I signed up to be a CBRN, haven't left for basic or anything yet. What advice would you give?

The CBRN course is very good, the experience is valuable and will set you up for a very lucrative career in HAZMAT if you chose. The course is very expensive for civilians to learn and it's all hands on with some death by power point, it's fast pace so take notes. Once you get to your unit you will half to spend a lot of time trying to use it. Most units don't know how to use CBRN NCO's.

Get used to wearing gas masks in class, and make sure you learn how to put on clothes in less than two minutes in a very specific order.

You learn a lot just to forget half of it at your unit that despises doing any CBRN training what so ever. Really depends on unit. Good AIT, classes are easy if you study. Most are open book anyhow, and the instructors are there to help. Hope you like PT, cause you do lots of it if SFC Cruz is still there. You’ll like it

Try your best to get to Korea. It's the one place where you can take center stage and be a priority commodity.

I honestly loved it, it was fun yet challenging. The most important think it's to take your training very serious, there are many ways things can go south if you are careless because the nature of this MOS. But if you were able to score high enough to qualify for the gig you got this.

Best of luck to you

Embrace the suck at AIT

In AIT once you get there start studying hazmat ASAP

Take AIT very serious.

At basic; don’t worry about what others are doing. Keep your head down and work your tail off. Basic can be a source of great stress for some - don’t get sucked up into a “feeling sorry for myself” vortex. It can be a big crap sandwich but everyone will be taking a bite of it.

Don’t argue. Do everything with gusto.

Start getting into the best shape of your life now. Get up to running 3 miles a day at 6 minute miles, do 80 push-ups in 2 minutes and 80 sit-ups in 2 minutes. Start carrying around a 50 pound sack. Practice lifting and carrying a buddy for 15 to 20 yards to start off with.

When on the ground pay attention and catch on quick.

Piece of cake and you’ll be graduating before you know it!

Oh, tell your family to write letters.

Stay awake. Sleep is the enemy in the long classes you take. PT in your free time. Don't do something stupid to get you stuck longer. And finally, the quickest way out is graduation.