Wow this was my my training company. Battle ready!! If I could go back and she My their hands and tell them how grateful I am that they taught and molded me into the soldier I am now I would
This is a great video! I feel like media keeps wanting everyone to see that the Army is soft. But that was pretty comparable to the chowhall procedures that I went thru as a Marine Corps recruit In Parris Island, SC. The only difference that I really saw was that the trainees don’t respond back to y’all. Like if I were a Drill Sergeant and I corrected a trainee or told him/her to do something I would expect him/her to respond with “Yes Drill Sergeant”.
if anyone is watching this video bc they want to enlist, having just gone through basic training my humble advice would be to turn your brain off and reduce your vocabulary to yes/no Drill Sergeant and when your nervous to do a training event get to the front of the line and just get it done with. Because if your like me you went to the back of the line for the warrior tower and watched every one of your battle buddies go down while your anxiety mounted only to realize it was actually really fun. Nothing you do is hard, nothing you do is impossible and even though the cadre don't show it they do respect you for having the courage to step forward and serve your country, and when they dust you off its not personal, their just trying to make you into a soldier and that takes a few sessions of corrective training. Embrace it. Work with your battle buddies and above all embrace the suck. Complaining does not make a longline shorter, shivering does not make the air warmer and getting to the back of the line doesn't mean you wont still be lane two on rappel.
Also, don't get pissed off because your whole platoon got smoked due to one person screwing up. Nobody is perfect and the DS will use any and every reason to smoke you. If you don't give them a reason, they will find one anyway. Don't take it personal. It's to get you in shape and morning PT isn't enough.
I remember hearing a story from a battle buddy of mine. He was going through the line and there was a recruit in front of him who was taking too long to decide what to get. The choice was beef or fish. The DI comes up and starts yelling, "Beef or fish! Beef or fish! Just pick one recruit! What is taking so long!" The recruit gets flustered and yells, "BISH!" DI: WHAT THE FUCK IS "BISH"!? 🤣
Things to prepare you: #1). Put your phone away and learn to exist without it #2). Take cold baths or showers to get used to being comfortable being uncomfortable #3). If you decide not to work out just please at least run every other day 2 miles. #4). Work out . #5). Practice rucking with gear ~30lbs This will be sufficient and i think everything else has to be learned there. This will get you started.
I went to basic halfway through my senior year in high school …. I only had 2 classes during first semester so i would take the bus there, but returned home on foot (1.8 miles) then rode my bike to work (2.1 miles) or to my kid brother’s elementary school (6.0miles) on days i didnt work with the bike set on its lowest hardest gear. I alternated weighted back pack and hiking boots with running shoes going from school to home. By December rolled around it was too icy to bike so i had switched to working mostly on the weekend with one 2-10 shift during the week and i would snowshoe diagonally across country to get from school to home , shorter distance but was a tougher slog.
I remember my first meal at the defac after about a week of field feed and MREs. The night before, my drill sergeant smiled and asked us if we were excited for our first defac meal. When we responded with enthusiasm he smirked and said “so am I” there are no words in any language that can describe the massacre that took place the next morning at breakfast.
@@cameronland4439 first of all I wouldn’t have called it a meal. I got like 2 bites before I had to pick up and leave. And afterwards we literally just went on with our day. It was carnage for literally the 10min max the whole company was in the defac
1) All of this drill stuff results from the need to get large groups of soldiers efficiently organized and marching to wherever they need to go next, for training. 2) The yelling/hazing is something these young folks will heartily laugh at later, and a number of them will imitate (to everyone's hilarious delight) the Sergeants who delivered it. (Voice of experience.)
There was no real yelling that I saw.... Nothing close to hazing. When we got to reception we were immediately greeted with screaming and throwing of any extra belongings still in our civies. Went to being for airborne in 05 though not army. Watched at "Sandhill" some out of curiosity. Don't remember females or it being this calm.
Their yelling and rushing is to instill the sense of following orders immediately and under stress. There is no time to argue and debate like in the civilian world when bullets are whizzing by. I went through army ROTC training and was somewhat disoriented by some of the really, really basic stuff thr army applied to train us. I had to understand that the army has to train everyone from college graduates to those barely past middle grade and Cat 4---lowest IQ and aptitude category. So they had to use small words and simple repetitive training. Later on many years later as I went through law school school, we learned that people recall about 65% if they were just lectured to. They retain about 75% of instructions if they watched it. But they retain 85%-90% if they see, heard, and do it themselves. Wow the army had been doing this when using supervised M16 Models to teach how to assemble/reassembled the rifle and had us do it with the rifle on the table. 41 years later i can still field strip an AR rifle. They lectured and we watched CPR then did it on the CPR mannequins. I can still remember most of it. 120 pushes per minute-----just about the same rhythm as Bee Gees "Staying Alive."
@@ms.annthrope415 "Those barely past middle grade and Cat 4." I too was ROTC, and the summer after my college Junior year I went (with eight classmates) to Ranger School. Preparatory to that, during our Junior year, Seniors who had the summer before graduated from Ranger School conducted various classes and field training exercises to introduce us to the program. During an extremely detailed operations order one day, an underclassman cadet asked the Ranger Senior, "Why is all this detail on detail on detail necessary?" The Senior said, "What if one of your men only has a third-grade education?" I thought that was a ridiculous answer, though I knew not to laugh at the Senior. Like, whose schooling in these times tops out with third grade? Later, though, in the Army, I did see the Cat 4 soldiers, a lot of them. This was shortly post-Vietnam, the Army was in stasis with funding cutbacks, the economy was somewhat depressed, and a lot of guys enlisted simply for the benefits -- seeing the Army as a quasi-welfare life. Cat 4's, for sure.
My battle buddy was on the fat-boy program and needed to lose like 15-20 lbs by the end of basic. Since he had to get his food from the diet chow line, this meant that I also had to eat in the same fat-guy cow line as him... With a diet and extra pt, he lost his 20 lbs and I was damn proud of him. But as his battle buddy, I eventually lost 25 lbs and looked like I came out of a prison camp.
I was in the fat-boy program too! Same line just different diet.... the twist, I was underweight, yet still had to sit with my double helpings at the table where the guys were eating carrots and cucumbers.
@@jeffr7752 I felt bad for the guys that were on the restricted diet watching me consume 10,000 calories a day, yeah more mind games for them unfortunately I was the weapon of choice. I was lucky to not have any of guys in my room but at the same time they seen me get forced to sit with them. By 2 weeks they were at weight minus 1 guy but he was told to lose his last 2 lbs by himself and he lost almost 10. I think it took me 10 days to hit minimum ( 112 lbs ) by that time i was stacking on push-up muscle on top of my farm work muscles. Yeah if I'm ever on a deserted island and I see 4 guys with that look in their eyes I'm going for a long swim, it was 3 or 4 days in when you could tell they were starting to get irritated.
@@HeaveStarveyy ain't it the truth, I remember a recruit almost choked cause he had so much food in his mouth when the drill came to our table and ordered us to leave to form up outside, only seconds after we sat down.
14 years ago I went through this and I still remember "snaking the line" like it was yesterday. *shivers*. But this is one of the greatest experience's I had in my life. I honestly feel privileged that I got to experience it.
I remember one time in the salad bar, the guy ahead of me fucked up really bad somehow (not sure what he did) and ended up having 4 drill sergeants on him. So while they were distracted I got to slowly sidestep my way through the bar grabbing everything I wanted
I was that guy. Lol. I once screwed up by flinching when a bird flew to close to my head. We were at attention and my Drill Sergeant was livid! Lol. PT’d me to death and then had me out there for two hours standing at perfect attention.
the differences in the service are incredible. In the USMC boot camp, a Drill Instructor was waiting to inspect every plate of chow for nutrition. If you were trying to get it right, he suggested. If you are a fat body, he damn near dumped your tray and personally reloaded it with a balanced meal. There is NEVER any kind of "sneaking by".
Salad bar? Damn ! I was drafted in 1966. There wasn’t anything close to that. In those days the few minutes inside the mess hall was the only place the drill Sgts. didn’t mess with you. However when you were leaving the mess hall you had better hit the ground double timing.
I was lucky to be one of the last classes to go through BCT in 2019 before COVID hit the beginning of 2020. Shark attack wasnt intense like back then im sure but its definitely better than today
@@meme_emem9881 I mean I was one of the 2020 covid cycles but we still got shark attacked I was like the second to last cycle to get the 100 yard bs and the new pinks and greens only thing we didn’t do was combatives
i had the misfortune of wandering to the other side of the DFAC to a whole different company. when i sat down and looked to my left and right I realized the grave mistake i just made. less than a second later a DS from that company comes over and orders his whole company to start saying "stranger danger". not long after my DS shows up and tells me to get the fuck up while the alpha DS is telling me to sit down. i didnt know who to listen to but i made the right decision of listening to my DS.
Bro, YES! I swear I heard that for about the first 3 weeks! "EAT NOW TASTE LATER!" Especially when we had chow out on the range..."SLIDE! SLIDE!" If you were there, you know what I'm talking about. 2 PLT C 2/13 INF REGT, Class 3-99, Ft Jackson SC 1999
@xtre1me_995 Yes, because the privates and specialists were abusing their rank with the other trainees. Them all being treated as "non-soldiers" (yet) puts them on a fair and level playing field, because none of them have earned the right to use their rank yet.
This is toned down from when I joined the Air Force directly after 9/11. We had 2 minutes to eat and never had 2 seconds of calm. They had us on our toes, nervous, anxious and uncomfortable through the entirety of basic. We were at war and they were preparing us for the shit. I miss the hell out of it.
That was combat not really a war. I feel like Vietnam and prior was the last we actually been at war though it technically wasnt a war. I'm more scared about what will come with Russia or China
Everyone’s saying 2 minutes to eat but that shit never existed unless your BCT was some shit. Yeha it’s watered down now but you should’ve at least gotten 5 minutes.
@@oversizednoveltycheck6978 For me it was. I don't even remember my basic unit but I went to Leonard Wood in 2015 and the Drill Sergeant said, "Calories in, calories out." You could have the ice cream but you'd have to burn those empty calories. No one ate ice cream. Or the desserts.
We were "allowed" to get ice cream, but the drills stressed the fact that i guess the ice cream machine basically never gets cleaned, and told us to eat at our own risk.
In 2014 a lot of us had looked up dos and donts of basic training and ait, and this was one of them. Whenever ice cream or cookies were served at the dfac we all pretty much ignored them. But the DSs at Benning laid a huge trap in the form of an MFA day for the 4th of July. We were dead in the middle of white phase and figured that because it was a holiday, that there wasn't any chance of us being put to work of any sort. Especially because our DSs told us that we wouldn't be doing any scheduled training for the day. We marched to a park and met up with hundreds of other trainees NCOs and officers from sand hill. they had food stands, beer stands, a talent show, games, the whole nine. Most of us indulged in the food stands, shit I myself had funnel cake and soda, some candy, other things. Man when it was over we hit formation, started marching back, and about three minutes later, we heard those dreaded two words: double time. Most of us, including myself, barfed on that 3 mile run back to the barracks. The DSs got us good that day😂
Felt sorry for these recruits. The US Army must be totally desperate for leadership if they're having people like her in charge who can't even speak English to begin with.
@@jeffburnham6611 Welcome to modern America where the bottom of the barrel is the leadership and where we get CANCELLED for pointing out the problems with the process
@@jeffburnham6611 even when she screams you can't hardly hear her what if there was explosions going off in the background how can she be intimidating when she's a foot shorter than everybody else and fat
@@jeffburnham6611 They're just preparing them for life in the corporate world after the military. Where you are promoted to the level of your incompetency and anyone above you knows less than you.
I remember having side step screamed in my Face. The people serving us looked like they felt bad cause I looked so young and they whispered for God's Sake Side Step. lol
Thank you soo much! I honestly laughed out loud reading this. It's amazing how unfun basic was, but know it is so funny to reminisce about the things we went through.
I remember being on chow detail during week six or seven on one side of the dfac. Then right next to us another company started Day 0 first meal. My drill sergeant looked at us and laughed and said, “Remember when that was y’all?” Good times.
NEVER TRUST ARMY NAVY AIRFORCE GOVEREMNT DOCOTORS TEACHERS BIG CHAIN STORES NEVER TRUST THEM ONE BIT THEY ARE THUGS LIARS, PEDOPFILE PROCTECTORS, CROCKS, SELLING EVERYTHING
😂😂😂 dude when you said " you dont have to think , i do that for you" i lost it. That shit was so funny and such a good insult 😂 ima use that. I literally looked through your channel to find that joke. You do a grest job drill sgt.
I remember my first breakfast in Navy boot way back in '77. The cook threw some grits on my tray and I remember, being a Yankee, thinking "that's the damned runniest oatmeal I've ever seen". lol
You Drill Sgts , my dad (Prior service and former Drill Sgt) and all the service members have been a role model for me and I not only want to be able to represent my family , my future family, country etc , but all you guys who make us the soldiers to be. Im currently awaiting my orders ,MOS 11B , and ship date . I want to make you guys proud and myself . Thank you for your what you guys do .
11B are you crazy? That mos is pure torture! I was a 19D and watched those 11B’s suffer in the field to a point where I almost pitied them. Have fun when at sand hill! Lmao!
Yoooo you know whats funny is that they changed it to 19D XD Best decision ever tho I was sent back home because a private fucked me up during red phase and got injured as a result and sent me home on medical . But Im awaiting to be able to reinlist sadly . I say sadly cause I didnt finish and it fucking sucks man ...... @@SteveSmith-eb6ze
I woke up singing a cadence I hadn't thought about in 20 years. Man it brought back memories. BCT was one of the best and worst experiences of my youth.
A MILITARY. THING ??????? HOW MANY OF US START WALKING BY STEPPING OFF. WITH OUR LEFT FOOT. ??????????? ( YOUR LEFT YOUR LEFT YOUR. LEFT RIGHT LEFT , DON'T BE " OUT OF STEP " . )
These were all my drill sgts in basic I am smiling remembering all of the amazing moments I had with them. I would do anything to see all of them and shake their hand and thank them.
Having gone through this nearly 4 years ago, I do not think I'd be able to do it again without breaking down in fits of laughter. The other side of the army really puts this all into perspective.
DS Ullom aswell? Damn this is bringing back memories. I respect that man, always taught the PLT lessons & heart to heart moments. He was the glue of the PLT alongside DS Kay who always gave us motivation to push forward. They both went through the obstacle course & lead from the front.
Ft. Sill 1984: A recruit was telling the cook how he wanted his eggs during our first breakfast....neither the cook or the DS cared for some reason. It did not go well.....
NEVER TRUST ARMY NAVY AIRFORCE GOVEREMNT DOCOTORS TEACHERS BIG CHAIN STORES NEVER TRUST THEM ONE BIT THEY ARE THUGS LIARS, PEDOPFILE PROCTECTORS, CROCKS, SELLING EVERYTHING
Yea but when we were in me about 55 years ago it was way different than that. Did you see any women in uniform, nope, how about pick out what you wanted to eat like a casino buffet, nope. This looks more like summer camp to me.
@@vietnamvet4533I’m a female US Army soldier. Active. Pretty shitty that you think females who want to fight for their country are worthless. I had a higher PT SCORE than most for the guys in my basic training who were basically twigs, I was honored to even gain the respect of my drills for being “high speed”. It’s not the Stone Age anymore. If a woman wants to sign her name on the dotted line? By all means. Just makes me think of you as a pos because there are women who have died for their country just for you to say that? Disgusting and disrespectful.
We had to go through the horizontal ladder outside the chow hall before every meal. The fat boys who couldnt do it got sent to the back of the line. Last in first out they didnt have time to get a full meal. They lost a lot of weight but failed to meet minimum pt standards and got recycled.
Did basic in the summer of 1990. Became an electrician after i got out. To this very day, i still take a 30" step. Which she describes at the 1 minute mark. I've stepped of MILES of wire pulls using the number of steps x 2.5 feet. Amazes guys with how accurate i am.
I went through Basic & AIT in March-July 95' at Ft McClellan. Such great memories. Seems like yesterday in my mind's eye. Wish I could rewind the clock & do it all over again.
This looks so fun . Im 19 and I wish i can enlist. I tried to in 2020 and then in 2021 for the Army. The ASVAB is the one that stops me. I know its a simple test. But im a terrible test taker with arithmetic mathematics and a history of a learning disability with math throughout my academic life. I did good on the practice tests the recruiters gave me but then did horrible at the verification test at MEPS. And it made me so upset because joining the Army was my passion. I hope that one day maybe in the future i can try again. Id love to have this experience. Great video!
Watching a lot of videos like this because I am super close to reaching my weight goal to join the military. My brother was an Army Ranger and I was inspired to stop being a fat ass and join the army. I lost over 60 pounds and these videos really motivate me to push harder. Being fat kinda helped me thought because it was like a bulk/food surplus so now I have huge muscles from resistance training (weights and other stuff) I just have to lose maybe another 20 pounds (which I did easily in a month and a half) and then I'll be ready.
So, what you're saying is there IS hope for this new generation. Outstanding job by you. Keep up the good work. The right way is often the hardest way, but you seem to have the right attitude. Drive on!
I went to the same place in this video back in 06' (I remember thousands of people being at the reception barracks - right next to the DS Academy, it was packed), the DFAC was the one place the DS were not yelling at you. Everyone stood up behind their seats until the entire platoon had their food - then everyone sat down and you had 5 minutes to eat. At 5 minutes they would say "3rd platoon, you're done" everyone would get up, turn their trays in, and exit the DFAC. No unnecessary yelling or anything. I guess the mentality was a bit different, they said 90% of everyone going there would be in Iraq/Afghanistan within 1 year of leaving BCT (during the surge). We still got smoked all day/every day (including directly outside the DFAC) - but inside the DFAC was the chill zone. Got to get them calories in...
Wow! Not much has changed since I was in BCT during the Vietnam Days. I remember trying to eat off my tray as the DI's were screaming "Get out of the Mess Hall". I learned to never be the Last Man in line because the Last Man had to hold the Mess Hall Door open for the Trainees to enter the Mess Hall. After all were inside, the Last Man was the last one to get served chow resulting in the DI's screaming "To get out". I remember standing at Parade Rest, Coming to Attention, Stepping Forward, then Back to Parade Rest Again in the line. I remember no talking in the Mess Hall. I remember not being allowed to drink soda pop. We were only allowed to drink water, milk, juice, or punch. We were not allowed cake, cookies, or pie because it made you Fat. The Fat Boys were on a diet of Salad only. The DI's ran us and we did so much PT we all dropped 20-30 pounds or more. At the end of AIT, I had lost a total of 20 pounds. One Recruit lost 50 pounds. He was very tall and big when he started BCT. At the end of AIT, he was all trimmed his family could not believe it was him. We called him "Big Foot". Not much has changed except when I was in the Army, the DI's CURSED at us all the time. I was at Ft. Benning The Home of Infantry so we did not have Female DI's. Females were not allowed to serve in Combat Arms Mos back then.
@@livingdeadty Ok, thanks. Back in the Seventies, it was in the open like you see in the Movies The Boys in Company C and Full Metal Jacket with Lee Emery playing the DI. it was like that, constabt Cursing and Verbal Abuse Breaking You Down, Making You Feel Like Crap All The Time So You Learn To Conform And Do Things The Army Way. They The DI Transform US From Being A Bunch Of Uncoordinated Out Of Shape Knuckleheads Into A Team Of Soldiers Who Were Ready To Kill The Enemy. When The DI Ssid Move, We Moved. I look back on those years and have no regrets because it taught me to survive, never quit or give up, and how to lead and not be a follower. It also taught me how to be strong and overcome fear. It made me grow up especially when I got promoted to SGT and then to SSG
I was in BCT 1970. The DS were tough and hard!! They used the 'hands on' approach and verbal abuse. You were called a trainee, not soldier!! You just sucked it up and trained. With a shooting war going on, there was no time to spare your feelings!!!! Ten years later, I returned to BCT as a Senior Drill Sergeant. Times had changed. The type of soldier changed and the 'rules of engagement' a DS could use had changed. You could still be firm in training, just not like WE had back in 1970!!!! HOOAH!!!!
One of our last meals at FLW MO, C-4-3, Jan 85, SSG Vasquez jumped out of his seat, ready to scream because of the noise, and caught himself. “Come on. Keep it down, fellas.” Those last few bites of food were the sweetest.
In between basic and AIT we had a Thanksgiving break. I had eaten my entire Thanksgiving dinner before my family had gotten finished loading their plates...anybody else experience a similar?
Probably the most stressful yet most anticipated moments during Basic. You hate to go but want to so bad bc We all gotta eat...but do it the Army way. "Eat now. Taste later...and MAKE A SAMMICH!"
I did basic back in the early 90's at Ft.Sill. The food there was not bad at all, which was a pleasant surprise from what I was expecting. The D.S. really didn't mess with you too much during lunch, except to get you through the line and out of the chow hall ASAP.
I am actually surprised to see how similar the chow hall experience was to Marine Boot Camp in 1986 - They would shove us a-hole to belly-button thru the line and you had to scarf your food or not eat. This was surprisingly close.
My dad said that was how the Airforce was in '73. They kept telling them, "make the guy in front of you smile." He said you had about a minute to eat and out the door. Seeing the comments on a lot of videos, it seems the Airforce has changed a bit since those days. He taught us to eat that way lol. Get it on a plate and woof it down. My wife hates it that I eat so fast, but that's the way I was raised.
I am now 57 and still eat fast after USAF basic in 1984. We also had to sidestep down the line, but they didn't really yell at us unless someone was being stupid.
If I remember correctly, on the order of “cover”, nobody should move their head at all. To completely align your squad you want to do a right face and then a dress-right-dress. Then again perhaps the army changed this again, lol.
Flashbacks from basic training at Benning, July 2006. I didn't want to be a drill when I was in, but looking back now that I'm a civilian again, I should have definitely went for it. It looks awesome.
BCT in 1969. Vietnam in 1970 and 71.. To this day I can remember my drill sergeants, SDI, XO and CO. What I learned 55 years ago when we held an M14 and we were constantly reminded that we were going to die, was that the human mind can only entertain one thought at a time. You can’t concentrate on how badly it hurts if you’re retracing the route from the college lab to the parking lot to your car. That got me through forced marches, endless drills, et cetera. I’d like to have a 20 year old body and go through it again. Went in at 215 and came out at 195.
Ahh the memories of going through this back in July 2003. Chilling in my bed now just watching and chilling 😎 I was the jokester in my platoon, so I steadily in the front lean position 😂
My 101st air born basic training the drill sargents gave you 3 minutes eat crackers and milk. you won't see hod dogs or hamburgers or anything sweet, they won't to put"0" fat on you. 3 minutes then the chair is kicked out from under you for 20 pushups.
Upmost respect for the people that went through this, I feel like it would be so hard not to say something back with someone yelling in your ear about absolutely nothing.
You have to understand that they are putting on a character. I'm sure some start to think they really are that character but it's not supposed to be personal. Growing up, I've delt so much real screaming/yelling, that when I watch videos like this, it's comical. I bust up laughing. They're screaming at you to help you operate under pressure. Alot of people freeze up when yelled up and can't even complete simple tasks such as putting food on their plates. I want to join army infantry but am re learning math from scratch since I was always horrible at it. I watch these videos to see get a slight idea of what to expect.
@@MichaelAMyers1957 Yeah I wrestled my whole life and my dad was a Vietnam vet, I’ve been yelled at plenty trust me. And I know military people hate when you say it but someone gets in my face screaming I have to react. Even if that guy is three times my size.
To be honest Basic Training was the most fun part of being in the military. Got yelled at plenty but did some extraordinary things. Would not trade that experience for anything.
@@lisamueller7026 People in the military get treated like shit and don’t make hardly any money. Again upmost respect for those who choose to do it, just not for me.
@@austinspray9152 They get a lot of benefits like the Gi bill and all that. Plus the basic training was actually really fun for me !! Made a lot of new friends and the experience was sooo much fun. This was the first time I was away from my family and that too for 2 months straight for basic training till graduation. No phones at all except sundays; that too for 15-20 mins. I remember getting smoked because someone in my platoon was on the phone for like 1-2 minutes longer than the time allocated. All in all I’d say this was one of the best 2 months in my life if not the best 😇. After we learn everything and how to behave, it’s sooo much easier and the drill sergeants joked around with us all the time. They are soooo cool !! I’d love to meet my drill sergeants some time again in the future. I don’t care what anyone says, my company had the best and coolest drill sergeants ever 😁. Sadly I’m done with basic training which is the best part about joining the military. I’d do basic again if I could 😅. Fun times !!!
39 years ago for me. I remember that they brought us in from the field for Thanksgiving. The next day we went to White Sands, NM. The following Friday we returned to the field. Good times
Back in 75 we had a whole lot different drill Sargent back then in the morning we ran 4 miles then monkey bars straight in to chow hall he would tell us got 5 mins to get get chow and eat then he would say take all you want and eat all you take. Then he would stand by the trash can to watch that we ate everything!
I know this is a month old but I heard that in my house all the time I guess that's what I get for being in a family where I will be the fourth generation of G (insert last name here) sorry I won't disclose my last name when my first is my username but yeah back to my great grandfather they were all george's and had the same last name. My dad didn't have a boy and none of my other siblings would so I am the last hope, and no I don't feel obligated to do it for only that reason. Man that was long winded for such a simple explanation sorry
So I went into the Army during Covid, in 2030 in the winter. Due to the quarantine the chow hall was closed to everyone, so all we had on the field were MREs and Hot As. The first time my platoon went into chow was for Thanksgiving. It wasn't as aggressive as this, but still had the same amount of pressure. I'm currently on a re-enlistment program back to Fort Sill. I will be going through all of this again, with the knowledge I have from the first time around.
Hello MRE my old friend, I've came to eat you again. I've been given item number 13. I took a sip out of my canteen. This food makes me want to put a knife in my brain. And this is the chow of silence.
Again, from the description, this is PRE COVID. This was filmed awhile back, and I decided to finally release it!
We need a video of you in action please
Wow this was my my training company. Battle ready!! If I could go back and she My their hands and tell them how grateful I am that they taught and molded me into the soldier I am now I would
This is a great video! I feel like media keeps wanting everyone to see that the Army is soft. But that was pretty comparable to the chowhall procedures that I went thru as a Marine Corps recruit In Parris Island, SC. The only difference that I really saw was that the trainees don’t respond back to y’all. Like if I were a Drill Sergeant and I corrected a trainee or told him/her to do something I would expect him/her to respond with “Yes Drill Sergeant”.
where and when was the recorded some of the trainee names and faces remind me of when i went through bct one name in particular being really unique
You got the defacto? Wtf I didn't
Who else went through this and is now watching this in the comfort of their bed
My lazy boy chair.
Lmfao me right now
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if anyone is watching this video bc they want to enlist, having just gone through basic training my humble advice would be to turn your brain off and reduce your vocabulary to yes/no Drill Sergeant and when your nervous to do a training event get to the front of the line and just get it done with. Because if your like me you went to the back of the line for the warrior tower and watched every one of your battle buddies go down while your anxiety mounted only to realize it was actually really fun. Nothing you do is hard, nothing you do is impossible and even though the cadre don't show it they do respect you for having the courage to step forward and serve your country, and when they dust you off its not personal, their just trying to make you into a soldier and that takes a few sessions of corrective training. Embrace it. Work with your battle buddies and above all embrace the suck. Complaining does not make a longline shorter, shivering does not make the air warmer and getting to the back of the line doesn't mean you wont still be lane two on rappel.
Shivering is actually your body’s instinct to try and keep warm, but nonetheless this was still really helpful! Thanks! 🤠
My advice is to just not do it at all. Been in almost two years
Also, don't get pissed off because your whole platoon got smoked due to one person screwing up. Nobody is perfect and the DS will use any and every reason to smoke you. If you don't give them a reason, they will find one anyway. Don't take it personal. It's to get you in shape and morning PT isn't enough.
@@kaylatharp4345 POG
@@jamesmassey9869 lmao y’all couldn’t do your job without us.
I remember hearing a story from a battle buddy of mine.
He was going through the line and there was a recruit in front of him who was taking too long to decide what to get. The choice was beef or fish.
The DI comes up and starts yelling, "Beef or fish! Beef or fish! Just pick one recruit! What is taking so long!"
The recruit gets flustered and yells, "BISH!"
DI: WHAT THE FUCK IS "BISH"!? 🤣
😂😂😂I hollered ,I feel like that would happen to me
@@roselouissaint3182 That's frickin' awesome!
THAT'S SO FREAKING HILARIOUS! 🤣🤣
😂
Wow you got a choice what a woke army you were in, oh wait we had a choice also, sorry, eat the shit they put on your plate or wait till breakfast.
Things to prepare you:
#1). Put your phone away and learn to exist without it
#2). Take cold baths or showers to get used to being comfortable being uncomfortable
#3). If you decide not to work out just please at least run every other day 2 miles.
#4). Work out .
#5). Practice rucking with gear ~30lbs
This will be sufficient and i think everything else has to be learned there. This will get you started.
Depending on the climate cold showers feel damn near delectable 😂
Never eat too much, always stay hungry
Basic is cake if you're in shape going in.
I went to basic halfway through my senior year in high school …. I only had 2 classes during first semester so i would take the bus there, but returned home on foot (1.8 miles) then rode my bike to work (2.1 miles) or to my kid brother’s elementary school (6.0miles) on days i didnt work with the bike set on its lowest hardest gear. I alternated weighted back pack and hiking boots with running shoes going from school to home. By December rolled around it was too icy to bike so i had switched to working mostly on the weekend with one 2-10 shift during the week and i would snowshoe diagonally across country to get from school to home , shorter distance but was a tougher slog.
Thank you for this I will start now
2 hours waiting to go inside 2 seconds to actually eat.
Enough time for a few carrots. 💀
Is this reception?😮
@@ronnywayne8707 This is at basic training.
The army is basically hurry up and wait. Actually, that's the military as a whole for you.
-Yours truly, a US Army PFC
U got 5 minutes PVT. And three of them are gone. Get ur butt to the trash can NOW!
I remember my first meal at the defac after about a week of field feed and MREs. The night before, my drill sergeant smiled and asked us if we were excited for our first defac meal. When we responded with enthusiasm he smirked and said “so am I” there are no words in any language that can describe the massacre that took place the next morning at breakfast.
What happened after the meal? Lol
@@cameronland4439 first of all I wouldn’t have called it a meal. I got like 2 bites before I had to pick up and leave. And afterwards we literally just went on with our day. It was carnage for literally the 10min max the whole company was in the defac
@@nhanvu1654 Oh okay got it haha. I thought you were gonna say they made you do intense PT immediately after eating or something haha
“There are no words in any language that can describe the massacre that took place” “oh we just went on with our day” huh? 😂😂
@@sodurtydandy They got screamed at, and then just sent along for more Training unfulfilled
My food tastes better when my heels are together. Remember this from Fort Leonard Wood 😭🤣
Usually holding two cups of Powerade and yelling in front of half of the battalion😂
Was it
Delta 148
@@jjwaters4037 Echo 2-10
waters ayo! Blood and guts I graduated from foxtrot 1-48 back in 2016
1) All of this drill stuff results from the need to get large groups of soldiers efficiently organized and marching to wherever they need to go next, for training. 2) The yelling/hazing is something these young folks will heartily laugh at later, and a number of them will imitate (to everyone's hilarious delight) the Sergeants who delivered it. (Voice of experience.)
we had a thing after the forge where the DIs let people go in front of everyone and imitate them. funny af.
There was no real yelling that I saw.... Nothing close to hazing. When we got to reception we were immediately greeted with screaming and throwing of any extra belongings still in our civies. Went to being for airborne in 05 though not army. Watched at "Sandhill" some out of curiosity. Don't remember females or it being this calm.
She looks stupid with those sunglasses
Their yelling and rushing is to instill the sense of following orders immediately and under stress. There is no time to argue and debate like in the civilian world when bullets are whizzing by.
I went through army ROTC training and was somewhat disoriented by some of the really, really basic stuff thr army applied to train us. I had to understand that the army has to train everyone from college graduates to those barely past middle grade and Cat 4---lowest IQ and aptitude category. So they had to use small words and simple repetitive training.
Later on many years later as I went through law school school, we learned that people recall about 65% if they were just lectured to. They retain about 75% of instructions if they watched it. But they retain 85%-90% if they see, heard, and do it themselves. Wow the army had been doing this when using supervised M16 Models to teach how to assemble/reassembled the rifle and had us do it with the rifle on the table. 41 years later i can still field strip an AR rifle. They lectured and we watched CPR then did it on the CPR mannequins. I can still remember most of it. 120 pushes per minute-----just about the same rhythm as Bee Gees "Staying Alive."
@@ms.annthrope415 "Those barely past middle grade and Cat 4." I too was ROTC, and the summer after my college Junior year I went (with eight classmates) to Ranger School. Preparatory to that, during our Junior year, Seniors who had the summer before graduated from Ranger School conducted various classes and field training exercises to introduce us to the program. During an extremely detailed operations order one day, an underclassman cadet asked the Ranger Senior, "Why is all this detail on detail on detail necessary?" The Senior said, "What if one of your men only has a third-grade education?" I thought that was a ridiculous answer, though I knew not to laugh at the Senior. Like, whose schooling in these times tops out with third grade?
Later, though, in the Army, I did see the Cat 4 soldiers, a lot of them. This was shortly post-Vietnam, the Army was in stasis with funding cutbacks, the economy was somewhat depressed, and a lot of guys enlisted simply for the benefits -- seeing the Army as a quasi-welfare life. Cat 4's, for sure.
My battle buddy was on the fat-boy program and needed to lose like 15-20 lbs by the end of basic. Since he had to get his food from the diet chow line, this meant that I also had to eat in the same fat-guy cow line as him... With a diet and extra pt, he lost his 20 lbs and I was damn proud of him. But as his battle buddy, I eventually lost 25 lbs and looked like I came out of a prison camp.
😂
I was in the fat-boy program too! Same line just different diet.... the twist, I was underweight, yet still had to sit with my double helpings at the table where the guys were eating carrots and cucumbers.
That's awesome! I bet some of your buddies were dying inside. You could probably feel the hatred and envy.
@@jeffr7752 I felt bad for the guys that were on the restricted diet watching me consume 10,000 calories a day, yeah more mind games for them unfortunately I was the weapon of choice. I was lucky to not have any of guys in my room but at the same time they seen me get forced to sit with them. By 2 weeks they were at weight minus 1 guy but he was told to lose his last 2 lbs by himself and he lost almost 10.
I think it took me 10 days to hit minimum ( 112 lbs ) by that time i was stacking on push-up muscle on top of my farm work muscles. Yeah if I'm ever on a deserted island and I see 4 guys with that look in their eyes I'm going for a long swim, it was 3 or 4 days in when you could tell they were starting to get irritated.
@@TheWabbit I remember when the excited whispers went around "Dude... they got chocolate milk..."
10 seconds after sitting down for first chow in 2001 .
"Get up, you're done! 😂 "
I went through basic at Ft Dix in 1990. You never sat down. You went from getting your food to eating it while putting your tray back
Hell yeah! Didn't finish a meal til the morning before Graduation.
Same in 2004 lol
If one person is done then you're all done lol
@@HeaveStarveyy ain't it the truth, I remember a recruit almost choked cause he had so much food in his mouth when the drill came to our table and ordered us to leave to form up outside, only seconds after we sat down.
14 years ago I went through this and I still remember "snaking the line" like it was yesterday. *shivers*. But this is one of the greatest experience's I had in my life. I honestly feel privileged that I got to experience it.
38 years ago for me, and chow formation is still fresh in my mind. Feels like it was just yesterday.
I remember one time in the salad bar, the guy ahead of me fucked up really bad somehow (not sure what he did) and ended up having 4 drill sergeants on him. So while they were distracted I got to slowly sidestep my way through the bar grabbing everything I wanted
I was that guy. Lol. I once screwed up by flinching when a bird flew to close to my head. We were at attention and my Drill Sergeant was livid! Lol. PT’d me to death and then had me out there for two hours standing at perfect attention.
the differences in the service are incredible. In the USMC boot camp, a Drill Instructor was waiting to inspect every plate of chow for nutrition. If you were trying to get it right, he suggested. If you are a fat body, he damn near dumped your tray and personally reloaded it with a balanced meal. There is NEVER any kind of "sneaking by".
Salad bar? Damn ! I was drafted in 1966. There wasn’t anything close to that. In those days the few minutes inside the mess hall was the only place the drill Sgts. didn’t mess with you. However when you were leaving the mess hall you had better hit the ground double timing.
You were learning quickly to take advantage of opportunities as they presented themselves!
When you realize the chow hall is scarier than "The First 100 yards"...
The first 100 yards was the easiest thing about basic.. Lol a fat ass joke tbh
I was lucky to be one of the last classes to go through BCT in 2019 before COVID hit the beginning of 2020. Shark attack wasnt intense like back then im sure but its definitely better than today
was indigestion common , and should swing arms up to breast pocket height when marching .
@@meme_emem9881 I mean I was one of the 2020 covid cycles but we still got shark attacked I was like the second to last cycle to get the 100 yard bs and the new pinks and greens only thing we didn’t do was combatives
@@thatoneguy592 I feel bad for all you new dudes
I remember the dfac at fort Jackson. Soon as you sit down 30 seconds later “on your feet”
Seriously
I remember that from Ft Relaxin' Jackson.
Bruh...Ft Jackson had the BOMB ass breakfast! And the after Forge buffet! 😍 I was cryin!
More like a bomb went off in that breakfast, Texas Pete hot sauce was the only saving grace of Breakfast at Jackson.
@@DmarcusBaus I still miss the French toast at Jackson
That first day dealing with this was straight up traumatizing. And you better hope no one gets caught talking while your eating
Never eat and talk.
i had the misfortune of wandering to the other side of the DFAC to a whole different company. when i sat down and looked to my left and right I realized the grave mistake i just made. less than a second later a DS from that company comes over and orders his whole company to start saying "stranger danger". not long after my DS shows up and tells me to get the fuck up while the alpha DS is telling me to sit down. i didnt know who to listen to but i made the right decision of listening to my DS.
when did u go thru basic? i remember someone from a different company sitting with my company and they got screamed at by our drills
@@Wabbaaajack were you part of 2-39 at fort jackson? i went through the summer of this year and graduated in october.
@@DeFunctOrg you must've been the cycle right before mine. i was delta company 2-39. wbu?
BRAVO 2-39 LESSS GO
Lmao I was Echo 2-39. I remember hearing about this as well in the DFAC 😂
Memories! Eat it now, taste it later.
Yes!
😂
This is absolutely true 😂😂😂😂
Bro, YES! I swear I heard that for about the first 3 weeks! "EAT NOW TASTE LATER!" Especially when we had chow out on the range..."SLIDE! SLIDE!" If you were there, you know what I'm talking about.
2 PLT C 2/13 INF REGT, Class 3-99, Ft Jackson SC 1999
Shit i already eat like im there. My plate doesnt even last 5 minutes
FYI for civvies: this is the nice version since they know they’re being recorded. 😂😂😂 Fort Silly Sill, summer 2007.
Haha finally someone that understands!
TRUTHHH. I got a piece of DS Ramírez's wrath. Part of the "(down)I love(up)SKITTLES" gang.😂😂 Not something I recommend. Bravo Company 4-39. HOAH
Hell yeah man concentration Charlie 1-79 we went to the chow hall probably 3 times the whole basic nothing but mres and hot A 🤣
@xtre1me_995 Yes, because the privates and specialists were abusing their rank with the other trainees. Them all being treated as "non-soldiers" (yet) puts them on a fair and level playing field, because none of them have earned the right to use their rank yet.
Bullshit. Army always says it’s nice only on video
This is toned down from when I joined the Air Force directly after 9/11. We had 2 minutes to eat and never had 2 seconds of calm. They had us on our toes, nervous, anxious and uncomfortable through the entirety of basic. We were at war and they were preparing us for the shit. I miss the hell out of it.
Army BCT in 1981 was a blip. Mostly I remember life in my permanent duty stations.
That was combat not really a war. I feel like Vietnam and prior was the last we actually been at war though it technically wasnt a war. I'm more scared about what will come with Russia or China
Everyone’s saying 2 minutes to eat but that shit never existed unless your BCT was some shit. Yeha it’s watered down now but you should’ve at least gotten 5 minutes.
i remember drill sergeant allowing us to get ice cream at the dfac and everybody thought it was a trap.
Was it?
@@oversizednoveltycheck6978 For me it was. I don't even remember my basic unit but I went to Leonard Wood in 2015 and the Drill Sergeant said, "Calories in, calories out." You could have the ice cream but you'd have to burn those empty calories. No one ate ice cream. Or the desserts.
Ice cream is just milk, cream, and sugar. It’s not really that bad for you unless you eat it all the time
We were "allowed" to get ice cream, but the drills stressed the fact that i guess the ice cream machine basically never gets cleaned, and told us to eat at our own risk.
In 2014 a lot of us had looked up dos and donts of basic training and ait, and this was one of them. Whenever ice cream or cookies were served at the dfac we all pretty much ignored them. But the DSs at Benning laid a huge trap in the form of an MFA day for the 4th of July. We were dead in the middle of white phase and figured that because it was a holiday, that there wasn't any chance of us being put to work of any sort. Especially because our DSs told us that we wouldn't be doing any scheduled training for the day. We marched to a park and met up with hundreds of other trainees NCOs and officers from sand hill. they had food stands, beer stands, a talent show, games, the whole nine. Most of us indulged in the food stands, shit I myself had funnel cake and soda, some candy, other things. Man when it was over we hit formation, started marching back, and about three minutes later, we heard those dreaded two words: double time. Most of us, including myself, barfed on that 3 mile run back to the barracks. The DSs got us good that day😂
"Perenthial vision" "you don't have to think i do that for you" gawd damn
Felt sorry for these recruits. The US Army must be totally desperate for leadership if they're having people like her in charge who can't even speak English to begin with.
@@jeffburnham6611 Welcome to modern America where the bottom of the barrel is the leadership and where we get CANCELLED for pointing out the problems with the process
@@jeffburnham6611 even when she screams you can't hardly hear her what if there was explosions going off in the background how can she be intimidating when she's a foot shorter than everybody else and fat
Goddamn y'all are savage
@@jeffburnham6611 They're just preparing them for life in the corporate world after the military. Where you are promoted to the level of your incompetency and anyone above you knows less than you.
I remember having side step screamed in my Face. The people serving us looked like they felt bad cause I looked so young and they whispered for God's Sake Side Step. lol
Thank you soo much! I honestly laughed out loud reading this. It's amazing how unfun basic was, but know it is so funny to reminisce about the things we went through.
This made me laugh and cry, because it was so kind for them to whisper that. 🤣🤣😢😢🤣
I didn’t go through this,but I’m watching from the comfort of my bed. And glad I’m here! ❤😊 Thanks to everyone who did go through this!
I remember being on chow detail during week six or seven on one side of the dfac. Then right next to us another company started Day 0 first meal. My drill sergeant looked at us and laughed and said, “Remember when that was y’all?” Good times.
Yep, up until that one guy takes a slice of pie 😔
Ours said if you keep staring over there you’re gonna join them lol
KP towards the end of basic was always fun.
NEVER TRUST ARMY NAVY AIRFORCE GOVEREMNT DOCOTORS TEACHERS BIG CHAIN STORES NEVER TRUST THEM ONE BIT THEY ARE THUGS LIARS, PEDOPFILE PROCTECTORS, CROCKS, SELLING EVERYTHING
@@meme-hz8hu what? Can you speak non metal illness?
“I dare you to grab a rice krispy treat, trainee” Fort Sill 2018
Drill Sergeant the tax payers paid good money for that Rice Krispie treat.
This recruit wants to ensure fraud waste and abuse is not happening.
You had rice crispys, we had Mrs. Field's cookies, we used to use the peanut butter packets to make high calorie sandwiches. Sill 2014
That’s crazy, ever had DI took your slice of bread off your tray and stomp on it and tell you to pick it up and eat it bitch
@@gogurtz1738 dam marine!
if you don't accept challenges you might be in the wrong job.
“CHOW FORMATION!!” 🤣 This brings back soooo many memories!!! Thanks for sharing this!!
Yes it does. We were the company on the other side laughing at y'all while you did your "Bodybags to the Incinerator" skit. 😄
We did the chow formation call and echo at Leonard Wood too but it wasn't like the video. Squads 2 and 3 jumped to merge with 1 and 4
@@DTG_LOCKETT omg I also from Echo at Fort Leonard Wood too
@@jenawheeler5436 E-5-10 year 1990
@@DTG_LOCKETT Echo 3-10 year 2021
😂😂😂 dude when you said " you dont have to think , i do that for you" i lost it. That shit was so funny and such a good insult 😂 ima use that. I literally looked through your channel to find that joke. You do a grest job drill sgt.
These are one of the memories tucked into a special place I don’t ever access. Thank you for digging them back out😂😭
I remember my first breakfast in Navy boot way back in '77. The cook threw some grits on my tray and I remember, being a Yankee, thinking "that's the damned runniest oatmeal I've ever seen". lol
As a Southerner, I can say that water with ground corn has no business being called grits.
Navy booty
Same 😂
I thought the grits were Cream of Wheat😁 (Yankee from California, USAF basic, 1975). My wife, Okie, loves grits.
When I visited Florida years back I had to order some grits just to see what it was.
The legendary perenthial vision technique, when perfected, will give the ability to see straight thru glass objects
You Drill Sgts , my dad (Prior service and former Drill Sgt) and all the service members have been a role model for me and I not only want to be able to represent my family , my future family, country etc , but all you guys who make us the soldiers to be. Im currently awaiting my orders ,MOS 11B , and ship date . I want to make you guys proud and myself . Thank you for your what you guys do .
Stay the Course and you will!! 20 year AF Vet, soon to be Retiree 2003-2025
11B are you crazy? That mos is pure torture! I was a 19D and watched those 11B’s suffer in the field to a point where I almost pitied them. Have fun when at sand hill! Lmao!
Yoooo you know whats funny is that they changed it to 19D XD Best decision ever tho I was sent back home because a private fucked me up during red phase and got injured as a result and sent me home on medical . But Im awaiting to be able to reinlist sadly . I say sadly cause I didnt finish and it fucking sucks man ...... @@SteveSmith-eb6ze
God Be With You. I was a 11Bravo Nam 68.
Former 12b20, respect and support to you brother.
“It puts the cups to chest or it gets the front lean and rest.”
Buffalo Drill?
At least you tried...
I woke up singing a cadence I hadn't thought about in 20 years. Man it brought back memories. BCT was one of the best and worst experiences of my youth.
A MILITARY. THING ???????
HOW MANY OF US START WALKING BY STEPPING OFF. WITH OUR LEFT FOOT. ???????????
( YOUR LEFT YOUR LEFT YOUR. LEFT RIGHT LEFT , DON'T BE
" OUT OF STEP " . )
These were all my drill sgts in basic I am smiling remembering all of the amazing moments I had with them. I would do anything to see all of them and shake their hand and thank them.
Y’all had DS Austin too?
are they still as tough as they are in the video or are they softer now
Same here!
Is that last DS shown, named Lawson? If he is, I deployed with him twice back in the day!! He's a good dude.
Having gone through this nearly 4 years ago, I do not think I'd be able to do it again without breaking down in fits of laughter. The other side of the army really puts this all into perspective.
DS Ullom aswell? Damn this is bringing back memories. I respect that man, always taught the PLT lessons & heart to heart moments. He was the glue of the PLT alongside DS Kay who always gave us motivation to push forward. They both went through the obstacle course & lead from the front.
Yo girl nailed it.... “ you don’t have to think, I do it for you. 😂
Thank you Senior!!!!
My husband is a Navy Chief and he still eats every meal in like 15 seconds no matter the meal
Somehow it’s comforting to watch this and remember
I agree
Ft. Sill 1984: A recruit was telling the cook how he wanted his eggs during our first breakfast....neither the cook or the DS cared for some reason. It did not go well.....
DAMN. I assume that went swimmingly
😂😂😂😂😂
I dont think he had an issue with the eggs again after that episode.
He did not make anymore egg requests...
Heh. I bet there was some apathy on their parts.
I was impressed they got to what looked like finishing their plates. I went through at 18 I'm 36 now, and to me that seemed to be a godly first meal.
What part of put everything on your tray, don't you understand lol
I'm gonna put it in my pockets for later on so I can eat were its more quiet how a dog would do
best time of my life was Army basic training. i learned alot about people and about myself
“Everything goes on your TRAAAAY” in sequence 😭
Definitely nicer than my Drills were at Benning
Right!
Ds will shove a rank in our face and if we got it wrong back of the line lol
Yes it was a little different. Infantry 2003.
For sure. Think this was at relaxin Jackson
NEVER TRUST ARMY NAVY AIRFORCE GOVEREMNT DOCOTORS TEACHERS BIG CHAIN STORES NEVER TRUST THEM ONE BIT THEY ARE THUGS LIARS, PEDOPFILE PROCTECTORS, CROCKS, SELLING EVERYTHING
Great to see some things never change. "Eat it now - taste it later!"
I was waiting for that line to drop.....
To think Drill Sgt Cass play3d by Gr3gory Hin3s says that in R3nnaisanc3 Man
I was wondering has anyone couldnt memorize the soldier creed general orders and ethos in basic training
As I look back 40 years ago, I can’t believe I actually endured basic training
Me too. Did my BT at Ft. Dix, NJ in Nov. 1986. That's nearly 36 years ago!
Yea but when we were in me about 55 years ago it was way different than that. Did you see any women in uniform, nope, how about pick out what you wanted to eat like a casino buffet, nope. This looks more like summer camp to me.
@@vietnamvet4533 So women in uniform are bad?
@@WanderingLibertarian Well as nurse no, as combat soldiers what do you think?
@@vietnamvet4533I’m a female US Army soldier. Active. Pretty shitty that you think females who want to fight for their country are worthless. I had a higher PT SCORE than most for the guys in my basic training who were basically twigs, I was honored to even gain the respect of my drills for being “high speed”. It’s not the Stone Age anymore. If a woman wants to sign her name on the dotted line? By all means. Just makes me think of you as a pos because there are women who have died for their country just for you to say that? Disgusting and disrespectful.
*Drops Fork
Drill Sgt : Apologize to it
Trainee : Sorry Fork
😂😂😂
Omg yesss, this was the funniest
What’s the time stamp? I missed it😭
We had to go through the horizontal ladder outside the chow hall before every meal. The fat boys who couldnt do it got sent to the back of the line. Last in first out they didnt have time to get a full meal. They lost a lot of weight but failed to meet minimum pt standards and got recycled.
Ha ha...not too many people know what "recycled" means in basic training. That means "Motivational Platoon" and it really sucks.
Ahhh memories 🥰🥰 It seems like only yesterday I was being screamed at, sidestepping through the chow line at Ft. Benning. Good times....
Did basic in the summer of 1990. Became an electrician after i got out. To this very day, i still take a 30" step. Which she describes at the 1 minute mark. I've stepped of MILES of wire pulls using the number of steps x 2.5 feet. Amazes guys with how accurate i am.
I remember in the chow hall hearing "FOOD TASTE BETTER WHEN YOU'RE HEELS TOGETHER" at least 500 times!! Good times lol
I went through Basic & AIT in March-July 95' at Ft McClellan. Such great memories. Seems like yesterday in my mind's eye. Wish I could rewind the clock & do it all over again.
Also I was an infantry OSUT DS at Benning. 3 months with those kids. I had more weapons pointed at me than I did by the Taliban and Al Queda. Lol
What I like about this is it was very productive. I’m not a fan of yelling unnecessarily, but this got the job done and sets a standard early on
Yeah. They don't value you. Don't re enlist.
This looks so fun . Im 19 and I wish i can enlist. I tried to in 2020 and then in 2021 for the Army. The ASVAB is the one that stops me. I know its a simple test. But im a terrible test taker with arithmetic mathematics and a history of a learning disability with math throughout my academic life. I did good on the practice tests the recruiters gave me but then did horrible at the verification test at MEPS. And it made me so upset because joining the Army was my passion.
I hope that one day maybe in the future i can try again. Id love to have this experience. Great video!
search "grammar hero" on UA-cam, do the practice test and study!
Do like alexandrang9409 suggested, and try again. Good luck to you, the military needs guys like you who won't quit.
Things that look 'fun' aren't so fun in person.
Watching a lot of videos like this because I am super close to reaching my weight goal to join the military. My brother was an Army Ranger and I was inspired to stop being a fat ass and join the army. I lost over 60 pounds and these videos really motivate me to push harder. Being fat kinda helped me thought because it was like a bulk/food surplus so now I have huge muscles from resistance training (weights and other stuff) I just have to lose maybe another 20 pounds (which I did easily in a month and a half) and then I'll be ready.
Hope you made it!
So, what you're saying is there IS hope for this new generation. Outstanding job by you. Keep up the good work. The right way is often the hardest way, but you seem to have the right attitude. Drive on!
I miss life before covid.
Me too we all do
I'm calling it now, 2020 can bite my ass, hopefully things can get back to normal
I actually like staying inside and away from people lol.
Dont give covid any more power than it deserves
@@prancer1803 I don’t
I went to the same place in this video back in 06' (I remember thousands of people being at the reception barracks - right next to the DS Academy, it was packed), the DFAC was the one place the DS were not yelling at you. Everyone stood up behind their seats until the entire platoon had their food - then everyone sat down and you had 5 minutes to eat. At 5 minutes they would say "3rd platoon, you're done" everyone would get up, turn their trays in, and exit the DFAC. No unnecessary yelling or anything. I guess the mentality was a bit different, they said 90% of everyone going there would be in Iraq/Afghanistan within 1 year of leaving BCT (during the surge). We still got smoked all day/every day (including directly outside the DFAC) - but inside the DFAC was the chill zone. Got to get them calories in...
US Navy here. We shipped out on the same plane as the army recruits. I always wondered what they went through when they arrived.
Omg the whole holding arm to the front and looking over to your right brings back memories of my NJROTC days
Wow! Not much has changed since I was in BCT during the Vietnam Days. I remember trying to eat off my tray as the DI's were screaming "Get out of the Mess Hall".
I learned to never be the Last Man in line because the Last Man had to hold the Mess Hall Door open for the Trainees to enter the Mess Hall. After all were inside, the Last Man was the last one to get served chow resulting in the DI's screaming "To get out".
I remember standing at Parade Rest, Coming to Attention, Stepping Forward, then Back to Parade Rest Again in the line.
I remember no talking in the Mess Hall. I remember not being allowed to drink soda pop. We were only allowed to drink water, milk, juice, or punch. We were not allowed cake, cookies, or pie because it made you Fat. The Fat Boys were on a diet of Salad only.
The DI's ran us and we did so much PT we all dropped 20-30 pounds or more. At the end of AIT, I had lost a total of 20 pounds. One Recruit lost 50 pounds. He was very tall and big when he started BCT. At the end of AIT, he was all trimmed his family could not believe it was him. We called him "Big Foot".
Not much has changed except when I was in the Army, the DI's CURSED at us all the time. I was at Ft. Benning The Home of Infantry so we did not have Female DI's. Females were not allowed to serve in Combat Arms Mos back then.
Oh they still cuss constantly, they just have to keep it under wraps when there's cameras around.
@@livingdeadty Ok, thanks. Back in the Seventies, it was in the open like you see in the Movies The Boys in Company C and Full Metal Jacket with Lee Emery playing the DI. it was like that, constabt Cursing and Verbal Abuse Breaking You Down, Making You Feel Like Crap All The Time So You Learn To Conform And Do Things The Army Way.
They The DI Transform US From Being A Bunch Of Uncoordinated Out Of Shape Knuckleheads Into A Team Of Soldiers Who Were Ready To Kill The Enemy. When The DI Ssid Move, We Moved.
I look back on those years and have no regrets because it taught me to survive, never quit or give up, and how to lead and not be a follower. It also taught me how to be strong and overcome fear. It made me grow up especially when I got promoted to SGT and then to SSG
I was in BCT 1970. The DS were tough and hard!! They used the 'hands on' approach and verbal abuse. You were called a trainee, not soldier!! You just sucked it up and trained. With a shooting war going on, there was no time to spare your feelings!!!!
Ten years later, I returned to BCT as a Senior Drill Sergeant. Times had changed. The type of soldier changed and the 'rules of engagement' a DS could use had changed. You could still be firm in training, just not like WE had back in 1970!!!! HOOAH!!!!
One of our last meals at FLW MO, C-4-3, Jan 85, SSG Vasquez jumped out of his seat, ready to scream because of the noise, and caught himself. “Come on. Keep it down, fellas.” Those last few bites of food were the sweetest.
In between basic and AIT we had a Thanksgiving break. I had eaten my entire Thanksgiving dinner before my family had gotten finished loading their plates...anybody else experience a similar?
I did basic at FLW summer of 1988. 32 years later, I still hear 'you ate that fast'.
I did basic at Leonard Wood too in 1990. When I eat in a rush my wife usually stares at me with her mouth open like she's watching a magic trick
A MILITARY CHOW DOWN ,
HURRY UP , THERE'S THINGS TO DO , " YOUR MILITARY'S. TIMED EVENT " . " CHOW TIME " !!!!!!!!
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@Nicholas TV trying to promote the brand. What up.
Probably the most stressful yet most anticipated moments during Basic. You hate to go but want to so bad bc We all gotta eat...but do it the Army way. "Eat now. Taste later...and MAKE A SAMMICH!"
What is the army way of taking a dump?
I did basic back in the early 90's at Ft.Sill. The food there was not bad at all, which was a pleasant surprise from what I was expecting. The D.S. really didn't mess with you too much during lunch, except to get you through the line and out of the chow hall ASAP.
I am actually surprised to see how similar the chow hall experience was to Marine Boot Camp in 1986 - They would shove us a-hole to belly-button thru the line and you had to scarf your food or not eat. This was surprisingly close.
My dad said that was how the Airforce was in '73. They kept telling them, "make the guy in front of you smile." He said you had about a minute to eat and out the door. Seeing the comments on a lot of videos, it seems the Airforce has changed a bit since those days.
He taught us to eat that way lol. Get it on a plate and woof it down. My wife hates it that I eat so fast, but that's the way I was raised.
Nut to butt!
Only marines think they’re different than the other branches
I am now 57 and still eat fast after USAF basic in 1984. We also had to sidestep down the line, but they didn't really yell at us unless someone was being stupid.
Army BCT 1971...drill sergeants would yell, "Make your buddy giggle!"
“MY FOOD TASTES BETTER WITH MY HEELS TOGETHER!” Lmaoooo
Gotta love it when DS pre-lubricates your plate with spit before you actually are served any food. 50+ years and I still remember...
It was hell when you were there, hilarious when you're not
If I remember correctly, on the order of “cover”, nobody should move their head at all. To completely align your squad you want to do a right face and then a dress-right-dress. Then again perhaps the army changed this again, lol.
Flashbacks from basic training at Benning, July 2006. I didn't want to be a drill when I was in, but looking back now that I'm a civilian again, I should have definitely went for it. It looks awesome.
BCT in 1969. Vietnam in 1970 and 71.. To this day I can remember my drill sergeants, SDI, XO and CO. What I learned 55 years ago when we held an M14 and we were constantly reminded that we were going to die, was that the human mind can only entertain one thought at a time. You can’t concentrate on how badly it hurts if you’re retracing the route from the college lab to the parking lot to your car. That got me through forced marches, endless drills, et cetera. I’d like to have a 20 year old body and go through it again. Went in at 215 and came out at 195.
Ahh the memories of going through this back in July 2003. Chilling in my bed now just watching and chilling 😎 I was the jokester in my platoon, so I steadily in the front lean position 😂
Basic was not this “calm” when I did Leonard wood in 86’.
I never looked DS Harbison in the eyes cause he scared tf outta me but he’s my fav DS 😂
He was suppose to be my senior then I moved to alpha, no slack Ahahah 4-39 💪🏼
DS WILEY, Stewart and Ramirez are still my favorite.
My 101st air born basic training the drill sargents gave you 3 minutes eat crackers and milk. you won't see hod dogs or hamburgers or anything sweet, they won't to put"0" fat on you. 3 minutes then the chair is kicked out from under you for 20 pushups.
Lmao those Sodexo employees were prolly like “wtf is going on” 😂😂
They're used to it. "Another beginning to a training cycle.."
Upmost respect for the people that went through this, I feel like it would be so hard not to say something back with someone yelling in your ear about absolutely nothing.
You have to understand that they are putting on a character. I'm sure some start to think they really are that character but it's not supposed to be personal. Growing up, I've delt so much real screaming/yelling, that when I watch videos like this, it's comical. I bust up laughing. They're screaming at you to help you operate under pressure. Alot of people freeze up when yelled up and can't even complete simple tasks such as putting food on their plates. I want to join army infantry but am re learning math from scratch since I was always horrible at it. I watch these videos to see get a slight idea of what to expect.
@@MichaelAMyers1957 Yeah I wrestled my whole life and my dad was a Vietnam vet, I’ve been yelled at plenty trust me. And I know military people hate when you say it but someone gets in my face screaming I have to react. Even if that guy is three times my size.
To be honest Basic Training was the most fun part of being in the military. Got yelled at plenty but did some extraordinary things. Would not trade that experience for anything.
@@lisamueller7026 People in the military get treated like shit and don’t make hardly any money. Again upmost respect for those who choose to do it, just not for me.
@@austinspray9152 They get a lot of benefits like the Gi bill and all that. Plus the basic training was actually really fun for me !! Made a lot of new friends and the experience was sooo much fun. This was the first time I was away from my family and that too for 2 months straight for basic training till graduation. No phones at all except sundays; that too for 15-20 mins. I remember getting smoked because someone in my platoon was on the phone for like 1-2 minutes longer than the time allocated. All in all I’d say this was one of the best 2 months in my life if not the best 😇. After we learn everything and how to behave, it’s sooo much easier and the drill sergeants joked around with us all the time. They are soooo cool !! I’d love to meet my drill sergeants some time again in the future. I don’t care what anyone says, my company had the best and coolest drill sergeants ever 😁. Sadly I’m done with basic training which is the best part about joining the military. I’d do basic again if I could 😅. Fun times !!!
I was thinking like damn they really getting soft on em them BOOM all hell breaks loose in the DFAC 🤯🤯🤯... good times
I went through that in 1970. The cooks loaded our trays with crap and we had 2 minutes to eat.
This is nothing like what Benning was 15 years ago. Ahhh the memories...
I made the mistake once getting butter for my bread 😂
Because it’s Jackson lmao.
Fort Knox was way tougher. Stationed at Benning. Kelly Hill. 3rd Id
At benning if you ate food you were wrong. No time for that.
This is absolute ✨music to my ears✨
“Excuse me. I’d like this medium rare, please.”
39 years ago for me. I remember that they brought us in from the field for Thanksgiving. The next day we went to White Sands, NM. The following Friday we returned to the field. Good times
It’s crazy! Those were my drill sergeants! That was my senior drill at the end. I ate in that DFAC
Awesome!
What Fort is this?
Was there a drill sergeant pesantes?
I was at Jackson in 2000, actually started at Knox, got recycled after a right heel stress fracture. Just retired
This was truly one of the craziest days of my young life lol
But best days!
Thank you to all new recruits and veterans alike for your service.
Back in 75 we had a whole lot different drill Sargent back then in the morning we ran 4 miles then monkey bars straight in to chow hall he would tell us got 5 mins to get get chow and eat then he would say take all you want and eat all you take. Then he would stand by the trash can to watch that we ate everything!
Yep, PT first thing, then chow. And if it goes on your tray, you're eating it. Good times.
“Chew it now, taste it later” haven’t heard that one lol
I know this is a month old but I heard that in my house all the time I guess that's what I get for being in a family where I will be the fourth generation of G (insert last name here) sorry I won't disclose my last name when my first is my username but yeah back to my great grandfather they were all george's and had the same last name. My dad didn't have a boy and none of my other siblings would so I am the last hope, and no I don't feel obligated to do it for only that reason. Man that was long winded for such a simple explanation sorry
Your videos are motivating me for my journey to the army
So I went into the Army during Covid, in 2030 in the winter. Due to the quarantine the chow hall was closed to everyone, so all we had on the field were MREs and Hot As. The first time my platoon went into chow was for Thanksgiving. It wasn't as aggressive as this, but still had the same amount of pressure.
I'm currently on a re-enlistment program back to Fort Sill. I will be going through all of this again, with the knowledge I have from the first time around.
It just doesn’t seem a scary as when I want through. Of course I’m now sitting in my lazy boy watching. There is that.
Heading there today. Gonna be an adventure for sure
If given the opportunity 31 years later is sign up in less than a minute... Honestly besides being continually tired it was a good experience...
Interesting, in Navy boot camp, the RDCs left us alone while eating, unless we were being screwups.
Hello MRE my old friend, I've came to eat you again.
I've been given item number 13.
I took a sip out of my canteen.
This food makes me want to put a knife in my brain.
And this is the chow of silence.