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before arriving at BMT make sure to train everyday and get your body conditioned by running a couple miles a day, do at least 50 sit ups and 50 push ups minimum
and if your hungry and dont feel like they fed you enough, make sure to stop by the "self serve salad bar" and get a big scoop of potato salad to get extra carbs, most recruits are already hungry again by bedtime thats why people often lose weight in BMT your always hungry or sleepy.
the smallest recruit gets the same size food portion as a guy almost twice his size, the big guys are starving, and the big guys often get assigned as road guards to help them lose extra weight because they run around more during marches.
When I was at Lackland, it was interesting especially once the drill sargeant finds out where you're from. We had one guy from Hollywood, CA so he was a daily target. I don't think he, nicknamed "Hollywood" made it through.
I remember a stunt our sargeant played one night when were all asleep. He said don't open the barracks doors unless you see their ID. One day the sargeant showed his ID to the door guard to let him in. The door guard opened the door after he saw the ID but his ID had a photo of mickey mouse. We all got the brunt of that screw up the next day and had to march a longer distance and more push-ups.
I actually had better workouts once I was out of basic training and on the job.
BMT was running 1.5 miles which is pretty weak compared to the 6 or more miles Marines ran. Then again, are air force people really going to be on the front lines of a war? Push-ups & running were easy, chin ups were the exercise from hell for me. I don't think we ever had to do those.
- Road guards? Wow. I forgot all about those guys in our squadron. I basically learned to make my bed, fold my clothes, and follow orders. I don't recall open toilet stalls. The food was okay.
- Old grunts? that was a term they used to call army troops who came onto our base on occasion.
I was the guy in our flight who scheduled everyone for dorm guard duty. Our sergeant asked me one day why I seemed have dorm duty during PT and certain classes. Lol Luckily, he realized that the PT weren’t really a challenge and that I spent time trying to help a couple of the “slower” guys with the classes. He let me slide but did tell me not to be so obvious moving forward and make myself available for more PT. Lol Our flight had more than its share of F/Ups but we all made it.
Holy smokeS...hard to believe that I was in basic 44 years ago! Started just before July 4, 1976. God bless America, God bless our service members, one and all.
British forces call it "stagging on", from "stag" or "doing stag", which comes in in turn from "standing guard".
Stagging on, was never popular which is why they set up the Military Provost Guard Service, which consists of ex-forces personnel who are firearms trained and do the job full time leaving the RAF Police to patrol the bases and investigate crime and the RAF Regiment to protect strategically important sites.
The UK separates the roles of Air Force Police and Air Force Infantry in to RAF Police and RAF Regiment (Infantry) rather than have a single security forces unit.
The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) also carry out gate duty, and the armed Ministry of Defence Police also patrol strategic bases and locations.
In terms of nuclear submarine bases, they are also guarded by the Royal Marines 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group and Royal Navy Police, whilst 43 Commando also accompany all nuclear missile transportation convoys, along with the armed MOD Police Support Group.
Whilst the British Army Royal Military Police (RMP) provide the Armies policing role, alongside the Regimental Police/Provost (RP) who report to Regimental sergeant major (RSM) and are used to enforce discipline and order and are the equivalent of shore patrol in the Royal Navy who report to the Master-at-arms who is usually the Chief Petty Officer (Warrant Officer).
The Special Investigation Branch (SIB) is the name given to the detective branches of all three British military police arms: the Royal Navy Police, Royal Military Police and Royal Air Force Police, whilst the Ministry of Defence Police also have a plain clothed Criminal Investigations Department (CID) which includes a sizeable fraud squad.
As for the USAF Special forces, the 352nd Special Operations Wing us based at Mildenhall in the UK, and all USAF bases in Europe have armed US Security Force personnel on duty.
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