The Worst Time A Drill Sergeant Smoked Us At Basic Training 

Always hated getting smoked by other platoons Ds, just feels like a step dad beating you instead of real dad, but loved the FEW times when our DS would tell other platoons DS'S to leave his platoon alone, made ya feel loved, lol

We had a drill sergeant that would sneak around the barracks in a uniform that didn’t have a drill sergeant patch, once someone saw him, he’d shush them before they yelled “AT EASE”. He would just randomly join in on conversations and sometimes people wouldn’t even realize it was him. I don’t think he ever smoked us for anything, I think he just wanted to talk to us privates about what’s been going on.

Yup been there seen that I came from the hospital as a "battle buddy" and as I walk up the stairs I can hear "1...2...3..1!" and oh god I walked like a sloth.

Damn we only did about an hour and I almost died lol

This story had me cracking up. You definitely need to tell more stories lol

If the entire rest of your platoon is asleep, go to sleep. Dont be one of the few. You can be one of the many. Reason being, you're going to get smoked as a platoon anyways. If you see one or two people dozing off, wake them. Our entire company had to move out and bring everything down to the drill pad and that's where we slept until a 1LT from batallion came by and saw what we were doing. This was all because two female soldiers fell asleep in their bay during bay maintenance on their bunks. Those two soldiers got to move their entire bed down the flights of stairs and slept on their mattresses while we all slept on sleeping kits in the grass. Fun fun. I still remember their fucking names.

So your platoon got left at loose ends for a couple hours, then got smoked? Sounds like you guys got set up.

I definitely wanna hear more smoke stories and or more stories in general

The night of my brothers family day, when they got back, they had a sign that said to meet at 2000 for a graduation party.. they got smoked bad.😂

Corrective training 😂🤭😉

We spent a half a day sprinting from the rifle range to the road and back, trying to get in formation before the time ran out with some front leaning rests thrown in and other ab workouts. The reason? We finished early, they were having trouble getting transport to come out, and they were bored. We also did the whole "quick change" routine. I swear BCT is scripted.

I remember finishing the final PT test and final ruck and someone said "It's all downhill from here" during recovery week. Within 10 minutes we were breaking down our entire bay and setting it up outside, beds made and lockers squared away. EVERYTHING. Other companies marching by would look over and see us getting our "Bay" inspected. None of them laughed, they looked terrified because it looks like their DS was getting some ideas.

The worst smoke session we had at basic was the midnight disco party. We were warned not to be awake writting letters at night. Some didn't listen. They got caught writing letters with their red lenses. We all got woken up every 45 minutes to get smoked in the assembly area with the lights off, blue lense, clear, and red lenses in our flash lights. It was the worst night we had there. Gotta love Sand Hill, ft Benning.

Other than Graduation, I'd like to hear one of the best days you've had in BCT.

I can’t help but wonder if the Drill Sargents are actually really chill dudes outside of their jobs... 🤔

Towards the end of BCT I had fire watch...and whoever had firewatch had to meet with the DS that was in charge for the night...so I was in the company area with the other firewall from my platoon and a DS from another company walked by...we did the at ease good evening drill Sgt thing...he said carry on ..then he talked to us asking g question like when do we graduate...did we have any problems...we were only about 2 weeks away from graduation..as he was walking away he hollered back at us...OUTSTANDING PRIVATES!...and tossed the 2 of us a candy bar...we ate them very fast

One time when we got smoked, well into lights out, the Duty DS for the night had us doing "Side Straddle Hops" ( a four count jumping jack), I believe we did 500 reps. I had my full canteen in my left cargo pocket, as required, and that thing was banging into my left knee twice per every rep. So actually 2000 times. The next morning was a road march and as road guard I had that flash light in my left cargo pocket, as required, every step I made that thing was sliding ad digging a little groove into the side of my left knee exactly at the epicenter of that bruise. That was the worst part of the next few days. Not the smoking but the miles of scraping my leg with that damn flash light.

One time, about an hour after we went to sleep, a drill sergeant snuck into our bay and found 2 girls sleeping in the same bed. He got pissed and proceed to make everyone stack their mattresses in the center of the bay, and then take them all down and make our beds perfectly. He made us repeat this over and over until about 03:30. Finally when we had all our mattresses stacked in the center for the last time, he told us to go to bed....on our cold hard bunks....and we had to wake up in an hour....

I recall my cousin when he was in basic training in fort benning whenever someone got sick or hurt themselves the sgts would say .."drink water youll be fine" that was their response for everything lol

AIT 1 SG kicked the whole company out of the barracks. Longest day of my life. Not smoked, but we cleaned rooms from 0500 to 2000.

I just got my orders. Im leaving for basic (again) August 27. I’ll be a 19D Cavalry Scout. Real excited.

And don't EVER volunteer that you can drive. Soon as our drill sergeant asked our platoon who here can drive & our hands went up we were all allowed to then drive... Wheelbarrows full of bricks from one end of the building to the other for 2 hours.

just wanted to say thank you for making these videos! my boyfriend has been at basic training for the last three weeks -- I haven't heard from him at all. these help me understand what he is doing and helps with missing him...

Basic training=Basically tired Lmao

Amazing road to 100K Matt

that getting in formation and then running up, changing getting back etc. has a special name in austria :D we call that game "maskenball" (literally masked ball or fancy-dress ball however you wanna call it)

I still vividly remember grass drills -- done on the GRAVEL PT field. Drill sergeant was REALLY PO'd, and he REALLY gave it to us one morning! We had to cycle through a sequence of exercises, changing every time he blew his whistle. He'd curse at us and chew us out as we did those exercises. Then got to where he was blowing that whistle so fast we could barely switch from sit-ups position to push-ups, to leg lifts, to jumping jacks, etc. I don't even know how long it lasted. That gravel cut us to pieces!

Great story. That probably is the worst case study of the "smoking". You reminded me of a couple times in AIT when we had people get "moved out" of the barracks. Once another platoon had to move everything out on the lawn in an exact replica of how it is inside. Then back inside again. Another time it was just one guy. It was a weekend and apparently the Duty Drill didn't feel like mass punishing everyone over it. So I just remember coming back from lunch or something and here's this bunk, end table, locker with PT's hanging on it, everything including his boots staged under the bunk just like it was upstairs. I didn't stick around to see who it was or what else became of all that. That's a good time to not be home. Good times though.

I got caught taking a sandwich from the chow hall and had to carry about 100 sandbags and put them in company formation.

For the longest time I’ve avoided the army my mom is a veteran and she was a sergeant I’ve wanted to join the airforce for a while but saw little to no travel opportunities but I looked into the army recently and they have more jobs I like -PVT Ray

When I went through Air Force basic we had this drying area in the showers with a bench, our instructors weren’t allowed in there and it didn’t take long for trainees to duck in there and sleep or get out of getting smoked. Eventually we got caught and we spent half of the day doing bed drills. Then our evening TI showed up, she said she’s gonna treat us like Week 1 trainees, so pack it up stretch, then putting our dorms back together, a lot of getting smoked with push-ups, squats, and flutter kicks. Was a very wonderful experience for sure.

Leaving for basic tomorrow should be lots of fun! Thanks for all the videos!

Great video Matt!!

The worst smoking session my platoon got was when the IMT CSM himself did a tour of our battalion while we were at the range and remarked that our bays weren't up to standard. We got smoked with our weapons for about 30ish minutes, then we had to GI the bay, and when my drill sergeant found dust in the vents, we got evicted to the CTA. We then got smoked until and after dinner chow, until lights out. The whole thing lasted a good 2-3 hours.

You get 7-8 hours of sleep at basic? I thought it was more like 4 lol

I got smoked for 3 hours straight because my guys and I couldn’t tarp a truck quick enough. This is in the regular army

Ds beret with a pot belly was running faster backwards than we were running forward ,"go ahead scratch your ass i won't tell

Drill sergreant comes up stairs, sees platoon asleep (Peppa Pig narrator): Ohhh dear.

Imagine seeing the DS sneaking up and automatically shouting "ALARM" out of fear and thus waking everyone up. You'd be dead AF for it but rest of platoon would be saved. or slightly, SLIGHTLY less screwed. ... I know I'd probably scream. Not to save everyone, but in shock.

Great video matt, I'm leaving for fort benning on the 21st and I definitely feel alot more prepared from watching all your videos. Thanks man

That's when a leader steps up and checks everyone prior to going down to formation.

This reminds me of the day my platoon forgot a weapon at BCT. That day was terrible. We were smoked for 6hrs lol. Fun times at Fort Leonard Wood 2015.😫😫😫😫. I admit that sometimes I miss BCT. 🤔🤔

Can you do a video on tips of how to put on your uniform quickly

I was wondering if your can make a video specifically about deployment and the process going through it. Meaning do they call you or Email first.

Loved the video keep it up with the good videos.

As always, great Video Matt. Thanks for the information.

I go in a few months and I have a buddy that when he was training, his platoon was pulled into the woods to do PT for hours 😂😂😂

My boyfriend's DS did his to them also. Making them wear weird combinations and rush them to change clothes

Hey Matt nice video!

I hope that my platoon won't get smoke in Navy Basic Training. Though I know it will happen.🇺🇸

Lol my first week of bct, another DS came in my platoons barracks just to tell us he didn’t like us from the previous cycle then smoked us for 30mins also surprisingly he did it with us.

I wish it was 7-8 hours of sleep

August 14th at Benning for basic, anyone else!

I have a story from Air Force basic that is funny now, but at the time I was super scared, lol. It was right before bedtime. My T.I. had us all in the dayroom sitting on the floor while he talked to us. He had just finished handing out letters from home. I guess that as I was looking at my letter I was smiling. My T.I. asked, "What are you smiling at, Flowers?". Without thinking, I simply answered, "Sir, I didn't know I was". You could take that two ways, right? Everyone gasped as soon as I said it, and then there was dead silence. They probably thought they were about to witness a murder, lol. As soon as it came out of my mouth, I knew how it sounded. It sounded like I was arguing and smarting off. I truly was innocent in my intention, but I knew what it sounded like. My T.I. gave me a death stare. At first he looked shocked that I had said something like that, but then in a matter of a second his look of shock turned to one of intense anger. He glared at me but didn't say anything. He just stared at me for what felt like an eternity. Finally, he went on talking about whatever he had been talking about before, but he continued to stare over at me as if to say, "Just wait, Flowers, just wait". I was sitting on the floor and hoping that the floor underneath me would fall out where I could get out of there, lol. We had just taken showers, but I probably needed another one because I was sweating through my clothes. Remember how you felt when you were a kid, and you were in trouble? I felt like I was outside the principal's office awaiting my fate, lol. You know how when you know punishment is coming you can feel the heat inside you coming to the surface? Certainly in basic training I had been in trouble before. My T.I. had certainly disciplined me before, made me do push-ups and other exercises and yelled at me, etc. However, what made this time different was that I knew this was more serious. This was showing disrespect, being insubordinate, etc. It didn't matter that I was innocent. It only mattered that he THOUGHT that I was disrespecting him. I didn't know what the punishment would be, but I knew it would be worse than anything I had experienced so far. I really thought he was going to rip me a new one.Towards the end, I was looking down at the floor. Suddenly I hear my T.I. say, "Look at me!". I looked up, and he was staring right at me. I thought to myself, "here it comes". Instead, he dismissed us and told us to go to bed. He never said another word about it. In fact, he never SAID anything. All he did was look at me and make me think that something was coming. The next day he was back to normal. Well, normal for basic training, lol. He wasn't glaring at me in the same way. I cannot tell you the relief I felt as I laid in my bunk that night! I've often wondered what he was actually thinking. I've wondered if he was really even mad or just pretending to be, if he knew that I truly wasn't trying to smart off. Or, if he had intended to discipline me but then decided to let me off. I would sure love to know!

Right now at fort still oklahoma for 13B training.

Getting smoked (dropped, worn out etc.) is ALWAYS a mental thing!!

Thanks matt for so many videos to prepare us

Im not in the military and im not a vet, this is just my observation but it seems like the overarching thing is you just need to follow your leaderships instructions exactly, quickly and efficiently and you need to have integrity.

Skipping to Ft.Sill in three weeks !

Keep up the great content Matt!

Thanks for all the tips and advice Matt! Leaving August 13th for Fort Benning, and quite honestly, I can't wait!

At the end of bct, did you ever see your drill sergeants again? And if so do both of you speak to each other like y’all are cool “friends” or do y’all have a different type relationship than you have with other soldiers?

Yes I need more stories!!!

The mix match uniform drill, yeah that was set up dude, every cycle goes through that😂😂

My worse, we have to bring all of our mattresses downstairs. And bring em back up and bring them all down again and Vice versa for the whole afternoon. N running around laps unlimited times

I'm going for the cake at the DFAC on my birthday. I don't care what happens.

I think Basic Training & AIT is different nowadays, the cadre members are bound my lots of regulations, more so than even a couple years ago. When I was in IET, there was an investigation of our company regarding “corrective action”, and they didn’t smoke us as bad as 6 hours.

Remember this...while yes getting smoked is punishment.....its also 2 fold...you are getting stronger while being punished...and always remember this...getting smoked is nothing personal to a DS...to a DS it's a job

Love your videos, Matt!

Anyone leaving from Atlanta MEPS with the leave date of the 4th of September (BCT Start date of the 9th though) for Ft. Jackson? 25U representing !

Someone left a single piece of paper in a trash bin? Completely trash the barracks, accuse the trainees of living like pigs and smoke them for a couple of hours after a long day of training.

Dude, happened to our platoon at least 3-4 times during the cycle. Good times, Haha

Facial hair lookin good bro 😂🔥👌

I can’t wait. I ship out soon.

Love the channel Matt

4:21 lmao look at his eyebrows

Fort lost in the woods woods sept 4 can’t wait

We had drills who knew we fucked up, but as long as we performed when we had to

Nice video and thanks for the info

When I joined back in 2018 I signed a 6/8 year contract with the sc national guard, i been motivated to serve my country and to be the best I can be as a soldier to follow in my dad footsteps. I graduated basic and ait, and arrived to my unit. I have never seen such miserable fake unprofessional people and the leadership is a cult they don’t look out for anyone but themselves and the ones that kiss there ass, also the females. Paperwork never gets signed and lost, and the will not transfer you to another unit or release you to active duty. Been trying for years. But I embraced the suck and used my benefits to get my associates and bachelors degree, now I’m just milking my last year in in hopes to join airforce or active army hopefully I don’t get kicked out before I get out

I just love how he called it a “smoke session” lmfao

When I was in BCT they called it 11B syndrome. As soon as your ass hits the bench, you start nodding off. We had all these Army Values classes and it was just all about keeping each other awake. We were constantly nudging each other to keep ourselves from falling asleep. Those that couldn't stay awake were given something to keep them awake. They were either standing at the back of the room holding a pair of canteens straight armed out in front of them, or they were taken outside to be smoked. Every time we sat down, without fail, we had that problem.

The worst time for me was when a ds found a love letter. We got smoked for an hour straight having to do 3-5 sec rushes, low crawls, high crawls, and all the good ol push ups and v ups. This was during the anvil too so everybody was tired and sunfried for the day. Nobody had integrity so we just got fucked up until it was time for us to sleep.

Hello luv your vids, keep up the good work

I’ve been watch you Matt for a long time but this story sounds familiar😂

Great video and awesome Play Button!!

Crab crawl on a 20ft hill. Feet first uphill, head first downhill for an hour. Someone talked when they shouldn't have.

LOL, that happened to me in AIT. So here is what I want you to do. You have 90 seconds to go to your room. I want you wearing your class A shirt, your PT shorts, your boot on your left foot, and your pt shoe on you right foot.

My son says that his fellow soldiers in training in his platoon isn't cooperating with their Drill Sargeant, which may affect them moving out the red phase. Does this mean that they all may have start BT all over again???

I remember that one time it was a sunday and every one was in the bay and was cleaning and a group was in the back maybe 5 guys laying on the bunks and ds told us not to call at ease and then he did something on his phone puts it on the bunk and walks away into the staircase then his alarm goes off and all those guys were all like turn off your alarm and then his all like wait how did you guys get a phone 😂 the whole bay was just grouped up by the back laughing and then ds walks in and his all like oh so you have your phone and then proceeded to smoke us from 1800 to 0000 cuz he got the ok from the company commander

Matt was it hard to manage the book work with the physical training

Benning on the 13th ? Anyone ?

Bahahahahahahaha. That'll teach you to snooze on your DS

Shit. My platoon got evicted for a week straight all day and did corrected training in between evictions. Worst experience during basic.

Our drill Sgt made us do air squats for like 3 hours. No other exercise just air squats, it got pretty stupid

Fort Jackson tomorrow... Mixed feelings

Is there a limit of the discipline? Is there a channel that the trainees can make complaint against their drill sergeant or officer?

I’m sure you heard this before but you remind me of Sargent Brody from homeland

Fort Leonard Wood august 28!

Thanks for the vids I'm leaving Aug 27 to benning