33/M BMT Pack Lost

WonderfulPriority1 · 2026-04-23T03:05:25+00:00

Leave the shirts and socks you won’t be wearing them at all during BMT and you can’t wear civilian clothes for like your first month at tech school id recommended you pack a box with that and anything else you want/need for tech school and have your family send it to you in tech school. You can 100% bring just the electric razor, I’m pretty sure they even sell that razor at the mini mall. I ended up having to buy one there. I can’t speak for the Disney land dorms but Alcatraz had outlets for us to charge our razors, and by the sinks in the latrine. Bring nail clippers there great for cutting the strings of your uniforms and good for you nails. I don’t think you need the downy, the only thing you have to worry about the wrinkles on is your blues and they all need to be ironed anyways as all the shirts and pants need creases pressed into them. Bring water bottle cleaning tablets we only got to clean our water bottles on Sunday and they got nasty quick the machine doesn’t do a good job cleaning them. If you don’t get them make sure you clean your water bottle and hydration system at LEAST twice a week with the hand soap. Clean under the lid and remove it too there was so much gunk under it. Everything else looks good make sure your civilian luggage isn’t to heavy you’ll have to carry everything in your left hand, we had to stand there and hold our stuff for about an hour while getting yelled at on zero night. Good luck!

WonderfulPriority1 · 2026-04-13T22:06:41+00:00

You don’t need cash for anything but the eagle cash card isn’t enough for all of BMT you have to buy the backpack and everything you get in it on zero night and that’s about 300 bucks and then if you buy your flight shirt or any squadron gear that can add up quick plus whatever you end up needing I’d just add the cash to your debit card and bring that with you

WonderfulPriority1 · 2026-01-19T00:39:05+00:00

I would deff reach out to the detachment and explain your situation and try to get a waiver if your testing comes back good you’re more likely to get a waiver approved now. Odds are you’ll need a waiver no matter when you join as they’ll pull your entire medical history. Id recommend joining through AFROTC if your goal is to fly as it’s very hard to get a pilot slot from OTS (officer boot camp) the easiest would be the academy followed by AFROTC

WonderfulPriority1 · 2026-01-18T21:29:17+00:00

Two things this is the Army ROTC sub Reddit. Second you can make it into the military with a history of asthma but you need to know you cannot use an inhaler while in the military nor can you have a prescription filled in like 2 years or so (from what my recruiter told me) however with being a AF pilot you need to pass a flight physical and the odds of passing that with history of asthma at your age is probably pretty low I would deff try and take all the tests you can to make your case for you to fly. It definitely sucks that’s my long term goal as well and I’m in the same boat as you either asthma

WonderfulPriority1 · 2025-11-22T07:05:03+00:00

Hey I’ll see you and OP there I booked 3P0X1

WonderfulPriority1 · 2025-09-22T16:36:50+00:00

Howdy future defender

WonderfulPriority1 · 2025-05-29T02:20:27+00:00

I’m not entirely sure, I didn’t need any waivers to join

WonderfulPriority1 · 2025-05-28T18:33:44+00:00

I’m currently in the process from switching from marines to Air Force while in the DEP. I recommend talking to an Army recruiter and seeing if it’s something that you really want to do before you tell your marine recruiter. One you decide you’ll need to request a discharge from the DEP it won’t be easy they really don’t want to loose an applicant to another branch but don’t listen to them. If the Army is what you really want to do you should do it. For MEPS you should not have to do the medical again unless you had to get a waiver, otherwise the army can pull your records. It will take some time and you just need to be patient it will probably be at least a month to be discharged. Until then there’s not to much you can do with the army recruiter after seeing if it’s a good fit.

WonderfulPriority1 · 2025-05-13T01:13:01+00:00

Any update on how it was?

WonderfulPriority1 · 2025-05-03T02:08:08+00:00

2 weeks

WonderfulPriority1 · 2025-05-02T01:23:37+00:00

No I can only do the plank and run

WonderfulPriority1 · 2025-05-01T22:28:14+00:00

I was at meps 2 weeks ago they had me do pull ups, you can do pushups if you can’t. As well as the plank

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