Graduated bootcamp

[Rusk]

Congrats man, can't wait to be in your position and moving on to NACCS.

[Direland]

Originally Posted by Rusk

Congrats man, can't wait to be in your position and moving on to NACCS.

It won't be long. Good luck!

[gman022601]

I leave for great lakes in 9 days. And after that ill be headed to lackland for MA A school as well. First off Congratulations! I have a couple questions if you get a chance to answer them. How many processing days did you have at basic? How many days did it take to class at A school?

I've heard a couple horror stories from recent grads about 2 1/2 weeks of processing days at basic, and A school I've heard a couple weeks to a month and one person said 5 months.

[nick93]

Originally Posted by gman022601

I leave for great lakes in 9 days. And after that ill be headed to lackland for MA A school as well. First off Congratulations! I have a couple questions if you get a chance to answer them. How many processing days did you have at basic? How many days did it take to class at A school?

I've heard a couple horror stories from recent grads about 2 1/2 weeks of processing days at basic, and A school I've heard a couple weeks to a month and one person said 5 months.

I haven't been to basic yet but I've never heard of 5 months for processing. You'll be put on P hold if there's not enough people there to fill your division but once your division is filled you'll start pdays and it shouldn't be more than like 5 days or something like that. But I've heard of ppl being on p hold from a day to like a week. All depends on when people arrive I guess.

[FutureHM]

Originally Posted by nick93

I haven't been to basic yet but I've never heard of 5 months for processing. You'll be put on P hold if there's not enough people there to fill your division but once your division is filled you'll start pdays and it shouldn't be more than like 5 days or something like that. But I've heard of ppl being on p hold from a day to like a week. All depends on when people arrive I guess.

He was talking about classing up for A-School, not P-days. P-days will never be 5 months at basic... that's just common sense...

I too have a couple of questions:
1. When did you take your first PT test? Did you pass, and if so was it difficult since P-days could've jacked you up a bit.
2. How much sleep did you get a night?
3. Was there anything you were nervous about before going in and when it finally happened at basic, it actually wasn't as bad as you thought?

Thank you

[Direland]

Originally Posted by FutureHM

He was talking about classing up for A-School, not P-days. P-days will never be 5 months at basic... that's just common sense...

I too have a couple of questions:
1. When did you take your first PT test? Did you pass, and if so was it difficult since P-days could've jacked you up a bit.
2. How much sleep did you get a night?
3. Was there anything you were nervous about before going in and when it finally happened at basic, it actually wasn't as bad as you thought?

Thank you

1) It was the first week of actual training. You may be out on hold and do no physical activity. So make sure your run time is pretty good before hand. I sat around in P-Hold for almost two weeks, and still ran 11:30 on the first.
2) Sleep depends, on a lot of different things. For me I worked out after taps almost every night so I got less than everyone else. For the most part you will be in bed by 10 every night. And you wake up 8 hours after your taps time for the most part. Your RDC may have you do things after taps. So that could cut into sleep time.
3) Everyone is nervous, some people question why they are there. Especially with all the down time during P-Days. But for the most part, I expected yelling and some PT. It's not bad at all. I wouldn't worry too much.

[rac]

Originally Posted by Direland

1) It was the first week of actual training. You may be out on hold and do no physical activity. So make sure your run time is pretty good before hand. I sat around in P-Hold for almost two weeks, and still ran 11:30 on the first.
2) Sleep depends, on a lot of different things. For me I worked out after taps almost every night so I got less than everyone else. For the most part you will be in bed by 10 every night. And you wake up 8 hours after your taps time for the most part. Your RDC may have you do things after taps. So that could cut into sleep time.
3) Everyone is nervous, some people question why they are there. Especially with all the down time during P-Days. But for the most part, I expected yelling and some PT. It's not bad at all. I wouldn't worry too much.

I was in p-hold for two weeks...we had everyone after two days and didn't add anyone else to our division, on the female side. So that "waiting for more" is BS cause we didn't add more.

I passed my initial PFA as well with 14:40 but I never passed a PFA at my DEP program so...I guess not working out for 2 weeks didn't hurt me.

In P-days you sleep a ton, from there it goes down hill.

I was nervous for shots, swim test, and PFA. None were as bad as I expected, yet the swim test still made me cry. I hate the diving board!

I am in A-school as AE right now. I won't class up for at LEAST 3 months, so yeah. Have fun if you're an AE, AT, or AD.

[Bennett]

Originally Posted by FutureHM

He was talking about classing up for A-School, not P-days. P-days will never be 5 months at basic... that's just common sense...

I too have a couple of questions:
1. When did you take your first PT test? Did you pass, and if so was it difficult since P-days could've jacked you up a bit.
2. How much sleep did you get a night?
3. Was there anything you were nervous about before going in and when it finally happened at basic, it actually wasn't as bad as you thought?

Thank you

Lol I was gonna say the same thing man. Obviously he was talking a school.

[nick93]

Originally Posted by Bennett

Lol I was gonna say the same thing man. Obviously he was talking a school.

Okay my bad. It was a mistake....

[gman022601]

Originally Posted by Bennett

Lol I was gonna say the same thing man. Obviously he was talking a school.

I was talking about A school, regardless I sincerely appreciate everyone's answers. I knew what you meant when you answered.
That was good information on the reason for prolonged P-Days, I hate not knowing, at least this way it's understandable.

5 days to ship

[Direland]

Originally Posted by gman022601

I leave for great lakes in 9 days. And after that ill be headed to lackland for MA A school as well. First off Congratulations! I have a couple questions if you get a chance to answer them. How many processing days did you have at basic? How many days did it take to class at A school?

I've heard a couple horror stories from recent grads about 2 1/2 weeks of processing days at basic, and A school I've heard a couple weeks to a month and one person said 5 months.

I spent a week and a half in P-hold at basic. We had to wait for other females, for our division to form up ( we were integrated, it was awful). Those will be the most boring weeks of your life. But you can build some good friendships during that time.

As for MA-School, it took me one week. I don't know of anyone who had waited 5 months or even one month. There could be cases, due to the government shut down issues. But things seem to be headed in the right direction now.