Privacy at Basic?

NewAdventures · 05-02-2014, 06:55 PM

Ive heard that at basic girls have to shower right next to each other in only three minutes? Is that true?? They also said that there are no stalls in the girls bathrooms! This has really been freaking me out, I like my privacy in the "head"!!! haha

Haasino · 05-02-2014, 08:05 PM

The bathrooms are designed the same way for both male and female divisions... one push might have a male division in a compartment, and the next push might be female. The showers are open-bay, two circular towers with ~6-8 shower heads on each one... a division of 90 recruits will have 45min to "hygiene". This includes everyone showered, dressed, and the compartment and bathroom clean and dry. How that's accomplished is somewhat up to the recruit leadership, but generally it breaks down to about 5min max in the bathroom... that's undressing, showering, drying, and redressing... then you help clean the compartment while the other groups rotate through. In my division, this usually meant one person under the water, while another stood behind and scrubbed themselves... then rotate.

There are stalls in the bathrooms... there will also be empty space occupied by urinals... as I said, it's a unisex compartment. The stalls have walls on each side, and a curtain in place of a door. While you're not prohibited from using the curtain for a bit of privacy, they do have to be cleaned after each use... in my division, we were instructed not to use them and leave them rolled up and hung to the side. It'll be weird and uncomfortable at first, but you will get used to it. I read ahead in my study guide so I could skip the classroom lessons and use the locking stall in the bathroom upstairs... but after a week or so, you just get comfortable enough that you stop caring.

Auridan · 05-03-2014, 03:37 PM

Your privacy at boot extends no further than the insides of your eyelids. I hope you're exaggerating when you say you're "freaking out", because showering with a lot of company isn't something you're going to be able to avoid. But as Haasino says, you're also not going to be overburdened with the time required to give a damn, and neither will anyone else.

Haasino · 05-03-2014, 07:43 PM

My compartment had a faucet that didn't produce hot water... being used to swimming off Northern California beaches, I took the polar bear shower and got the entire thing to myself...

Mparker181 · 05-04-2014, 08:20 AM

My division got so comfortable that we started singing cadences at one point and talking to eachother about almost everything whole hygiening.

bsilk89 · 05-05-2014, 10:33 PM

Haasino's post hit it right on the head.

05-02-2014, 06:55 PM	#1
NewAdventures Newbie Join Date: May 2014 Location: Alabama Posts: 18 Rep Power: 7	Privacy at Basic? Ive heard that at basic girls have to shower right next to each other in only three minutes? Is that true?? They also said that there are no stalls in the girls bathrooms! This has really been freaking me out, I like my privacy in the "head"!!! haha

05-02-2014, 08:05 PM	#2
Haasino Active Duty Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 1,439 Rep Power: 286	The bathrooms are designed the same way for both male and female divisions... one push might have a male division in a compartment, and the next push might be female. The showers are open-bay, two circular towers with ~6-8 shower heads on each one... a division of 90 recruits will have 45min to "hygiene". This includes everyone showered, dressed, and the compartment and bathroom clean and dry. How that's accomplished is somewhat up to the recruit leadership, but generally it breaks down to about 5min max in the bathroom... that's undressing, showering, drying, and redressing... then you help clean the compartment while the other groups rotate through. In my division, this usually meant one person under the water, while another stood behind and scrubbed themselves... then rotate. There are stalls in the bathrooms... there will also be empty space occupied by urinals... as I said, it's a unisex compartment. The stalls have walls on each side, and a curtain in place of a door. While you're not prohibited from using the curtain for a bit of privacy, they do have to be cleaned after each use... in my division, we were instructed not to use them and leave them rolled up and hung to the side. It'll be weird and uncomfortable at first, but you will get used to it. I read ahead in my study guide so I could skip the classroom lessons and use the locking stall in the bathroom upstairs... but after a week or so, you just get comfortable enough that you stop caring. __________________ "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

05-03-2014, 03:37 PM	#3
Auridan Active Duty Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Sea level Posts: 713 Rep Power: 156	Your privacy at boot extends no further than the insides of your eyelids. I hope you're exaggerating when you say you're "freaking out", because showering with a lot of company isn't something you're going to be able to avoid. But as Haasino says, you're also not going to be overburdened with the time required to give a damn, and neither will anyone else. __________________ If you're not happy with it, fix it, because ain't nobody gonna fix it for you.

05-03-2014, 07:43 PM	#4
Haasino Active Duty Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 1,439 Rep Power: 286	My compartment had a faucet that didn't produce hot water... being used to swimming off Northern California beaches, I took the polar bear shower and got the entire thing to myself... __________________ "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

05-04-2014, 08:20 AM	#5
Mparker181 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Hampton Roads, VA Posts: 145 Rep Power: 20	My division got so comfortable that we started singing cadences at one point and talking to eachother about almost everything whole hygiening.

05-05-2014, 10:33 PM	#6
bsilk89 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Kentucky Posts: 104 Rep Power: 17	Haasino's post hit it right on the head.