Life on the trail — sigh. It’s a gig like no other. It’s intense, it’s nonstop, and it’s full of some of the craziest stories you will ever hear in the military. It’s like a decade of military life, compacted into 24 months of chaos. That’s drill life as we know and love it — or as we know and hate it.
Take a look at these totally accurate memes describing these most hardcore moments in drill life.
1. Sometimes, silence says the most
2. This might come in handy
3. Sometimes the creative punishments work the best
4. When the knife hand is on fire
5. When the stories don’t add up
6. It will never be clean enough
7. Meanwhile, spouses are on their best behavior too
8. Those wild goose chases though
9. Sometimes the stars just align
10. This is how it feels some days
11. When a private *finally* gives the best answer of all time
Drill life is its own kind of crazy, and these memes perfectly sum up some of the most common instances of wearing the brown round.