Fort Lost-in the Woods, Misery
(Fort Leonard Wood Missouri)
[Army Boot Camp - 1961]
Short of being in an Alabama swamp, I can't think of a worse place to be. (That includes the various hellholes I served in while in Vietnam.) If it were to fall off the face of the Earth, they could sell the result as a substitute for Hell.
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I was 17 years old, never been away from home .. and they dropped me in this miserable old WWII camp (with it's old wooden buildings), where the weather went from an 80 degree summer day PT course to a sub-zero 10 mile march and camp out (all within a 24 hour period).
Of course, Rattle Snake Hill and it's 12 mile map reading and infiltration course was thrown in just for the hell of it .....
(I never had to use a topological map ever again).
I just don't know of a worse place to serve even one day, let alone an entire boot camp schedule.