The Skittles Club

K049 Feb to Apr 87

SR Miller

I want to thank Seaman Recruit Miller for allowing me to share this story. When I saw it, I laughed. She was replying to my story about the First Marching Inspection. So, here is her story….




I was our guidon bearer the entire time. Getting our flags to coordinate did take a lot of extra work!! One night we were out practicing extra late before our inspection. And I was getting yelled at because “My flags were a mess.”


Our CCs had just the flags practice turning over and over. One by one, we all started to cry. They halted us, and they came over to us and yelled, “put out your hand, recruit!! Palm up!


I was like, oh my gosh! Are they going to hit my hand? What is going to happen? So I am crying harder. My male CC stood in front of me and was like, “Have you had a hard day Miller?”


Through sobs, I mutter out, “Yesssss, sir!!”


He said “Well maybe this will help”


Into my hand, he dropped a skittle candy. He went down the line of our flags and gave us all a skittle candy. Lol. He told us we could eat them. We did our turns about 10 more times. Each time they stopped us, we would get another skittle candy. We got better and better. He called us the Skittle club after that.
We were his first female company. I remember our female CC laughing because when he screamed at us, we cried.


He was like??? What am I supposed to do with a bunch of flipping cry babies???


I guess she told him Skittles would help. Lol.


I loved Boot camp.


Graduation from boot camp was one of the proudest days of my life.

She also shared a second somewhat related story….

When we ran our laps around the grinder, I had to run in front of everyone because I was holding our company flag. The first day my cc yells up at me. “Miller!!!!! Are we walking? Are we skipping what the H are we doing here cause it sure ain’t running!!! It’s not even jogging!!! PICK UP THE PACE!!

I am 5 feet tall on a good day, so my jog was a lot of people’s walk. I was in great shape by the end of boot camp!!

My CC would ask me every day if we were going to be Turtles or bunnies out there during PT??


I would yell back, “Sir! Bunnies, Sir!”


I would like to thank SR Miller for allowing me to share these with everyone. She was at Orlando before I was, but I can almost hear the exchange with her CC. Her initial story reminded me there was a Female Company while I was in Orlando that had a pack of Skittles on their Company Flag. They were senior to me, so maybe March time frame. It makes me wonder now if there was some tie in somehow?