Things to know before bootcamp

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Originally Posted by kalenbobalen

I've been getting little bits of advice from recent bootcamp grads on stuff to learn or brush up on before shipping out. I'd love to see if anyone has anything else to add!

• Be able to pass the PRT
• Ranks
• 11 general orders
• Sailor's creed
• Chain of command

I'd like to know some basic knots I can be working on, types of ships/aircraft I should definitely know, whatever can be learned now on the outside so I don't have to spend as much time on it at RTC.

You don't need the phonetic alphabet or recent US history for bootcamp. The CoC is going to change when you get to RTC ( it will include from your RDCs up to the President ). Ratings are irrelevant in boot. You'll need to be familiar with all our current ship/boat types, aircraft and you'll only really learn two knots.

tl;dr - the stuff left in the quote is what will help you/you should know.