted by gojeero:
Ft. Benning is a big place. Many different parts. Sand Hill is where the Infantry trains! Ah, good times. I'm not sure if BCTB also train there, but I don't think they do.

Uhhhh.... yeah BCTB trains there too! I've got the orange-stained ACUs to prove it!

2 1/2 months at D Co., 2-47 Inf. (closest barracks building on the same side of the street as the Sand Hill PX).

Geez, you forget I was there at the same time as you?

Matt
SPC, US Army
15U

No no Matt, I have not forgotten... I just was not sure if they trained on SAND HILL. I never really knew which barracks were for what BN. lol.

BCT did train there c 3/330 08NOV2007

They closed 3/330, but we did train there as well. Maybe it was we were guinea pigs being tested to be drilled by Infantry drill sergeants and see if we could withstand infantry training.

PVT Wright

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Originally posted by 12301306:
BCT did train there c 3/330 08NOV2007

They closed 3/330, but we did train there as well. Maybe it was we were guinea pigs being tested to be drilled by Infantry drill sergeants and see if we could withstand infantry training.

PVT Wright

my best friend graduated A 3/330 june 22, 2007... 3/330 is closed? btw he was 11B..

Oh, the good 'ol days, I remember them VERY well, BCT at Sand Hill D/4/1, '67. Try not to go there in the summer months...humidity is suffocating. Believe me I should know...middle of May to middle of July.

Sand Hill is definately also for BCT. I just did BCT there (A Co 3/47 (the one across the street from 2/47 )

And yes, the summer months @ Ft Benning are ****TY, they had us wake up and go to Heat Cat V because it was so hot..


Oh, and Heat Cat V does NOTHING for your temperature...lol.