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10. My experience in USAF basic training was the same

Reply to LogDog75 (Original post)

Thu Oct 16, 2025, 12:46 AM

Oct 2025

Other than one guy in my flight who was acting completely bonkers in order to get kicked out asap, the DIs treated us fairly during my time at Lackland AFB in 1971. There was some tension between some black guys from Philly (I was from the Philly area and hung out with them) and some white guys from rural Tennessee but our DIs gave us "the UCMJ lecture" and that seemed to calm everything down.

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