What NOT To Bring To Basic Combat Training

what is going on guys so I'm assuming you're leaving for basic training sometime soon and you're wondering what you can't bring to basic training so this videos gonna be pretty simple and I'm gonna kind of go over the basics of what you can't bring to basic training because to be honest you can't really bring all that much but this topic is something that people ask me all the time because I guess it's kind of understandable because whenever you're leaving to good base to Train you're kind of worrying about what you're gonna pack because you're not gonna get to like go back home to get something if you forget something so whatever you pack you're like okay do I need this do I need this but long story short you really don't need that much at all so you can basically go with the clothes on your back make sure you have your paperwork you know and you're basically gonna be good to go but what should you not green to basic training starting off with kind of like the basics right so if you're flying to basic training obviously you can't bring any like knives or weapons or things like that it does actually happen so for people who are riding on buses to grab a string which means that you pretty much live close to a basic training post you're gonna take a bus there so make sure like if you have in your wallet I actually did this myself I have a where I had like when this little wallet pocket knife thing and I remember on my way to basic training I was taking a flight so obvious I couldn't take it so I had to throw it away so if you have like some kind of like special knife or something that you just always keep with you just make sure you don't have that so obviously no weapons that's the first big thing the next thing that people ask me about a lot and that is like reading material you cannot bring any kind of reading material unless it's a religious book basically a Bible or whatever your religion has like there whatever a holy book that is you can bring that but other night you can't bring the magazines you can't bring newspapers you can't bring your favorite book that you want to read you can't bring this long book that you want to read down in your free time or whatever at basic training like you can't bring any reading material whatsoever unless it is a religious book and I honestly don't even recommend bringing like your Bible to basic training because it could get messed up so bring in your own personal Bible it could get messed up you know with the way they string works like you could just get dirty it could get wrinkled to cook it whatever and then like you can go to church on Sunday and pick up a Bible there so you don't necessarily even need to bring your Bible medications is another big one if you don't have it on your paperwork and sup with your recruiter your MEPs and all that stuff if they the military doesn't know about it if they aren't okay with you having that prescription you know drugs prescription whatever kind of medicine it is you can't bring it you can't have any look I guess technically you can't have ibuprofen or naproxen or kind of those kind of things well what you'll have to do is give it to your drill sergeants and then you'll have to ask your drill sergeants every time like you want to probe in and I promise you you don't want to do that like your drill sergeants like it Bruskin look at you like basically a wussy and be like are you freaking kidding me right now like why like no like that's that's so stupid so save yourself some trouble save yourself some embarrassment and don't even bother bringing an ibuprofen or any of those kind of things don't bring any medications that aren't approved if you're curious you know if you're like oh I have you know whatever you know insert X Y Z you know medication that you take ask your recruiter to be safe don't ask me because I'm not a medical doctor I don't even know what certain things are people ask me things all the time you know whenever it's medical related that's probably like the least qualified field I am to talk about but yeah no medications unless it has been approved and even then you're still gonna have to give it to your drill sergeant and then ask for it every time you need it so a lot of people are curious about bringing watches to base you train yes of course you should a hundred thousand percent bring a watch to base strength for sure but you really should bring a cheap watch to basic training I do not suggest bringing it an expensive watch to basic training because it's gonna get scratched up it's gonna get dirty it's gonna get messed up and if you bring an expensive watch it couldn't get stolen if you ever kind of like leave it off your wrist for some reason take it off for your wrist it could get stolen so my tip for you guys is don't bring an expensive watch bring a cheap watch and then also don't bring like any jewelry whatsoever like there's really no point in bringing jewelry to basic training it's just something that people are gonna be able to steal because yes people do steal things at base ring you should trust the soldier next to you it's possibly gonna happen there's kind of always gonna be that one guy in a group of 60 people that has got sticky fingers and they're just like oh look there's you know something I can take that I can take that I promise you it's probably gonna happen in your cycle and your platoon somebody's gonna get something stolen so it's in your best interest not to bring anything expensive no jewelry you know expensive watches just you know bare-bones cheap watches and while I'm thinking of this no smart watches you can't bring smart watches no smart watches the next big thing is gonna be food you can't have any food no drinks or anything whatsoever when you get the base training whenever you do bring it to basic training you're gonna get to reception when you first get there and just gonna have to throw it away so whatever kind of food or beverages or whatever you bring to basic training you're just going to throw it away so I would suggest not bringing it so if you're really into some kind of like little protein bars or something you can't have protein bars you can't have candy you can't have gum you can't have any kind of food you can't have cough drops like you can't bring any kind of food with you to basic training whatsoever now kind of similar to the food topic you know things that you definitely shouldn't bring any tobacco products or alcohol don't bring any alcohol that's just really stupid especially if you're underage don't bring any tobacco so cigarettes dip all that kind of stuff that's a no-go you can't have it you're just gonna have to throw it away whenever you get there and then for the love of everything don't try to sneak like a can of dip in the base of training like you are like literally can just get kicked out of the army because you do that so don't do that I'm serious I've seen it I saw a guy who literally snuck dip like a can of dip got caught it was literally it was ridiculous and then got kicked out of the army because of that now I'm gonna say the last few things really quick you don't want to bring any kind of like mp3 player or radio or anything like that like you're not gonna be able to bring in like a small radio and just gonna play it at the end of the day or whatever in the barracks you can't do that like any kind of electronics you know you can bring your cell phone bring your cell phone bring your phone chargers because you're gonna get that stored away but like don't be bringing like a radio or something an mp3 thinking that you can kind of sneak that that's again don't do it it's against the rules please just don't do that the other thing that you can't bring is like poker things so like playing cards chips things like that you're not gonna be able to do any kind of like betting like that while you're at basic training so if you're like super into poker and you're like you know maybe at the end of the day we can play some poker you know maybe you're not even be betting but you can't do that so don't even bother bringing your cards don't bother bringing anything really period that is fun that you could play with so that's kind of that so whatever you can think of like a toy or maybe like a Rubik's Cube maybe you like I don't know some kind of little puzzle thing you're not gonna be able to have it so don't bring it this one should be kind of self-explanatory but you don't want to be bringing big items to base ring it's just gonna be harder on you because I've talked about before why you shouldn't bring a whole bunch of stuff to basic training same reason why you should not bring big things to basic training because it can be really bulky when you're going through the shark attack when you're going through all this stuff you don't want all kinds of crap to carry around so if you're bringing something big just don't bring it again at the end of the day you're probably gonna have to throw it away so don't bring stuff that's huge like just look at the packing list bare bone minimum basic clothes on your back kind of thing toothbrush toothpaste your you know a day's worth of shampoo you can buy stuff at the PX when you get there I'm talked about this before in a previous video and then the last thing I want to talk about is pictures and things like that you probably from my experience when with the base train they didn't let us have pictures so what they made people do is like if you brought pictures is to throw them away so if you brought anything to read if you're brightening the pictures they made them throw those away so it's like if you want a picture of your girlfriend I would honestly just put one in like in your wallet like put a couple pictures of like your family and your wallet you'll be able to have those but don't me bring in I don't know like some big freaking you know eight-and-a-half by eleven or whatever like big picture of your girlfriend or your wife or your kids or whatever like don't be doing that so that is gonna be it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed if you did hit that like button that would be awesome and feelings check out some more with easy subscribe button that would be even better and if you want to hit that notification button it would definitely make my day for him on Instagram and snapchat if you haven't already hope you guys have a using freaking day and I'll see you later [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 9min 2sec (542 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 22 2018