Instead of loafing like I did in 1966, what would you advise doing in order to get ready for basic training?

Question

Even if you've signed up to be a computer operator, you still have to go through the nightmare of boot camp. Remember, you can get a head start on making rank if you do well.

A program that will get you ready should include activities similar in effect to what you will go through. Despite its propaganda, the military relies too much on the level of compatibility already achieved by the recruit in civilian life. There is no shock therapy there--if boot camp comes as a shock to you, it will leave you permanently straggling.

1. Watch a clock for at least an hour and immediately write down each time a minute passes (or something equally tedious).
2. Stand up for an hour, staring at a wall.
3. Do or eat something that will make you throw up.
4. Fast for two days. Loaf while you're doing it, no need to overwhelm yourself in these preliminaries.
5. Go without sleep for 48 hours.
6. Join a fraternity just to go through Hell Week.

7. Get in a long line and wait for at least two hours. In fact, leave the line before you get to the front. Don't do anything to make the time pass, such as talking to people or reading a book. You have to learn how to put up with the boredom and pointlessness.
8. Take a break after such tortures, although you won't get one in boot camp. Avoid overtraining and anything dangerous.
9. Go on scary amusement park rides.
10. Watch something brutal, such as "The Passion of the Christ," or a real-life slaughtering of animals.
11. Whatever you're afraid to do, do it.

Answer 1

Your forgot a few more:

1. Practice not asking questions.
2. Ask someone to yell at you and call you names. Don't talk back to them.
3. Stand at parade rest for three hours with all kinds of stuff around you that you want to look at.

Answer 2

Same thing I did when I went through during Nam: leave the reception station for your flight or bus to your first duty station ****-face DRUNK, drink some more on the plane/bus, barf, drink some more and report in like a real soldier. All I recall about that night was getting in about 2 a.m., falling asleep somewhere on post, getting screamed at by a drill sergeant who drug me literally to a chow hall at 4 a.m., and being called a maggot among other things by the cook who wasn't amused when I told him I wanted my eggs "scrambled soft with a little ginger."

F*ckers couldn't take a joke back then.

Answer 3

There is no form of training that will prepare you for bootcamp. Even if you go in a fatbody, you may come out a machine. The true character of a man will surely come out and if underneath the exterior you are already a worrior in mind, this will show and you'll be better suited for a promotion from your DI's.

Answer 4

Your missing a few of the more important pre military training tips.

a. catch a STD from a "paid professional"
b. perfect saying racial slurs in a low voice and tacit manor.
c. practice masturbating silently
d. try killing a few people so you ready for combat

It always pays to be ready.

Answer 5

NOTHING!!! You're a little too old for basic training.

Answer 6

Yes.. do all of the above.

Answer 7

GET YOUR HEAD EXAMINED