One Girl's Life in Army Basic Combat Training

Fact #7: Drill sergeants have an expressive way with words, especially female drill sergeants. Drill Sergeant Stewart, with a slight southern twang: “You God-damn lazy motherfuckers quit so God-damn easy that I ain’t gonna give a shit when you fucking fail that final PT test.”

Inevitably she’d zero in on one person in particular. “Especially you, first name Jack, last name Ass.”

I’d usually just stand and stare at her. She never failed to paralyze me with her uncanny ability to produce an endless string of expletives. Really, that takes some kind of talent.

Heck, it took me ten minutes just to reproduce that one line.