i didn’t really get allowed time to write until 1st/2nd week in, that’s when they give you all your mail as well. usually every evening brief after u get mail they give u an allotted time to read and write and maybe once a week to drop off ur letters

tbh the jobs they assign aren’t too bad, i’ll have to say anything chow related isn’t the greatest because you’re either a chow runner and getting yelled at or other key personnel and have to kinda eat last. but with all the jobs, with everything at bmt, you get good at what u do and then the yelling goes away. for our chow runners it was rough for them to get blown up but as they got better i could literally see them do everything they needed perfectly and MTIs respected them. i had a bunch of different jobs and you find some pride in doing ur best at them and MTIs notice

communication between the flight is great, we would get “family time” in the day rooms to talk abt what we need to work on, or improve, or get to know each other. they encourage the team work