Posted on Apr 22, 2019
Why the most dreaded injection is called the 'peanut butter' shot
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Every recruit, in the first few weeks of boot camp, will get in a line during their medical evaluations and get stuck in the arm with all sorts of needles and have thermometers shoved into some uncomfortable places.
Welcome to the military!
Out of all the medications recruits get injected with throughout their processing week, none of them are as feared as the almighty "peanut butter" shot.
While these peanut butter shots are awesome, the ones we get in boot camp are far from exciting.
The "peanut butter" shot, in the military, is a slang term for the famous bicillin vaccination every recruit receives unless they have an allergy — and can prove it.
But if you can't, you're in for an experience of a lifetime. You'll be brought into an examination room, usually as a group, and be told to drop your trousers past one of your butt cheeks and bend over.
Once the recruit has assumed their most vulnerable position, the medical staff will attach a long and thick needle to a pre-filled vial of bicillin.
Welcome to the military!
Out of all the medications recruits get injected with throughout their processing week, none of them are as feared as the almighty "peanut butter" shot.
While these peanut butter shots are awesome, the ones we get in boot camp are far from exciting.
The "peanut butter" shot, in the military, is a slang term for the famous bicillin vaccination every recruit receives unless they have an allergy — and can prove it.
But if you can't, you're in for an experience of a lifetime. You'll be brought into an examination room, usually as a group, and be told to drop your trousers past one of your butt cheeks and bend over.
Once the recruit has assumed their most vulnerable position, the medical staff will attach a long and thick needle to a pre-filled vial of bicillin.
Why the most dreaded injection is called the 'peanut butter' shot
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I remember getting this in 08 and our DIs would make us sit on our heels and rock back and forth to work it in.... very uncomfortable. Almost as bad as wisdom teeth removal.
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I honestly don't remember this particular vaccination, but maybe it's for Marines only? ;)
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1LT Nick Kidwell
Yeah, I know.
I didn't get anything like this at BCT. I went to Ft Knox summer 2000. We ran the gauntlet of vaccinations and the aid station NCOIC bruised my arm during the blood draw, but I didn't get a shot in the butt.
I didn't get anything like this at BCT. I went to Ft Knox summer 2000. We ran the gauntlet of vaccinations and the aid station NCOIC bruised my arm during the blood draw, but I didn't get a shot in the butt.
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