I was wondering if you could get shots from your doctor and be exempt from it during Reception Week at BCT. Would they give you one or would they just say, "The hell with it, we'll give you more". Oh yeah, I also heard they're giving shots for anthrax now?
2007-08-26 19:18:52 · 10 answers · asked by Paul H 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I'm just asking since I heard someone say you can bring your record to your recruiter and it'll be all set. Figured I'd go through the pain now then later. Besides, I never said I didn't trust them. I rather get shots from a medic than get shot from the enemy.
2007-08-26 19:30:38 · update #1
If you get shots you will just get them again when you go to reception. That way the military has no doubts that you have been inoculated. Yes they are giving out anthrax shots again, and they are mandatory that you get all of them.
2007-08-26 19:22:33 · answer #1 · answered by woodchipper890 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Make things easy on yourself. Just proceed through each step as everyone else does. Consider it a rite of passage, a kinship you will develop with other recruits that begins the bonding needed as a G.I. wherein one guys instinctively knows what it means to check the other guy's six...see?
Don't start a pattern of micro-managing at the beginning phases of training.
You should not want all the paper trails anyway. Stay lean.
Don't do stuff that prompts a drill or training instructor to cast attention on you. Just proceed through the training and keep a low profile and finish the training...
The military takes care of its own.
It's the military, not Burger King -- you cannot have it your way.
Much may not make sense to you anyway and doesn't need to. It is not civilian life: once you step into the armed forces, you become a G.I. (Government Issue) -- the property of the United States.
All you will do if you haul records in with you is bog things down or confuse and frustrate yourself by thinking and doing too much, which can be irksome to the processors and trainers. The military is a whole other world from civilian life.
Don't make life hard on yourself and others.
2007-09-02 16:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forget it. Take the entry physical and go on to BCT. You are going to get a whole new record. The shots aren't bad, most are done by air now. Yeah you will get anthrax.
Most of what you private doc is going to do, will be done again. Your doc will probably use needles. They hurt worse than air. If you already signed the papers, you are now military property, so time to go and make good of your training.
When you get to the barber shop, tell them you want short and tapered cut. No not really, everyone gets the same a good old GI haircut. Everybody gets exactly the same of everything.
2007-08-26 19:49:29 · answer #3 · answered by smittybo20 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your best chances would be to contact the AFES Center you would go through. I can't see how they could give them to you again if your private physician gave them to you. If you received them prior to reporting, your health could be jepoardized by having them again. Why though would you want to pay for them? Also the others who wrote are way off base as many of them usually are. They will not automatically innoculate you again if you had your shots. As I mentioned, your health would be in jeopardy. To much of a good thing is dangerous to your health. Additionally, when I enlisted in 1972, they used air guns to innoculate everyone, they very seldom use needles when they innoculate at entrance.
When people respond, they should have a basic idea of what they are talking about or not respond.
If you doubt my answer, simply call your public health clinic and ask them what would happen if you receive the same shots within a certain period of time, say 6 months.
I am not sure about anthrax at the time. Again, you can check with your recruiter on this, as they might have more information. Again, why worry, if they are innoculating against it, then you will have no choice but to take it, unless you prefer to see your C.O. for punnishment for failure to obey an order.
2007-08-26 19:34:39 · answer #4 · answered by handyman 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If they give you shots at BMT, why would you get shots from your doctor? They will give you shots regardless, including anthrax. Pushing around papers showing you got shots from your doctor will make you stand out, and you don't want that in BMT.
2007-08-26 20:20:30 · answer #5 · answered by St. Bastard 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i'd circulate after. in case you circulate previously, particular, they pay for each thing. yet i does not propose turning out to be a member of immediately, not except you opt to threat your lifestyles in Afghanistan. there's a threat it must be extra secure in case you do it in 4 or 5 years. I mean, image in case you graduated HS in 2006 or 2004. Its lots extra secure to connect now than it grew to become into returned then. it may basically get extra constructive from right here. Plus, the protection rigidity forgives loans in case you do it after college.
2016-12-16 06:01:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They'll just give them to you again. I doubt they give Anthrax shots at basic now. I got one before I deployed, but haven't gotten either of the other five.
2007-08-26 19:25:55 · answer #7 · answered by DOOM 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah they will give them to you again. Sucky but it happened to me when I went to Knox 4 years ago. I had my shot record from my civilian doctor and everything. But they had all us recruits stand in a line and walk through a door and bam bam bam, needles coming at me from all angles. Great times....ah...
2007-08-26 19:25:59 · answer #8 · answered by Jopa 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
During BMT, you'll get the shots and any other necessary medical treatment while you're there.
2007-08-26 19:27:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everything has to be documented by the military...and for your own good, after you join the military.
2007-09-03 09:26:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋