Yo I’m a freshmen right now watching these lamo

Yeah same😂

Matty Same

he's not a recruiter. he's a Lieutenant that wants KZfaq subscribers.

Pinstripe Jim Why do you post hate comments under all his videos? Is that what you do all day?

For me it was mostly“Company attention!” than “Platoon attention!”. Either that or “Low-crawl in the mud, you!”

@@Llamacorn87 I've heard "Company! Half right face! Front leaning rest position! Move!” often. Those were some of the best memories I had of basic where all four platoons, the whole company, got smoked by just two or even just one mad and annoyed drill sergeant.

Front, back, go! Lol...

But sarge.....

I remember the day I learned the half right face

Oh they got you. My son is at Meps today doing the medical, He scored 82 on asvab and they still wanted him to take 11x and offered none of the jobs that actually interested in, sorry he is certainly qualified for them we just do not have an opening they said. They wanted 11x, parachute rigger, m1 abram tank crewman

R I Got static did MEPS 3 weeks ago and we both 11x

AJ really?? I scored a 73, yesterday, and they had a long list of jobs I could pick any from. I went for 25C, so I can hopefully dip my toes into IT for when I get out. Your son may have been duped because recruiters have certain quotas to fill. If your son isn’t happy with it, I suggest finding another recruiter, they’d be all over him.

@@Fr3ezeMe yeah he had a long list but the jobs that are open were about 10 jobs that he could have scored a 40 on and got. He wanted 15w the drone pilot and the only thing close was the 15e the repair of the drone. We ended up taking him to the Navy and he just texted me from meps, he finished medical and swore in with aviation job that he wanted.

AJ thats good news! I just didn’t want your son to get a job he’d be stuck with that he didn’t like, it’d be hell.

I'm going to check out your channel

Donna-Donna thank you for the support! :) I just started so there’s only 2 videos up but stay tuned haha

I'm gonna check ur channel now

I don’t think I did a single sit-up during my time there. To be fair, we did the ACFT at Ft Jackson during 2020 “corona cycle”. Plus it probably varies based off the cadre members

Don't forget about squats, v ups, half jacks and what ever else they can think of

Still lots of them even after ACFT starts?

@@Llamacorn87 how many times did u guys do the ACFT at basic training ?

@@Llamacorn87 ACFT is no joke

And he's at fort Bragg!! He chose infantry! I did not like that, at all!

@@gingerpinion4195 Don't blame you. Getting into an MOS that has won't help him find a civilian career when he leaves, being forced to mow lawns, being stuck in the field without cleaning his backside for a month at a time, more likely he will develop an issue with alcohol, ptsd, physical and emotional problems, etc. yeah I'd be pissed if my kid chose infantry as well! but at least you can be proud of him that he joined the military?

Not really hard at all Americans needs to toughen up their military

@@militaryjunkie6207 Interesting thought. Toughening up the best military in the world. Very interesting.

@@driedbark he's right I think we have been slowly becoming weaker

@@isaacweinheimer2573 no he's not because we got special forces and they are some tough bastards u can't compare them to other mos in the army so what he said doesn't make sense i don't expect everyone in the military to be Dwayne johnson

How was it? Cuz I’m leaving soon and I’m nervous

Same ship date!

Niko B what’s your mos? Are you going to benning as well?

Good luck brother

Connor The Great What is a 19D? And good luck, I hope it goes well! I’m currently a freshman in HS and hope to join when I get older.

Capitcha Cavalry Scouts, don’t become one unless you like man on man contact lmaooo🤣

And of course if you do become an officer, when you get to your unit you'll likely be doing your own PT and what YOU want to do for PT. You won't have to do the stupid "PRT" drill and ceremony "prone row" nonsense that the lower enlisted soldiers would be forced to do.

@@golfery5119 that is 100% not true in the Army. If you had an officer that did not PT with their platoon/company/battery/troop/shop they were wrong.

@@richardmorales5145 It's been both. I have had officers that did PT with the group I have done it in. But probably just one time, when I was attached to a small detachment, did the officer do the boring "PRT" "prep drill" with us. That same officer on PT sessions afterwards would do whatever he wanted to do. Other times we have officers do runs with the group, but of course they're not going to do the "PRT" crap before and after. Plenty of times I've seen officers not do PT at all with the group, and other times, I would see them do PT on their own in the corner. I've actually seen some officers in the corner, while we were on the ground rolling around in "PRT", *and those officers were actually off in the corner jumping rope or even lifting weights* (which is really something we should be doing during PT sessions, since we do have to prepare for the new ACFT test) And even at times I've seen upper enlisted not do PT with us everyday, if they do PT at all when they get up in rank. I've seen more than one E6 show up to PT formation to make sure the lower enlisted were there, then after we salute the revelrie song, *actually turn around and leave* without actually doing the PT (higher ranks carry more responsibility but at the same time, that old saying about "rank has its privileges" is also true). But definitely officers. I can see how being a leader and doing PT with the (lower enlisted) soldiers can show good leadership (the one time I had an officer do "PRT" with us, he didn't lead the formation, if that matters), but at the same time, yeah, makes you wish you could have been an officer instead of lower enlisted. The military and army are hard enough without dealing with the extra nonsense that lower enlisted have to go through.

I leave October 5th too 🙌🏼

Sadie S. 🙌🏻

I’m at ait rn graduated aug 20th from fort Jackson you’ll be fine! You’ll make brothers and hella memories you got it!

Alex M That’s awesome! Congrats on graduating!

Graduated September 17th from ft jackson

i got a 75 but because i was arrested last year i had almost no choice in my job it sucks

Issabella Ruden damn that’s rough hope everything goes good my guy sure it will work out in the end

got a 94 and my prints came back clean even tho they shouldn't have LOL but now im a 68C

@@MegaIndiana123 I got denied for tattoos 😂🤕but good on u man hope it goes well 🤝

@@jangofett6634 you got denied from meps? you can appeal and waiver them shits man u good!

can I ask what post you were at that you were able to run to ranges? at Benning all of the live fire ranges are far enough away that you just get driven in either school buses or cattle cars. some of the skills ranges we ran or rucked to, though

@@dkroll92 Fort Jackson Trust me it was far away in my mind. We never were driven anywhere except reception to training barracks one time

Not the same now. Run for PT, walk to eat, ruck to the range, ruck to field exercises, walk to here, walk there, just be glad you're not in now. It's not the same Army.

Zack Duncan And in the Army with "PRT" it's an all you can eat buffet where you are forced to eat pretty much the exact same thing every single day, especially if you join as an enlisted instead of an officer, and especially if you're in a unit that is more "big Army"

High school sports make basic training look like church TBH. Hell me working 16 hr shifts mandatory overtime for 7 days a week for months on end as an order picker in a warehouse was the worst physical experience ive ever dealt with, the 20 mile ruck with 70lb ruck felt like nothing in comparison

How was it?

How was it bro

not "PRT" though...

Be disciplined and man up to your mistakes at basic. At reception you'll probably spend 2 weeks there, study and do basic exercise in the bay. Edit: for rifle marksmanship, if it not the 50m target never aim at the target. Always shoot under the target.

@@darwinsanchez03 Appreciate that. Thanks

What does the 35 series do

Selvy fort benning in 2 weeks for me

@@bigdj1527 i leave on oct 6

Ka_ Killers same brother!!!

@@bigdj1527 let's get it!!!!! Im ready

Ka_ Killers throw me that ig. Maybe we will be in the same group

"No one talks about the hours of standing in the CTA doing nothing. " I didn't really have it like that when I was in basic. It's DEFINITELY true that in RECEPTION, you will be standing around in the heat or cold for literally several hours at a time doing absolutely nothing. The longest my company in my basic cycle stood around for a long time doing nothing in the CTA in actual basic doing nothing was when we had to have a full battle rattle inspection from a command sergeant major after we had just done our blue phase PT test. That was pure miserable. But then maybe that was another difference between where I went (fort jackson) vs fort benning.

Do you train on the weekends also?

@@beautiful8654 I cant speak on all army bct trainings, but i went to fort jackson. I honestly can't completely remember for sure (I went three years ago) but I believe we did not do training as in field training or soldier training on the weekends. We did still do PT ("PRT") on Saturdays, but not on Sundays. On Sundays, those were spent cleaning up the bays and company areas. We still, on Sundays and on Saturdays, had plenty of times where we got smoked. Quite often on Sundays especially, there would just be one or two company drill sergeants in charge of the company while the other drill sergeants were off or doing something else. That drill sergeant would get even more irritable and have the whole company (all four platoons), smoked. Those are actually some of the fondest and funniest (looking back of course, not at the actual time but even a few cases at the time) memories of basic.

I leave in 4 days to benning 💪🏽

Same brother going to Fort Jackson the 13th, are you shipping out from Pittsburgh?

@@nikob1712 no

@@nikob1712 New York bro. Heading to fort benning now

St Gu good luck

It takes about 6 months to a year you talk to your reserve unit immediately to get the paperwork started

The best way to go about it would be to have your contract changed before you go since you aren't obligated until you actually swear in and ship out.

My recruiter told me you gotta stay 6 years on reserve before changing but that seems long

Team Swartz might help you with that

Me too but I leave Oct 6 31E

All honesty not much just graduated form there as a 31e

Bro don’t bring nothing. when I arrived there you got issued Pts first day literally don’t bring any extra clothes just your paper work

@@briefingleo3173 thanks foo' !

Its called a legtuck, and they're ridiculously easy

@@jonathangraham5812 Leg tucks might be easy for you, and harder for someone else. I had a buddy in AIT who ran 10 minute 2 milers but could barely pass the Push Ups. Similarly, I had no problem with Sit ups, but I really had to work on the run.

@@mr.k.i.s.s7496 .....You litterly have to perform 1 legtuck assuming your not a combat mos. 6 if you are combat and need to meet black standard.

Jonathan Graham wait it’s seriously just one??

@@basedchris8784 Yes, however if you're an 11b,11c,mp,19k,19d, or any combat mos i didn't list, you must meet black standard. My cycle was one of the first in the 22week infantry osut to conduct the acft. I saw people not able to perform pushups and situps, but smoke everything on the acft

I think 11x is like infantry candidate or something like that and b is infantryman because you can also go 11c morter

it used to be you had to do 20 years to retire, or less under special circumstances (i.e. service-connected medical issues or if the army was shrinking), but for a few years now they've phased out the old school pension plan and you basically have a 401k type deal that gives better returns the longer you stay in, but you don't have to stay in for a set amount of time to qualify. it's kind of hard to explain and I'm not 100% on the numbers but that's the premise also, 11x is just a placeholder MOS for infantry recruits. When you get to Benning, depending on what OSUT company you're assigned to (pretty much random) you'll be chosen to be either a Bravo which is rifleman, or a C which is mortars. About 5/6 people will get Bravo. The training is the same except those chosen to be Charlies get an extra few weeks of mortar training

Same here! My MOS is 15R

Ethan K you excited?!?

Me names Brandon Franks

most people say its easier than the aft, but harder to max out

The standards are specific to your MOS. No age or gender standards. I was in one of the units that tested it. Doing PRT won't help. You need to hit the gym.

@@jameswhitfield6220 I definitely read up on the standards so I'm familiar with all of that, I'm just curious how the people who have done it feel about it. I watched an old video Matt put out and he was unhappy with the change, so I was just wondering if that changed after actually doing it.

I did four just graduated from AIt 20200918

I have taken it twice now and administered it more than I can remember. It is a better measurement of your fitness and it does help to promote fitness aside from being a tall skinny person that can run fast. That said it takes forever to set up and I still haven't figured out why the army has a fetish for two miles

Black faze you get your phone on Wednesday for an hour and weekends gold faze you they give back your phone and you can order food on weekends

Dale Woods thank you so much!!!!

Depends where you go for AIT. I’m at Gordon and we got our phones all the time besides class, same with my friends at Lee.

Thank you so much!!!

Yes i did pass meps i have full range of motion i can do pushups. And i ship out feb82021 fort Benning

@@joshuastarr9736 can't answer your question but congrats on getting through MEPS with that, man. you very easily could have been DQ'ed even though you're in good shape, just the way MEPS can be

I'm leaving to fort sill Oct 26th

Jared Henager that’s cool probably gonna see you there. Check your paper tho cause mine says the 26 too but that’s the start date. The actual ship date might be the 20

@@117hi nah I did, I didnt think I was leaving till early november but found out my ship date was the 26th, ngl was a little upset I wont get to celebrate Halloween this year 😂😂

Jared Henager lmao dude facts

Better hope you get Delta 1/19 as your battery

markooher

Good luck bro 😂

When COVID 19 is wiped out. BCT is always changing though. The Army has to keep up with Political, Societal, and Scientific changes. For Instance, Scientifically: the change to the ACFT from the APFT. Now the focus is on WHAT you can do rather than Specific Training for a test that has been the main way to get ahead. You can pass the APFT with a 300, but you can't carry a 180 pound buddy with all your gear and all their gear 100 meters. Something smells here. So now they changed the test, and the training regimen to reflect the need to change.

Mr. K.I.S.S and did you see that they got rid of the shark attack because they want recruits to have a relationship with the leaders

@@abuddyofmine2524 Yes. But that started with COVID. I honestly think that they had someone watching how the lack of a Shark Attack affected the recruits. Whatever they saw was analyzed, and they decided to give a reason for dropping it altogether. Science.

Mr. K.I.S.S well i think the army basic is getting to easy

87 combat line score

@@royal-ramirez2749 I’ve taken the ASVAB 3 times and what section is the combat? I genuinely don’t know

@@someweirdassdude5759 the combat section consists of word knowledge paragraph comprehension auto & shop and mechanical compression :)

There is no average number. It's whenever the DS want's to stop.

There’s no “average”. It varies by cadre member (some of mine preferred the air squat or prone row hold). The least I’ve had to do is 5 (which is really 10 push-ups with the way they count). Most often it was 20-30 (40-60), sometimes they’d count to 50-60 or make you hold the positions for a ridiculous amount of time if they were really pissed off. Nobody could hold it, but if you push yourself you’ll definitely get better.

@@Llamacorn87 bruh

I ask because I'm talking to a recruiter(I'm 100% joining) and just wanted to prepare. I'm 17

@@fred-d-boss In that case, you should focus more on getting a score on the PT test. The DS are going to wear everyone down regardless of fitness level.

Richie Cole do reservist become veterans even if they haven’t had active duty ?

Richie Cole awesome thank you 🙌🏽🙌🏽

Good Really reserve get DD214 right? After six years ?

Richie Cole so you’ll get your DD214 and your bonus after AIT. what about the passports and IDs and other documents? Or can you apply for passports AIT?

Richie Cole okay cool cool, what about discounts and health insurance how that work

I would get a degree and move to Cali. Find a job there and join its NG. From what i heard you dont pick where u go to boot camp nor where to get stationed

@@alby1320 I'm In California

@@alby1320 and I thought you pick your Job and where you want to serve ?

Will PG i never served. I just have family members and friends that severed and this is what i heard from them. I think u can pick your job as long as you’re qualified for it. Having great ASVAB scores and you’re a US citizen, you will qualified for most jobs. Better to talk to a recruiter for most accurate info. Gud Luk

Join the Marines and pray for Pendleton

you need a 4 year degree and there are age and time in service limits that occasionally change... last I looked you couldn't be in for more than 6 years to get commissioned if you are enlisted and go to OCS. for a while it was 10 years. maybe it changed again, though

You see people of certain religions with beards but you won't see any males with long hair like that.

@@golfery5119 I am one of them my religion says keep everything God gave you and my hair is up to my knees not my facial hair

you shipping on oct 1st?

@@brandoncox9612 yes

Hunter Whitley letsss gooo

Hunter Whitley i got 2 other guys in a group chat that are going too lemme add you to it

@@brandoncox9612 add me bro 😎

20 years max

@@jaded1818 oh ok thanks

whatever you sign for... then is up to you, 8, 10, 12, 20, 23, 30 years or more... depends on how much you enjoy being in the ARMY, and of course if you behave and don't do anything stupid. I did 4 years of active duty, 2 years active reserve(AGR), and 1 year of Florida National Guard(which I hated). Active duty is more fun than Nat'l Guard, that's for sure. Biggest mistake of my life was getting out, I loved the Military life(ARMY)... still regretting getting out 'til this day.

@@jaded1818 wrong! you can serve in the army as long as you want, if you don't act stupid and get in trouble of course.

All of these numbers are incorrect. The Max age you may be is 62. Now that being said if you are not promotable you may be discharged after a given period of time. The QMP is different for officers and enlisted

Well I know my bf is going to go this week so possibly him

@@virgotime3875 lol yup i fly out Monday. Whats his name?

@@Fo4assaultriflefan92 do you have Instagram I rather not say his name on KZfaq

@@virgotime3875 yeah it's yungthiccysm0lls

@@Fo4assaultriflefan92 thanks ima text yea

Especially the "PRT" that's been around since the late 2000's. I've heard lots of people say that it is for "sustainment" rather than actually improving your physical fitness (though some people may do more running during PT than on their own. I certainly do). I think Army organized group PT and especially with the "PRT" stuff is more for group cohesion and for sergeants and E4 promotables to show they can lead troops, rather than actually doing physical fitness.

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