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Going away present for basic training

insyder said:
I heard a vicious rumor that they are letting trainees have cell phones. Can anyone confirm/deny this?
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so they give u a packing list of items u r allowed to have, i swear I was the only person who followed it. EVERYONE had a phone. I Had to write my mom and have her ship me mine. Our platoon would get one hour with our phones on some Sundays after a certain phase. Other platoons got theirs all day every sunday. Ive heard from other soldiers that they were allowed to keep their phones the whole time. Either way, take ur phone with you. It will either go into storage untl graduation or you will get it back. U want it for your AI anyways, so just take it.
 
Might be more useful to give her some survival tips for boot camp rather than material things. Like has been said already, they take all of your unnecessary shit and pack it away anyway and with locker inspections, anything unnecessary will just cause her problems.

For example:
- She should be running NOW. Better to go to boot camp in relatively good shape.
- Keep a low profile when she's there. The more attention you draw to yourself the more the MTIs will make her life hell.
- Don't let anyone borrow money.
- Learn to eat fast
- The cakest detail is "Chapel Guide." Tell her to volunteer for it. It will be Christmas and church is the best "get away" for trainees on a Sunday, and hanging out at the dorm when you could be out is just asking for trouble or getting tagged for a detail.
- If her female flight has direct contact with a brother flight, don't have sex with the male trainees. Bad news all the way around.
 
A list of things she can take to boot camp? Man, the military is now officially pussyfied! Cell phones, baby wipes, phone cards, real socks, custom boots....just kill me now! Maybe I would expect this out of the airfarce( one unit in Iraq actually brought their own commercial espresso machine) but the others???????WTF!!!!!
 
DrSwade said:
A list of things she can take to boot camp? Man, the military is now officially pussyfied! Cell phones, baby wipes, phone cards, real socks, custom boots....just kill me now! Maybe I would expect this out of the airfarce( one unit in Iraq actually brought their own commercial espresso machine) but the others???????WTF!!!!!
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Times change. Not every relic from the 1950s is the proper way to do things. :twofinger
 
DrSwade said:
A list of things she can take to boot camp? Man, the military is now officially pussyfied! Cell phones, baby wipes, phone cards, real socks, custom boots....just kill me now! Maybe I would expect this out of the airfarce( one unit in Iraq actually brought their own commercial espresso machine) but the others???????WTF!!!!!
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:laughing

I hear when you're asked to recite your General Orders, you can now, phone a friend. :rofl
 
insyder said:
Might be more useful to give her some survival tips for boot camp rather than material things. Like has been said already, they take all of your unnecessary shit and pack it away anyway and with locker inspections, anything unnecessary will just cause her problems.

For example:
- She should be running NOW. Better to go to boot camp in relatively good shape.
- Keep a low profile when she's there. The more attention you draw to yourself the more the MTIs will make her life hell.
- Don't let anyone borrow money.
- Learn to eat fast
- The cakest detail is "Chapel Guide." Tell her to volunteer for it. It will be Christmas and church is the best "get away" for trainees on a Sunday, and hanging out at the dorm when you could be out is just asking for trouble or getting tagged for a detail.
- If her female flight has direct contact with a brother flight, don't have sex with the male trainees. Bad news all the way around.
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Sound advice. I was in ROTC for long enough to know more than just the basics, but since I've never gone through basic I'm not sure how much she'll listen to my advice.
I've been running with her for the past month or so, but she definitely needs to do it more. I'm not sure how hard the running is for females, but I'm faster than her and I know I'd be having my ass handed to me according to what the guys have to do.
I forgot about the eating fast one. I'll mention it.


Dr. Evil said:
What my dad taught me:

1. Never be first.

2. Never be last.

3. Never volunteer.

:rofl
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Agreed. That goes for any training camp.
 
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Originally Posted by DrSwade
Oh, you're right. We won the wars before then.

What are you talking about?

My guess is that since WW2 we are 1-1-1 and two that are still going on.

We won desert storm and took down grenada and panama but those don't really count.
We tied in Korea and got our asses handed to us in Vietnam, though we won all the major battles, I could be wrong.
 
TheRiddler said:
Sound advice. I was in ROTC for long enough to know more than just the basics, but since I've never gone through basic I'm not sure how much she'll listen to my advice.
I've been running with her for the past month or so, but she definitely needs to do it more. I'm not sure how hard the running is for females, but I'm faster than her and I know I'd be having my ass handed to me according to what the guys have to do.
I forgot about the eating fast one. I'll mention it.




Agreed. That goes for any training camp.
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If she can run at least 3/4 mile at a half decent pace, she will have no problem. The conditioning they have you do to get you to run 1-1/2 miles will do the rest. When I went to Basic, there were people who collapsed running one lap around the 1/4 mile track, which was all you had to run the first week. :wtf

Every week, they add another 1/4 mile to the run, until you get to 1-1/2 miles, in which females get about 14 minutes to run, and guys about 12 minutes.

Update: I just looked this up, and it looks like things are a little different now, including making basic 8 weeks, rather then 6 weeks.:
Minimum fitness when you arrive at Basic


The Standard you have to meet when you graduate:
 

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ninjaspdxrl said:
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Originally Posted by DrSwade
Oh, you're right. We won the wars before then.

What are you talking about?

My guess is that since WW2 we are 1-1-1 and two that are still going on.

We won desert storm and took down grenada and panama but those don't really count.
We tied in Korea and got our asses handed to us in Vietnam, though we won all the major battles, I could be wrong.
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I know exactly what he meant, it was just a bonehead thing to say. You can't compare the total war of WWI and WWII to the limited conflicts fought in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the smaller engagements. Besides, he was implying that "we" won both world wars, which is BS, because Germans won WWI and WWII...almost. :laughing :p
 
Sane_Man said:
If she can run at least 3/4 mile at a half decent pace, she will have no problem. The conditioning they have you do to get you to run 1-1/2 miles will do the rest. When I went to Basic, there were people who collapsed running one lap around the 1/4 mile track, which was all you had to run the first week. :wtf

Every week, they add another 1/4 mile to the run, until you get to 1-1/2 miles, in which females get about 14 minutes to run, and guys about 12 minutes.

Update: I just looked this up, and it looks like things are a little different now, including making basic 8 weeks, rather then 6 weeks.:
Minimum fitness when you arrive at Basic
The Standard you have to meet when you graduate:
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Oh, wow, then that's a joke and she has nothing to worry about. We've been doing 2-3 mile runs.
 
TheRiddler said:
Oh, wow, then that's a joke and she has nothing to worry about. We've been doing 2-3 mile runs.
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Yeah, as long as you aren't a totally out of shape slob, anyone in reasonable shape can make it through basic training. The rest is just head games just to dick with you. As long as you aren't going to break down and cry for your mother, it isn't a big deal to make it through the training.

They can't lay a hand on you or curse at you in Basic, so for me it was hard not to laugh when the T.I.'s tried to scare you. :laughing
 
TheRiddler said:
Oh, wow, then that's a joke and she has nothing to worry about. We've been doing 2-3 mile runs.
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You're a good friend for helping her get ready, cheers! She'll do well.

It's not easy though, 8.5 weeks of PT and getting yelled at will work her nerves more than once.
 
boot camp is a breeze

biggest thing she can do is not be noticed!

keep her head down and her integrity high and she'll breeze through it, in my 8 years I was appalled at how many people made it through :mad
 
Stamps, envelopes and a pad of paper would be something that she can use in basic.
As far as Navy basic goes, I went in the winter so they gave us clothes and basically everything we would need and everything else got sent back home.
 
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