My Reception Experience At Fort Jackson !!!

hey guys welcome back to my channel uh if you guys don't know who i am i am alexa and yeah i don't really have a great intro for you guys you know how i am with this if you guys haven't noticed i'm wearing this shirt that says the army no i did not buy this at walmart i actually earned it so i've been gone for a couple months and i haven't really posted anything but uh let me just put it out there i joined the army well i haven't done a video in so long but i'm kind of like nervous so i planned on doing this video earlier but it actually has taken me a while to do it monday is labor day so they gave us like a four day weekend and i decided to use this time to actually record some videos edit them and upload them and what not so i kind of want to do like three parts of this little series um so for this video i will be talking about my reception experience and what is reception and all that good stuff so if you're interested in learning what i did or how it is um yeah i just keep on watching i soar in on april 27th and i shipped out on may 26th so i left monday morning to um tampa that's where the mets offices are at so i left monday my parents dropped me off at the recruiting station on monday may 27th and we were dropped off at the hotel and i stayed the night there and um on tuesday morning we woke up and we went to maps to finish um the processing and i swore in the second time and that's when i shipped off to come to fort jackson south carolina this was all happening during covid be aware this is like not the same experience that everyone previously has experienced but this is my coveted army experience it's going to be a little different but we we soar and we were just waiting and i waited until three o'clock to get shipped off or whatever um the people who are going to fort jackson actually rode these mini buses all the way to fort jackson so from tampa florida all the way to fort jackson but best was only females and we're all just like we didn't know each other and we didn't know what to expect i honestly didn't know what to expect um i wasn't really nervous i was just kind of like in shock i guess like my i didn't understand what was going on like mentally you know we got to fort jackson like into the base at um 11 11 30 almost 12. so before you actually go to basic training you are at this place called reception reception is where you actually do all your in processing when they issue you your uniforms and all that good stuff so you don't automatically go to basic training you're actually at reception so i arrived at reception it's still in the base and you know it was like already 12 other people were coming into um and like buses and all that stuff and you know we were like being rushed and you know getting in this building i was like what the heck is going on like joe surgeons are yelling i was like what do i get myself into but yeah that day like we had to fill out some paperwork um you had to get stuff like in a specific way you had to walk fast it was just crazy then um i believe we went to this we after we finished like the paperwork or whatever that we had to do at that moment we um had to go to this other place right there you know we just walked um and that's where we got issued like our shoes our pts all that good stuff and you know you had to be quick in a certain way after everyone got everything issued because we had to wait until everyone finished that we went to where we were sleeping to like our barracks or whatever and we were waiting to get linen and that took forever so keep in mind this was like 2 30 it was like 2 30. all right it was 2 30 when we got our linen and they showed us to our rooms like our base or whatever and by the time we got to our base it was like already three and then they're like oh wake up it's at 3 30 it was three when i got into my babe when i got assigned to my bed and they wanted to wake us up at 3 30 in the morning so your girls didn't get no type of sleep whatsoever i didn't get any sleep uh i was just worried about like making my bed how the to make a military style bed and what the was going on because i did not know what was going on like my head was just all over the place i was like okay what am i supposed to do so yeah we formed up and um we got accountability everyone was just kind of like what the hell is going on you know we didn't know what to expect uh after that we're just outside waiting for hours we're just waiting for the sun to rise because we have to do so yeah they separated us into like male and female and had us segregated like that so we went and we finished doing some paperwork so the first day was usually just paperwork and getting shot shot getting shots dental dental hearing eyes blood testing all that good stuff that's what happened wednesday and throughout that we would eat so we would eat hot days and it would take forever to get our food because there were so many of us and so many a little bit of servers and we just had to wait we waited in the sun it was cold i don't know why it was like may raining and it was cold as and we had to stand out in the rain in formation so that happened wednesday thursday um we actually went to this other place and that's when we got issued our uniforms like our ocps and that took like the whole day because we had to like wait until everyone got them so that happened uh we got our ocps i was lucky excited i was like oh i get my oc massager no no the drill sergeants were actually cool at reception they weren't as bad or actually funny um very chill like you know um not much going on the days just seemed really long because we really didn't have much to do especially especially if you didn't have like any complications or anything during your um in processing and then friday we went to the px that's where um well not really px it was like the troop store where you were issued like hygiene stuff um financial i got my cat my cat i got to give them my account information so i can get paid i got issued this um eco cash card everyone everyone gets issue an eagle cash card i still have mine and it's 350 so whenever you go to a troop store you can actually buy your hygiene stuff so that's like a prepaid card where like money that's taken out of your check oh yeah we got to share a cat we did the we did the uh bank information we went to the px the px uh where you got all your hygiene stuff your underwear your bras and all that good stuff we got issued our shoes and all that uh it was really chill not really like not a lot going on you know it just took a lot like it took the holiday basically which sucked um and then i believe saturday and sunday we just told in the um days we cleaned oh yeah we had to clean we did laundry um we started pulling fire guard so the group of females like this biggest group of i don't know how many like hundreds of the females were actually split and some shipped off to basic on friday and then the rest of us were shipped off on monday i was one of the ones that was shipped off monday instead of friday so yeah sunday and saturday was very chill we were just in our in our base uh i think it was sunday sunday was when we turned in our phones we actually had our phones like some people get their phone taken away i've seen in previous videos but actually uh and the company that i was at in reception we got to keep our phones until sunday and then sunday we turned them in uh so throughout my free time i would just sleep or be on my phone or call my family there wasn't much you can do you know what i mean so that's what i basically did um and then sunday we had to pack everything and get ourselves ready to ship out on monday so on monday we woke up at three in the morning they had us up really early because they just wanted to have us early so we could be tired when we got to basic um and we got our bags and everything that were issued turned in our linen we just waited and waited and waited until the drill sergeants and the buses came so the drills are going to come in like we were all like oh what the is going on and then they started counting us like separating the group of females and i was previously going to be in bravo but since it was so many females not all of us can be in one company of basic so i was actually and going to charlie charlie 360th um that's where it's at reception was really laid back honestly i can't complain i actually had a good reception like the males were up a lot but on the female behalf there was like already drama starting and we didn't even know each other that's another thing i did not like like we barely had gotten there people were already talking about each other the reception was really nice in my opinion i know some people have like horrible experience the only thing i could say was really bad about reception is how sleep deprived i was because i really wouldn't get that much sleep like they would wake us early wake us up early and they wouldn't go they wouldn't let us go to bed um early you know what i mean so i was just sleep deprived but over the weekend i was able to catch my sleep so i'm not complaining about that the food hot aids i mean what do you really expect their hot aids you know mres i had never know i did not know what an mre was until i got to freaking reception and i was like what you want you want me to eat this you want me to eat this cold but you know what my fat estilated i was actually not that bad in my opinion uh i can say i had a good reception experience honestly i'm gonna just put it out there my whole basic and processing experience was great uh but that's it for this video uh this video is just about my reception and in processing stuff so not much going on but yeah if you guys like this video or don't think it was enough or you have any questions feel free to comment them down or text me or follow me on my social media and let me know what y'all want me to talk about but for my next video which i'll probably be recording tomorrow and you guys won't really know the difference because i'll be wearing the same uniform um will be about my basic training experience and i'll go more into detail about that so thank you guys for watching i hope you guys enjoy it don't forget to give that like and subscribe and i'll see you tomorrow [Music]

Channel: Alexa Ponce

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Length: 13min 18sec (798 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 12 2020