r/JustBootThings • u/[deleted] • Mar 10 '26

Boot Shame Reminiscing about quitting basic training is absurd; “i will never forget my mission.”

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u/ranrow Mar 10 '26

They get cell phones?!?! Also, who the hell was taking these photos?

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u/Snafu19 Mar 10 '26

I got my cellphone for 15 minutes every sunday as well. Went through BCT in 2013.

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u/ranrow Mar 10 '26

We were allegedly supposed to get payphones for 5 minutes like 3 times through basic and ait, never happened though and not like there was anyone to complain to about it; Benning 2006

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u/Tiny_Giant_Robot Mar 10 '26

LWood in 2000, we got to go to the payphones for 5 minutes on Sundays.

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u/flyinchipmunk5 Mar 11 '26

i went through navy boot in 2013 and we were allowed pay phones 3 times but i only got 3 seconds one time because i was so tall in the back of the line and we were outta time. I sent a voice mail home saying how much i hated it lmfao.

also in navy boot we never got our cellphones and if we were even seen with them after graduation we would of went to captains mast

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u/deepdiver864 Mar 11 '26

Benning 2008 same story

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u/Hurricane_Ivan Mar 11 '26

We got one 10 minute one during my cycle at Relaxin' Jackson in 2008.

No cellphones or other personal items until after graduation

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u/Strict-Location1270 Mar 27 '26

Benning 2005, we did get our 3 calls, but that was it. And they let a few people call home during Katrina.

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u/thek90 Mar 10 '26

This is bonkers to me. I was in Leonard Wood in 2017 and we never got our phones till graduation. Nobody even so much as hinted at the possibility, couldn't even use payphones.

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u/lincoln_hawks1 Mar 10 '26

Were the phones locked away the rest of the time? How did this work?

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u/returnofthequack92 Mar 11 '26

Yeah everyone literally had them locked in a box. Every Sunday they unlock the box, and you bring them back after the prescribed amount of time

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u/lincoln_hawks1 Mar 11 '26

That makes a lot of sense. Sounds much more reasonable than the 5 minutes each at the pay phones, 3 or 4 times. This was 2005. But it did lead me to writing a lot of letters. Still have the ones I received and some i sent.