British Guy Reacts to US Military Bootcamp *BRUTAL*

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Being the tallest in your BCT platoon/company is hell. You stick out so much that you become the automatic favorite of the Drill Sergeants. I was always the demonstration dummy, the heavy equipment mover and detail leader.

Army bootcamp is soft. They even get to go home for Christmas. Might as well join the Air Force.

I feel bad for them, it ain’t shit anymore and mine wasn’t shit compared to the gen before me

The taste of an MRE isn't terrible by any means. It's just there's a lot of salt and they're packed with calories so you definitely wouldn't want to eat more than one.

Look up us army ranger hell week

When you see the blue ring on the brown round

Check out Marine Corps boot camp.

MRE's are delicious.

I was very skeptical about the MREs, but it isn’t too bad surprisingly.

You should react to infographics USA vs. the world.

In 1972, at Ft Sam Houston, Texas, me and 599 other nurses took Basic Training. We were the first unit of nurses to be taught to fire weapons because the year before according to the training Sergeant we had lost nurses who elected to stay with their patients too badly injured to be evacuated and the Viet Cong over ran their field hospital. None of the Sergeants had trained women to fire weapons. We trained on M16's which was a light weapon then M60 machine guns. Since none of us were strong enough to fire the M60 standing we fired it from a prone position. We actually did well, impressed our instructors, did a credible job hitting the targets. The weapon had a bit of a kick but if I held it tight to my right shoulder I could hit the target with a decent degree of accuracy and it did not hurt. So after we got off duty me and my 1buddies went into town for supper. When we returned the barracks were going insane, girls running around, screaming and laughing and just going nuts. I grabbed a nearly hysterical girl and asked her what was happening and she flipped up her blouse and hollered, "I've got a blue boob!" at the top of her lungs. She did, indeed, have a blue boob. So me and buddies yanked our blouses up and sure enough we all had one pink breast and one blue breast. The recoil from the M60 machine gun had caused bruising and bleeding and since we were lying prone on the ground the blood seeped into the right breast and voila, BLUE BOOBIE! Now we are as hysterical as the rest of our unit. I headed for my room and called home. My Dad answered the phone whereupon I yelled just like the girl I had buttonholed, "Dad, Dad, I got a blue boob." The conversation went downhill from there as my Dad who was laughing helplessly tried to explain this bizarre exchange to my Mom who was Italian and not prone to patience with hysterical kids. I don't know which one of us was laughing harder in the end me, Mom or Dad. The parents had expected many new experiences would happen to me in the military but none of us expected a blue boob. The next morning the training Sergeants had heard of this peculiar phenomenon visiting their female soldiers...none of them could look us in the face. They were so embarrassed, nobody had any idea this would happen. We new nurses were thrilled to pieces, we felt like Amazons which I think finally helped the sergeants feel better about the incident. That was one of the funniest things that happened to me in the Army, I was never again impressed with the weapons...I was an Amazon!

When I was in US Air Force Basic Training, the Training Instructors were a lot like this. I had only been in training for about a week, before I had to go into the hospital for several days, and when I came out, I was put into a different unit because my original unit had moved on. The Training Instructor of the new unit was totally different from practically any other. He was really nice, and cared about his troop instead of trying to degrade us. One night, a brand new unit moved in to the barracks next door to us, and their Training Instructor couldn't be there to greet them, so our TI stayed their first night with them. He brought in some of the guys from our unit to serve as guards since the new guys didn't know any of the procedures. At one point, our guy was guarding the door, and our TI yelled at him from upstairs, "Door guard, get up here right this minute!" The new guys looked terrified, like, "OMG, what did he do?" Our guy went running up to the office and saluted as you do, and presented himself. Our TI asked him, "You want some coffee?" Our last night of training was a couple of days before Christmas, and our TI brought Christmas cookies that his wife had baked.

If you try an MRE try the chilimac, it is the best!

Give guns a shot (no pun intended) if you ever come here. Go to a range and just ask them for the safety instructions and take something small out there to shoot. I find most people would like a gun or at least understand them more if they shot them. They're fun if you learn them.

You think basic training is brutal? Oof. God bless.

DO NOT eat the Country Captain Chicken as your first MRE. In fact, don't eat that one ever!

I went in 2010. "Back in my day " shit was so different,nd way different 10 years before that. Alot of the changes are not good in my opinion. That's why retention rates are so low

Navy Boot Camp wasn’t too bad for me but the Marines have it the hardest made me grateful for my PT sessions

Lol been there done that over 10 years ago

Too much yakkin not enough video, hard to watch very long too many interruptions

I joined the Army out of high school and went to One Station Unit Training, called OSUT, which we of course came to call OhShit. The drill sergeants were fierce. But also fair and incredibly professional. They never laid a hand on me. They didn't have to. The drill sergeants set an example of what a soldier was expected to be. They had a fixed period of time to train me as a basically qualified soldier and teach me those things that would keep me alive in combat. They didn't have time or tolerance for me to be lazy, to goof off, or to not pay attention. Looking back, I now understand that there was a reason for all of it. There are two people in my life I'll never forget. My first girlfriend and my drill sergeant. I wish I could see my drill sergeant again. I would thank him for all he taught me. He made me a better person not just in the military, but in life. If I had a choice between seeing my drill sergeant or my first girlfriend again, I'd choose my drill sergeant. The military gave me the money to go to university classes when I was off duty. I graduated with an MBA. It sent me to numerous countries where I experienced other cultures. It expanded my experience of the world, and of life, so much that when I go back home again, I have difficulty connecting with those who stayed in that same place, doing the same things, for all of their lives. And I say to myself: "there but for the grace of God go I."

I did that a long time ago when it was a lot worse. I was in the Air Force.

No people piss us off.

If someone yelling at you is too much for you, combat will be impossible for you.

It's really not as bad as the video makes it out to be. After the first couple of weeks, you get into a routine (sort of) and the screaming in your face isn't as frequent or random. You actually have to screw up to get a Drill Sgt in your face. OSUT and BAC were actually a cake walk compared to what we went through at our permanent duty station. That's where the real training begins. FTX with no sleep for days, 12 mile ruck marches in under 3 hours, and all the bullshit details you could ever dream of!

They tear you down and then build you up; they do it with love, LOL. Seriously, once you go through this, your self confidence is through the roof and you feel like you can take on anything.

Brutal???

on the contrary MRE's are delicious

SHOW THE PEANUT BUTTER SHOT!!!

women do have their own barracks

MRE s arent bad. I still cant stand the smell of the heat bag.

I was in during the transition from C Rations to MRE rations. A huge improvement. I still remember how surprised I was on my first MRE, and there was a strawberry dessert. It was so good, that I could not believe it. But we did have to start bringing used food cans, well, those of us that trained with c rations and learned some tricks. Like how to make a cooking stove, using an old can, dirt, and gas, and making traps. I imagine that knowledge is lost nowadays.

I went through NAVY boot camp in '82. It's much easier than Army or Marines. We were yelled at to where they spit in your face.
Put us through Hell, but were not allowed to physically touch us.
If one screwed up, we all paid for it.
In contrast, my Dad went in mid 50's. Nothing was off limits. They could do anything to anyone. One Chief didn't like a guys nasal hair. So he removed it with a lighter. Dad has all kinds of stories, making me so grateful mine was 30 yrs later. I would not have made it through his.
He was actually surprised I made it through, because, as he put it, "You'd cry if someone looked at you wrong." I would never do it again. You either have to have the want & desire to be there, or you don't. I only served my 4 year enlistment. It just wasn't for me. And Thank God, my job was on a Master Jet Base, keeping the maintenance records of aircraft. I would never have to be a "hardened soldier". Would Never see any action.
Those who serve, have my deepest respect & appreciation.

You stop the video to often.. and I'm sorry you talk to much & loudly..

Went through basic way back in '91 it was only 8 weeks long but very intense from this video basic has become longer but so much easier to get through. The yelling started the day you arrived & didn't stop till graduation time, & during the final field exercise you crawled under the barbed wire the D.I. fired live m60 rounds above your head & explosives were set off in pits we had to crawl by much more realistic training, hearing the wine of bullets flying overhead and not panicking is vital to military personnel

I went to US Navy boot camp in San Diego back in the early 1980's and we had semi-regular nightly "visits" by Navy SEAL's who would come over from their base near Coronado to inflict their version of "Physical Persuasion" on us poor boots. Needless to say, we were well motivated after a couple hours of their attention to our new career choice. Nothing like having a dozen 180kg killing machines mashing you into the drill field on a semi-regular basis doing exercises until they puked... These kids in the video had it easy.

My grandson just went thru 6 weeks of officers training at fort Knox this past summer. Whew

These boys are made into men. They have a Brotherhood that only they understand. Thank God for the United States of America Army

Fort Benning Georgia

Damn, this guy talked more than the video! Couldn’t let it play for 2 minutes without interrupting. Disgusting!

I also think we have too go too over too other countries too help clean up the mess and too help keep the peace as well we always don't make other countries mad

That's just one location where bootcamp is held. Unless something has changed since I was in, bootcamp is held in several locations in the country mainly in the Midwest and the south. Also, to my knowledge not all training stations are gender integrated.

This is the Army the Military is what you call all of the military branches. So the Army is a military branch

Yes, I went through bootcamp that was like this. No physical contact with us though. Lots and lots of yelling in our faces all the time.

"The U.S. pisses a lot of people off" So does and has a lot of other countries regardless of the wrong or right reasons.

It's the guys that don't think they can make it that do. The ones that think they are already bad ass that get the shock of their life. I had some what of a leg up because my whole family is military so I knew I wasn't shit going in. Can't believe they are doing away with the shark attack. That was the one thing after you seen it, you were like I do want that to happen to me so you paid more attention.