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It depends on your AIT, but yeah AIT is generally much more relaxed than basic. Even the really strict ones are relaxed compared to basic. Once you get to the regular Army its a cakewalk.Originally Posted by flan7211
I'm still waiting to ship, leave in November. I'm the only one of my friends that isn't already through and deployed... most of what I know is from their experiences.
What's your MOS?
My contract is 11X, OPT 4/40... Infantry with Airborne and Ranger school.
Rangers is actually my secondary/fallback... I'm hoping to get pulled by SF after OSUT. Gonna be tough but my buddy was just through and was pulled by 10th Group, so I know what it takes and what they look for and can prepare for it before hand. But if they don't, well Rangers wouldn't be all that bad and after RASP I'll have another shot at SF.
What MOS are you looking at?
Either 11B or 19D. I know Cav scout is a POG job but it looks pretty kick ass to me. You PTing like crazy? I'm doing crossfit twice a damn day.
I suppose I'd better get back to work. Talk to ya'll later.
11B's gonna be tough to get, there aren't many (or any, last I checked) 11X slots in the system. Only chance of getting one is if, when you sit down with the career counselor (guy that actually gives you your contract at MEPS) and you guys get on his computer, one happens to pop up (somebody loses their 11X contract, like if they break a foot and can't ship). Its not impossible, hell two 11Xs popped up when I was there (one was snagged literally within seconds and I grabbed the other one), but its not something you can count on 100% and because there aren't any slots open your recruiter won't be able to reserve one for you in the system, which just means you have to reserve a different MOS at the recruiting station and then when you get to that part of MEPS just tell the counselor what you want. Don't really know anything about 19D, never looked into it, but it was on the "I'll look at it if I can't get choice A, B, or C" list (which I got very close to... was signing the paperwork for choice C when that 11X popped up), looks like a fun MOS.
And yeah with no school or job, just waiting to ship, my main purpose in life right now is PT lol. Been doing a lot of ruck marching lately at the recommendation of my buddy that just went through RASP and was pulled by 10th Group. Other than the marches I've been doing a pretty intense workout that an ex Airborne/Ranger/SF guy gave me and just random routines mixed in on random days to spice it up. Check out the Fitness/Combatives section on the Warrior Talk forum for workout ideas.
And yeah I just realized what time it is....I need to get some sleep!
Talk to ya later
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Soooo my jaw isn't crooked as far as I can tell and I can still talk fine, but I can't close my jaw enough to chew food (and I'm hungry as hell, so this is an urgent issue). Feels like it used to when it got dislocated in MMA fights, but it doesn't look or feel out of place.
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