Whats the average day in boot camp..:)

Question

i want to know whats the physical training like like how many miles would you run and how many push ups and pull ups would ya do..?\

Thanks

Answer 1

Wake up before 530.

Shave even if you don't need it.

Physical Training.

10 mins to shower, change and be back outside.

Breakfast 5mins or less.

Some type of military training.

Lunch.

Training.

Dinner.

Classroom or "free time" to shine boots or figure out how to use the floor buffer.

Sleep.

"Fire watch" at odd hours of the night.

Repeat.

Include also

  yelling

  running

  doing things that don't make sense at first

  never letting your weapon out of reach

  always have your mask nearby

  

I'm sure someone said this already, but "boot camp" is a Marine term and from what I know, harder then the Army.

The Discovery channel had something on about this. It seemed pretty accurate to me.

Good luck. It will change your life for the better. It did for me.

Answer 2

depends. what branch of service are you talking about? army && national guard do basic together...but it's different from what air force does....which is different from what navy does...etc. etc.

they all have things in common....but each has a different purpose...so the basic training is going to be different.

be more specific

edit: i went to basic at fort jackson, sc && like the guy below me said, there's never an "average day". when i went in bct(basic combat training) was 9weeks, but now it's 10weeks. fort jackson is a support training fort so it's "easier" than if your bct is at an infantry fort, like fort sill. but anyways, bct consisted of getting screamed at on a daily basis, 5-7minutes to eat, if you're lucky, umm...long days..idk. it's not really that bad. you'll hate it while you're there but honestly you get used to it. && you look back n laugh at yourself.

as far as the physical requirements, it depends on your age && s*x. i joined as an 18year old female, so i had to run 2miles in about 19 minutes, 13 pushups in 2min, && im thinking 50-something situps in 2min. i don't really remember what the exact scale is. males have to run faster && do more pushups, but less situps. && 50% is the minimum requirement to pass bct, but in your AIT && at your unit you have to pass with 60%.

talk to a recruiter. you don't hafta sign anything to sit down && have a chat

oh, && army doesn't need pull-ups to graduate. you just do them during regular morning PT. && even then it's only sometimes.

hope i helped

Answer 3

Bearing in mind i am in the British Army, here follows my day in Basic

up at 05:00, 30minutes spent doing block jobs and ironing uniform.

05:30 Platoon staff arrive for inspection, all recruits are at attention by their beds, somebody is always picked up for something, so its outside for some 'gentle warm-up exercises' in other words, a ragging session with press ups and sit ups until your ears bleed.

06:15 showers

06:30 breakfast

06:45 outside the block changed and ready for first lesson. Normally a rifle lesson (how to strip and clean etc)

09:20 outside block for run either in trainers or a boot march in full kit

Any way i could go on, but there never was 'an average day' but trust me if you have it in you, the instructors will find it and drag it kicking and screaming to the surface.

Answer 4

You will be required to run 3-miles in 18 minutes, 20 pullups, and 100-crunches in 2 minutes, no standardized pushups like in the army (except in the 'daily seven' or 'daily twelve' (depending on how generous your DIs will be), called normally PT, they have many, many exercise that make you wish only pushup and the rest I mentioned was involved!  This is what I remember in Basic Training in the Marine Corps back in 1998.

But that isn't all!

That depends on how long your stay in the 'Receiving Barracks". Usually that can last to 1-day to 2-weeks! But once you are introduced to your 'training platoon'. That is when 'Training Day 1' (T-1) commences; configure 14-weeks (last week is graduation week, that week does not count!) from T-1.  You are constantly required to remember the Marine Corps history, so much in fact that college US History are dumbfounded!  You'll learn water-survival and the basics of USMC Combatant swimming (not diving, that is for Recon)  by jumping off a 50-foot high platform with 'mock gear'.  with all that weight, you sometimes touch the bottom of the 25-foot deep pool with your heels!  But that is only the first phase, you've passed only 4th class swim qual; you won't get your chance to 'drown'  if you pass, 3rd, then 2nd, and so on!  During many times throughout Basic, you'll learn First Aid and CPR.  And understand the role of the Navy Corpsmen, since the Marine Corps does not have a medical MOS, or field!  We therefore utilize these very strong and dedicated Navy Sailors whose only mission is to act as a 'Marine'; in fact, he practically is a Marine.  But you won't have them with your Platoon until your first duty station later!

Mostly, you spend all day filling your kevlar helmet full of dirt, to only dump it in the barracks to produce a pretty amazing replica of Mount Suribachi, but with all your cleaning, and hygiene gear smashes, busted and spilled into this nasty, muddy mess.  You will have your racks torn apart, every bodies boots tied together in a knot, plus everybodys padlocks latched together.  You will be required to un'f-u-ck' everything on their countdown.  Your Mt Suribachi has included all your extra cammies, skivvies, socks, personal effects, the rack frames, footlocker, your sheets and blankets, and the mattress, all in a huge mound in the middle of the squad bay, with all of you on top.  Look up Iwo Jima, if you are not sure of Mt. Suribachi!  They'll start from 20 down, but they always skip a number of five!  So 20 seconds are usually to 8-10 second officially.  If you don't square away the muddy mess and have your rack neatly folded and wrinkle-free, start over until they stop otherwise (they have a quota on the training schedule to meet).  You'll learn how to mop a 200 x 500-square floor in 1 minute!  These are fun though, you get to race other recruits in the mopping.  You have your own bath towel (yes, the one you dry yourself off with) on the floor stretched and run!  it'll sop of everything in its path!  Your mouthwash, toothpaste, bleach, shoe polish, you name it, polished clean for the daily inspection.  But this in only when you are inside the barracks.  You'll be running in and out, in and out, in and out!

I didn't mention the close order drill, if you want to know those details, join the Marine Corps.  When you eat for chow, you are given a certain 'time' limit.  It isn't measured by the time, but when the last recruit sits down.  So all the recruits before hand better eat quick before the last recruit sits down.  But it builds teamwork, we'll trade off and sacrifice ourselves for the meals of others!  And when you walk with your drink, you have to have your hand over it.  When there are other recruits in the way, you yell "Gang way, live grenade!"

When we go through the live fire course, do not stand up, you'll get a 7.62mm bullet lodged in your brain!  Your parents will get to see you before you got the chance to graduate!  And you will have to shove your head into the ground as if you are an earthworm.  You will never be lower than what the DIs demand!  Sometimes you think that you are shoving your head 3 feet deep; you'll leave a trail behind you (resembling an irrigating ditch), it's because of your kevlar helmet!

There is way too much c**p to mention.  There are no wash machines nor dryers.  You'll spend each day for an hour with a scuz brush and scrub your own clothes, and put them on the line!  It isn't over yet.  The worst when you have to move up north (I've been talking about MCRD San Diego) to the Edson Range.  Here, you'll learn how to 'snap in' with your rifles by the PMIs.  And to include that this is where you will spend days in the field for the first time before getting worked up to climb the 'Reaper' at the end of the 'Crucible'.

The Crucible is made up of many, many stations of a neat 3D 'Mensa' test!  (Look up Mensa if you don't know what that is!)  You'll have about 2-3 hours of sleep a night within 5 -days, with only 2 and a half MREs.  The times you are awake is when you are going through each of these cool obstacles.  Imagine trying to take a big tire off a 30-pole; it requires teamwork.  Hard to think when you are deprived of sleep and constant physical work.  Each station is named after a MOH recipient in the USMC, and they are 1-3 miles apart.  You will hoof it to each one!  As you approach, there will be a Marine telling you the interesting story of each MOH awardee then outline the scenario of this obstacle "A convoy is ambushed and it need ammo, you are to require to take this 50-gal drum and place it at the other end."  All you see is poles and planks like at a stunt circus!

Long story, short... you'll hump with 85-lbs ruck sack 12-miles in the country of Camp Pendleton.  This is where you get to see the 'Million Dolllar City", in which us Force Recon Marines learn our MOUT Training.  A built-up replica of a war torn city.  It costed 1-million dollars to build this rubble!  Hence the name!  This is where the foot of the 'Reaper' is located.  I guarantee that you will bend over at 90-degrees due to the weight on your back, as you are climbing, you can touch the ground.  The incline of the Reaper is around 20-30 degrees and in between.  Once you get to the top, you'll reach the ridge and eventually walk through all these colors (flags).  This is where the ceremony is placed.  Here you will receive your first Eagle, Globe, and Anchor.  You will also no longer be required to talk in 3rd-Person anymore (for instance, "This Recruit request to speak to Drill Instructor -whatever- Sir!"  You always have to say that first before you request permission to use the 'Head' (the bathroom, latrine).  You'll be called a Marine for the first time, and will be addressed no longer as recruit, but 'Private'.  And you can call your DIs by their rank and name!  After the event, you get to eat a 'Warriors Breakfast'.  For the first time, your DIs will not be that mean pushovers but will sit down with you all and talk to you as if you are a Marine, because you are at this point!

Sometimes you will have to dig a perfect 'fighting hole', not foxhole (like the Army calls it) because only Foxes hides in holes, Marines never hide, but fight!  It will have to be chest heigth, 5x5-feet and a grenade hole at the bottom!  And if your E-tool (Entrenching tool, the folding shovel) is not up to inspection, you will dig many trenches to prove its use!  By then, your shovel is ruined and bent and unserviceable; so when you buy a new one (yes, You buy your own c**p, nothing is free in the Marine Corps, you pay for your own uniforms); when you buy a new E-tool, it is brand new and perfectly serviceable for inspection!

There are many situations that may abrupt the usual schedule of 14-weeks, such as:

If you are a 'Fat Body', you will go to the 'Fat Platoon'. Since each and every recruit are faced again with a scale and a physical evaluation; regardless if they had one in MEPS or not. MEPS is made up of joint-service with only 'one' prerequisite. The Marine Corps fixes that! They will be bumped-out of their Training Platoon to be placed in a platoon consisting of other overweight recruits. But this will only p**s off the DIs within the Fat Platoon because, these recruits were supposed to be within range of the weight requirement in the first place!

But if you were to sustain injuries while with the Training Platoon, you will be placed in the 'Broken Platoon'; technically called Medical Platoon. But you'll never hear them call it 'medical', but Broken!  You'll  remain here as long until you heal; up to 2-years. (This must suck if you have to sustain 2-years of Marine Corps Boot Camp)

And there is the Motivation Platoon. This is for the recruits that just cannot get it together. Either they are the most ignorant recruits, trouble-makers, or the wimpy ones! This Moto Plt will make sure that they are motivated and physically/mentally strong to continue in their training.

Once these recruits are deemed fit for duty, they will have to continue their training in a platoon that is on the day they were taken out from the previous platoon. For example, if a recruit that was pulled out on T-25, he/she will be placed into a Training Platoon that is on T-24.

But, if they could not make it in this new Training Platoon, they are to go back home to mommy and daddy!

Answer 5

BOOT CAMP is for the Marines.

BASIC TRAINING is for the army. So if you want answers from guys in the Army.. dont say bootcamp.