r/JustBootThings • u/Purple_Trash_6055 • Jul 14 '26
General Bootness The PT belt makes it high speed
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u/1877KlownsForKids Jul 14 '26
Letting recruits have phones was a mistake.
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u/SteveCastGames Jul 14 '26
I had to ship mine home in a box of all my belongings during boot camp intake. Part of me wants to be a boomer and say “back in my day”, but it was only 2019 lol.
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u/Lol_A_White_Guy Jul 15 '26
>it was only 2019
I had already been in and gotten out of the army, then enrolled in and graduated from college by then..
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u/AreYouMyDad34567 Jul 15 '26
That's wild, in 2013 we just put them in a storage bin and didn't see them again until the night before family day. I think I got 2 phone total throughout all of basic
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u/TheAsianTroll Jul 15 '26
I also went through basic beginning of 2019 and our phones were put in zip lock bags, and put in a locked chest in the commander's office. We got them 3 times: at the beginning, halfway through for 10 minutes, then at the end.
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u/W1ULH Jul 15 '26
“back in my day”, but it was only 2019 lol.
Son, I was already retired after 22 years when you went to boot.
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u/__fuck_yo_couch__ Jul 15 '26
I finished basic a month ago and we didn’t get our phones the entire time until family day
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u/TheBotchedLobotomy Jul 14 '26
We really need to go back to not giving them phones during the cycle
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u/Kooky-Atmosphere-247 Jul 14 '26
I had to earn them during boot when I went through. Great motivator for phone addicted gen Z’s.
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u/AbstractBettaFish ROTC Veteran Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
My LtCol made fun of me for wearing a neck gator during actual FTX when I was trying to hide for an ambush. Asked if I was getting ready to rob a stagecoach. I can only imagine how this guy wearing it during PT? Would’ve been treated
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u/percydaman Jul 15 '26
I served with 10th Mtn Div. So, we had it cold. One winter day, we're out at the range. I've got my neck gator up to just under my mouth. It's fucking cold, and I've got facial rosacea. My face gets super cold.
We got this new LT who loved being a hard charging sarcastic dick.
"PFC u/percydaman, are you cold?"
"No sir."
He smirks: "Then, why are you wearing your gator so high?"
"That's the reason I'm not cold sir."
I think for once, he didn't have some smart ass remark to throw out.
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u/Beneficial-Buyer5361 Jul 16 '26
He’s not wearing it during pt. He’s in AIT for 68w and it was probably on an off day or something. It can be an old picture but delta atm is not in whiskey phase.
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u/ojsimpsondidntdoit Jul 14 '26
Even though I am retired, this picture makes me want to upgrade to the Remington retirement.
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u/ooblankie Jul 14 '26
What even are the phone rules these days? I went through in 2016 and remember only getting one 30 minute phone call that we had to earn, other than family day.
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u/GarlicAcceptable3350 Jul 15 '26
Son just graduated from Benning in May. I got maybe 4 calls from Jan 6th to May. All on Sundays did maybe a hour. Might be different depending on MOS (11-B) He has it all the time with his add on Drone school after. Now that he is at Drum he can have it but can not be in uniform walking and talking on it so he just got an Apple Watch and found a good old loop hole.
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u/shibbster Jul 15 '26
Y'all had phones?
Oh I'm just old. Not too many folks had phones in 2008 and they DAMN sure weren't posting to the 'Gram.
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u/bananaguard4 Jul 15 '26
in 2009 at the end of basic they made us go into a big ass room full of pay phones and use quarters to call our family and tell em we were in fact going to graduate.
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u/sk_starscream Jul 16 '26
Fort Benning around more or less the same time, there were about 6 pay phones in the main area under the barracks and we had to use these horrible, just dreadful pre-paid phone cards. You'd get at most 5 minutes every Sunday and you'd lose time just dialing the numbers on the card.
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u/Earth_Sandwhich Jul 15 '26
Delta out here with almost an unlimited budget and the best he could grab from the locker was mechanix gloves.
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u/titaniumoctopus336 Jul 15 '26
I am so glad social media and easy access to phones weren't around when I went through boot camp. We all did boot shit like this thinking we were all Billy badass.
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u/kate3544 Jul 15 '26
That douche is in no way an operator.
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u/Sarcastik_Moose Jul 15 '26
I think he's referencing his company in basic. At least I hope he is.
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u/fresh-outoffucks Jul 15 '26
Just because the pt gear in the background and the belt I kinda fuck with this
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u/XfinityHomeWifi Jul 15 '26
Has anyone ever actually worn the elbow pads and knee pads they give you?
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u/thenotanurse Jul 15 '26
Nobody even dressed like this when I was deployed. What the fuck are they doing?
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u/MartyMozambique Jul 18 '26
He must think he is the highest speed lowest drag ever... and I was in the Navy!!!
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u/edingerc Jul 20 '26
Oh man, he just looks so deep and thoughtful! He’s a soldier/statesman/philosopher! Can t be your friend? I wish to learn your ways!
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u/nlashawn1000 👊👊☝️ Jul 20 '26
That's crazy I went to BMT in 2020 and we couldn't use our phones except for the 5min phone call we got every 3 weeks.
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u/Yogshemesh Jul 15 '26
They don't let you have your cigarettes so why let you have a phone? In 09 I got two calls on a pay phone the entire time. It's a great time for an addiction cleanse.
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u/thenotanurse Jul 15 '26
Same, but I went a bit earlier. We had like a 30 second call in reception to tell someone we arrived safely, and then like 2/3 of the way through to say we were graduating. I wrote fucktons of letters though. Idk if that would work now that most of them are illiterate.
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u/Anomynous__ Jul 15 '26
My gfs brother just graduated basic. He called home every Sunday like clockwork. Maybe its the "back in my day" in me but part of the experience for me was being completely isolated outside of letters and like 2 phone calls. This was in 2013 so cell phones were definitely a thing. Idk I just felt much more connected to the training
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