@@ratherbfishing455 no, the academy is a college. many people here are either fresh out of high school (we have 17 year olds) or one year out from going to a preparatory school.
@@sophiestewart1029 Thank you. They look like they graduated from a good high school. I misunderstood my neighbor when he said his son attended an academy.
I found Navy boot camp to be more mentally and emotionally challenging than physically. Still packed on about 9 lbs of muscle in 8 weeks. After 3 weeks I realized it is a mind game and from there really enjoyed it.
There were two body builders in our division. Both loss muscle mass. The protein is limited, and the cardio is high. Not saying it's impossible, but it is extremely rare.@@hoodieso8858
@@center_of_aquatic_creatures 🇺🇸 I too, want to thank you! I will pray 🙏 that you come home safe & sound. And by ALL means, try to enjoy yourself. 💁 At least a little bit. 🙋 🇺🇸
@@center_of_aquatic_creatures Zombie Killer is right, it's a blessing if you are one of those people who giggles at everything. So many people got in trouble for laughing or smiling at the wrong time. It's probably only until everyone is vaccinated though. Notice how none of the upper classmen were masked. They give you about 15 zillion vaccines at once. No doubt covid will be among them. And it's not like you can opt out. :)
@@TheNando1 this is the Academy, so its basically a collage for the military. You've gotta have good grades and test scores to get in. Regular recruits are training for active duty through a boot camp, not a collage.
@@rubyalac4188generally, you need a degree to become an officer. The academies provide a degree and also a commission as an officer. Recruits who are enlisting usually are going in with minimum formal education and receive specific training for whatever job they're assigned.
@@callanhainline4063 read comment again, it says imagine being dropped off by your parents and polite hellos from the marines...the marines would chew your ass off...
Soldier wakes up in the middle of the night and finds a spider in his tent and stomps it to death, a Marine wakes up in the middle of the night and finds a scorpion in his tent and kills it with his k-bar, an Airman wakes up in the middle of the night and asks himself...what's a tent doing in my hotel room?
@@dankyjoker i wouldnt really say its sexist. She didnt say "im faster than you and im a female". Rather, she was wearing heels or whatever it is and the cadets arent, yet she is still moving faster than them.
The fact that they have cadets yelling at cadets is laughable. I remember when I was a cadet and I could not imagine pretending I was a drill sergeant towards younger cadets.
I was in the Army , And our Drill Sargents never raised their voices to us. there was no need, this was just after the Vietnam war, we knew what was expected of us, everyone but one person graduated, he left on his own accord, volunteered, and we were sworn in before we left for training, that was the real Army, OCS was great
@@kishascape well this isn’t technically boot camp since this is for officers when Marine basic training is for enlisted. But the good lucks definitely stand out compared to Annapolis
This video is for the Air Force Academy, the kids who get to go there could get into Harvard easily. Edit: The kids who can get into Marine BMT can get in eating crayons
It's important to note the appeal that comes with cleanliness, order, and respect for oneself and others. None of which require the military to exemplify.
To be fair though. Only your higher ranking airmen would be infantry and they would get more training. The airforce focuses more on communications, intelligence, and other more technical fields. Their training doesnt require as much of the grueling stress that the marines do. It seems soft but its because what they mostly do doesnt require the hardcore psychological teardown and rebuild that the marines do.
@@GreyBlackWolf well that’s the problem of our current military. We’re trained to be soldiers first, job second. At your core principle, you should be taught to fight no matter what branch you are or the possibilities. Technology advances and I agree, that leaves more open space for non-contact combat (more reliance on drones, future combat bots, etc.). But with all that left and gone, it will still fall upon you. I don’t like the idea of a major war, but time has shown us it’s almost inevitable in every generation or century. Every soldier, regardless of branch should be ready to fight. At least that’s how I see it
@folk outlet, I disagree. They are being trained to be airmen first. It’s just not a 10mile ruck march that makes an airmen useful to the Air Force. It’s something else. And that’s what the AFA trains to cultivate.
@@ForkOperator Still have basic standards to meet, but yeah, if the maintainers and desk jockeys are on the ground holding the line, something has gone seriously wrong lol
Whoever is watching this…Be careful if you decide to join. There’s a lot harassment going on and the officers cover it up. A lot of corruption. They are worse than politicians. The military reassures you you are family/protected, but in the end they will throw you under a bus just to protect one of their own. I’ve experienced it personally and I have plenty of friends that were harassed and forced to not report it.
@@chrislasalle2601 But they'll outrank all drill instructors the moment they graduate the academy, right? I'm not in the military but that's how I always understood it.
Soldiers: I want to fight for my nation. Marines: I want to fight for my nation. Sailors: I want to fight for my nation. Pilots: I want to fly cool planes :D
I went through basic on Parris Island [1973]. As we were standing on the yellow footprints, a DI screamed in the face of a really big guy to my right. The big guy decked the DI. As in, knocked him out. Took four DIs to finally subdue the big guy. There was softer talking going on, before he simmered down.
I was stationed at Fort Carson in the Army. It is just south of the Air Force Academy. They would have us enlisted men race the cadets through the Air Force obstacle course. It was a brutal obstacle course, but a lot of fun for us Army boys. We beat them every time. Our commanding officer told us that if we did not beat them, we would be on extra duty for the next two weeks. That was a great motivator. I saw some of the cadets crying. It was embarrassing. At that time I was 20 years old and some of these cadets are 17 or 18 years old. There is a big difference between someone fresh out of high school and someone like myself who had already been in the military for three years at the age of 20. It changes a person in a big way.
@@human9458 Neither am I. This is just a joke I heard from the internet. General consensus believes that Marines are the brawns, airforce is the brain, and army is somewhere in between. Oh and the navy is gay. 😂
Tbh it's always best to break ties when you enlist Just like me I broke up with my ex not too long ago I couldn't handle her She was just too much to handle And the military is my future And I value my future more than some relationship
@@Charles-wz9sd oh, my mistake, this happens in the Pakistani Air Force. Usually pilots get American Optical Aviators but sometimes engineers get them too.
You people need to understand that these arent drill instructors they're upperclassmen cadets. Going through USAFA as a cadet is significantly different from being through basic as a recruit.
My father remembers his training in the Royal Air Force, and how tough the early "boot camp" phase was, and then how much he actually enjoyed the navigation training in fast jets and the sense that "yes, this is what I have dreamed of".
They seemed pretty rough back then from what I heard. Although it probably differs between officers and NCOs. A mate of mine was in the RAF as a mechanic from 1977 to 2011. He told me a story one time during training where they were doing rifle training lying down, and one guy next to him who wasn't particularly strong used the sand as a support for his rifle but got sand in the barrel. He fired a round that made the barrel explode and a shrapnel nearly hit my mate. And the instructor well, beated the shit out of him with a golf club.
@@tri3852 absolutely not true, that did not happen. Especially not if he was in the RAF. No one was beaten with a golf club, no one’s rifle exploded. If his rifle had exploded with enough force to hit the guy next to him with shrapnel, there wouldn’t be enough left of his face to be beaten with a golf club. And do you honestly think the instructors randomly carry golf clubs around with them incase someone screws up? 😂😂
@@Jimmythefish577 I said "a mate of mine" but if your point is that he made it up I can understand that. But also do you not consider that *some* instructors, despite having been taught to instruct a certain way, would in the absence of a superior officer to keep them in check take a certain kind of liberty to do somethings their own way, like the one I mentioned? And that there are also such things as incidents that go unrecorded? But that's just me.
@@bluehotdog2610 awwww sorry buddy but my major at Florida state is astrophysics, and I’ve already done calculus III and theory of relativity 🥱all while walking on for football and doing army ROTC
As soon as they take the oath, it is not so nice anymore. It’s only nice for about an hour and then it gets a lot harder once you get to the lines before the bus
@@krisanneconrad706 Exactly, when the bus stopped at Lackland, the drill Sgt, quickly boarded the bus screaming, "Get off the f###### bus", and the yelling never stopped until you left basic.
That's how all leadership programs go. Any AFROTC detachment has upperclassmen (as300/400) in high up positions as they are further in their leadership training
Agreed, I know it's ostensibly there to develop their leadership, but it's a dumb idea in practice. These people are training to be junior officers - having them prance around trying to emulate NCOs doesn't achieve anything for them, much less for the new trainees who are struggling not to laugh at them (6:05)
@Space Face yeah lots of them abuse their power tho I have cousins in their and their is lots os secual assault cheating and bullying done by these soncalled upper classmen. The shit that goes on is insane thats why when I I im not tryna make no friends or talk to anyone much . The girl forms clicks its like gighschool bs all over again now throw gun and shit in there . Yeahh the inly problem imma have is gonna be the people I share a room with more than the officers yelling
Each service branch has its customs & traditions, but this is the most relaxed training I’ve seen. Then again as a Marine (respect to all the intelligent) for still service.
you do realize it is the Academy. like West Point or Annapolis and NOT Air Force Basic Training. and so what if the Air Force TIs dont yell and jump up and down and act the fool like the DI videos i see...
Yeah, like abidnego said, this is Air Force Academy, which is in Colorado, for officers. So it's more laidback. For enlisted, it's in Lackland, Texas. I went through Lackland in April 1990, 3706 BTMS. All the drill sergeants, in my flight, & other flights were constantly yelling & getting in everyone's face. Going to chow was the worst, as you had to pass 3-5 of them all watching you.
@@johnj3027 They need enlisted instructors to really nail it. Don't West Point and the Naval Academy have large E instructor cadres there to break 'em down?
It gives those upper classmen cadets a chance to continue developing their own organizational and leadership skills, at the very least. It also helps instill the sense of chain of command in the military. There's a reason
@Bence M.S. I would. All this cinema is ridiculous. That's not how you teach future military personnel. No wonder the US armies, at some exceptions, have some of the worst soldiers compared to other west world countries.
I graduated navy bootcamp a while ago, I find this much more motivating, in my opinion it just seemed like the people who were in charge of us when we first got there were just yelling at us because they were pissed that they had to stay up late
As an ex captain of the South African Air Force, pre 1994, having been certified on the Mirage III CZ, DZ and D2Z, and holding a Bacholers Degree in Electronic Engineering, I would give anything and everything to be given this opportunity..... Sadly my application was rejected because I am not a USA citizen. I fully understand why, but boy, I would have achieved heights beyond belief!!
@@Supervillain725 Army infantry here, we fucked with a new guy one time and told him to get us "some grid squares." The dude came back the next day with an entire stack of grid squares he cut out of a map the previous night. Hilarious. Great soldier though, motivated as hell. He was just nervous and didn't want to seem like a shitbag at his first unit.
Dog ain't that right. By the time I hit the yellow footprints at like 2 AM I had already been physically assaulted at least 3 times, and verbally assaulted like 500 times. Next thing I knew the 300 of us that made up Kilo Company in 2002 were naked as the Drill Instructors "learned us" how to put our cammies on correctly while running up and down the aisles screaming at you. 16 hours later a shit ton of paperwork, about 10 vaccinations, a few bag nasties in our stomachs, a piss test where the drill instructor is literally watching you piss you get to go to bed for a few hours. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it really started on Friday when you met your real drill instructors who made it their lifes work to punish you for being alive for the next 3 months. All that to earn the title, then to earn the privilege to go to SOI and graduate as a rifleman to finally earn the right to fight your enemy in Iraq. Wouldn't change a thing and I'd do it exactly as I had if I had to do it again. I don't think many nowadays would survive that, and definitely, none in this video would.
Air Force holds a special place in my heart. My dad was stationed at Seymour Johnson Air Force base and due to that he met my mom. Also had two uncles stationed there and me my mom's sister's
I went into O&G after the military. I can't say much about the yelling part, other than stupid company men and consultants, but there is definitely more sleep deprivation in the field. Lol Never worked 43 hours straight while in the military!
Interesting, differences at our Initial Officer Training (IOT) at RAF College Cranwell, is that all Officer cadets turn up on the first day in suits, business attire, and haircut. Even NCO Training at Cranwell, for NCO Weapons Systems Operator, Training..still turn up in suit. Cheers
I went through BMT not too long ago, and we had a group of cadets come through our squadron from about week three to week five, and they were some of the most uncertain and least commanding people I have ever seen and all this video does is confirm why that is.
I got out of Basic military training for the airforce 2 weeks ago. Watching this video genuinely sends shivers down my spine, sure, I became desensitized to it. But I've been in their shoes, I know what It's like. I hated it, and it terrified me. But, it made me stronger. Thank you AF.
@@ScarletPayne okay uh.... "I've been training day in and day out to reduce my run time in preparation for the grueling physical fitness standards I'll be held to!"
@@ScarletPayne it's a joke chill even tho some of it is fact that Air Force have it easier then other branches which is why it has the most women in the US Military in that one branch
Just incase anyone is wondering, the $1,200 per month is never really seen by the cadets. All the gear, cost of living, supplies, etc issued to them is deducted over their time at the Academy. When I was there I got about $120 a month after everything was automatically deducted. Watching these videos never gets old and brings up a lot of mixed emotions - c/o 2015
"the basics are pretty scared" I'd say more confused about the pointless bullshit being screamed in their faces by a bunch of non-intimidating, over the top 20 something year olds.
The point is to use every opportunity to accustomize and numb the recruits to overwhelming and extraneous sensory input. Thinking clearly and being able to focus on the important details in the midst of complete chaos is what keeps a squad of soldiers alive and wins battles when shit hits the fan. Their job is to try and fluster the recruits, it's not petulance. If you can't maintain discipline when a pseudo-aggressive superior officer is screaming at you in a safe environment, you're not going to be able to handle a warzone. Besides, it's easy to watch a video of someone screaming and laugh at it. It's different when they are actually up in your face, hold authority over you, and have backup.
@Just another youtube account Following orders, focusing on your job, and making decisions under stress is part of any military job. Besides, in the toolkit that is the army, marines are the hammer. They've got big thick heads and approach every task the same way - by smashing it, while viewing the rest of the toolbox as superfluous. They can also take large amounts of punishment without complaint, but that's pretty much it lol. A hammer is an important tool, but a toolbox that has only hammers is a pretty useless toolbox.
My biggest regret from childhood is not considering the military & military academies. Having known those have served in the military or attended the academies or both, they are set on path and set up with lifelong mentors, networks, and discipline.
Hah that is not true. Look how they treat veterans this video looks really nice for new people. But these kids don’t get life basics needs. Also don’t forget remind they treat poc people differently.
Here's one for you! I was on leave after Marine Boot Camp, a fresh young 18-year-old BOOT! I went to the PX at Lowlry AFB in Denver (Doesn't exist now!) I was walking out of the PX and saw an AF officer who was probably mid-twenties walking towards me...I snapped a crisp salute and barked GOOD AFTERNOON SIR! I held that salute until this glob of mush got done shitting himself and figured out how to return the salute! I believe he has PTSD to this day!😆😆😆😆😆