Why Military Boot Camp is Tough

Between 150 people, we had two horse trailers to fit on. We carried two large duffle bags, one on our back and another on our front. Our face crammed in our bags, getting screamed at by who we would shortly find out is the company’s Senior Drill Sergeant, and all you could smell is sweat, fear, and tears. When we arrived to Echo Company we were placed into platoons and shoved and pushed off of the trailer. Everyone got in a single file line and dropped their bags dress right dress. A lot of people struggled with this for some reason, between drill sergeants a little too close to you and getting screamed at for looking around some cracked under the pressure. The first three weeks of Basic Training is “Red Phase.” During Red Phase you receive death by power point everyday on anything that has ever happened in the Army, and the fundamentals of what you are expected to do over the next 9 weeks. During red phase your Drill sergeants work 20 hours of the day. They hate Red Phase just as much as you do. They tell you when to wake up, utilize the latrine, eat, and put you to bed every day. This is the phase that you lean everything you need to know when it comes to talking to a noncommissioned officer and anyone else of a high ranking in the military. “White Phase” is four weeks long. This is where you are given your first shot at freedom, or what your Drill Sergeants consider freedom. You are not around a drill sergeant

The next weeks were filled with classes and exercises, waking up before the sun and not getting enough sleep. During my classes I learned not only survival skills but skills that would help me pick my rate in the Navy. Although the exercising was brutal, it taught me self discipline and will power. Along with the skills I learned in class, I was also taught how to be a proper military member. I was taught that my shoes always needed to be shiny and my uniforms were always to be ironed. When I was not in classes, I was in tech training. Tech training was the time where I learned basic survival skills that would ensure my safety whether on the ship or on shore. In Tech training, I learned the skills of a Sailor. I learned to handle and shoot the M9 service pistol and M870 shotgun correctly. I also learned the basics of a seamanship which included basic water survival and fire fighting because a fire can break out on ship without any notice. While the time in boot camp was stressful, I can look back and see how it prepared me for the life ahead of me while I was serving on board the USS Enterprise. I left boot camp on January 23, 2002. years but it help shape me as a better

The Marine Corps has a twelve week required boot camp. When the New Marines, also known as Pullies, first arrive to either Paris Island or Sand Francisco, they have one scripted phone call to allow their families to know that they made it safely. For the first two weeks the new Pullie, cannot have outside communications to family or friends. When those two weeks are up they are then aloud to send letters, but they have to earn the credits to purchase the stamps and such needed. At the end of the eleventh week the Pullies go through what is called Hell Week, where they are not allowed to sleep for two days and nights, and still much preform at maxim compasity. When they are finished with their boot camp training they are allowed to see their family for a short amount of time before they graduate. After their graduation they have a ten day leave before they have to eather be deployed or continue on to a Marine Occupations Specialty School, MOS school.

I would like to share with you some of my experiences. I joined the military in 1996, after high school and I went directly to Marine boot camp. There I learned some of my most important personal values such as pride, perseverance, team work, and attention to detail. Marine Corps boot camp is an experience like no other I have had in the world and one I am immensely proud to have. I rose in the ranks quickly, I started as

Baca and 14 others, including area high school students and University of Central Florida students, were temporary army recruits during the UCF Knights Boot Camp, where 13 weeks of army basic training was condensed to two hours, March 19.

Every new service member must go through Basic Training for up to 12 weeks depending on the branch of service. The purpose of Basic Training is to indoctrinate the new service member into the ways of military life. New service members are taught to work as a group and set aside their individual thoughts and ideas. Strict obedience to military standards

The first regiment or battalion of the United States Marine Corps was created by an act of congress on November 10, 1775. At first the Marines helped the Navy and the Army for things that required troops who could fight on the sea and on land. The first battalions of the United States Marine Corps were led by Captain Samuel

At 17 Richard joined the Army. He went to basic training between his junior and senior year in high school at Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma. He describes basic training as 90% mental and 10% physical. He felt this was one of the easiest parts of his military service. He had to stay 2 weeks longer than he was supposed to because of an injury. At

The Marines is a military branch of the United States Armed Forces that assists army and naval forces at sea, in air, and on land. About 38,000 new recruits are accepted into the Marine Corps and trained each year. There is also approximately 182,000 active members and over 38,000 reserves.

Youth are also required to follow hard schedules of military boot camp activities, such as drill, manual labor, and physical training. Participants are woken up very early every morning and kept busy with tasks during the day, with little free time and often no choices. Rigorous rules are put in place to regulate conduct and appearance, and punishment for breaking the rules is swift and usually involves physical activity, such as pushups and sit ups and jumping jacks. Rehabilitative elements are often incorporated into the programs, such as classes and substance abuse and group counseling (Juvenile). Further, upon release, there are after-care programs typically implemented after graduation, such as abuse treatment, rehabilitative counseling, and intensive community supervision

The military boot camp was an 8 week long course. Boot camp in the wartime Marine Corps was a conveyor belt system that fed an incessant demand for fresh troops for the Fleet Marine Force. The recruits were subjected to a medical check and their health records were set-up. Then it was off to the administrative section for paperwork, dog tags, ID card, allotments, service record books, and issuance of the all-important service number. Somewhere during this process, the recruits were stripped of their hair in the cue ball style at the barber. “The road through boot camp was long and hard. Tireless amounts of energy, and hours were put into training.” They received their initial issue of clothing and 782 gear, drew rifles, received their first PX issue of personal items stowed in a brand new GI bucket. “The instructors keeping you on your toes, they didn’t take any shit, and they wouldn’t give you any if you kept up.” In boot camp, the recruit grew to know his rifle and developed an almost human relationship with it. Through its ' weight, their muscles developed and grew strong. By repeatedly working with there rifles, they learned discipline and teamwork. Not only did recruits have to work on the physical aspect of being a soldier, you had to also take the classes

Juvenile boot camps are typically a military and hard labor style environment that is completely separate from other prison or jail inmate. The military style gives offenders a strict and scheduled environment. Often offenders placed in boot camps are nonviolent and typically spend six months or less in the program. This program is often used as an alternative to a longer jail sentences. The goal of juvenile boot camps

AFEP Camp—Advanced Field Exercises and Physical Challenge Program is one of the many special training programs that Marines have the opportunity to take advantage of and earn certificates in their records while serving on active duty in the Corps. It is one of the most difficult and challenges programs in all the Corps advanced training and extension certification programs offerings. To earn the certification that it imparts means that you are one of the most physically adept and capable men in the Corps. The thing is that it’s so difficult that most of the men who sign up for the program end up dropping out within the first few days of its getting underway each cycle. I had been on the waiting list the AFEP for more than 14 months when I finally got the word that I had been given a spot.

Day two and forward we woke up at 4 am with yelling and screaming that we had 15 minutes to shower, shave and get in line for physical training and breakfast. Everything was 15 to 20 minutes including eating; you learn to eat real quickly. Training was tough but as the weeks went on it got easier. Then around week 4 we had to swim, I was never a strong swimmer so I was nervous but I made it through. Around week five it seemed they got a little easier and then explained that the toughness was to help us rely on each other and build the necessary teamwork within us all.

The discussions surrounding boot camps has always been extremely controversial. Many question the abilities of the inmates to learn with the strict military style regimen ( O’Neill, MaKenzie, and Bierie 2007). Although there are many basic similarities among the boot camps other aspects differ greatly. Each program is constructed differently with