Army Basic Training, Part 1: Reception | Tips, Expectations, Packing 😬

do not go to basically training scare y'all if you go into it with the mindset that you're going to be defeated that you're not going to pass that's exactly what's going to happen what's up you guys welcome back to the channel my name is tish but my youtube fab can call me tj if you clicked on this video you already know by the title what we're going to be talking about this is the first time i actually like sitting down and doing like a talk through so this will be late but like i said if you click on this video most likely you're trying to figure out what you didn't got yourself into or what you finna get yourself into if you decide the dotted line you know what i'm talking about so i'm going to give you the real school the realty on what basic training is like and all the stuff you may go through you know i mean reception and basic training so this video is going to be about reception and i'll make another video about the actual basic training so don't forget to comment like and subscribe to the channel so you guys can get more content and so you can know what's going on with me or in general you know just just know some stuff you know just just some little stuff anyways so we're gonna get started when i hold you up so let's get into the video now we're gonna go back to day one the day that you may leave for basic training all right so i left in july and i went to south carolina fort jackson period actually honestly fort jackson i feel like is the better one because it's just it's not it's they say it's relaxing jackson they call it relaxing jackson i ain't even gonna lie that crap was definitely chill like do not go to basic training scare y'all if you go into it with the mindset that you're going to be defeated that you're not going to pass that's exactly what's going to happen you got to go into a victorious you got to go into it knowing that you're going to get out of that crap you know what i'm saying it's literally a my thing the whole thing the whole process is a mind thing first of all do not i'ma tell you this listen clearly turn your volumes up do not pack your freshest sneakers your freshest pair of pants your freshest outfits use not going to the mall to visit nobody to be seen do not pack your cleanest stuff i'm telling you because it's going to get chunked because you don't want to take it to basic training or you don't want to get stolen while they pack your your personal items up you're not going to wear this stuff so do not pack your yo your good stuff you probably only need one outfit one or two outfits civilian things my tail i took like three pair of my good jeans four t-shirts like i was gonna be sleeping you're not going to sleep in your civilian clothes so don't pack all the entry clothes y'all i promise you i promise you you don't want to listen i'm get to why you don't want to pack this stuff we make it to four jacks most likely you're going to make it there at nighttime most likely because i feel like they try to do that to scare people to because you can't see you don't know where you are you know what i mean so uh when you make it there at nighttime there's going to be a woman or a man in the airport in their dress blues that's the the white uniform with the blue pants on you know all professional if you don't know how to do about face or right face left face i'ma need you to learn that right now before you go i promise you they're gonna look at you like learn learn your right faces and your lips please know your love for right y'all please know which way to go you're gonna be doing that right off the bat as soon as you get out the place you are going to get on a big bus right and travel to reception it's fort jackson's reception which is the worst reception i'm just saying but that's where you're going to travel to so when you get off the bus you're going to go it's gonna be like it's gonna be late y'all i promise you you're not getting no sleep that night you're not getting sleep because you don't have to do all this paperwork and it's just gonna take a minute so that night when you get off the bus they're gonna do paperwork you're going to go get your height and weight they're going to be uh issuing you your laundry bag you're going to get your shoes you know well no not your shoes you're going to get your your bed sheets your uh uniform you know what i'm saying your apft's that's the that's the black and yellow that you see a lot of people in and it's just a lot of stuff that you have to get that night to start the next day so when you get there they're gonna make you dump out your bag all the little um personal like the civilian stuff they're gonna make you dump that for real like the extra you might have papers like your mailing list the list that you have like i had a list of addresses that i would use to so i could be able to send out once you got the basic training you can keep stuff like that liquids and stuff they ain't going for that gum food don't be happy baby i had a whole thing a chick-fil-a in my bag i had some chips stuff from off the flight like they not going for that that's gonna get chunked so make sure you eat all your food make sure you eat all the stuff that you get from the airport don't waste your money because they gonna throw it away promise so once they do that they check your bags make sure you got no um countryman they're gonna go into this process where you do a lot of paperwork to see national guard active you know get your addresses right and all this stuff then you want to go to sleep by the time i went to sleep it was like four o'clock in the morning and we had to turn around nope yeah it was four o'clock in the morning we had to turn around and get up at like 5 30. so i only got like an hour and 30 minutes to sleep that night the next morning you want to get up and the drifts are just going to wake you up for sure they're not going to be if they're mean if they're a little extra don't do too much don't don't pay too much attention just do what they say do get up and going by today they're not really staying you for real they just want just trying to make you scared you know don't stuck that going back today get up you're going to put your uniform on your apft's that's the black uniform and you're gonna get up and go to formation so once you get into the formation you need to know how to count simple right people do not know how to count that's another thing that i mean by when you're so nervous it's so fearful that you just lose common sense like you're gonna do a sound off they're gonna be like sound off you're gonna like one next person go two next person go three next person go four don't be the person to miss the counter because i promise you you're going to drop and you're going to be doing some push-ups because you can't count don't be the person to mess up the count y'all it's so simple know your numbers and pay attention don't be that person bro please know how to count before you go to basic training please note this that's not gonna be the first time to happen that's gonna happen a lot they like to see if you can count i don't know why they like to see if you can count so please get the count off right then after that that'll be breakfast you go to breakfast right and reception for jackson y'all that food is good like they be like military food not good that's when you get out but when you went training and reception deaf food is but sin y'all and then i got another trick for y'all when you go i'll tell y'all mark my words try to get at the front of the line like the front of the formation it depends on no matter where you are in formation if you on the right or the left side it'll probably be like four rows if you're on the right of the left side get in the front if it pulls from the left you eat it first if you on the left if you pull us from the right you're eating first if you on the right you know i'm saying it it just depends on what side of the line you want cause i'm telling y'all we all see how many people in the formation y'all gonna be standing outside in their heat for a long time waiting to get some food so make sure you're on the right side of the formation okay you won't you don't learn it you don't after a couple times you're going to see what i'm talking about you're going to be like dang tj said get on the right side little dire formation get on you know pay attention you never know what signing on pull from though so that's the trick like you got to study the drill sergeants and know which drill side like oh he go from the left side he go from the right so you can get that food because i promise you when you gonna be mad they run out of food and you don't have with y'all i'm sorry i would just i would yeah anyways by the time you eat and stand in line you gotta eat fast i know y'all heard this before y'all probably heard this before i don't know you have to eat fast so once you go through the line you want to sit down right let's say there's four rows of tables like there's four one two three four big tables you know there's two sides on each table right if you're the first person that sits down at the first table you're eating while these while the table's filling up right all four tables are filling up you better be eating because i promise you by the time that last person gets to that last seat that drills gonna be in your face talking about get up before they even before he even get to the last seat because they got to make sure y'all look so the next people come sit down and start refilling you get what i'm saying does that make sense if it don't make sense like replay the video but yeah like it's like a recycle like a domino effect and by the time that person the last fourth row of tables sit down y'all got to be getting up and gone so it can keep going you get what i'm saying so you just got to eat you know people are moving in fast y'all promise you so i'ma say and max you probably got 10 minutes to eat definitely 10 minutes so scarf scarf that food once you get done with that that first day you're going to be doing a lot y'all when i say you're going to be so tired so tired so first you probably just depends on what platoon you're in you're probably going to get your shots first they're going to give you shots for the flu they're gonna give you shots for uh just all type of stuff just because you're gonna be out there in the woods that basic training you know i'm saying if you get bit by anything they're not trying to pay you no money so they finna give you they gonna shoot you up okay i think at most i got like two shots though it just depends on like your allergies and stuff like that and then if you're a female you're gonna get um it's a pill i think that makes you not fertile or something like that it was something so like you can't get pregnant in the end of time at your end it was some pill that does something you get done with your shots you're gonna go to get your boots make sure you get the right size boots like your boots make sure that when you put your socks on you have your green socks that your boots do not rub up against the back of your foot at all like don't get them too big but have enough room that when you walk it's not scrubbing y'all don't want to listen to me i promise you you're going to get blisters like a mud on your feet if you do not do this with your shoes some people invasive training used to double up on socks and that helped the nike bushes i didn't get blisters in basic training but i just know people almost didn't pass bases because of blisters like they couldn't run after the marches because they had blisters on their feet so your shoes pay attention to what them people gonna try to give you because they don't try to be rude about it because i was like look i wear i got a big feet bruh and that was like oh you need eight and i'm like i wear a women's tin and all this i didn't the sizing is weird the sizing is very weird but make sure you pay attention to your shoes that's the first thing y'all do not want to fail basic training because the blisters on your feet do not and then your uniform y'all y'all know how you try to be like a baddie you know them pictures they be taking when you like a baddie in the uniform right they not been a mess with y'all with these tight uniforms females they're not doing it they're not doing it y'all i'm so i was so small back then my my uniform was so big on me i did not want to be seen in that uniform like the uniform was huge they don't want for some reason the military doesn't like females to be feminine we're females but they don't want us to be feminine like our uniform cannot be tight it cannot be this is while in training and you don't want your uniform to be tight either because if you're in fort jackson south carolina in any time from may to september or october you do not want a hot uniform a tight uniform yeah i promise you you're gonna pass slap out you're gonna pass out because it gets up to like 127 degrees out there like it is it doesn't make sense how hot it is so that's another reason why they don't want your uniform to be tight you don't want your uniform to be tight so you can replace your uniform you can get new uniforms so don't worry about it being baggy and all that you can get new uniforms when you graduate so once you get to uniforms they're putting all this in that laundry bag that laundry bag that they gave you're going to have like a duffel bag you want to have a laundry bag and they're putting all this new equipment in that laundry bag you're gonna have some busted up sketchers that you need for running you're gonna have these sketches throughout your whole basic training so love them sketches do not hate all them buddies baby like come on army like y'all got all this money y'all got to give a sketch we can at least be writing some nike's a song you don't know what they gave me some busted up sketches anyways so you have this big laundry bag of your uniform your pt's your linens you'll have your socks you'll have your t-shirts they're going to give you like probably six it's gonna be like a week's worth so probably five shirts you're gonna have five tops or three tops are you know it's gonna be a lot of clothes and they're heavy this is why you have the duffel bag as well okay pay attention to that this is why you have the duffel bag the laundry bag is what you're gonna have to hold over your head when you get to basic training so you got to play it smart this is why i told you not to pack a lot of clothes okay stay with me stay with me because you're going to have to take your civilian clothes too so if you have your civilian clothes your military clothes the shoes the boots you have you want to have i think you'll have three pair of boots you're gonna have three pair of boots you're gonna have winter stuff even though you're not gonna be there in the winter you may be there in the winter they're gonna give you all your military stuff all this stuff that's what you're going to be doing all day getting all this merchandise like material all this stuff that's going to last you through basic that is why i was saying do not pack all that civilian do not pay all that civilian clothes so once you have all that you probably go to lunch that day that first day and you'll probably go to uh the store there's a store there that they it's called the px you probably have a px there at the reception and the px is where they have like the toothpaste you know feminine products male products all those things so that's where you use your money they'll give you a card that has money on there already like it's kind of like a prepaid uh card now that's that's what you have do not allow anybody to use that card because your money is on it for that first bit of time that's what your money is on so it's called a ps card a px it's gonna be like blue i don't even still have i literally have none of that stuff left but people do not let anybody use that and that goes that goes to our next point like make sure you have locks your own personal locks when you go to base i mean it's basic training reception because people steal y'all you're going to be meeting people from all around the like united states people still everybody may not be solid like you everybody may not be 100 like you you got to have your stuff unlocked bro you're going to have these lockers in the bay that's going to be unattended all day anybody can walk in so make sure you have your personal locks and lock your stuff up okay lock your money up your debit cards because y'all tell you people still even your military stuff like your your t-shirts uniforms your fleeces anything that you lose you got to pay for so if somebody loses and they don't want to pay for it they're going to take yours do not take any money you're not going to need any money if anything probably take ten dollars at max ten dollars y'all i'm not even joking ten dollars at max to reception you're not going to need money for anything there's no vending machines there's no uh stores like gas stations your last piece of candy is gonna be the last night you're a civilian like you're not gonna have that so don't take no money that'll just leave you um that'll just leave you time not to take get anything stolen you get what i'm saying so yeah do that after you lock everything up you'll go to the hospital there's this hospital that i'm gonna tell you right now is the worst hospital out of all the receptions fort jackson fort jackson reception hospital our little medical center sucks bro sucks make sure i'm gonna tell you this right now let me tell y'all this right now i'm getting hyped now tell your recruiter to have all your paperwork correct all of it i know he trying to get you in they're trying to get y'all in they just fast checking paperwork y'all better tell your recruiter to get your paperwork right are you going to be a holdover yup a hold over a freaking holdover and you do not want to be a holdover at reception y'all there's people that have went suicidal and i'm not saying this to like scare nobody but you don't want to be a holdover like they the military is slow they are slow they gonna do stuff on their time because they pay all this money for you to get over there and if you get hurt or you get sick or if there's something that's not right in your paperwork that your recruiter didn't put in there you're getting stuck there they're going to make sure it's right before they send you to basic training so when you go to res that the medical center right you're gonna have go in there they're gonna do all this paper you're gonna have like five stations that you have to go to you have to get cleared on all five stations so that you can ship out to basic training if you don't get clear in all five stations they're gonna make you a holdover it depends on what day of the week it is that you go most likely you want to go on a thursday because shipments are probably thursday fridays they're not thursday fridays i don't think they're on saturdays and sundays i can't really remember but they're during the week so if you don't get clear before the people leave out of the office on friday you're not shipping you don't have to wait until the next time that you can go to the medical center and get cleared again so my advice to you is make sure that all your paperwork is correct nothing is wrong with being a holdover if it's you know if it's what you need like if you are not healthy enough you should stay there until you're healthy to go to basic training but if you're a holdover based off some messed up paperwork or because fort jackson messes up stuff up oh you know what to say i don't know what to say y'all i was a holdover they they made me a holdover after they said my hemoglobin levels were low and i had to wait like they told me that i wasn't going to be able to ship out with the people that i came in with and at that point it had been like two days so they were kind of like family to me you know we were all going through this together and i knew that if i was a holdover that i wasn't going to be able to go back home you know at the time i expected at the time i was in a relationship or whatever and i knew that you know i was trying to get back to my mans i was trying to get back to my dudes i'm like if i'm a hold over i can't go home you know that so y'all that hurt me so bad like that was like a moment where i was just i kind of broke down don't break down though you know don't break down god has a plan for everything there's a reason for everything i promise you i promise you i promise you just go in there being positive being motivated and your time is going to come that's just two make sure your recruiter has your paperwork right i if you're watching this video call him right now or her right now and make sure everything is right medical all that's right don't lie if you if you got asthma tell them people you got asthma bro for real like don't lie once you're cleared to go you're gonna pack up everything that they gave you right everything that they gave you in reception has to go to basic training here's why here's a why we're back on the close again y'all got to be smart i'm putting y'all on game okay i personally threw away clothes literally tossing favorite pairs of jeans in the trash because we knew about okay this laundry bag is what's gonna get held over my head i had watched enough videos and i knew that you know what i'm saying your laundry bag is where stuff they can't fit in your um duffel goes so let's say my duffle and my duffel all my uniforms goes five pair uniform the trousers depend the jacket the pants your shirts your socks your winter gear stuff you're not even gonna use fit as much as you can in that duffel bag because the duffel is what's gonna get thrown they not they're not studying that duffel the laundry bag is what you're going to be holding over your head during shark attack like when you get off the bus and they'd be yelling and all of that the lunge bag is what you're going to hold over here yo when i say i played that stuff so smart i was not going to be struggling in that heat with that heavy bag over my head y'all see i'm smiling right i went for this i was not going to pass out out there y'all i'm telling you i was smart so they didn't get me they didn't give me anyways i ain't throwing away clothes that's not smart but don't be like me so once you get the ship day everybody's gonna be nervous y'all gonna be sitting outside y'all gonna y'all go to breakfast that morning after breakfast is when you guys probably get shipped out you're gonna be sitting on your best forever they're gonna give you all these colors right you they'll probably have red green yellow blue y'all just bring back so many memories they're gonna give you all these colors and the color that they give you is going to be your platoon in that unit that you go to in a battalion you have companies there's five of them alpha bravo charlie wait delta delta company why can i think of that delta company okay so you have a battalion and you have companies you have alpha bravo charlie delta echo echo company so you have five companies right well that's what we have five some might have six i don't know why but you have five companies in each company there's four platoons so there's like a breakdown so that color is going to be the platoon you're in you'll either be in blue platoon green platoon red platoon yellow platoon right your platoon the people that have the same color as you or who you going to be spending the next two months with like you'll be spending the next two months with everybody sitting with you sitting out there but the people that have the same color you'll have you'll have like personal personal time with them those are the people that's gonna make you do pressure those are the people that's gonna make a break if your basic training is easy or hard those are the people that you're gonna be with so just fyi pay attention to the colors who get what color like you can't choose it but you just know ahead of time like dang bro he found him he's gonna make this hard for me you know what i mean and then you're gonna see them buses you're gonna see the buses pull up the drill sergeant's to be all type of new drill sizes people you've never seen before out there this is at reception they're going to be out there in their dress blues again all looking conformed and all that y'all when i say i was excited because remember once again i was a holdover now i was hold on for a week so the people that had came in we got to leave a week before me i was just waiting to leave at this point so everybody else crying this is the point where you got to be strong okay you got to be because you finna go to training it's it's understandable to be nervous because this is something that you've never done before you know you're by yourself your parents are nowhere nobody can protect you you know what i'm saying you got to hold your own but think about they can't kill you like they can't hurt you they can't put their hands on you there's nothing to be i promise y'all also i'll just decide to be serious like some real motivational talk right now like do not get on the bus fearful go into this whole process with the mindset that you're going to finish if you don't go into it with that mindset that you're going to finish and you automatically think oh i'm scared or or i'm not i'm a fail or i'm not going to pass then that's what's going to happen you have to be stronger than your fears i'm telling you there's nothing to be scared of everybody has a different experience but they can't hurt you they can't hurt you they can't touch you and it's a mental game guys it's a mental game these people are actors like they probably get they get paid for babysitting y'all technically to be real i'm gonna i'm gonna kill this crap and i'm gonna go home that's all i was thinking about was my family you know the people that i loved i'm gonna do this i can go home to them so think of it like this i probably think i was the only one cheesing like ear to ear like i was so happy duffel bags got tossed underneath the bottom so i like i said you holding that laundry bag so i had my little lunch but i'm trying to make it look big y'all but this thing was so light my lunch bag was so light y'all i was not playing with them i was not playing drills hard to get on the bus um i'm drill sergeant long put the heads like that was not planned put your hands in the bag and don't say they started cussing got them cursed i don't curse so they started cussing in trying to be aggressive and like i said i think i think the reason that i also wasn't just terrified because i'm goofy bro like i do not take stuff like that seriously when i was yelling i wasn't laughing but i'm just like lordy like trust me believe i was peeking at the bag i was definitely peeking out today it's like i would definitely i would definitely pick another egg and took off and it was a silent ride y'all it was a silent ride all the way to battalion two three nine echo company i was an company that's so i wish you guys the best don't be fearful do not be fearful you got this you got this you got this it's easy it's easy go in there prepare know your stuff know that you could pass a pt test be able to pass a pt test before you go you got this you got this you got this so guys don't forget to comment like and subscribe let me know any more things you guys want to see tune in to the next video so y'all can see how basic training is how my experience went [Music] you

Channel: Life with TJ

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Keywords: Army, BCT, Reception, Motivation, Army Basic Training

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Length: 29min 5sec (1745 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 19 2021