What can you tell me about basic training at Fort Benning?

Bravo Company, 2Nd Battallion, 47th Infantry Regiment. That's where I did my BCT, and it is also known as Sand Hill. It's hot, humid, ants are everywhere and range in size from the tiny ones to ones big enough to put you in shock if you get stung.

There are no females and if you do see one it's probably either staff, a OCS soldier, or another drill sergeant.

You'll be told what to do and what not to do. Don't you worry one bit about that. The only true advice than can be given before you go to BCT is do what you're told when you're told and only when you're told to do it. You will hear the phrase "do it now" because people are idiots and wanna be high speed and think they know everything and skip ahead. Don't!

Another key thing is teamwork. It's all a team effort so work with your battles. You're in it together you might fight together so help eachother out.

Once you show up to reception this is where you enter the Army. You'll get medical, head shaved, uniforms, deer's, etc. Make sure you have a checking account with routing # available. Ensure you can do at least 25 pushups and 25 setups. When you go down range the first fees weeks are to tear everyone down, take away their individualism and make everyone start working as a team. From the day you show up at reception until you graduate from OSUT you will getlittle sleep and will always be tired. Get used to it, fire guard, ca, sdnco runner and takings. You'll learn a word called front loading you'll getall kin dos of tasks that have to becompleted you have to prioritize use your fire guards to work throughoutthenight always be early to formafion. These are thetimes that you learn the most and at Avery fag pace. There will be people thatwill try and buck thesystem try to convi ce them to depart of the solutionand not the problem,if they continuethen they'll beweeded out andget ELS'd your atoonmust work as one unit to suceed. This is the way of the Army, learn, be part of the team, don't be that guy.

10 days isn't a truth it's a guesstimation I was at 30th AG for 21 days because there were too many of us when we got there. Other than that. Make friends and have fun. It's gonna suck so do your best and have fun with it.

I went to basic as an 11b in August 1981. Listen to your DI's, learn, study, be a team player.
Take all the extra schools you can(Airborne/SERE/Sniper/Ranger etc), they will help with promotions in the long run.
Be loyal to your Brother Grunts!!!

Show up right time right uniform and make sure you do some pt before you head out

Don't quit and you will do okay. You will be wrong no matter what. It doesn't matter if your in shape because you will still be pushed past your limits. Do what your told and you will be fine

Benning is big. However you will more than likely not get to visit all the schools there as you will be busy with your basic training. Try not to stick out, do what's asked with a sense of purpose all is good. Once you get into your infantry school you'll have a much longer leash. As far as PT you can do push-ups and sit-ups but going for a run on your own will be a no go. I added weights from the weight room we had on our rucks. Might give it a try as you are going infantry.

Humbleness. Don't be that guy that thinks just because he had a few drills that he knows the military. Accept the fact that you all will be out of your normal comfort zone and forced to pick up new tasks at a high rate and try to help those who can't.

I'm not sure how much the guard does it but regardless, in the Infantry, you need to be shit hot with land nav. The ranger handbook is a great tool for the things you will need.

Don't be a "tool" or an ass kisser. Your drill's will think you are weird and everyone else will just want to kick your ass.

The things that make leaders great is their ability to master the basics. Pay attention to detail.

As far as running, incorporate sprints into your run. If you don't throw up after a run/ leg workout, you're doing it wrong. Train for a 55lb 12 mile ruck (3 hours or better) and you will be good to go for road marching.

OSUT isn't hard. Anticipation and fear of the unknown will kill you more than the course will. Do as you're told and with a high degree of motivation at all times and you'll do fine. Best of luck little brother.

Workout your legs too. Making your legs stronger will help with your running, but you need to run too. Listen to what the Drill Sergeants are telling you to do. Attention to detail.

I have heard from a couple of my friends who are now Drills that basic has changed a lot since I went through. Reception I imagine would still be the same. Be prepaired to get little sleep and to hurry up and wait in line a lot. As far as your APFT goes, if your at 288 your good by most standards going in, You will be running a lot and a lot of sprints there which should help with your 2 mile time. Running as fast and as hard for as long as you can will build your run time up, I always ran a lot of distance everyday which never helped my 2 mile even though I could run much much farther. I started doing sprints and I saw a lot of improvement in just a month. Don't get me wrong though, You will still need to do distance everyday. I would do 10 miles as fast as you can, then 5 miles as fast as you can on off days. On you five mile days do your sprints. I would time them so that you add your sprint up to total 30 minutes. After a month of that you should be maxing you PT score out. I would also do lunges and squats everyday also.