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SGT Jensen wrote:
soloban wrote:
usaf wrote:
I leave for basic training monday.
Bet he's loving life right about now....Lets see today is Wednesday of week 0, should be round about haircut and uniform issue day.
Basic training for the Air Force can't be too bad. He is probably staying in a luxury hotel compared to the crap they give the Army and the Marines!
At the risk of completely derailing this topic.....
I picked the AF for a reason.:dude: AF BMT isn't all that bad. Food was great, dorms were A/C'd to the point that I used two blankets and slept in sweat pants in San Antonio in July! The TIs were hard on you for the first few weeks but they lightened up once you got your stuff together.
[funny story] My only complaint were the beds. One night a spring must have been pressing on my leg just right because when I jumped out of bed that morning it was completely dead. I fell flat on my a$$ when I stood up and it took about 3 minutes for the blood to recirculate and wake up the leg to where I could stand. Kind of freaked me out for a minute
[/funny story]
I went through it in 2004. Its 6 weeks and your days are for the most part:
For the first 4 weeks:
Wake up at 0445, form up at 0500, PT at 0515, Breakfast, Shower & Dorm Maintainance. After that its classroom time or marching or some other inprocessing thing. Lunch, more classroom or inprocessing or marching. Dinner, dorm time, shower, clean dorms, bed at 0930. As they issue you more uniforms, your dorm inspections get harder and harder.
At the end of week 4 you take a PT test and a written test, if you don't pass you do like Michael J. Fox and head back in time to another flight until you get it right. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. :lol:
Bringing this post back to firearms....
Week 5 they send you out in the field and do the fun stuff like shoot M-16s, Gas Chamber day, eat MREs, live in tents, confidence course, etc... I wish we could have got more than just 3 hours and 50 rounds with the M-16's. The one I was issused at the range wouldn't cycle after I fired off a round. I ended up using a spare that one of the instructors had brought along. From what I understand the Army and Marines get
a lot more time on the range. Back in '06 I heard they were issuing trainees a realistic but non-firing M-16 with a blue stock and body. They were supposed to carry it around from week 1 to week 5. The replica could be completely field stripped just like the real deal but the mag well and barrel were solid. I never heard if they decided if it was an effective training tool and kept it around. Maybe the OP can tell us when he gets internet again.
Week 6 is doing any final paperwork and getting orders for tech school. Practicing marching for graduation parade. Oh and they let everyone who is willing donate blood that week since their is a major hospital on base that always needs blood and plasma.
All in all, not that bad. They keep talking about wanting to add another week in between Week 5 and Week 6 and do more weapons training and stuff but it all boils down to $$. Repace 40 year old jets or add a week to BMT?