I was there when they filmed this, it was my ship day, we constantly had to stop what we were doing so the camera crew could do what they wanted, we had to wait to do our final swearing in and heading to logan airport so the crew could finish their lunch break.
They want to make sure you're capable before they send you somewhere and you say you can't because of your health you think it's worth flying someone out just to return them because of something
@@mythologicalmayhem thats why they did it befor basic, meps is just to keep numbers down, if the military needs more people then you basically fly trough meps