Armor OCS Class 25-67 Favorite Memories

Ken Leighty - At OCS, getting a package from home wasn't always in your best interest. Gene Longcore's girlfriend sent him a bathing suit. Our TAC Officers gave him a tan. Type; Army Issue, Black Boot Polish. 

John Moore - For inspection we had to have a desk display with a photo in the picture frame on the corner of the desk.  I did not have a girlfriend so I put a picture of a Gorilla holding a tire in the frame.  It was some tire company's advertisement I had cut from a magazine.  The Tacs saw it during inspection and I caught hell for it.  I thought it was funny but they did not.

Ken Leighty - I had the pleasure once, while a Senior Candidate, of being turned loose on a new class. I was walking back from the barber shop and a TAC came out of one of the buildings and invited me in to, in his own words, "make this the worst day in their lives". He didn't have to tell me twice, I knew what he expected.

Roger Wheaton - I snuck in a very expensive length of nylon rope which we used to lift "Pogey Bait" into the upper reaches of our billets.  It wasn't too long before the TACs figured out how we were sneaking in the midnight meals, found the rope, and cut it into one foot lengths.

Henry Zola - As the last man to cross the stage at graduation, I was the class responder.  I don't remember what I said, but I did end with the class motto "Spizzerinctum Sir".  Where did that motto come from anyway?                                                                                                Photo courtesy of Ken Leighty                                                                                                           







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