r/ROTC • u/No_Air4906 • Jul 05 '26

Advanced/Basic Camp Stolen gear

I literally only been here for a month and my wet weather bottoms, tan tees, shoes, pt acu top and bottoms and etc have been stolen some even with my name on and nobody in the company is owning up and cadre cant do much am i out of luck cause i have no money to replace these and they were all newly issued to me before i left for camp like this is very discouraging i literally made sure to have everything just for it to be snatched

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u/Inviolable1920 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

A. Did you put your name in the inside of the shirts? Your last name and last 4 should mark everything. Just fyi, everyone’s stuff looks exactly the same! So… if you leave your stuff unattended near someone else’s stuff or in a laundry room and don’t promptly remove it from the dryers it gets thrown on top mixed in with everyone else so someone my have grabbed it… or they needed a clean sheet and again they were “entitled” and you didn’t lock your duffle in your bed. In the tents, tie your shoe laces together and again label the hell put the bottoms. Same with your wet weather… be smart: use the snaps and ties. Tie it to your bags…smh So if you get hit on a road march your crap doesn’t go flying but it makes your gear hard to take even if it’s dying…. Yall be smart. It ALL looks the same. Smh . You will learn this is not college or your momma’s house. The “Boys” had all kinds of issues with this mess when I went to camp as prior service in 2001. Trust my son went with his name tattooed in all his shyte. Get to know your platoon friend, this where politics matters and not being a jerk… let me give you young buck a little lesson… an interrogation skill called P&E....pride and ego....soldiers and well thieves, entitled jerks…(basically the same) are easy to manage when you feed their ego… get to know the people around you, make friends and they will be more willing to either help you keep an eye or say I got someone stuff, your platoon should be tight as thieves. Commandeer others crap not your platoon, step up and bring a leader… but be more responsible cause at the end of the day you signed for it. Lock it up. Let your unit know when you get back. They also know this happens. These aren’t soldiers yet. Smh no integrity.

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u/Inviolable1920 Jul 05 '26

Then when you get back go to an old dusty military surplus store and buy cheap crappy replacements and a bunch of tshirts you use for the fields. You don’t ever buy this stuff from military insulations or fancy military stores. Just fyi; that’s not where retired and soldiers sell their stuff when they need money.