Can I Use My Cell Phone During Basic Training? (2024)

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Can I Use My Cell Phone During Basic Training? ›

During the 7.5 weeks while your loved one is at BMT, he/she will be authorized to use his/her cell phone or pay phones to make outgoing calls to family members. Trainees are encouraged to maintain their cell phone service while at BMT and to bring a calling card.

Over the past few months RTC has refined its Recruit cell phone Standard Operating Plan to allow Recruits to use their personal cell phones to connect with family and friends during their scheduled phone call periods. Recruits are typically allowed five standard phone calls during their training.

Pocketknives, firearms, ammunition, fireworks, clubs, batons, brass knuckles, straight razors, ice picks and so on are not allowed. Tobacco products and lighters. Cigarettes, cigars, pipes, tobacco, chewing tobacco, disposable lighters and lighter fluid will be confiscated when you arrive at basic training.

Once you are in the MEPS building you will put any items you have (including your phone) into a closet, then you go check in with the Air Force liaison. They will give you a name tag and send you over to the testing room. Everyone will go in when they are called and take the ASVAB or verification test.

It's going to come very heavy day to day. You're going to work Monday to Saturday and Sunday is that recovery day. And you can attend religious services, look after yourself and do that personal reflection.

In basic training, cell phones may be confiscated and kept by the MTI, and only returned to you to call home or during other emergency situations. You'll have to remember that during basic training you are only permitted to use a phone when supervised, and told it is okay to do so.

Your phone is confiscated from you and kept in a vault until graduation. This is typically done within the first couple of days. The drill sergeants (U.S. Army) lined us up by our beds and had us dump our phones into a container along with the pair of “civis” or civilian clothes attire.

MONEY > $10 - $50 in cash > Traveler's checks or money orders (personal checks are not recommended because of limited check-cashing facilities.)

Yes, you do get paid in Basic Training on the first and fifteenth of every month. The amount depends on your rank. See salaries by rank on the Money & Pay page. You're welcome to send money home via cash or check.

The rest of the physical portion is similar to a sports physical. Everyone will get their genitals examined.

What will fail me at MEPS? ›

Disqualifications at MEPS can include illegal drug use, alcohol dependence, not meeting the height/weight requirements, having certain contagious diseases, and more. Law violations can also prevent you from enlisting, such as being convicted of a crime that prohibits you from carrying a firearm.

1.35 million applicants received a MEPS physical exam from FY2016-2020. There was an upward trend in applications from FY 2016-2019, then a drop in FY 2020. 13-16% of applicants were medically disqualified.

During the most intense week of BMT, you'll be stationed in a simulated deployment environment where you will hone your skills through field training and practice intense combat scenarios with fellow trainees at your side.

Money-saving boot camp tip: For any bills you have back home, make sure you put them on auto pay or have a trusted relative take care of it while you're away. Doing so will ensure you won't be greeted with overdraft or late fees upon graduating.

Therefore, men with no prior military service are, on average, 3.3 years younger in terms of cellular age than similar males with prior military service (p < 0.05) (Figure 1). For example, men with prior military service at age 46 have the same mean telomere length as men with no military service do at age 49.

During basic they will either take them away or else tell you not to use them. You cannot have them on during the training day (which is 5am till near midnight) you can sneak it in, but you will get extra attention if you get caught.

Only in the first few weeks of training, they might not always have access to email or telephones. Privileges like Internet access are denied at first, but gradually as the training progresses, soldiers are given personal time and a few freedoms. All libraries on military posts have Internet access, as do the quarters.

Certain military bases do not allow calls or video calls, especially if it's a secret mission. But you have to be warned. Most scammers use this excuse to scam their victims. They lie about not being able to call or video call because they are on base.