Ok I was a Drill Sergeant a short while ago. Just came off the trail. If you think you get anything personal on basic you're wrong. You get some family pics, your wallet, and something religious. That's it. Get over yourself, its not about you, you're ARMY property or government property at that point. We own you. So leave that stuff at home, get your big boy/girl pants and suck it up for 10 - 16 weeks depending on branch of service. Just my 2 cents. By the way get at parade rest when you post. Lol.
If you're going to Paris Island, then the answer is a huge NO! You won't have time to do anything other than what you're told. If you try and sneak something past your drill instructors....like an ecig, they will take it from you and kill you with it. Well, you'll wish they killed you with it lol. Leave that stuff at home and do yourself a favor.
Ok I was a Drill Sergeant a short while ago. Just came off the trail. If you think you get anything personal on basic you're wrong. You get some family pics, your wallet, and something religious. That's it. Get over yourself, its not about you, you're ARMY property or government property at that point. We own you. So leave that stuff at home, get your big boy/girl pants and suck it up for 10 - 16 weeks depending on branch of service. Just my 2 cents. By the way get at parade rest when you post. Lol.
You or whomever we are talking about will not be allowed to vape during bootcamp. The first thing they do when you get to basic is have you put everything you came with into a box to be shipped back home, right down to your underwear.
I looked up Bootcamp rules and all tobacco products are strictly forbidden (cigs, chew, snuff etc...) but nowhere does it mention nicotine being forbidden. so i have a question for miltiary vapers, did you vape during bootcamp and was your drill instructor cool with it?
By the end of boot I was pro at sitting down and standing up repeatedly in rapid succession for no apparent reason
I went thru OSUT at Knox in '97, no smoking whatsoever. Like a lot of folks said, you'll be too busy or too tied and definately both to smoke. Nights were the worst though, fast asleep in the middle of a great dream puffing on those cigs only to wake up thinking you're smoking and slap the ever loving stuffing out of yourself and your rack thinking you dropped the cig and burning something up! Fun times!
Fortunately we were allowed to get outta there for Christmas Exodus, for a week you went home for Christmas and New Years. Tell ya though it was a .... going back as the nic fits were twice as bad as the first go around.
I did sneak a smoke with another guy once, he got caught, I didn't. Needless to say after seeing the punishment he received....I didn't do that again.
The worst though was our barracks were right next to the Marines AIT equivalent barracks. They were allowed to smoke and our Drills frequently visited their smoke shack, in full view to us........fun times indeed!