Posted on another board but must not be many logged in.
My bro in law just called from Ft. Jackson where he's doing basic and where I'm going to in 8 days.
He said they cut his basic short 3 weeks due to the heat. Now I've known my brother in law since he was born, seriously, and I've never known him to lie. I've not heard of such a thing...
Tell me this isn't true? Because I'm going to Ft. Jackson during the 2 hottest months of the year and I NEED ALL 10 WEEKS. I'm okay on pushups and so/so on situps but I need the running and stuff. So whether it makes me sound like a nut or not, I want all 10 weeks of basic.
Do they really do that????? ....not that I want anyone to drop dead from the heat or anything but surely there are alternatives??
Yeah, I just had someone tell me they call the BS flag on that. I think the info came from his wife and has to be inaccurate. He shipped around 3/17 and that would put him around 10 weeks so yeah, disregard my post because that just doesn't make sense and someone has their info mixed up. I thought my husband actually talked to David, not his wife. It was his wife and I don't think she knew what she was saying.
Wow -- I'd never heard of a training cycle cut short because of heat. Summer 1961 my own BCT cycle was shortened one week because of the Berlin Crisis (they jammed two weeks training into one & Trainees just didn't sleep much). 1st ID switched from BCT/AIT cycles to combat deployable TO&E and we didn't get much sleep the next three years.
In BCT at Ft Polk in 1966 they closed the post and sent us home for Xmas for two weeks. You gotta love the kinder gentler military. Too bad about KP, that was a builder of motivation.
Dang and pvtson was pissed because his group had to do 11 weeks because of some timing issue and then 1 week delay for AIT but hes past his sticks test so now it's all gravy (if I could just beat it in to his head to quit spending so much money on weekend pass)
Yes, I was born in '79. They were all screwing with me anyway. It did not make sense to me when they said that. I found it unbelievable and asked on here whether it was true before getting to talk to David myself. So the joke was on me. I ship in 6 days........
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I was just asking 'cause I was born in '79. I wasn't trying to mess with you. Are you prior service? I haven't met anyone my age who's going in for the first time so I'm curious. I go to Ft Jackson in August so I have a while yet. good luck!
At Fort Jackson they have different heat categories, and training is altered depending on the temperature but not shortened.
I didnt know that i was supposed to get a chocolate on my pillow, and i made my OWN bed, sounds like i got ripped off. I just finished BCT at Fort knox, and we trained whether it rained, snowed, or was sunny(which was rare). And trust me, it's still hard as hell, the dfac food probably tastes better now though.
I went to Ft. Benning from March to May. During our final FTX, it was Heat Cat V the whole time. The DS' did cut it short; not because of the heat itself, but because they wanted to get back. Other than that, we NEVER got any slack because of the heat.
During AIT (Ft. Eustis, May-Sep) we did get sent back to the barracks because the power went out in the hangars and the heat cat was up to 5. With no power for lights, overheard hoists, computers, nor A/C for the classrooms, they had to send us back to the barracks.
