How long does it take to finish boot camp and ait ?
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ten to 16 weeks with a break after boot
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normally a few weeks, but that's with lag time and shippingl.  it can be done in a few days if you have the resources which the military will have
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6 to 8 weeks to pass a test
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no, he's most likely a split op.  He goes to basic this summer and his AIT the summer after he graduates.  There's no way you could fit basic and AIT into one summer.  You cannot be deployed until you are MOS qualified, which means you have completed AIT.  So he won't be deployed while in high school.  He can go to basic, and other training, but he won't be send over seas
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God Bless you and thank you!  My son is at infantry basic training at Fort Benning and we just welcomed my daughter (Air Guard) home from Iraq.\nMy advice for boot camp would be to make sure your loved ones write to you and OFTEN and that they understand you probably won't be writing back too often but you need their support!\nIf you aren't used to working out, start!  Run, walk, do pushups, situps anything to help your endurance.  Start going to bed early and rising before dawn, just the little things so the bootcamp schedule isn't more of a shock to your system than it already will be.\nAnd be proud of yourself, you accomplishing something!  Your country loves you and believes in you!  You must too!
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Hi there, as a former AF type of 8 years I think I can answer this pretty easily. We'll take the questions in order.\n\nBasic training length? With travelling, waiting for the class to arrive or the like, you can expect the time of going to the MEPS station and completing AF Basic to be approximately 2 months long.\n\nWill you be able to spend time with him after that? That all depends on you, him, and the training school he gets arranged to go to after Basic. You can go and see him graduate from Basic, and spend the day with him, but that would be about it for being in Texas. Typically, to assure a smooth transition, new airmen get travel orders directly from Basic to their tech school. This tech school can be another 2 months long if it's small, or as long as mine, of a year and change for cryptolinguist studies. You can figure on an average of 3-6 months for tech school though.\n\nSpending time apart? It happens. I was in the military for 8 years, and of that I spent about 3 and a half years of that overseas. Typically, unless you're deployed to a war zone like the Middle East is right now, an overseas deployment is no more than 1 year long in duration. Either way, the biggest thing that both you and he need to realize here is this... once he signs on the dotted line his life is leased out to Unka Sam.. he goes where they say, when they say it, and for how long they want him to be there. Maybe half that time it will be for stuff that you're not allowed to go, or that if you chose to go the finances for it would be strictly on the two of you. Speaking as someone that faced that, trust me, unless one of you has some excessive funds stored up already, trailing after him is a very tiring and expensive endeavor. I'm not saying it can't be done, it's just difficult for young people to accomplish according to the AF's rules.\n\nWould it be easier to be married before-hand? Yes and no. You would have legal right to be with him in locations that allow family members to be with their spouse. However as an E1-E2 airman, he would be at the bottom of the list for getting on-base housing. You can get a housing allowance to live off base, but depending on what state you're in, it rarely will cover what you need. When I lived off base in California I had to come up with about 55% of my housing costs out of my own pocket, which hurt the finances, a lot. So, if you truly wanted to be there with him and have legal right to get covered in the housing clause and such, getting married before-hand can allow for such. However...I don't know any personal background here.. but time has proven in the past that giving time for him to accustom himself to AF life first is best if you want him to get all that he can out of the career choice. You can't be with him during Basic. You can't be with him during tech school. Usually leave is granted after the tech school and he reports to his first duty station, and if the hunger and desire to be wed is even stronger then than it is now... that has been the best time for friends I have known to actually get married. So many that did the deed before they went into Basic came out from the schools... different... and so much time apart.. it was awkward.. and ended badly. Like I said though. I don't know your circumstances... but if it was me.. I'd wait.. it's the smarter route to go in today's tumultous times.\n\nWould he have to live on base? As a young airman? yes. He could only live off-base with special permission, or if there was NO available dorms on the base that he'll be stationed at. As a single airman, it takes 2+ years before you have enough time to get the permission. As a married couple you are placed on a shorter list if no on-base housing is available.. but still... it takes time. My friend in NJ had his wife living 35 minutes away in a crummy apartment for nearly 3 years before they could get the permission for him to be allowed to
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Your time in service I think has to be two years to benefit, or you needed to at least finish your AIT.   If you knew about it before hand I think you can actually get into trouble, if not, you  should get an honorable discharge under medical reasons which will not harm your future employ-ability.
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My selection process was as follows and I'll start at the very beginning:\n\n1.) Medical Physical&#92;ASVAB test to decide placement (Job qualification)\n2.) Orlando, Great Lakes or San Diego (Bootcamps - Orlando is closed now)\n3.) A-School (Training for your job rating, usually lasting four to eight weeks)\n4.) Before leave assigned duty station. \n5.) 2 Weeks Leave (Optional)\n6.) Report to Duty Station\n7.) Spend 6 months at duty station eligible to submit "Request Chit" for BUDS (E-2 and above may submit for BUDS).\n8.) Pre-screen to include intense medical physical, strengent excercise quals, deep sea hyperbaric chamber testing, final canidate eval, reporting date to BUDS.\n9.) Arrive BUDS, early morning I-Doc\n10.) Weeks 1 through 4, seperates the weak from the strong, by intense mental and physical training, many drop voluntarily during this time.\n11.) Weeks 5 through 8, voluntary droppers are no more, dropping mostly by qualification times in Team excercise events as well as individual events.  At this stage your immune to the B.S. but not the immune from the pain of the tests and excercises which are just about constant throughout the day...\n12.) Week 8 through 10, begin Scuba classes and underwater training and survival.  Assigned wetsuit, knife.  Test become harder and more challenging not only physically but mentally as well. Lots of pool time and classroom time, learn about rebreathers, and other devices as well as personal underwater gear.\n13.) Weeks 10 through 15 Continue water survival, becomes more advanced, learn EOD, deep submersion tests, as well as deep escape from pressurized enviroments.  Lots of classroom time as well as pool time.\n14.) Weeks 16 through 20, water training continued instructors aren't easier but there is a sense of respect and you aren't treated like a scrub.  Most that have made it to this point have strong probability of passing BUDS.  Jungle survival, land reconsience, geographical above and underwater mapping, Team activities, War games usually on nearby training Island, escape and evasion tactics, live fire excercises, CQB training.\n15.) Weeks 21 through 27, Final testing, 14 mile ocean swim( bay) without fins, 23 mile run (boots and shorts timed), written tests, final medical and performance eval.\n\n\nSome of your weekends are free some aren't...You have the option to live on base or off.  After graduation, you will go to Fort Benning, Georgia to Jump school and spend six weeks training at low jumps, static line (500ft), (1000ft), 12000ft). High jumps (freefall)at 15000ft +, usually assisted with O2 breather, both Night and Day time qualifications needed with High Jump. \n\nAfter Fort Benning, you have the option to take leave, you are given your duty station an TEAM that your assigned to.  Each TEAM specializs in their own tactics and training.  Upon arrival at your Duty station training will continue but be more detailed as to that particular TEAMS speciality.  Have the option of getting EOD qual.  Your paid standard danger pay E-4 ($150 month), E-5 ($210), E-6 ($320) and so on.  Even though their are officers in the BUDS program, everyone is a scrub, there are no yes sirs except to the instructors.\n\nOnce classified as a SEAL, you are given special priviledges, these priviledges are not spoken but known throughout the Navy i.e Can grow hair longer, E-3's allowed to have facial hair, respect lots of it from both Officers and Enlisted alike.  \n\nThere was much more than this in my training, however this will give you a quick over-view of what happens.
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Yes- great tool for a sniper team. Me and my spotter are making new suits for Afghanistan. It takes a few days to make (couple hours here and there) and months to break in (you don't want to wash it).\n\nThe US Army Sniper school ( Fort Benning, GA) is 5 weeks long. The Army National Guard Sniper School (Camp Robinson, AR) is 28 days. The difference between the two schools: Camp Robinson is 28 days straight without weekends off. Other than that, both schools are comparable.\n\nYou must have at least 1 year left in your contract to attend.
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Yes they do, like everyone is saying, I just wanted to put my two cents in. I had exodus last year, but I was already done with basic and moved into my actual training. But the soldiers who came in afterwards, one unit did the normal leave, while another unite actually shortened their basic by two weeks to have them out and done by exodus. Bullcrap! I did 9 weeks!
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Well a few things can happen. Alot of it actually depends on the military unit they went AWOL from. First off, as soon as we change thier duty status to AWOL, we hold all pay and allowances... we inventory all property they leave behind within 24 hours. The Army has a group of military police called "AWOL Apprehension" that are informed and a notice goes thru NCIC to all law enforcement agency's. After 10 days we send thier parents a letter explaining that they are AWOL and explaining duty and honor. At the 31 day mark, we begin processing the paperwork to drop them from the military rolls and seperate them from the Army for desertion. They are given a seperation code on thier official records and DD214 that codes them as a dessertor.  With that code, it is difficult for them to apply to any college, they will be turned down for all state and federal jobs and they cannot recieve alot of different loans... to include alot of consumer loans.  Life at that point kinda sucks for them... and usually so does thier pay.  McDonalds and Burger King have even started denying them employment. If you can't get a job at Burger King... well that rests on it's own merits....lol.
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I went to AIT at Ft Huachuca, but as a different MOS. It was also 6 years ago so things may have changed.\n\nHuachuca way above sea level so be prepared for much thinner air, which will drop your run time when you get there drastically. Also, this makes the winters cold, even though you are is Arizona-we got snow. 33W School is about a year long so, you will get used to the air. After about 3 months or so you will be in 'Phase 5+' which will give you just about as many privileges as a permanent party soldier. (Minus tobacco. Unless they've changed the rules, you can even drink on the weekends if you are over 21.) The Sierra Vista area isn't all that bad for a military town. There are the typical places to go. (Bars, restaurants, etc.) I believe that you are not aloud to go to Mexico anymore but, there are some interesting historic places in the area, such as Tombstone.
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go to navy.com set up an account it's free and there's a step by step of what bootcamp consists of.\n\nIt will tell you how many push-ups and sit ups you must do in a minute and you have to run 1.5 miles in like 15 minutes...but it's very thorough.
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In all actuality, you could be in Basic Training in a week.  That's how long it would take to run the checks and do the paperwork, give the ASVAB, for you to complete the medical, choose your job, and then ship.  That, of course, is provided you need NO waivers (medical, moral).
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go buy the asvab study guide ...its mostly common sense questions anyways
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All of the above answers are good.  Navy Boot Camp will require you to pass a Physical Readiness Test prior to graduation.  The amount of push-up, sit-up, and the time for a mile and a half run are all based on your age.  Your Recruiting station is responsible for administering the test and ensuring you pass it prior to shipping to RTC.  If you still can’t pass by the time you are scheduled to go they should drop you or change your ship date but probably won’t.  At Boot Camp you will get three more physical test.  At a minimum you have to pass the final one.  If you still can’t pass you will go to a physical conditioning division and stay there until you pass or until the Navy sends you home.  \n\nOther than that, the rest of Navy boot camp is 75% classroom.  You will do push-ups and other physical training daily to build teamwork and attention to detail.\n\nGood Luck\n\nRTC Link:\nhttp://www.nstc.navy.mil/rtcgl/
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I just got out of the Navy I was a corpsman for 8 years.  I have friends that are still in and working at Naval Hospital Corps School in Great Lakes Il. While you are in boot camp you will be allowed two or three phone calls and NO access to the internet until graduation week.  As for Corps School.  You will be going to class for most of the day until usually around 4-4:30 unless you PT (physical training) After that depending on you Class Advisors you will have phone and usually off base privleges I am not sure if they are using internet hookups, but the USO has computers and maybe even hook ups for your laptop.  There are a lot of things you can do on base though.  There is a bowling alley, 3 gyms, 3 pools, paintball arena, NEX shopping center, Mcdonalds and a pizza shop.  There is also a train station across the street that will take you into Chicago I think a weekend pass is only $5.00  Corps School is aprox 14 weeks long.  Boot camp is aprox 8 weeks long.  It is like anything else in the world you get out of it what you put into it.  One more thing when you are in boot camp they will ask you what bank you want to use either your hometown bank or your choice of Armed Forces Bank or Navy Federal Credit Union.  I would recommend Navy Federal because they offer better customer relations and more services and lower APR on loans.  Your hometown bank may not have atms in the area and charge you a fee for using it.\nIf you have any more questions please get ahold of me I would be more than willing to talk to you and answer anything you might need to know.