This 59-Year-Old Army BCT Grad Is About to Be the New Guy in His Son’s Unit

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This 59-Year-Old Army BCT Grad Is About to Be the New Guy in His Son’s Unit
 
Hope Hodge Seck, Bing Xiao
,Military.com•September 12, 2020

At 59, Staff Sgt. Monte Gould is the oldest-ever graduate of the Army's current Basic Combat Training Course, finishing Aug. 27 in the top 10% of his class. Now, a decade or two older than retirement age for most career soldiers, he's starting a new journey -- with plans to join his son, Spc. Jarrod Gould, in the 405th Civil Affairs Battalion's Las Vegas detachment.

In an Army news release, Staff Sgt. Gould spoke about the challenge of making it through the rigorous BCT, the Army's entry-level training course. A veteran of the Marine Corps and Army National Guard, Gould went through boot camp in 1978 -- more than four decades earlier.

The BCT experience, Gould said, was "completely different."

https://news.yahoo.com/59-old-army-bct-grad-105202674.html

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the 405th Civil Affairs Battalion's Las Vegas detachment.

Not exactly a STRAC infantry outfit,is it?

He will be "armed" with a laptop and a cell phone,and the only place he will walk to will be the mess hall,the rest room,or the parking lot.

I personally knew a guy that went through Ranger School in his 40's,and was the class Honor Graduate.

That was Bob Howard,though,and Bob was not typical of any group of people. He was just "Bob",and that was all he ever needed to be,and a little extra.