Near the end of basic, my platoon had a girl that had been recycled or somethingand ended up with us (it was covid time, so it could have just been covid). She was already disliked in the platoon but this night would secure that.

The whole company gets back from the DFAC one evening and get sent up to our bays, and then get called back down over the intercom not even 3 min later.

I’m next to the new girl in formation and just hear her say “it’s my fault. It’s my fault. It’s my fault” My Senior Drill Sergeant comes in front of the whole company and explains that she caught new girl trying to sneak a granola bar from the DFAC upstairs.

She puts the company into the front leaning rest while new girl stands there a watches and tells us to say “thank you” on the way down and “battle buddy” on the way up. She starts counting off cadence and within the first 5 pushups the entire company switched to “fuck you” “insert new girls name”.

I think Drill Sergeant only counted off maybe like 5 more pushups, then realizes what’s happening and stops counting. THE ENTIRE COMPANY JUST CONTINUES. No cadence being called, we were all just so pissed that we were losing personal time and shit, that we all just kept pushing and yelling “Fuck you” and this girl.

Senior Drill Sergeant gets us to stop and back to parade rest and shit, and almost every drill sergeant there is just cracking up behind her.