What is the extent of an article 15?

Private, I suggest you shut your mouth, quit digging your hole any deeper, take your light punishment like a man. You dig deeper and you can be charged with being AWOL, you signed up with the Military knowing full well of the requirements and your responsibilities to fulfill your contract. I am the kind of leader that will push you off the edge but one who would be willing to work with you to correct the problem But the container holding my patience is not refillable. You have a choice now, take your punishment and work on your problem, learn a lesson than move on or continue your path and end up in a far worse situation. Your choice, Good Luck.

PFC one I thing I learned in my time in the Army is that 5 minutes early is still 10 minutes late!! Be it military or civilian being on time is critical. In the Army you're getting an A15. In the civilian world you get fired.

When I was a young Sergeant E5, I inherited a squad of Soldiers with "issues" when I arrived at my new unit. That was one of the biggest challenges of my career and I was miserable through most of it. Even though it is the NCO's job to take care of you, you should still consider the hardship you are putting on the NCO by your inability to follow instructions. This NCO has to call you, come find you, counsel you, give you corrective training, follow up on the counseling, go see the 1SG about your actions, get chewed out when you keep messing up, build a paper trail of more counselings until they finally have enough to proceed with getting you chaptered out of the Army. One Soldier with disciplinary issues can erode the fiber of a cohesive team. When an NCO devotes all their time to one Soldier with issues, it takes away from training and mentoring of the other Soldiers that are with the program. There is no "I" in team. Think about someone other than yourself and watch what can happen in your life.

you need to get your mind right.....no need in worrying about the NJP. Gonna be a long row to hoe if you don't....and not a pleasant one...!!

Maybe try showing up to formation? Quite frankly, I hope they kick you out. You're in training, how can your first unit trust you to do anything?

Since the others have fully answered the "what" portion of the 5 W's, the remaining question is why?
Why have you chosen to show up late multiple times? What is the underlying reason? One thing you have to realize is that if you continue this behavior once you get to your unit, it could have consequences for the rest of your life. If this continues, you could potentially face court martial. A conviction there is a Federal offense that will follow you the rest of your life. My advice is to you is get yourself together and realize that you are another Soldier, just as the rest of your AIT unit are Soldiers. You have an opportunity to fix this issue before it becomes something worse.

If you were pulled over for speeding would you expect to get a ticket or would you hope the cop would "give you a break"?
I am not concerned with any answer you give me. However, I wouldn't mind knowing your immediate thought. That might tell you everything you need to know.

There's an old saying..."If at first you don't succeed, maybe sky diving isn't for you". You appear to not have succeeded with military life, I would suggest you try something else.

Not sure if you are asking because you are concerned if how this may affect your future in the military it because you have already hatched out a plan to get out of the military any way possible, and now you are looking for clarification from those of us who have time and experience.. I had to suffer thru this crap from a Soldier that got busted with drugs a few times and committing fraud against the military, I had to babysit him and ensure his FTRs we're AWOLs or suicide.. you need to get right Soldier

Not real sure how many FTRS you could accumulate in AIT. Seems like a general breakdown on the squad level.First time is an "ah crap", after the second your squad leader should have been a little more proactive in "ensuring your compliance" unless he/she did and there is more to the story than you're sharing.

Call me old fasioned. Call me an anachronism, but if someone in my division was a perpetual buddy f-er, I would have made it my personal mission to either square him away or set him on course for the big chicken dinner...and make no mistake, being late to formation consistently is a huge red flag for that buddy f-er name tag.
If I was anywhere in your chain of command, I would be asking myself what the hell I was doing wrong to allow one of mine to fall so far behind and looking to correct it...you know what they say about snow and other things rolling down hill...

Make no mistake, the brunt of this lies on your shoulders and you're new...but knowing the repercussions on others your actions have is essential to any military structure and trust me, there would be repercussions all the way down the line...especially for something as simple as getting out of the rack on time.