Creative Punishment

[TJT0321]

321 eight count body builders has been the go-to "workout" for my unit, but it makes me wonder what kind of crazy things have been done in the past.

What's the most creative "workout" you guys have participated in over the years?

[SOTB]

What's the most creative "workout" you guys have participated in over the years?Outside of RIP or pre-SCUBA, I think the most "creative" PT I saw while in was doing pushups to a deck of playing cards or platoon PT in a typhoon....

[Dutch8654]

Outside of RIP or pre-SCUBA

You realize they court-martial people for that shit now right? Good times!

[BigNickT]

I remember pushing a humvee in the Thailand heat after a big drunk for team PT. Doing jumping jacks 100 at a time (way more fucked up than it sounds). Ruck-fin-rucks. All sorts of fun shit.

Tax out

[redman1982]

You realize they court-martial people for that shit now right? Good times!

I never saw anything.

[PUG]

"murderball"............;)

[RAT]

Running the "O" course 100x or till someone falls and breaks a leg. Thank god the CO was the one who broke his leg.

1000 body destroyers 20 count where you spreaded your legs and Hitch kicks (have to have your feet go past your hands on the ground) then push ups. Before Libo as a Plt as not to cheat.

Bear crawl the Cubi Point flight line and back to upper MEF.

Move 2 tons of Volcanic Ash with an E-tool from one side of the compound to the other.

Having to copy the whole UCMJ and Court Martial manuals verbatim.

There was so much stuff... I swear people would just think up strange shit to do.

As it was said out a get together; Long Card with different exercises between each exercise.. We were doing cross fit before crossfit was cool.

RO!!!

[sarc88]

Stretcher run up to the KBAY rifle range and back in boots/uts with 1 man on the stretcher at all times (after rolling in from Waikiki at 0430). At that time, I was barely 160lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal, so I got to ride that stretcher about 1/2 way. I was so hungover, and that stretcher was so bouncy, lets just say that when I got down, I was damn near to being a genuine casualty. No one had skin on their shoulders after that one.

Pre-SPIE practice...chasing a pickup truck while snapped into a 120 line hitched to the back. Reeeeaall smart, that one.

[Dutch8654]

Pre-SPIE practice...chasing a pickup truck while snapped into a 120 line hitched to the back. Reeeeaall smart, that one.

Didnt we have a Pre-Airborne package too? Jumpin off the back of a 6X. Man I remember that from somewhere. Maybe it was in RIP.

[The Sheepdog]

Hey Sarc88, did you ever get the run the "Big Loop" outside the KBay gates and then do the beach run? After that we were given the opportunity to run up and down the Tower Road forwards and backwards a dozen times until we had spaghetti legs and barely made it back. The best part about it was the boots. As you know, they were great for running on black top.

[Darren]

Ballbuster outside camp Talega...just for the hell of it.

[sarc88]

Hey Sarc88, did you ever get the run the "Big Loop" outside the KBay gates and then do the beach run? After that we were given the opportunity to run up and down the Tower Road forwards and backwards a dozen times until we had spaghetti legs and barely made it back. The best part about it was the boots. As you know, they were great for running on black top.


Yep, the Big Loop and Little Loop were pretty standard asskickers.

Somewhat off topic:

We had a great company PT competition where each platoon doubletimed a zodiac and all equipment over to Ft Hase Beach. At that point, platoons split into a boat crew and a run crew. The boat crew had to PADDLE all the way to Kailua Beach Park and meet the run crew, then switch up, with the run crew now paddling home. Back at Ft Hase, the whole plt regrouped to run that bitch home. Winning plt got early libo and a couple cases of beer from the CO, losing plt had to clean all the gear. That was a great FRI PT.

[Xdeth]

Fire exstinguisher workout "buddy", the large shiny one. You can press it a number of ways, hold it statically until "the shakes", run with it, medicine ball style situps, relay races...

AND, if there is a fire, someone is immediately ready, just don't leave the area with it, running cricles around the facility is best.

[sarc88]

At Pearl Harbor SCUBA school, I got separated from my buddy a couple times. The 1st time, we had to carry 6ft of 4" hawser with eyes in each end. Running to and from chow it was just easier to put our heads thru the eyes.

The 2nd time, it was the BAll and Chain. 1" chain with a bowling ball suspended between us in a short Y yoke - that one we had to time the ball swinging to help us on the runs, but it was still a bitch on the hands.

[SOTB]

At Pearl Harbor SCUBA school, I got separated from my buddy a couple times. The 1st time, we had to carry 6ft of 4" hawser with eyes in each end. Running to and from chow it was just easier to put our heads thru the eyes.HAHAHAHAHA -- I remember that. And it had to be soaking at all times. That thing not only was heavy, but it was fucking unwieldy. It sucked.The 2nd time, it was the BAll and Chain....This one I don't remember. I think in our class, if the rope wasn't enough to get your attention, then you moved onto the chain -- but no ball. The ball reads like a very ingenious Sr Master Chief was bored one day -- I'm glad he wasn't so bored when I went through....:biggrin:

[Global Med]

Pre-SPIE practice...chasing a pickup truck while snapped into a 120 line hitched to the back. Reeeeaall smart, that one.

Something similar to this? Someone that looked like me 25 years ago hooking up a “leg” to the back of a Jeep and driving like a bat out of hell down Del Mar Beach to simulate cut-aways on the DZ.

[SOTB]

Something similar to this?Were you guys having a problem with guys not popping their quick releases and getting dragged by winds? I can assure you that on the E Coast, we weren't doing that, at all....

[Global Med]

SOTB,

Nope.
It is more in line with the “things” we used to do and thought it was good training; looking back at it now.

[colmurph]

Oh go fuck yourselves. Do the Darby Queen! You guys don't know what HARD means.

[skeeter8654]

Oh go fuck yourselves. Do the Darby Queen! You guys don't know what HARD means.

Tongue in cheek?

[Princeps Belli]

Actual combat missions aside maybe?????
There is a way to tell........

[BigNickT]

Oh go fuck yourselves. Do the Darby Queen! You guys don't know what HARD means.


Darby Queen?

Isn't that what they call the winner of the cross-dressing phase of Ranger school?

Tax out

[Cecil]

We had some good PT sessions back at 3rd Recon Bn (A Co). Ruck runs all over base and up KT (Kansas Tower), paddling out around bird-sh&t rock (getting through the surf with paddles was alwasys fun).

We also used to do boot & utes runs with gas masks and sand bags (yes plural)... these would include the O-Course and lots of sugar sand.

And let's not forget the runs from K-Bay to Bellows AFB where anyone the SSgt beat had to knock out 500 push-ups (4 count) and 1,000 flutter kicks at the finish line.

Good Ole SSgt Ritchie :-)

[ddog79]

There were always many and various ways to keep wayward Recon Marines in line. My least favorite was having to "chase the indian" for 1stSgt F****** at Talega in the early to mid 80's. It especially sucked when you had to take a BFR (Big F'in Rock) along for the trip.

[Push-to-think]

500 8counts with 100lb ruck (forgot time limit); weighted belt pool boobs

[SOTB]

Do the Darby Queen! You guys don't know what HARD means.Hmm, of all the things I considered "hard" that I've done, the Darby Queen wasn't something I rated as "hard"....

[0699]

Not as painful as some of the stories here, but...

Digging fighting holes to measuement, Okinawa summer on Saturdays. I learned the first time that if you dig it 41" across, there's no way to add an inch back to the side so it's regulation (40"). You have to start over. I bounced five checks in one week at the Camp Hansen PX (not malicious, just stupid and had not idea how to balance a check book; I was that "I have checks, so I must have money" Marine), so I spent five Saturdays in a row digging fighting positions.

Rocks in the ruck always sucked.

[SOTB]

....so I spent five Saturdays in a row digging fighting positions....IMO, your leadership took the path I'd like to think that the Corps' current leadership considered as the right one. Hitting someone up with a permanent SRB entry over certain things is GAY. Sometimes Marines just need someone to point them in the right direction -- and sometimes that path is easily discovered when the proper motivation is given....

[0699]

IMO, your leadership took the path I'd like to think that the Corps' current leadership considered as the right one. Hitting someone up with a permanent SRB entry over certain things is GAY. Sometimes Marines just need someone to point them in the right direction -- and sometimes that path is easily discovered when the proper motivation is given....

Bingo. It worked, because I haven't bounced a single check since then; 25 years now. :biggrin:

[The Sheepdog]

Not as painful as some of the stories here, but...

Digging fighting holes to measuement, Okinawa summer on Saturdays. I learned the first time that if you dig it 41" across, there's no way to add an inch back to the side so it's regulation (40"). You have to start over. I bounced five checks in one week at the Camp Hansen PX (not malicious, just stupid and had not idea how to balance a check book; I was that "I have checks, so I must have money" Marine), so I spent five Saturdays in a row digging fighting positions.

Rocks in the ruck always sucked.

0699,

Were those days the infamous "Black Flag" days of Okinawa? I see it was summer time. Ah, how those were the days!:rolleyes:

[0699]

0699,

Were those days the infamous "Black Flag" days of Okinawa? I see it was summer time. Ah, how those were the days!:rolleyes:

Holy crap was it hot. And Gunny would sit there drinking his coffee watching us dig. He acted like it was 70 degrees out...

[Shark0311]

It doesn't really fall under creative punishment it was more like interesting PT...

1 mile sprint 1 mile jog for 5 miles followed by 125 reps of the daily 7

One of our guys staged rocks in Waikiki beach. We would free dive down, pick up the rock and run as far as we could. Think Indian run on crack. The starting depth was about 5 feet once we hit 500 meters from shore it was a 20'-25' free dive. The team that made it back to shore first won.

Hydro-graphic surveys in a sea state three was a riot at Fort Hase Beach.

Then there was always the possibility of a typical 8 count body builder death session if you screwed the pooch.

[Rock1503]

Read thread, not location. Nevermind.

[BOFH]

For punishment PT I've never done anything more amusing than "Galaga" where we formed as a platoon at double intervals and then hopped left and then right, holding our arms out, but moving our forearms up and down and yelling "beep, beep, beep, beep," and speeding up as we got closer to the end of the "level" (or parking lot). Randomly, a sadistic NCO would point at an unfortunate who then had to sprint back and forth throught the lines, past the NCO in front, all the way back to the start, and then back into position, screaming "whoooooooooooo," like a fire siren. Then came 50 four count Monkey F$*kers, about face, and do it again. Even as much as it sucked, it would still leave you smiling at how freakin' retarded, and funny the whole thing looked.


Going to have to see if I can get away with the Galaga thing this weekend. Should be fun, because that's fricken' hilarious!

[Rock1503]

Going to have to see if I can get away with the Galaga thing this weekend. Should be fun, because that's fricken' hilarious!

How was it?

[Dragbag]

The Days of getting bent, good times, not so good at the time though

[The Fat Guy]

IMO, your leadership took the path I'd like to think that the Corps' current leadership considered as the right one. Hitting someone up with a permanent SRB entry over certain things is GAY. Sometimes Marines just need someone to point them in the right direction -- and sometimes that path is easily discovered when the proper motivation is given....


Agreed, Infantrymen are Infantrymen. I never bought off on the buff and mop the floor unless the infraction was over barracks maintenance.

I had privates improve their soldier skills by:


Writing book reports on AR 670-1 for Uniform infractions
Writing Book reports on the appropriate TM for dirty weapons
Digging and building a complete defensive fighting position in 4, 6 hour blocks as extra duty. Plotting and laying mine fields was another favorite.
Pushing a jeep to and from the motor pool for improper PMCS.
Lots and lots of remedial PT.
For those who refused to comply, there was....... Wait for it.......


CCF, Correctional Confinement Facility. What a fucking Den of Horrors that was.


Like SOTB said, taking something good for doing something bad is not always the best course of action. Some troops merely need to be retrained. Having their chain of command (TL / SL) oversee these activities also beefed up the supervision.

In Key West, flutter kicks with water in the face mask was a favorite, as well, we had the rope and chain devices for errant buddy teams.

[jdogonroad]

Just the thought of Charlie's Chicken Farm over in Corps area at Bragg still sends shivers up my spine!

[Dutch8654]

We had some good PT sessions back at 3rd Recon Bn (A Co). Ruck runs all over base and up KT (Kansas Tower), paddling out around bird-sh&t rock (getting through the surf with paddles was alwasys fun).

We also used to do boot & utes runs with gas masks and sand bags (yes plural)... these would include the O-Course and lots of sugar sand.

And let's not forget the runs from K-Bay to Bellows AFB where anyone the SSgt beat had to knock out 500 push-ups (4 count) and 1,000 flutter kicks at the finish line.

Good Ole SSgt Ritchie :-)


Shit I just noticed this....man I could tell you some stories about him. I heard he was in the penn for murder a long time ago. Which Plt in A Co were you in?