What Are Sundays Like At Army Basic Training? 

You either go to church, clean, or fall asleep inside your wall locker.

“Go sit in a bathroom stall and you know have some fun” lmao 😂

On Sunday afternoons we used to take turns laying under our bunks while our buddies looked out for the drill sergeants. You would put your fingers up into the mattress springs and would fall asleep with your arms hanging from the bunk. That way, if any of the cadre came into the room, you looked like you were working on tightening up your blanket from underneath. Good times back in 1985.

7:44 "I am a mature adult... I am a mature adult... I am a mature adult...*snickers*

Hey I just graduated from basic training a few weeks ago at Fort Jackson . On sundays we woke up at 0600 for first formation for chow. After breakfast we went back and we got "personal reflection time" where you can sleep if you want to. Like he said you sign up for whatever church service you wanted to go to and you wait until your time to go to church came around. When I would get back from my church service it was already lunch time so pretty much as soon as I got back we went to chow. We wouldn't start cleaning until after lunch. We would usually get an extra hour of personal time at night too. Sundays were always the best day of week , always looked forward them.

1st thing I'd like to say, go to jewish service with your close battle buddies on day if youre going to fort jackson, i went every week, im not jewish, and they give food like bread and chocolate, the rabbi is really nice, it's an amazing time.

The way he laughed at 7:44 makes me think he’s guilty of it.

I was the ring leader for hosting a D&D section every Sunday during BCT, I used a 20 paper numbered slips as "dice" and have people draw from a beanie for action. Those was good time, and kids from other bays gathering to watch how the story progressed.

In basic training, on Sunday there are 3 major religions: Protestant, Catholic or Detail!!

"Privates why is this latrine floor so sticky? It was clean an hour ago! I inspected it myself!"

Thank you for telling us everything we need to know about basic training, I really appreciate it

I’m so happy there’s someone on youtube who shares so much information on army thank you🙌🏻🙌🏻

I was about to ask about those who aren't religious at all but you answered lol thanks for the video!

When I went to basic at Ft Leonard wood they didn’t have a service for my specific denomination and sect (Lutheran Missouri synod) but after a couple of weeks it turned out one of my DIs was of that faith and would round us up and load us into a truck and take us to his civilian church with his family. That way he could always go to church with his family too. We even got to go early if they were having a pancake breakfast or post service meal (of course we always volunteered to help with set up and clean up then 😜) and yes he didn’t mind if we slept in the back pew or read or wrote letters during the service. Thinking back he probably worked that racket during every training cycle

7:43 I needed a minute after that lol.

While at first I thought that doing work on Sabbath was bad, but I think that the symbolism of cleaning is quite wonderful. Looking forward to shipping out in five weeks!

My grandfather went to the Army. When he told me I was filled with questions but scared to ask him because of what he has been through and nightmares he has from movies about war. So you helped me a lot with all the question I had. XD Thank you for serving us.

If you're super lucky, during blue phase you'll get to go on pass. However it's super rare to see a blue phase company go on pass. Fortunately for me, my company was one of the super rare ones and once we got to blue phase we got full 8 hour passes with phones on Sundays.

Just wanted to first off thank u for what u do also your videos really help me get prepared for the army

Thank you for video, love all your videos, my son is in white phase at fort sill, these videos have been so informative

Pretty accurate from when I went to Navy bootcamp. Cleaned, iron uniforms, church, and actually allowed to take a longer shower than usual. We also did a ton of drilling as well afterward. I mean a ton. I don’t know if they still do but we competed in pretty much everything in training and the hardest competition was the drill part of it. Are RCDs at the time had a competition of them selves not only bragging rights but the lowest ranked had to buy pizza for the whole division before graduation and we weren’t going to lose that.

Sundays are like go to church and have some extra sleep hours, just don't get caught sleeping tho haha

Thanks man I'm about to go to fort leonardwood July 19th. You've been a huge help.

Thanks for these videos Matt

Im thinking about joining the army reserve. Your video's are really helpful so I can prepare for what i need to expect

Hi, I went to Basic and AIT in 1988 at FT. Benning in Gorgia. And at that time Sunday's were for Church, we couldn't sleep? Cleaning the barracks, writing letters home, one phone call home, polishing your boots and polishing your brass? The polishing of the boots and brass made you pay attention to detail and while sitting around polishing away on your boots and you brass was the time you heard all the great stories from your fellow Soliders and you really got to know your battle buddies, I personally wish they would have kept the tradition of the polushing and cleaning your gear because true comarodery was made with one another during those times. Boot camp was one of the best memories I have in life, it was one of the best times I had in life for sure!! and some of the worse times also? I attended Basic and AIT at a place called Harmony Church in FT. Benning, My most cool and rememerable experience happened towards the end of my basic training. My platoon won the Guidearm challenge and we were able to go and spend the weekend in Addy Murphys old barracks and I was able to sleep in his acuall bunk!! My whole platoon just sat around the barracks floor the first night by candle light, because there was no electricity in the barracks anymore!! and we were told crazy stories by a few old Infantry Soliders who searved with Murphy in World War II they were vollenteers from the Museum on post. We all talked about how it must have been for the Soliders before being shipped out to battle. All of the Old Soldiers were all highly decorated and all of them could have erned the C.M.H in there own right for sure. Highly respected in the Infantry community, almost Infantry God's if you will? A very cool experience I will never forget. I wish every Soldier could experience the comarodery I felt with my Infantry Brothers during my service to our Great Nation. To this day I'm still in contact with quite a few friends I met in basic training, that was 30 years ago!! So if your a young person and your thinking about joining the Military? ( ARMY ) Just do it!! It will, and mark my words: be the absolute best time you will ever have in your life, especially if you like shooting and blowing shit up? It's kinda like being a "professional camper" with alot of guns. FOLLOW ME!! I'M INFANTRY Take care! Hawk Out!!

I gave you a like and subscribe for including "Sitting in the bathroom stall" in your video! thank you for your information and never holding back. Truly a soilder haha

Yep. Always went to service on Sunday. Went when I could while deployed as well.

Lol I slept in my bed (on top of the sheets) on Sundays, sometimes until lunch, while the churchgoers were at church. We were supposed to be cleaning but the drill sergeants barely ever came up to the bays during Sunday. Also my bed was in the perfect spot, hidden behind a pillar so if a DS did come into the bay I had a good 10-15 seconds to jump up and fix my sheets before the DS saw me.

In 2006 we were not allowed to sleep during church. The Drill Sargent would stand in the back and if you got caught sleeping he would be screaming in your face and make you stand against the wall for the remainder of the service.

You can sit in the bathroom stall and have fun 😂 Thanks for your service bro. These videos have been a big help though.

When you were talking about the DS allowing soldiers to sleep at the back of church I can just imagine the pastor seeing a row of heads dozing off at the back

Good stuff Mat, I definitely wish I would upload as much as you 😂 keep cranking out good content!

Sundays were my day to sleep 😂 I used to clean the benches in the bathroom with bleach and then go to sleep on them afterwards. Everyone in my bay loved me for it

Exactly what we did on Sundays, everything you mentioned was on point !

We cleaned on Sundays. You haven't cleaned it well enough until cleaning time is over. The DS on duty almost invariably got bored and made us do PT at night. In white phase we were also allowed to sign out and run around the BN. Starting in white phase we got a 10 minutes phone call on Sundays, too.

Sounds like church back in the 80s. We did the cleaning ALL the time like you described on Sunday. One note, if you went to church while others cleaned they saved the worse parts for you. We also did D&C in voluntary groups.

When I went to ft Jackson...1985...we trained on Sunday afternoon to lights out...morning was service...cleaning and laundry

Thank you for the help I’m going to the army very soon

All true!! Sundays were the best in basic back in 87!! Church and then back to the barracks to shine boots and polish brass, write letters, use the pay phones and later in phases we could march to the PX for toiletries and snacks that we'd hide in the barracks!! Basic training was the best and worst time of my life, if that makes sense..

Our regular wake up was 0400, but on sunday we could sleep in til 0500. we had baptist, catholic, buddist, and i think one other religion. If we didnt go, we had reflection time for an hour. If we werent at church or in reflection time, we cleaned the barracks and the outside. cut grass, pulled weeds, etc.

Thank you for the advise your giving us this is going to help me alot PS you have a new subscriber ;)

When I was in, after church and cleaning we would have classes. we would go over the basics things of the week before. Guess times have changed

Very helpful. Thank you for this.

Great video!

Find the longest religious service go to that one and sleep. “Miss the bus” so you have to walk back and stop by the exchange

can’t wait till I get there I will be waiting on those Sunday’s !!!

A BCT and AIT on Sundays we slept until 07:00, we ate Morning Chow, then allowed to go to Church Service. After Service it was back to the Barracks for a GI PARTY. Then to Lunch Chow and back to cleaning the Barracks. In the Afternoon it was polishing boots and low quarter shoes. It was polishing your brass and organizing your locker in accordance to the layout diagram. It was then Evening Chow and studying for Soldiers Stakes. Then Lights out

I’m a Christian and this answered my questions thank you

You should do a video on letters and writing home. When my friend went through basic he had 10 minutes to write letters, but this was in the 80s. Now we have email and how does that work now?

Mad informative. I leave next week, so I’ll be prepared.

7:44 threw me off I was dying laughing I would never expect him to joke like that 😂😂

3:25 "have fun with yourself" in a church, yeah lol

Sit in the bathroom stall and have some fun😂😂you funny bro 7:44

Rhapsody was the best service. It was fun and they gave you candy afterwards

I’m believe in everything now

I literally went to every religion service i could to get out of cleaning

What do you mean about bringing your own Bible and it getting messed up? I got one as a gift thats camo and zips closed.

I went through Benning in 92, we got up for breakfast, signed up for services, then marched to church. If you didn't go to church it was waxing and buffing the floors. Later we had time for laundry, polishing boots. Later in Basic Sunday night, the pizza guy would come by and we could hangout downstairs eating pizza and using the pay phones. Drill seargents would usually play music as well.

Very great video!

Im so glad i can go to church on sundays when im in basic training because im a Protestant Christian. THANK YOU SO MUCH Shootmeup89! PS im going to be joining the army in about 5 years. :)

What about rosaries in Catholicism at basics? I’ve been catholic all my life and I’ve been on the verge of going to basics. But I also imagine United States and Canada have different rules and regulations not too different.

The majority of our company at Fort Jackson was going to the Protestant church. It was such a big deal when we were signing out- every church had like 20 people max, but the Protestant church had nearly 120 people it seemed.

I went to Fort Lenordwood for BCT and on Sundays there we woke up 0530, went down for formation for breakfast chow then go to church services if you wanted to. Then we would go on 3 or 4 hour break or whatever it's called to do what you want plus we'd have our phones as well. Forgot the name of it. Other than that, Sunday's were always a good day.

Not even planing on going in the military but I find these videos pretty interesting.

#GodBlessAmerica

On Sundays I was always scared that my Platoon would get caught sleeping. Which we did one day and had to pick weeds all day long till dinner chow.... Fun times lol.

Our DIs told us where the services were and when and left it to us to get there. So of course we went to the PX for sodas and candy instead. I think they kinda knew but were OK as long as we didn't bring it back.

"You can go sit in the bathroom stall and have some fun" so meny people are gonna do that

First off big thanks for the videos you post. Could you please make a video about how you would pay off a loan let's say if you were at basic. And you owe a loan on a car or house? I'm thinking about buying a newer jeep before I leave but want to know if I can make monthly payments while I'm at basic.

I went to basic at Ft Knox in 2005, I went to church mainly to sleep and eat the donuts they'd have.

This guys face is beat red after he cuts it at 7:47 hahahaha you know he had a good chuckle

my nephew got out of basic and asked why i did not tell him about fire watch. getting little sleep just slipped my mind.

Can you do a vid on proper sit-up form or how to improve core strength. I know I could look it up online or something but I'd rather hear it from you.👍

I remember writing on my notebook about Pokemon Colosseum planning both what I've encountered and newer pokemon as of Pokemon X and Y while doing laundry XD ah, good times. Weird stuff, but enjoyed myself nonetheless.

Excellent video.

I'm not religious, but if I get to sleep then yeah, I'll go to church.

Going to ft Leonard wood on august 13th, dang I'm nervous.

Well I love all my troops IAM happy for them .

7:41 Lmao 🤣🤣🤦🏽‍♂️That’s a lot of Stress Relieved

Matthew 11:28, 30 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” I’m confident that nodding off in this case is ok

Im literally on the bus to ft sill right now, wish me luck my dudes

Hell! For us Sunday was like this for us... Wake-up at 5 or 6 (Depending on DS), Formation at 0530 or 0630. Chow anywhere from 0630-0830. Church from 0900-1000. 1100- right before chow... Short smoke session so that we have something to pray for next Sunday (Only real time Drills were joking with us). Dependent on reservation, 1200-1330 Chow. After chow clean and/or study until 1630-1800 which was chow... After chow a massive PT smoke session until 2000 where we had an hour of personal time... 2100 lights out. Sundays were more laid back, but just as busy with busy work. We had maybe 20-30 mins to eat each meal. We still did PT. All of this depended on the phase we were in too. The first 2 weeks was total control so it was not laid back at all. As time went on it was more relaxed up until our last few weeks where we got on and off post passes. Although I was in OSUT (One Station Unit Training) so my basic was 17 weeks long.

At Benning in 97 it was church or all day or sand bag detail. You pick. Cleaning too 😆

Did yall have laundry service? I remember Sundays were the days that we did all of our laundry as well as the rest mentioned.I remembered at first I wasnt interested in going to church, and instead I was put on detail shoveling rocks out of a deuce and a half. Needless to say I found god by the next Sunday :-)

what they do in the bathroom lol

OMG ... the memories

wall locker naps are the best

say i wanted to run around the track or somethin, could i?

What if you're a Seventh Day Adventist?

One of my buddies stole unit patches from the DS office, then when we'd get to church we'd ditch and walk to the PX to call a cab. Once we got in we put on the patches and did whatever for 2-3 hours.

*sit in the bathroom stall and have some fun* that's one way to put it, made me laugh lol

I was in the car with my mom when I watched this 😅😩😖😣

Does boot camp have an eastern orthodox service?

We would get up at 7am on sunday, formation > breakfast > then after breakfast, the chapel was just up the hill so we could walk there.

Obstacle course is my favorite

What if I praise at home I don’t go to church but I praise daily 🤔

When I was in the British army they didn't quite understand my spiritual path, some of them had a problem that I refused religion point blank. My path involves emerging myself with nature, when you do this you start by meditation within a natural environment afterwards you let your senses take in your surroundings, appreciate and enjoy. I know it's hard to understand but that connection is what keeps me sane in this batshit crazy world. Yes there's more to it but that was the basics, but it helps me keep grounded and balances me. In the army we trained in my church quite a lot without even realizing it😁 when you connect with the land it helps a lot.

When I went to Basic at Lackland AFB we still did PT in the afternoon on Sundays. Yes it was a pretty down day but we still had to do PT.

We sleep in the barracks on sundays lol. But we also get are phones Saturday-sunday.