Quote Originally Posted by rero360 View Post
I was at Ft Benning on the rifle range when it all went down. The Drill Sergeants pulled us off the range and we had a Company formation, anyone who was from the NYC and PA were allowed to call home to make sure their families were ok. Within a week the cadences being called changed, no longer was it about killing charlie and commies, but rag heads and camel jockeys.

You must have shipped about 2 weeks before me. Similar experience here, only our company secretly whisked away the New Yorkers and we thought it was a rumor until the next day when the 1SG addressed the Company.