United States Army Basic Combat Training FIRST MEAL

Again, from the description, this is PRE COVID. This was filmed awhile back, and I decided to finally release it!

Who else went through this and is now watching this in the comfort of their bed

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.

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.

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.

2 hours waiting to go inside 2 seconds to actually eat.

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.

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.

10 seconds after sitting down for first chow in 2001 . "Get up, you're done! 😂 "

My food tastes better when my heels are together. Remember this from Fort Leonard Wood 😭🤣

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.)

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.

When you realize the chow hall is scarier than "The First 100 yards"...

best time of my life was Army basic training. i learned alot about people and about myself

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 .

FYI for civvies: this is the nice version since they know they’re being recorded. 😂😂😂 Fort Silly Sill, summer 2007.

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 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...

😂😂😂 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.