How is basic for a scrawny kid? At 17 and 5’10” 120lbs would I be allowed to go to basic for the National Guard?

When I got to Parris Island I was 5'9" and weighed 130. When I left I weighed 140. I handled everything just fine.

Jack I don't know what the policy is now but I was the same way when I went to basic. 6'2" and 145 lbs. They teamed me up with a heavy kid and at chow time I would get half his food and all of his desert. He lost weight but I didn't put much on, just changed most of what I had to muscle. Maybe if you went to the Air Force you could put on weight at basic.

I was 128lbs 6ft entering Basic ordered to eat two bananas and extra helpings at the chow line did fine ,just don’t quit and you will succeed.