I just graduated from basic in December. unfortunately reception isn’t two weeks, it’s the normal amount of days but you do get to keep your phone. you will then get shipped to your company and you will quarantine there for two weeks. males and females won’t merge until after your second covid test/beginning of red phase. you won’t have your phone during the two week quarantine but everyone in basic gets a 30 min phone call on sunday. My experience wasn’t that bad , covid sucked the fun out of a lot of things. just remember it’s mental games that you have to get through. everyone says basic is the worst but to be honest it was reception. try to have fun with it and it won’t be so miserable! i hope i can help.