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06-05-2015, 10:21 PM | #1 |
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Fresh from bootcamp!
Hey guys! I graduated bootcamp May 29th and I've been at A-School for a week. If anyone has any questions they'd like answered about bootcamp I'd love to give some out since I'm recently out of bootcamp and have some fresh info! Congrats to anyone who has made the choice to join, it's one you won't regret!!
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06-05-2015, 10:37 PM | #2 |
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How was it with P-week and M.O.T.
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06-06-2015, 01:04 AM | #3 |
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What ship were you in?
Where you one of the divisions with the tablets?
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06-06-2015, 04:20 AM | #4 |
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How often did you guys run?
How many calls home did you get? Did anyone from your division win one of the special leadership awards? How much time after graduation did you have for liberty? |
06-06-2015, 07:32 AM | #5 |
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What was all on the DEP Advancement PQS test?
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06-06-2015, 11:54 AM | #6 |
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Of course P-Days sucked majorly, but luckily I was in the last division in my training group so I didn't have a week of P-Hold. I graduated in 7-2 day. I was in ship 12, the USS Triton. We weren't a tablet division but there is a girl here at A-School with me that was and she didn't like them. She said they were taken up at night and they didn't get to email their families like they thought they would. They also were broken a lot. I was on ship staff, so sadly I missed a TON of PT. I was so upset about it but we didn't run or even PT a lot. I was disappointed in the lack of PT we did. I benefitted more from ITE and getting dropped than I did with PT. We got three "scheduled" phone calls (initial arrival, half way through and the "I'm a sailor" phone call) but we had three extra ones that they just let us have for good behavior. One girl won an award but I can't remember what for? There were quite a few awards. I had about 6 hours with my family after graduation then they hung out with me at the airport before I left for San Antonio. I wished it was more time but hopefully they'll come out here to visit. ALL the tests were easy IF you STUDY. STUDY STUDY STUDY is the key. Study in line for chow, study when you're standing around, study when you're sitting around just STUDY and you'll be fine. We were a push division so everything was smashed together and we did it so quickly that we didn't have a lot of down time. So studying was kind of difficult but if my division could do it anyone can! Anymore questions?
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06-06-2015, 04:14 PM | #7 |
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06-07-2015, 10:26 AM | #8 |
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Is the female hair program still going on?
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06-07-2015, 10:33 AM | #9 |
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Are they still doing the whole, "Where your NWUs with sneakers" still? A few divisions behind me when I was there had to do it
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06-07-2015, 12:53 PM | #10 |
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I'm just wondering how much yelling there is in boot camp. The welcome to boot camp videos and what not and there's no yelling, and I assume there has to be some.
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06-08-2015, 11:44 AM | #11 |
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YEP. 2 training groups behind me is a "trial group" where they wear tennis shoes one week, boots next and they just rotate it. Supposedly helps with shin splints? I don't know it's BS. Lol but of course people with medical problems wear tennis shoes but my division did not wear tennis shoes with our NWUs!
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06-08-2015, 11:46 AM | #12 |
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Female hair program is still going! I could keep my hair long but a lot of females still opt to get their haircut anyways. Some had problems keeping it in regs so I suggest practicing if you want to have long hair in bootcamp.
Disclaimer, though. With long hair, washing your hair everyday is pretty much impossible. I literally only had time to wash/condition my hair every few days. Sometimes I would only be able to do it on a Sunday. gross, I know but seriously. Never had time. |
06-08-2015, 11:47 AM | #13 | |
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YEP! Tons stand up. Some never come back. DO NOT stand up. They will guilt you into it, they will tell you they know stuff on you and you're so tired you'll believe it. They honestly had me believing they knew stuff about me and I didn't even do anything! You're just so tired by that point they start messing with your emotions and so a lot of people think it's better if they stand up but no. No it's not. |
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06-07-2015, 08:48 PM | #14 |
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How many recruits were dropped from your Division? What are some of the reasons they may be dropped?
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06-08-2015, 11:43 AM | #15 | |
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My division dropped 8. Most were medical or PFA/Swimbut one was she popped on a drug test and another lied about depression to be sent home. My brother div ASMO'd 20, though. Their RDCs would find any reason to ASMO people out. Especially the people that were on the "ice cream social" list. |
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06-10-2015, 09:53 PM | #16 |
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0, I got the feeling that everyone was forced to graduate. Don't worry about this stuff, you won't get dropped unless you do something stupid like stand up during the moment of truth.
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06-11-2015, 05:23 AM | #17 |
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Wow your RDCs were forgiving. We ASMOed/Sepped around 20+
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06-11-2015, 03:06 PM | #18 |
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Tons in brother div got ASMO'd. They were ASMO'ing left and right. Our RDCs found WAY too much joy in ASMO days.
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06-12-2015, 05:38 PM | #19 |
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06-11-2015, 05:02 PM | #20 |
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06-11-2015, 06:58 PM | #21 |
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You can get ASMO'd for stupid reasons if the RDCs don't see potential in you. We ASMO'd a guy back 2 weeks because he hid from a collar-device beat down lol
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06-15-2015, 07:46 PM | #22 |
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Question I know they issue New Balance shoes in boot, but what model/color combo?
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06-16-2015, 05:19 AM | #23 |
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The cheapest ones possible lol
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06-16-2015, 11:14 AM | #24 | |
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06-16-2015, 03:19 PM | #25 |
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We had guys that had their tennis shoes falling apart during PT in basic lol I somehow managed to lose a chunk of mine from the bottom.
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06-16-2015, 04:53 PM | #27 | |
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I still have mine from boot and they are New Balance 880 v4 (White, blue, and orange) running shoes,would cost $90 - $100 if you were to buy them in a store. |
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06-16-2015, 05:27 PM | #28 |
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My New Balance shoes were falling apart by the time I made it to A-School. I had to have my mom send mine to me so if have good shoes to PT in at A-School lol
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09-22-2015, 12:34 PM | #29 |
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What do they do on the medical and dental screening? Also,how deep is the pool?
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