First Night at BMT! My Air Force Experience 

So if you have a child and want to join then what

TIP: deposit the “food voucher” (really a check) into your bank account through your app. And just buy what you want to eat with you’re card and pocket the difference.

Quick advice to anyone about to ship. Do not give up. The first 2-3 weeks are shit but, you will make it through. It’s a great experience and you will make friends.

This day in 1971 was my first day in Air Force boot camp.

For anyone watching this video thats about to go to BMT, try not to stress too much. It's not that hard, by the end I was sad to say goodbye to my flight and MTIs. Security Forces academy is way harder, it's a good kind of challenging

I know a young lady going thru BEAST week right know. She is going to kill it! Scored a 94 on her physical training test. GO TAYLOR!!

Shipping out in 1week March 25th! Wish me luck😊✊🏾

Good job explaining it! I went through quite a few years ago and it doesn't sound like it has changed at all. It certainly was an adventure. My biggest Air Force mistake was getting out. So please, if you are still in, _stay in._ If you get out, you will regret it. The Air Force takes very good care of its people. Don't give that up. Take care and thanks for the video! It brought back some memories.

Can you put your eye brows at ease lol jk good video bro

My son shipped out today. I am nervous for him 😐He was both nervous and excited.

i’m a senior in high school who graduates in literally 3 months and i’m HEAVILY considering the air force. i NEEDED this video. i get to talk to my recruiter soon.

I’m leaving tomorrow! These videos are a bunch of help. Thanks so much man

I love how detailed this was 👏🏾👏🏾 you’re awesome!

Any one distracted by how flawless those eyebrows are??

My friend and I are gonna be in the air force when we're older. I'm so excited!

I enlist sometime this year, just waiting for my medical documents to come! I graduate in 2020, I’m excited

This video is crazy informational, really well structured and not a second off beat. It really helped me to consider my options, and as if that wasn’t enough, the jet at 19:29 pulling a sick rip making that sweet sweet howl made me solidify all the reasons I want to be a pilot.

Thank you so much for sharing! You did a great job of explaining and I loved listening to you. I'm so nervous for BMT!

This is the most elaborate first night at bmt video I’ve seen. Thank you! I had no Idea about some things you mentioned like the voucher or the room you wait in.

love the jets in the background

I shipped out from Japan so my MEPS experience was totally different from everybody else's lol

Advice: Retake ASVAB if need be to get the Job you really want! Pick list up to 10 but needs of the Air Force comes first! Get in shape don't wait for Basic (Big DUH) Week 0 is shock week, week 1 get your shit together, week two tighten up, week 3 you got this, week 4 Oh shit combat training, week 5 Lets have some fun!, week 6 down hill, week 7 Lets finish this shit already! 1st day is very long - when you get to Lackland you will be tired but time for shock and awe - first night 4-6 hours rest only and up 0 dark thirty hours and up and at them. We have a saying in the Air Force - Hurry up and wait! 2 reasons they rush you when you get to Base is a lot of processing to do and get you squared away by the TI's and the Shock factor to let you know your there and time to get with it! Mep's - Rest Rest Rest! Your going to need it!

How the heck do you guys remember 0 night? I don’t remember hardly anything that happened that night. I left March 27th of 2018. Listen the concept of bmt is really not hard. Listen ladies! Keep to yourself.

You're such a brilliant and sweet young man with such big heart. Obviously you've been mentored into being such classic caliber. All the best in your endeavors...this is definitely informative

Thank you for your service to our country

they do feed you at bmt lololol that made me laugh. 😂

I remember that gleam in my eye also back Sept 4 2007, man did it burn out fast. Hope who ever sees this stays positive!!

One day when you gain some rank all these new, amazing experiences you’re talking about will be so remedial.

I’m at the airport right now leaving for Air Force BMT. Thanks for the info. I feel a little more comfortable prepared!

The only thing I have been stressing about is not knowing step by step what I'm going to be doing. Thank you so much for being so detailed. This is exactly what I wanted.

I enjoyed watching this! Made me laugh and nice to hear they’re still doing some of the tactics like being nice on that bus! Make the most out of your time, travel and good luck!

THANK YOU so much for this! Awesome and thorough video 🙏🏾

Just got called for BMT, leaving April 30th.

My meps wasn't super busy but the staff was lazy and took years

Awesome video! I ship out the end of July. Definitely helps to prepare by watching the video.

This so accurate literally everything I remember!! Nicely done

Bro I loved listening to this video, you took me back to the day I entered BMT

I thought you were about to say latrine instead of bathroom lol

I started basic April 3, 2019. Im a Warthog, FLT B425(band flight), from the 321 TRS, and I was blessed enough to have our speaker broken, so we never woke up to revelle.

Call your dog🤣🤣

Jan 12 th ‘83 BMT 3273 FLT 035…..Lackland 1st night,got there at midnight,to bed by 1am..then REVEILLE at 5am😮….brings back memories!!!

Hearing reveille now is a cruel and unusual punishment. 10 years later and I instantly think of TIs waking people up.

I ship out May 28th I can’t wait!

My first day at Lackland was on my 18th birthday. This was back in 1983. I did luck out though. We arrived at 1 am, got to bed around 2:30 and our TI let us sleep ‘til 10. No lie. That was the last break we got, lol. MSgt Prado and Tech Sgt Bassinger. I’ll never forget them, and I don’t miss them a bit! Worst thing about basic for me was the bats. I hate bats, lol. Thank you for your service, son. Best of luck!

Everyone I’ve ever heard explaining the food voucher has never been able to finish the entire thing 😂

*you seem like a great person, thanks for the upload, really informative!! that $25 meal voucher. Chick Fil A im dead* 😂😂 I wonder if the service people were worried you were eating your last meal and were gonna go do something reckless or somethin??

Shipping out in a little less than a week. March 5th.

That looks like dorm 362.... maintenance?

I was in Disneyland too (Wolfpack) and we had to do that drop your bags and pick it stuff

When you made this vlog how long were you in the Air Force ? Where did you film it ad what is your AFSC ? I'm an Air Force Veteran . I arrived at Lackland for basic training as we called it back in the day on 18 August 1971 . The whole time I was in the old wooden WWII style barracks w/o any air-conditioning . We just had fans in the barracks . It was pretty hot let me tell ya Airman .

if i were to make that my alarm now.. my brain would get use to it and eventually ill sleep throught it. like my brain is like “ nope! not this! ears we’re turning off. good luck waking up ashleigh :)”

Don't do what we did! We came in for the MEPS hotel bedcheck (9pm). We snuck out at 10pm and went to a local bar for a few last drinks. We crawled back in at 3am drunk as skunks. Making the 4:30am mandatory breakfast was a bitch. The rest of that flight and first day experience was PAINFUL!

Yeah i pulled night bagging detail in med hold. Super fun to watch new trainees come in XD

I ship Tuesday April 2nd. Wish me luck bro.

"You're kinda gonna have a bad time" me: **Immediately thinks of Sans saying "Do you wanna have a bad time?"**

What the heck.. you gotta get a whole other physical when you ship out.? Eye and hearing test to.. that sucks. And what is your family supposed to do this entire time if they want to attend the swear in?

This was a great video I like how you got straight to the point! Your so handsome and kinda remind me of the actor Roshon Feagan 🤗

Thanks for this, makes me feel a bit better my brother just had his first day at Lackland.

how was your airport experience? i'm on the east coast in SC, a whole timezone from Texas. i've never flown before, i've never been in an airport. it's the part i'm most nervous for, lmao.

Anyone shipping on the 2nd of April?

We had older Trainees talk to us, too. Whole Flights, a week or so ahead of us, would go marching by in formation, chanting very sympathetically: "Rainbow, Rainbow, don't be sad. The second week is twice as bad. SOUND OFF. One two. SOUND OFF. Three four. Bring it on down now. One two three four one two, THREE FOUR!!" And very uplifting, spirit-raising messages too. Like: "Rainbow, Rainbow, don't be blue. My T I is ugly too. SOUND OFF. One two..." And, looking out for our best interests, they'd caution us about the worst that was yet to come to them, so far: The VD inoculation. A square needle in the left nut. {The WHAT!?!} LOL

When we got off the bus they made us do facing movements and we had to keep taking a knee and it was annoying. I was in shorts and really fucked up my knee🤣

this video was super informative and helpful for mental preparation for basic. i have a question about graduation, though. Do you graduate after BEAST week or before like the old airman's week? And when you graduate are you done for good now or still have to go back to that final week?

Just came across your channel! Subscribed. Even though I’m planning on becoming an officer these videos are a ton of fun to watch!!

Shipping out in 1 week lets get it

I ship out January 7th. Not looking forward to going back to MEPs again. I went to the MEPs at Fort Jackson in Columbia SC and those were the most dysfunctional and rude people I've ever encountered. The ladies at the desk were disrespectful and rude for no reason, same with the ladies in medical.

I ship out November 12th, so excited but scared

Great video 🙏🏼 airforce has been a dream for a while now

I'm proud of you!

My Son just got to Lackland at 4 pm today! Signed up for 6 year’s. Rank E3. MOS is Security Force’s. Thanks for the information 👍🇺🇸 God Bless You.

I plan on talking to a recruiter as soon as baseball season is over

Watching this as I wait for my ship date confirmation from my recruiter I know it's still a long road ahead but, looking back, I'm closer than I've ever been

BMT has changed so much since 2.5 years ago my gosh 😂

Leaving August 27!!😊🇺🇸 thx 4 all your vids, very helpful!!

Not much has changed since 79. I was a156th got as 3703 in what y'all know as the old dorms. Mine was torn down last year. It would be 323rd now. When I came in no one was with me. I got left on the quad for hours no food or water. Someone forgot to tell my squadron I was there. Lol alarm.

Do they still have the Lackland Laser flashlights? I went thru in 1985.

Boiii the opening was the funniest shit 🤣🤣

Haha that first morning we had like 5 MTI's wake us up running around yelling at us to GET UP, banging on the lockers, HURRAY UP WE DONT HAVE ALL FREAKING DAY, WAKE THE PISS UP...man we were all like man what the heck, it was crazy from the night before it was so boring and quiet, but I guess they just get a kick out of freaking out the trainees that first morning by surprising us lolI don't remember much more of zero week but all I know was it was crazy

I’m so nervous to even join now 😭😂

Thanks for your volunteer service to America. 🇺🇸

I was flight 035, second to none! We must have graduated around the same time, I graduated Dec. 7.

i ship out may 26th as a dental assistant for the air force. nervous but ready

Thank you for your service man, you inspire me

Do people in the air force have to repel from the tower ? If so what happens if you to afraid of heights and can't do that "activitie" is that required?

Shipping November 26 🇺🇸

Hey man how was the PT during BMT? Was it crazy hard & how long do you work out for??

Thanks for all the helpful information!

2 years later and I ship out tomorrow! nervous but HYPE

Tell me why when you said you can have your last meal I was like well I’m getting chick fil a FORSURE and then you said you got chick fil a. Great minds think alike 😂. I swear in this month for meps and hope to leave in August. Thank you for this !!! 😊

Do they yell at scream the whole time ?

How was the color test was it solid colors or those little dot test

My son just left for bmt he got 2 $25 checks and 2 $12 checks to use at the airport

This guy is still liking comments after a year...what a legend....xD

I don't mind the revelloe. I hear it . Time to start the day. 5 and a half years in the army. I should have stayed in. I would have been retired by now .

Ayeeee fam hit the nail on the head 😂😂

Everything is so much more different than how it was for the other people that I have watched... lol

PSA to everyone shipping, raise yo hand for stairwell crew. Your welcome.

I am 37yrs old interested in being either a pilot , Medtech or Firefighter for the Air National Guard I hear they take up to 40yrs old and are in need of Medtechs

If you're going into the guards then you DO NOT swear in at MEPS.

You could probably just take one step back so you don't have to hunch over