Comments by "" (@golfery5119) on "What Army Recruits Go Through At Boot Camp" video.

  1. don't blame you. the military and especially the army and marines are supposed to suck.
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  2. wow. how long has your middle brother been in so far (how much left does he have till 20 years)?
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  3.  @SergioBecerraII  I was in fort Campbell Kentucky myself from april 2018 to June 2022, so I would have gotten there as he was leaving.
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  4. Yeah, youre joining the air force instead of the army. youd have a shorter basic training which means less crap from drill instructors, youd not have to deal with the craziness of trying to keep your locker clean while having all that infantry gear stuffed up in it, you wouldnt have to worry about breaking your body from ruck marches, and during beast week, youd actually get to wash your butt with a shower.
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  5. Brendan Street I saw a guy in my platoon in basic who was so happy he got M & M's in an MRE that when some of them spilled onto the nasty ground, he picked them up and ate them.
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  6. when i went on holiday block leave in the month of december we had to wear our uniforms to go home.
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  7. you have bad things happening in your life full of abuse and despair?
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  8. because youre that much of a masochist, huh
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  9. Marines sure base their whole identity on three months of basic training....
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  10. @HOCKEYRUNNER You said " I dont wanna join the air force please give me answers" * length of time in the barracks if you are enlisted and not married (only applies to enlsited since officers don't stay in barracks at all) (If you enlist and you stay unmarried, you have to be in the barracks in any branch of the military. But in the Air Force and Navy, you are guaranteed to be able to move out of the barracks (referred to as "dorms" in the AF) by the time you reach the rank of E4. In most (not all but most) cases in the Army (and Marines), as long as you stay unmarried you aren't guaranteed to be able to move out of the barracks until you reach the rank of E6, which can take several more years to reach. Now wouldn't you want to be able to stay in the barracks for several more years? Why would anybody want to be able to leave the barracks so early? The barracks are about discipline since you not only have to keep your room clean, but completely spotless. You also have a lot of rules to follow in the barracks, some of them get stricter as time goes by (there used to be a time years ago when it was not against policy to smoke in barrack, even if you were sharing a room with multiple other people, but now you can get into very serious trouble for smoking in a barracks room by yourself with the window open). Why would you want to deprive yourself of this discipline? You should join the Army. ________________________________ How PT is done Everybody in the military has to do PT. It's the military. But Army might be better because our PT program since around 2010 is called "PRT" (this is dependent on what type of MOS you have and what type of unit you are in. I've met soldiers who were in a medical MOS for example who actually would just go to the gym for PT) and in "PRT" we do the exact same exercises in the exact same order all the time in a drill and ceremony fashion . This is great because it allows sergeants leading PT to show that they are able to lead lower enlisted soldiers. It is also great because by doing the exact same exercises in the exact same order, it instills more discipline into soldiers. This is the military and this is the Army. You can not exercise how YOU want to, buddy (unless you are a senior sergeant or officer. Hell I've seen E6's and E5's weasel their way out of having to do morning PT). This is in stark contrast to the Navy or Air Force, where those folks actually do different things for PT. It lacks discipline and encourages free thinking. Hell, I've heard of Navy and Air Force people actually playing sports like basketball or volleyball for PT on Fridays. Where is the military discipline in that? Also for PT, we (again depending on your MOS and unit) do PT every weekday morning. Navy and Air Force units (depending on the unit though and job) might actually only have PT for 2 or 3 days a week instead of every weekday . Some places in the Navy and Air Force will even allow people to actually do PT on their own (which does happen in the Army too but much less so and only, again, depending on job and unit), which means that you might be able to just go to the gym and follow your own fitness and even bodybuilding programs that would be very difficult for most people in the Army to do (the E6 promotable I mentioned in another comment, was a "weatherman" and he told me he hadn't done organized PT in eight years and had been doing PT on his own for all that time. As long as he passed his PT tests, that was all anybody cared about). That might be a bad thing because without more regimented things like doing PT everyday and doing a certain type of PT ("PRT") everyday, that might lead to less discipline. Doing "PRT" everyday might lead to a lot of boredom, but it still keeps the discipline by following a strict regiment. You should join the Army. ____________________ The PT tests: The Army and Marines have toughest PT tests in the military (makes sense since the Army and Marines are largely about ground combat). But the Army is debuting a new arguable tougher PT test that is based on crossfit. Why would you not want to join the Army and miss out on doing something inspired by crossfit? You should join the Army.
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  11. @HOCKEYRUNNER You should join the army instead of the air force. Work harder (for no exta pay no extra benefits and no reason), not smarter. Take it from myself and other soldiers. Don't join the Air Force since the Air Force is actually going to treat you like an adult as well as better prepare you to take care of yourself and a family. Join the Army instead and get treated like a little kid with no skills for the future other than being homeless and leeching off of welfare for disability payments. Work harder, not smarter.
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  12. Civilians aren't going to understand all that.
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  13. from the east to the west 👍
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  14. Just take it as another screw up, since they're calling army basic "boot camp" and they called duffel bags "ruck sacks" at 7:10
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  15.  @SergioBecerraII  cool thanks for sharing. I wonder if he has a really cool mos that he went to Japan since I don't hear much about army going to Japan (mostly the other branches, the navy and air force)
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  16. so that means that if you could, you would go through this "softness'' now?
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  17. Try again with air force before just jumping over to army
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  18. ​ @mroblige1018 chair force sounds pretty good compared to army. Especially no formations, PT on you own, no field, get to move out the barracks at e4/e3 instead of e6/e5, etc
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  19. you can go on pass with the coronovirus hysteria?
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  20. Ebrithil1 I can't speak for other branches, but in the Army, you are okay to join even if you are overweight as long as you can pass the "tape test" which favors a larger neck measurement in proportion to a smaller waist measurement.
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  21. guaranteed job at least
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  22. a bit of both. I've spoken to one of my drill sergeants long after basic/ait and he was pretty chill even though he was terror when he was on the trail
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  23. That's how god awful terrible the Marines is, because the Army is pretty much the worst branch of the military after the Marines. The Marines are so terrible that to you people the Army looks like the Air Force.
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  24. You must not be in the Army. We say "Hoah" not "Hoorah" like the Navy/Marines.
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  25. why not?
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  26. Reception. You couldn't pay me to go through reception again. I remember seeing guys pass out while standing. I'm sure I did it too.
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  27. we stayed up straight for 72 hours when I first got to reception
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  28. In BASIC TRAINING/AIT??? LMAO
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  29. Levi Stephens How is the Army "to easy" on people? Army basic training is the most physically difficult after the Marines. In AIT, Army soldiers have even more restrictions placed on them than people of other branches. Unmarried enlisted enlisted soldiers in the barracks have to stay in the barracks for much longer (quite a few more years longer) than unmarried enlisted people in the Air Force and probably also the Navy do. A whole lot of other physical (hell I've had Marines tell me they didn't do as hard ruck marching as Army) and emotional things the Army puts most of its people through that is worse than most people of other branches have to do. So how is the Army "to easy on people?"
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  30. just because
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  31. yes. its basic training so its not supposed to make sense
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  32. the air force needs smart people, so thats why the air force treats their people less like shit. not to say the army doesn't need smart people, but in the army, you are more like just a body. so thats why you get treated worse. I saw an air force basic training video where one recruit said he never had to stand still for 30 minutes before. In army reception at 120th fort jackson (reception is before actual basic), we were forced to stand still, in the cold, for literally several hours at a time (no exaggeration).
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  33. of course going through in the winter
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  34. women have served in the military, in all branches including the most physical in the Marines and the Army, for generations now. You're well over a century late with your sexism.
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  35. Edwin Montoya "Amy’s a joke" Who's Amy? The girl you wanted to hook up with but a soldier got her instead?
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  36. 6:51
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  37. yeah but it is a guaranteed job with some educational and medical benefits
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  38.  @gito5812  Chill life compared to infantry where people are treated like they're still in basic training. The military (even the Air Force) and the Army (closest thing to the Marines) is still pretty rough unless you get a decent MOS and are at a decent unit.
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  39. yes, everyone who is in any branch military basic training has to go through gas chamber
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