After boot camp, I know there's "A" School, is there anything I should know in-between?

Question

Maybe suggestions on things that the recruiter probably will not tell me?

Answer 1

sure, if you're not Combat Arms, then it's a walk in the park, enjoy.

Answer 2

Usually you go from boot right over to A-school. You can take leave if you wish. I on the other hand had to wait in a temporary holding unit while a class opened up in my A-school that was a two week wait. This unit is very laid back and the people are farmed out to help boot camp faculty.

Answer 3

It depends on what branch of service and what school it is. When I was in the Air Force a long time ago I had a very long school for Radar and electronics. It was 32 weeks long. I was mentally prepared for the head games in basic training but I didn't know I would have to deal with an academy type environment for that long. Most of the non technical schools were like 4 - 6 weeks.

Answer 4

Regardless of what branch of the service you go into, you start off by going to Basic Training. Once you graduate, they send you to another base (or another part of the same base) where you will be trained on your job specialty, which is called a Military Operational Specialty or MOS in most branches of the service. In some cases, you may get to your training station and it may be several days or weeks before class starts. If that's the case, you'll still be required to perform basic military duties like cleaning the barracks, polishing the floors, grounds maintenance, etc. Once your training starts, your day is mostly spent going to class but you're still required to do general barracks work. After you graduate from your training school, you're off to your first duty assignment where they will put you to work right away.

One tip: Do NOT volunteer to be a student leader or a barracks chief. Either of those duties will take up a lot of your time and you'll have to deal with NCOs yelling at you because one of your troops broke the rules and then you'll have to figure out what to do with those problem troops, then you'll have a bunch of extra meetings with the commanding officer and the first sergeant, the list goes on and on. Concentrate on making it through basic training and learning everything you can at A School. Being a student leader or barracks chief doesn't impress anybody once you get to your first duty assignment.

Answer 5

The recruiter is not authorized to withold any information from a prospect and when you enter basic training, your Drill Instructor will explain everything to you and provide you with necessary paperwork for any schools that you are interested in, that's Military Schools or Advance
Individual Training after basic training or boot camp.

Answer 6

Make sure you have a great pair of broken in running shoes. Because you don't walk to class you run. Make sure you don't were brand new boots either. You will probably have to pass of some road marches, they were really fun, but boots that are comfortable make a big difference. I hope you have a blast!

Answer 7

Unless you are in the guard or reserves, there will not be much time off in between graduation and AIT. Just a few days at most to spend with your family if you are an active duty soldier. Transition should not be too bad considering AIT is coed.

Answer 8

If your A school start right after boot camp, you may be able to request for leave. If they do not approve it, you may have to work at mess halls or clean-up parties where your A school will be before school starts.

Answer 9

There may be a waiting time between graduation of boot camp and the startup of an A school class (a few weeks at most). During that time you'll be doing menial grunt work.

Answer 10

For the Marines it goes like this

Bootcamp 13 weeks
10 day leave

Then you report for either School of Infantry (Infantry related MOS') or Marine Combat Training for other MOS'

Then you got to A school & depending whether your MOS warrants it, you can go to a C School for for indepth training

Answer 11

go to the forums at military.com. There you can ask specific questions from actual recruiters and people in the Navy, and be more confident that they are going to be useful answers.