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Nachricht von: Gabe 11.03.2002 3:56 Ich hab endlich meine ami tussi dazu überreden können daß sie mir ne email schreibt über die grundausbildung bei der air force. Klingt ziemlich krass, vielleicht interessiert es euch ja, deshalb post ich es mal.

Antwort von: Gabe 11.03.2002 3:57 Ok, I have a few minutes so what can I tell you; it sucks!!! The first day there was horrible! They yell and scream in your face and you have to stand still at attention and look straight ahead; do not look them in the face. Before you speak you always had to give a reporting statement , even if they asked you a question and even if your answer was something simple like yes/no sir. Our reporting statement was "Mam/Sir, Airman Viator reports as ordered; then you say what you needed to say. When we were going to eat at certain times we had to stand in long lines heel to toe with everyone else with your head and eyes straight forward; do not talk or look anywhere. Then we had to sidestep when we got our food and our trays had to touch each other. Each table had 4 chairs and you had to stand in front of the chair at attention until the other 3 people came and you all had to get permission to sit. Some days we only got 30 seconds to eat (literally) and that had to include drinking 3 glasses of water; you had to drink all 3 glasses or else you got in trouble; it was hot Texas and they didn't want anyone passing out. Most days my meals consisted of water. The food is mostly potatoes and things like that; forget about having junk food during training. When I graduated from boot camp I literally ate 10 ice cream cones! I'm so glad all of that is over; it was the most horrible 8 weeks of my life, but it was worth it because I have a normal life of my own and I love the Air Force! One of the most annoying things was the loud military music blasting at 4 in the morning. You had 5 minutes to jump out of bed, fix your bed, get dressed and be downstairs to run miles and miles on the track, do a bunch of all the way sit ups, lots of hard push ups and lots of silly exercises. Nice relaxing way to wake up huh? And most days you were lucky if you got to brush your teeth or take a shower; I didn't get to shave my legs for the first 6 weeks; yuck! We had 3 shower heads and 60 girls trying to take showers on a 10 minute limit; we called it a car wash because we just ran through. We would march for 5 and 6 hours a day in the sun non stop; I hated that. We got inspections all of the time. They check for dust in places you would never think of. We had to dust the floor with our hands and I hated how we had to fold our towels, socks, underwear and shirts so perfectly. Put it this way, we had to use tweezers to fold clothes; that is how perfect it had to be! They literally control you 24 hours a day; every move you make or every breath you take. They would always wake you up in the middle of the night and make you put on your uniform and do guard duty for 2 hours. Don't count on getting sleep! They would give you your mail , but you were lucky if you got to read it twice a week; and I hardly ever got time to write letters; 5 minutes once in a while. I didn't get my first phone call for 2 weeks and that was a couple of minutes and all I did was cry. The worst thing was warrior week where we went out in the field and lived in a tent for a week. We had to do a low crawl in the mud and all of the rocks were cutting me ; that is so painful. Since we were out in the field we didn't get to take a shower or wash our hands, so we literally had to eat with mud on our hands; that was disgusting! We also had to pitch our own tents and sleep with the mud on. They controlled you so much that you barely had time to go to the bathroom. Every night before bed you had to clean the whole place. I can't tell you how many days I was on my hands and knees waxing the floors with a little sponge. Then they would make you do kitchen duty like washing pots and pans which were feeding like 2000 people in a 2 hour period; that was a lot of sweating and hard work; get ready to peel potatoes! We also had to hike a lot with these 100 pound duffel bags on our backs; sometimes we would go 5 or 6 miles with those things on and they don't care if you are a boy or girl or how little or big you are; you all have to do it. I hope this covers some of it for you ; there is more, but I feel like I've said enough for now. Like I said, this is the Air Force boot camp and I don't know how they do it in Germany, but just get ready to be treated like SHIT; EVERYONE is so rude and mean; all I did was pray and cry every 5 seconds. Let me know when you get this and what you think.