typical day in the life of a recruit;
revilie- 0darkthirty, unusally 5am get dressed, make you racks, make a head call, formation in 5 minutes.....move!...march to morning chow hall. Eat chow (you have 2 minutes to eat from the time the last guy sits down, dont taste it, just shovel it in). Formation (read you book of knowledge while in formation). March to class.
Morning classes for a few hours, march to chowhall for lunch (could be as early as 10:30) eat same as before. March to next class (class could be in a class room, open field, squad bay). Could be close combat training, could be history, you didnt know until you got there.
Phase 1- Lota class work, mostly military history, general knowledge. Lot of physical training in between.
Phase 2- Rifle/Field training (the fun stuff)
Phase 3- Lota class, combat training, polishing (finishing touches) this is where you actually start to get treated like you know what youre doing. It's more of a routine, everyone knows what to do, you still get bent, the Senior throws a fit a few days before final drill, the DIs become the good guys, the Senior Di holds back a few recruits to perform "special maintenance" on rifles and shoes, you all try your damndest to do well on final drill for your Senior DI and the other DIs.
Next thing you know, you're graduating and you can't hardly remember one day of the last three months since it was such a blur. Then everyone talks about how in the Fleet they don't put up with boots, and you better have your shyt wired straight, and you're more scared of that then what you just went through.
You get to MCT, do your month there, get a taste of FMF, same things. Go to school (for you SOI, grunt school) it's just an extension of MCT so that when you get out of SOI you've been training for about 5 months straight. You're still a boot until "they" say youre not. You'll notice that being "salty" means you have a really faded set of cammies, and you'll wear the hell out of some, buy-em used, what ever, and try to look salty. Then you realize being "salty" mean you can wear those cammies without getting shyt from your Plt Sgt.
Next thing you know, it's been a year, you have your cross rifles, and you're squaring away some boot that showed up last week.
And you're worried about boot camp?
After class, practice close order drill, mess up, get bent (push-ups, sit ups, disciplinary style). Go to Barracks, perform rifle drill for 2 hours until chow, get back, shower, shave, one hour free time, Taps.
Now depending on what phase, what part of boot camp youre in depends on what the schedule is. Every minute of the day is scheduled for something. Sometimes you're early and the DI has you all doing push ups, drill, quiz time..what ever game they can think of. You'd be surprised at how much class room time there is. the first month, the majority of the day is class time.
PT (physical training) sometimes it's first thing in the AM, sometimes it's after lunch, sometimes is company PT, sometimes its a PT test. There was just so many little things in between the scheduled stuff its just not possible to write down.
