What things do you remember about adapting to military life?

To adapt to military life is easy, just remember that things are out of your hands… orders come from the top down, unless you gain rank you will be executing orders, not giving them! Also, be very very flexible with personal plans and know a deployment or PCS will come at the most inopportune time!

It was difficult adjusting to the early mornings and late nights

Continuous physical training shining boots 21 hrs a say haha and learning how to press my uniform with the mattress while i slept

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I joined the US Navy two weeks after my 17th birthday, having taken the necessary entry exams at the recruiter's office in Eugene, Oregon at the age of 16. I left my junior year of high school to enter the Navy. I remember part of adjusting for me was the abdominal pain I experienced while standing at parade rest while waiting to enter the commissary for meals. While in my teens I was not eating healthy and had gotten to a point my diet was full of starch-laden foods, causing me great discomfort. I remember being in such pain and not knowing if I could keep standing at parade rest without having an very embarrassing event. After a week or two of eating square meals, I was getting my diet into the normal zone, and therefore, not experiencing the discomfort and pain any longer.
I assimilated into the military ranks pretty well, for my twin and I had been living alone without parental supervision since the age of 14, due to my dad having remarried and leaving us to live in one of his rentals, while he gave us chores and paid our food costs. I was used to living without female influence, which I think helped me to get along with all the guys in boot camp, though there is no way to prove that.

Learning to sleep standing!

I had to learn to teamwork, which I discovered I enjoyed. I found out that I thrive when I have structure. I've carried these lessons with me every since.

When I enlisted in to the US Army, The most difficult part of adjustment was the Control of my Life. After a year in the Army; I adjusted this way of life. God Bless America.

When one f'd up, we all paid the price... I guess it taught us to look out for one another and help each other succeed.

Going in army in my late thirties was a challenge in itself, in basic training by week 16, I was upfront running with the drill sergeant.