some say hes still chewing that piece of food

"What do you want??" "WHAT do you WANT??" Starts talking "SHAT UP!"

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="99">1:39</a> "What do you want?" "SHUT UP!"

From someone from an abusive childhood, I'd say you learn to mentally zone out and follow orders really quick when someone is screaming in your face. I'm looking into joining the airforce and I feel I'll be mentally prepared to get screamed at constantly all day. Update as of October 2021: For anyone who's interested, I'm actually going through the enlistment process with the national guard instead. I take my ASVAB next Tuesday!

Reminds me of one time in Army Basic we weren't allowed to have cheese burgers (or anything from short order line). The DFAC ran out of what ever the entree so that's all that we could order. So I got one, got to my seat took one bite and a Drill Sergeant pop up and started screaming about how I wasn't supposed to have a burger. I kinda tried to explain why I had one, but he didn't want to hear it so I had to throw it away and then chased me outside for a good 'ol smoking session, hit the sack that night listening to my groaning stomach. The next morning our senior Drill Sergeant was at PT and he came to me and asked, how it was going, when I last talked to my family and did I enjoy last nights chow. So I told him I didn't have chow. He wanted me to explain why, so I told him what happened. He then went over to my Drill Sergeants and gave them a talking to about the "importance" of eating especially for my scrawny ass. After that, I wasn't fucked with in the DFAC.

0 week, where you suddenly forget how to human 😂😂🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="241">4:01</a> that dude was ready to get yelled at then he realized it was the cameraman lol

I remember chow being the most entertaining part of my day. Especially with new trainees coming in. I remember a male trainee kept eyeballing a female and they went back n forth with the looks. And EVERYONE caught it. One sergeant was like “I don’t wanna see you making googly eyes at her again and instead eat your damn food!” And a female instructor said to the female “You and I are gonna have a serious talk after this. If I catch you looking at him again or he starts looking at you, both of y’all are getting paper work!” Never got to see who it was because I didn’t wanna get my ass chewed out too. Good times.

"Why are we moving in slow frickin motion" Me: Ma'am I'm trying to decide if I can get a salad or fried chicken

I love the depressing music

This music makes me feel like I'm in the Sanctuary in Borderlands 2

I took me 20 years to stop eating every meal in 5 minutes or less...

The food tastes better when your feet are together

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="129">2:09</a> That zoom in was like an Office scene

I went to AF basic training 4 Nov ‘75. Arrival night, we spent most of that night under the canopy getting yelled at “Pick ‘em up! Put them down!” I brought nothing but my enlistment form so I kept picking it up and putting it down while others brought heavy luggage. Then about <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="270">4:30</a> am, we had to go shower and get in a bunk. Once in the bunk, Sgt Carranza came in yelling that we did not clean the showers so everybody ran in and cleaned them. Then back in the bunks by <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="330">5:30</a> am. Then at 6 am he rolled a garbage can down the center isle, and for those who did not get out of the bunk immediately, he helped them by flipping the bunk upside down. The center isle belonged to the TI’s. If you stepped a foot in it, there would be hell to pay. The thing I remember most about basic was the sleep deprivation. It was daily and constant. As for the chow hall, we were greatly harassed before eating but I think more so today. I thought our basic trading was pretty physical but I’m sure it was not Army physical. The mind games were unbelievable. Before the 1.5 mile run, we had to run in place for a half hour to “warm up” until our legs were like butter. Then we ran. And no belt buckle could touch the ground during push ups, but when the count got to 19 of our required 20, the TI would always hit the keys in his pocket and say, “Start over till you get it right. I heard a buckle hit the pavement!” After finishing basic training, I was in incredible shape. I could run like the wind and did 100 push ups every morning for about 30 years. I feared no one. At the age of 67, I still do 40 push ups each day on my knuckles as a reminder of basic training. The Air Force changed my life. I was a poor kid from an alcoholic home but the AF gave me direction and self confidence in life. I began as a 906 Med Admin lowly Airman Basic serving at Yokota Air Base Japan (loved it there), got out of the military to pursue a degree in Accounting and then an MBA following my four years in the Air Force. I retired from healthcare in 2019, after 28 years as a hospital CEO. When I meet a fellow veteran today, I feel an immediate connection. There was a day when we would give our life for a fellow service member. My prayer is that we never lose that.

when the kid messed up his reporting statement I started busting up lol.. I was once that guy .. toughest thing about basic training is holding yourself back from laughing half the time

There’s a lot of comments on this being harsh. You have to realize it’s the air force...they had a calculus test afterwards.

I went through AF bmt many years ago. And yes, it was a peice of cake compared to the Army or Marines. I was lucky, never once did any of them get in my face and yell. I was never singled out. I just did what I was told, answered any questions they may have for me, and put forth 100% effort. Others were not so lucky and seemed to always attract the DI attention. Spent 6 years in the AF then got an early out to finish my college. It was a good 6 years and I’m proud to be able to say I served my country.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="587">9:47</a> Lmao he stood still and swung his arms then proceeded to walk and stop swinging them

I’m so happy I managed to get through BMT without being a chow runner. I always pitied those poor, brave bastards.

Drill Instructors are probably hecka chill ouside of theirs job because of all the stress they get to release in bmt.

legend has it that the guy is still chewing his food to this day

Was in the AF, and even on my first day there's no way in hell we were eating that damn slow. Holy crap. :)

Watched this, brought back memories. I was in the USMC 71-73. Enlisted in the USAF 74, and bypassed BMT. After an overseas tour, upon return I requested MTI School, and got it in '77. Made Master MTI in '79. Looking at these videos, I truly believe it was a lot tougher back then. We were NEVER allowed to abuse the trainees, and had to go through a 600 question psych exam every 6 months to prove were weren't "evil." Nevertheless, I do remember a lot more mental mind games played by the TI's. I drew upon my USMC time and added it to the USAF's curriculum, and turned out outstanding flights. Chow runners, road guards, dorm guards, etc...none escaped our wrath if infractions were noted, but I must say we were a little more devious in approach. After my tour as an MTI, I was selected for recruiting duty, go figure. One day I had a former enlisted airman come in, to inquire about joining the ANG or AF Reserves. He saw my name plate on the desk, saw my MTI hat hanging on the back wall, realized I was his MTI years ago. He turned around and walked out. Guess I made an impression on him...

Air Force basic training was so easy, my dad yelled at me far worse than any mti could ever. Most of what they said was just funny

After I got out I couldn't go into a Denny's for years.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="587">9:47</a> Recruit.exe has Stopped Working 😂

Yo no lie though, the Air Force will nurture you through BMT. "Focus on the message, not the volume." The first two weeks are always the "most fun."

The black recruit looks like Finn from the force awakens

THis is Zero week, everyone gets yelled at during Zero week... the best thing about the Air Force is that after you complete BMT, no one ever yells at you again... for the most part... well unless you go Spec Ops

Man this brings back old memories. I’ll never forget that first meal. I nearly choked on my food.

Much respects for my Air Force Vets. This part is so stressful for the young men trying to be part of the military. It is hard to not take it personal when you are going through it, but the truth is that it is not personal, and they are just trying to make you an exceptional man. So my hat is off to those drill instructors as well for how hard they work to make our recruits worthy of honorable military service. Semper Fi!

Once you get out of basic you realize a SSgt is just a worker. NEVER in 4 years did I see one yelling or acting important. One tip for basic trainees: Never go to the dessert table.

It takes balls to be in the military! Thanks for your service fellow military! I truly respect you🙏

wow this brings back a lot of memories especially zero week, when i asked myself, wtf did i get into LOL but few years later here i am still serving and loving it

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="459">7:39</a> funniest part “EAT”

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="575">9:35</a> Female DI “Let me just get in front of him for no reason”

Lol why is the music so sad

This sad music is hilarious 😂

Lol I remember missing a meal with my flight for some reason during week 8 and I walked in and had to eat with a zero week flight. Was kinda fun when they asked what week I was in and then they just left me alone to eat

If you’re watching this now in 2018 before you go to BMT, don’t be nervous. It’s literally NOTHING like this anymore.. except chow runner; wouldn’t suggest that.

Where's my Snake Pit survivors? 😆

I went through in 84 and the chow halls were a lot bigger then. I'm sure there was more than one, but you could probably sit over 300 I would guess. And in the middle was the snake pit where all TI's ate their lunch.

Man bullying in highschool is getting serious. Hopefully they realize the error of their ways when they're older 🤦

whenever i need a good laugh i always come back to this video. especially the part where that female mti purposely waited for the trainee to cross her path so she could force him to say excuse me

Brings back memories. I had a blast in AF Basic. I had been in Army ROTC in University, on the Ranger team all three years. I had to drop at the end of my Junior year after shattering my ankle. After a year of rehab and getting back in shape...I decided to go AD, but switched to USAF. So I was obviously made Dorm Chief, and actually got to run my dorm and the baby dorm across the hall for their first 2 weeks. Their TI got hurt on vacation and everyone had to fill in, so my TI asked if I would help out. I got a LOT of slack and freedoms, actually felt bad for most. I was 22 and married, so was allowed to call my wife every night. This was in 1998 and was the only troop with a cellphone. I ran my dorms the way I was trained by the Army. Organization and structure. At the end my TI said no one ever screwed with me in the chow hall, because they were a little scared of me LoL. He told me after the first week, he would turn on the microphones in the doorms every morning and have the other TIs listen to me scream and yell at everyone and get them going. We were his last BMT flight and he thought I could handle it. We became friends and still talk 25 years later. But the trust they put in me during Basic and even in Tech, really made me feel good to have chosen the Air Force over the Army and proud of my Service. Don't think I ever slowed down after that. Long career of right place right time. And some awesome deployments and TDYs. Three wars and a fucked up body later, I wouldn't change a thing.

I can still remember being terrified having to walk past the TI’s table during chow which was properly named “The Snake Pit”. USAF BMT ‘96

My daughter went through Air Force basic training in March of 2015 at age 27 and she said it is exactly like this and much more. I am pride to say that she made it through and is currently protecting our country, our freedom and our way of life.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a> Tryna sneak in that handshake lmao

Brings back memories. I went to basic in Dec. 1990. Served 4 years active and it was a honor and I never regret serving.

Yes, I remember when I was in AF BMT back in June,1983. We actually had time to consume our meal! I believe it was something like 7to 10 minutes max. We had brief time to socialize before filing back into formation and drill/marching off to our next assignment of the day. All and all BMT was a rewarding experience for me. I made it through 4 of 6 and a half weeks of BMT before some medical issues sent me home on a medical separation. Now,37years later I wish I could do it again. It would have been a great honor to serve my country.

I feel like I would be laughing the whole time they would knock me the fuck out

These guys have it easy. Back in my days at Lackland they constantly yelled and swore at you and sometimes knocked you around some whether you needed it or not. 33 years later and I still eat fast. LOL

I showed this video to my uncle in the air force, and he laughed and called it the army in disguise becsuse thw air force wasnt that harsh he said, thats why he joined

This honestly has to be one the calmest zero week first timers I've ever seen. I got REEMED whe n I went through and so did the people in the later weeks following me till I graduated. This shit ain't nothin like it actually is, you actually gettin YELLED AT by the MTI's

I feel like before the instructors go out and work, they're all in the faculty room like "okay, just make sure not to LOL too hard.. annnnddddd BREAK" *yelling ensues*

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="232">3:52</a> camera guy spooks Chinese guy

I took basic training in the Army in 1981 and this was seven months after I had taken basic training at West Point in July and August of 1980. I lasted one semester at West Point as a freshman and enlisted in the Army in January 1981. So when folks talk about how tough basic training is I just smile.

"Dont eyeball me, I dont owe you no money." "Look at Chief Peters, let's go." *insert Bruce Lee "what" meme here.*

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="514">8:34</a> "this aint damn McDonald's" I would've lowkey lost it my first night

Without the cameras, I assure you, they're not editing their curse words!

You guys deserve all the respect I could never go through this without opening my mouth.

I see things haven't changed much since I was at Lackland in 1985. Dining hall experience was a trip. It helped to know what to expect. Thank you to my recruiter Sgt Parra for painting a true picture of BMTS. Thanks to all our military members past and present.

Air Force, I am going to join you by next year! I look forward to it.

After coming from the Marines' BMT at Parris Island, this looks merely like some high school hazing activity on the new guys

I’ll never forget hearing my MTI screaming at someone’s for licking there hands in the dining facility😂😂

I went through basic before it became PC… I kept a journal of all the funny ass things my MTI said… he didn’t know until the week we graduated.. somebody snitched…. He made me read it all in front of the whole flight. Funniest 15 mins of my life… and the only time I saw an MTI laugh

Thank you to those who have served and are serving. ❤

Can't even eat in peace 😒.

The music is so dramatic but these are in all honesty the most gentile quiet drill instructors I've EVER seen! 😂😂😂😂😂

I went through AF BMT in February 1984, and I can remember thinking I made the biggest mistake. It took me a while to adjust because I would get mad at my MTI for yelling at me about anything. After serving 24 years and retiring as a Master Sergeant (E-7), finishing my college education, and getting my first home I made the right choice. Oops I forgot to mention the monthly retirement check!!

im still going to join the air force..but im scared to eat now

word of advice to anybody on they're way to bmt . do not volunteer to be a chow runner. save your self and just don't do it lmao.

trainee at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="600">10:00</a> just walking causally around like he's going to the kitchen to grab some chips.

This takes me back to my Zero Week. I'm an AF Veteran now, AF definitely got its ups and downs. Nowadays everyone is in the new dorm campus, with new DFAC and stuff. It is pretty damn nice, and the AF cared way too much about trainee's feelings.

that female tech sgt. sure looked like a sir to me at first too.

I'd tell those women, "Ai! Woman! This Kool-Aid glass ain't gunna fill itself!"

I graduated Army basic training last year. What I recall most about the first days and weeks of basic was thinking “What did I get myself into???” I went the National Guard route, so I still went to basic and AIT like everyone in the Army, I came back home and go to my unit 1 weekend a month. There were many days in training when I questioned whether or not I made the right decision or if it was all going to be worth it, but now that it’s over and I’m at my unit, I’m starting to believe that it was a good decision for me. Definitely not for everyone, though. Also, Army is waaay different than this. No such thing as a silent DFAC in basic (IYKYK).

I remember I missed quite a few meals in that same chow hall because I could never chew my food fast enough. You had to be finished by the time the table behind you sat down or else you won't eat. So if your row was slow you were sol.

I see a lot of commenters talking shit, well guess what they're still dedicated to serving the nation so that's all that matter tbh

I went thru basic in 2010, the same year this video was shot. Literally identical to my experience. Got out in 2015. It feels like a lifetime ago already. Life flies by.

It's so weird hearing them swear in this vid. That will NOT happen anymore, lol. Just left training myself, and an MTI actually asked a wingman and me not to report her for accidentally saying "shit" while chewing us out lmao.

Bruh air Force looks like a cake walk. They're calmly talking to and explaining everything to them

I just passed my 1 year mark since leaving for BMT. It’s comforting laying in my nice bed watching this 😂

if the female ssgt had a broom she could fly around the mess hall and really instill fear and esprit de corp. in all that experienced her un- sat attitude.

The lady MTI in the beginning is my flight chief now as a MSGT. Glad she doesn’t yell like this anymore lol

I wish these videos were around to learn and be familiar with what came to you around 1989. 9 out of 10 people told me the discipline and mental part of the training were harder even if they gave 3 times more physical training. That was the only thing they were not prepared for.

What was nerve wracking for me about the chow hall from 1994 is that it was fair game out in the open for every drill instructor in there to mess with you. Thankful the experience. 🇺🇸

I went in late 2013. Missed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the new year. Actually I was door guard at midnight when 2014 came around. Could only sit and imagine what my friends back home were doing. The first 2-3 weeks were terrifying for me but the further into basic I got the more I enjoyed it. It does get a lot better after the very beginning.

That shouting and having to do things over and over again reminds me at home. I realised my mom and dad gave me a military drill every day of my life when I was young, without me ever noticing it. I hated it, but now I love them for doing it that way.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="552">9:12</a> Prime example of a “major malfunction” 😭😂

My name is Cedric R. I was in this BMT class. It began 30 Dec 2002 and commenced 14 Feb 2003. I left the Air Force in 2012 regrettably. Absolutely great times and good memories; I wonder who’s still in.

Anyone who thinks this is incredibly soft, yes the Air Force is a bit softer in bmt but they are dialing it down for the cameras, both of my brothers served in the Air Force and they said it was much more intense than this video, maybe they just had good Drill Sergeants? Idk

This was my flight (yes, I am in the video, getting yelled at). To answer some questions I have seen: It was July of 2009, 331st TRS, we are still in our civilian clothes because it is breakfast of our very first day ("Zero week") after getting into our dorm very late the night before, I believe we went to get haircuts and uniforms either later this same day or possibly the next day. So we are all tired, confused, and of course some of us may have been questioning our life choices at that moment. The TIs were probably a *little* restrained due to the camera being there.I grew up as a Marine brat, and life with my dad was honestly more difficult than Air Force BMT for me. Heck, my experiences as an 11 or 12 year-old kid in the "Young Marines" for a few hours on Saturday mornings was tougher than these 8 weeks as a 24 year-old. I learned how to march, do facing movements, call commands to a formation, shine boots, etc... all skills that served me well here. The most important skills are paying attention to what you are supposed to do, doing what you are told, paying attention to detail, learning how to keep a straight face when either you or someone else are being comically yelled at, and staying awake when in class or formation. For those saying it was so long to eat because it is an 11 minute video... for one, this video has been edited from at least a couple different cameras, and isn't completely in order. Multiple things were happening simultaneously that are shown here sequentially. Secondly, by the time the last people in the 45-50 member flight are in line getting their food, the first table to sit is usually already done and out the door. Let me know if you have any questions.

Wow. This brings back memories.

I went through in 2003. I remember the day Warrior Week started the MTIs would generally let the recruits have a few more minutes to eat. One chow hall closed due to mx so they pushed everyone through the one. I literally sat down and grabbed my fork, took one bite of my food and was kicked out of my seat because everything was behind schedule. The MTI looked at me and I could tell he felt horrible but he was following guidance. They seem to generally have more time to eat in this video. I never once was able to finish a meal.

This is the closest to what it's like. You become so under pressure that you can't think. I became a zombie to what they said. But yet, I wish I could go back and retry but I can't. I have the highest of respect for the instructors. They train people every single day into quick critical thinking. Let me ask y'all a question; how do you think you would act and feel, when you can't think, to pick up a simple tray, or to even walk in formation?

Don't miss these days. The "Snake Pit" was the scariest part of the dining hall. (That is the table the TIs ate lunch)

This is freakin gentle compared to how it was for me when I was there. 323rd 2006. We had some psychotic training instructors.

When I graduated bmt I will never forget my dad telling me the story of when the chow runners from his bmt flight got picked and he said “man those poor bastards”