Holy hell. That not only hurts like hell as I imagine it, but also hits close to home as I'm in physical therapy right now for an injury to my back sustained during my army duty here in Sweden. I imagine the highest risk for injury is indeed during BCT. Got mine during the basic military training, which is kind of mandatory here and is eleven months long.intergral said:When I was in BCT for the Army (waaay back in '04), I fell off a 5-ton and broke my tibia/fibula out in the field. It sucked pretty hardcore. I had to have a rod and three screws put put in my leg, not to mention eight months of physical therapy.![]()
dang i hope your okayKhell_Sennet said:OP, do you have any understanding of how bloody hard it is not to make a totally inappropriate and sarcastic/humorous comment to your question?
But to answer seriously, it would be a tie between the time I had Mono and Bronchitis at the same time, or the time I had all four wisdom teeth and one molar removed.
I'd think more than even those two would have been my open-heart surgery, but I was too young to remember it.
happened to me when i broke my clavicle wrestling a guy 30lbs more then me:/...or when i got knocked unconscious when kicked in the back while tyieing my shoe by my own teammate while off to the side...havent recovered since...FLSH_BNG said:When I broke my arm... it didn't hurt until I actually tried to get up off the ground.
how do you pass that test? honestly..... military isnt for me anymoreAres Tyr said:Physically, two things. Both of them within a month of each other at Army BCT (which I JUST got back from).
The first would be the severe cold of Ft. Knox, KY where my hands were so cold, that first, I couldn't feel them, and then I felt them again, only this time my finger-bones felt like they were cracking inside my skin. It was, I think, 9 degrees outside, no gloves, I'd slept outdoors the night prior to that particular morning, and so my core body temperature wasn't very high to begin with. What a horrible breakfast that was.
The other would probably be the CS Gas Chamber that every soldier is made to go through. The formula for this gas is ten-times the strength of riot-grade tear gas. It is an excercise to make us trust our Army issued equipment. We go into the chamber with our masks on. We lift the mask to ensure it is on properly, then clear it so we can breath through it. Then they begin burning something, I'm not sure what, in a large metal can in the center of the room. Gas begins circulating. First it burns your skin, like alcohol on an open cut, only everywhere. Not that bad, but it opens your eyes. Then you start smelling it, a horrible, hot, smell. Then they make you take off your mask. Once you start breathing it in (because they make you open your eyes and breath) it destroys any attempt you make at breathing and it instantly tears your eyes up. I gagged on my own airway, weezing and coughing at the same time. It hurt pretty bad. Your nose, eyes, and mouth drains any kind of mucus currently inside your head, so you get alot of snot and spit and tears on the floor. All pretty gross.
I didn't even really take it that bad, some guys looked like they actually might die, screaming and carrying on like they were losing a lung. Apparently it effects others differently. Regardless, it was an experience I would like to never repeat.
Hehe. Looks like we've had some similar experiences thanks to the military. I'll have to say the same thing to the gas; it's not as bad as some say it is. I guess I handle stuff like that really good. The cold too, which I guess is natural, being a Swede. Still makes you want to die though, at a certain degree of extremity and length of exposure. We've got plenty of that here...Ares Tyr said:Physically, two things. Both of them within a month of each other at Army BCT (which I JUST got back from).
The first would be the severe cold of Ft. Knox, KY where my hands were so cold, that first, I couldn't feel them, and then I felt them again, only this time my finger-bones felt like they were cracking inside my skin. It was, I think, 9 degrees outside, no gloves, I'd slept outdoors the night prior to that particular morning, and so my core body temperature wasn't very high to begin with. What a horrible breakfast that was.
The other would probably be the CS Gas Chamber that every soldier is made to go through. The formula for this gas is ten-times the strength of riot-grade tear gas. It is an excercise to make us trust our Army issued equipment. We go into the chamber with our masks on. We lift the mask to ensure it is on properly, then clear it so we can breath through it. Then they begin burning something, I'm not sure what, in a large metal can in the center of the room. Gas begins circulating. First it burns your skin, like alcohol on an open cut, only everywhere. Not that bad, but it opens your eyes. Then you start smelling it, a horrible, hot, smell. Then they make you take off your mask. Once you start breathing it in (because they make you open your eyes and breath) it destroys any attempt you make at breathing and it instantly tears your eyes up. I gagged on my own airway, weezing and coughing at the same time. It hurt pretty bad. Your nose, eyes, and mouth drains any kind of mucus currently inside your head, so you get alot of snot and spit and tears on the floor. All pretty gross.
I didn't even really take it that bad, some guys looked like they actually might die, screaming and carrying on like they were losing a lung. Apparently it effects others differently. Regardless, it was an experience I would like to never repeat.