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It’s kind of a hit or miss when it comes to living in the barracks. You might get a really nice room with a cool roommate, or the complete opposite. Personally I made the best of it but I couldn’t wait to get out -my roommate literally never cleaned anything at all. I remember I came back from leave once to find 5 empty rolls of toilet paper in the bathroom and a new one on top of where the previously empty one was. Even when his NCO’s smoked him he still never changed. Oh well.

@dougtheeliminator1077

3 жыл бұрын

Some people are disgusting filthy slobs and proud of it. Grotesque.

@lelandgaunt9985

3 жыл бұрын

It gets worse on deployment.

@jake93436

3 жыл бұрын

@@lelandgaunt9985 stuff like this is like reason #2 why i left the army

@ChaN-ks3ov

3 жыл бұрын

He’s a horrible roommate! I definitely don’t like him as my roommate. Does smoking allowed inside? I don’t want a smoker roommate.

@commanderstarstrider7176

Жыл бұрын

It could have been worse. My roommate had a masterbation problem and he passed out drunk naked spread eagle once

I rented a House when I was Stationed in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. $300.00 a month. I was a E-4 at The time.

@ChaN-ks3ov

3 жыл бұрын

What year?

E4 or lower? DON'T EVER get married. Stay in the barracks even as an E5. E6 and above (from my experience) was Vietnam era dudes and that was rare/weird, but they had their own rooms. I somehow managed a single room in my billet.

I had a barracks mate that was an snooze button abuser. It was annoying as hell, I got tired of it and started setting my alarm a couple minutes after him. After a few mornings he stopped.

@edwardnakagawa4262

3 жыл бұрын

** SLEEPING TO ALARM ? *WHOS THE F* CKING * KID ?

@edwardnakagawa4262

3 жыл бұрын

** EUROPE ! HAD A FRIEND, WHO ALWAYS WOULD ASK ME, TO GO TO MUNICH, RENT A HOTEL, I KEPT TELLING HIM NO, FOREVER ! NICE THOUGHT THOUGH ! NEVER * WENT ! FEEL LIKE I DIDNT * MISS ANYTHING ANYWAYS ! AS LONG AS I GOT LAID AT THE LOCAL W-HOUSE, I WAS GOOD TA GO ! How ? About You ?

I'm a navy veteran on the carrier George Washington from 93-97 I love your content because I see how the other branches live

@golfery5119

3 жыл бұрын

Jesse Kauffman I know definitely Air Force is allowed to get out of the barracks way sooner than Army does, whereas we can't get out until E6 (usually), they can get out at E4. What about you folks in Navy? I believe you all can get out before E6. Is it the same time as Air Force (E4) or is it E5?

Had a fresh E2 at my old unit tell his squad leader that he was moving off post since his barracks room wasn’t to his “standard.” Oh it was entertaining.

@lelandgaunt9985

3 жыл бұрын

Did he get counseled or just a lot of push-ups?

@GabrielFreitas-ml8cc

3 жыл бұрын

@@lelandgaunt9985 I’d assume both

@dougtheeliminator1077

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like he was one of those entitled little pukes.

@collateral9159

3 жыл бұрын

You think it's funny but If he was right. Then he is entitled to move away. There ARE standards for living quarters

@GabrielFreitas-ml8cc

3 жыл бұрын

@@collateral9159 yeah there are but that’s not quite what he meant

My roomate(half the unit) was deployed to Kosovo for 6 months. He stored all of his stuff in his wall locker and put one of those metal bands in the locking mechanisms. I got to have my own room for a little while.

@kingravenink

2 жыл бұрын

Metal bands 🤘 hell yeah

It was different for me, I Deployed after AIT, Straight to Desert Storm in February of 1991. I didn't even have a Unit. I was placed with a Replacement Unit that also had iRR's. Great Guys, They Loved to Party! And Drink Beer.

@lelandgaunt9985

3 жыл бұрын

I’m thankful for you, be well.

@skywalker39100

3 жыл бұрын

@@lelandgaunt9985 Thank You! Proud to have Served!🇺🇲

Also, living off base is easier overseas, just find a little inexpensive Hooch apartment :) - but as Chris said, you still have to make it to work /duty on time . . . . * * * Also, when your friends /battle buddies live off base (Don't) pound on their door while yelling, "Open Up, C.I.D ! ! ! "

I lived in the barracks at ft carson in the 80s and i had the best roommates. Unforgettable

When you don't have a decent amount of living space and privacy, those things become important. They become very important.

@golfery5119

2 жыл бұрын

That's the price you pay for the military if you enlist on active duty and you're not married. If you join the army/marines and don't get married you'd have to deal with this for years and years depending how long you want to stay in (typically E6). In the air force you'd only have to deal with this until you make E4. I would have joined the "chair force" for that reason alone had someone really told me that before joining the army.

For specialist in hawaii it’s so easy to get a cna packet. The barracks are constantly overcrowded and they basically beg you to move out.

@geraldhockinbocker4763

Жыл бұрын

I wish bro. Been here 3 years still no luck. Was told last year I would get cna then it fell through

@hannah3803

Жыл бұрын

My boyfriend is ranked E4 station in Hawaii, and we’re trying to obtain a CNA packet to make it possible for me to move out there to live together. How long (estimated haha) did the process of actually gaining a CNA packet and moving out take for you?

Living in the barracks felt stressful. Always being at a technical workplace in my opinion. But I didn't stick there long when the misses showed up.

Also consider, some of the affordable apartments /houses to rent may be in sketchy neigborhoods . . . . in hindsight, the duplex I rented at in killeen (Ft Hood) 1996 was in a Ghetto :( & I heard some Horror stories about 1989-90 when soldiers deployed for Gulf War-1, some soldiers that lived off base, their Apt's got broken into & robbed :(

@dougtheeliminator1077

3 жыл бұрын

I would definitely stay in the barracks, rather than live in a ghetto or a slum.

@SteveJ2824

3 жыл бұрын

@@dougtheeliminator1077 The Barracks experience is different for each soldier - the Unit & roomates /neigbors can be what makes it good or bad . . . .

@ChaN-ks3ov

3 жыл бұрын

That’s aweful! Don’t want to lose my stuff.

On my way to boot camp right now

@Dunno.07

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck

@DanDarko_

3 жыл бұрын

@Max Powers never that fort Jackson bound 😎

@dougtheeliminator1077

3 жыл бұрын

Bababooey!

@alfredomoreno8202

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not that bad you will be fine good luck 👌

@lovingpunisher1007

3 жыл бұрын

I’m at ait now. Just got out of Jackson. The heat is going to be awful and I’m sorry about that! But at least you won’t be freezing like we were. It is a sucky place. But you will be fine! Most stuff like the forge your company will half ass them and they really not too hard. Best of luck!

Shipping off in July. I have ocd and have to keep shit clean, I swear if I get a shi bag roommate I’m gonna be so pissed

@Bushyturnip

3 жыл бұрын

You might get some stink dirty ass roommates but it’s all in how you handle it. Be up front and tell them. I got lucky and we all clean up and keep shit straight for the most part. Get used to bunking with other people though our room can only be so clean when 3 dudes live out of a 15x10ft room

Getting married just to move into a better place is probably the stupidest, scummy, most dishonest thing I've heard being a thing in a while. What the hell lol

Excuse the name this shows this was for my gaming channel for when our esports team kicked up this year. But I have a serious question. I want to enlist for the first time I am 24 and I want to get into airborne. I saw this video and it talked about an option 4 contract, how does that work exactly and can I get it when I first enlist in my contract? I heard it is a good way to get yourself I to the airborne.

This is the very core of why the military sucks. There should be no compensation discrimination between married and enlisted. Pay and housing should be equal. Either everyone lives in the barracks or nobody does. It is reason why single military members leave after suffering from discrimination during their enlistment.

As a veteran myself, I remember all this bullshit too. You were always treated as a child. I was a 24 year old grown man, and you had to ask permission like a child to move off post, but you still had to maintain a room in the barracks. Just so they have control over you.

Hey if anyone has the regulations for this that would be awesome! The regs that I’m finding says something else..

13 more days before I leave for basic😬

Question Tommrow I meet my recruiter and I’m thinking about 12w do they see combat a lot or can you explain it to me cause I really don’t wanna see combat but I love building ?

@codyyellott117

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t join the military if you have that mindset

Is there a such thing of on-post housing that is similar to an apartment complex? Living on your own, but still on post? If so, what is required to obtain one of those?

@christopherchaos

3 жыл бұрын

All on post housing is for married soldiers and higher ranking soldiers. Single soldiers do not qualify for on post housing. So no, there is not just a place you could rent to stay in on base as a single soldier in the Army.

@meme-xn6wr

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherchaos Thanks for the information. And as always, thank you for your service.

back in my day (06-2010) in Korea I got promoted to SPC 1 month after i got to unit, and actually when i was chckin in someone got article 15 and moved out of his room, so our 1stsgt let me have his room, and since i was prior service he said he didnt see a reason to have a roomate. so Korea 1 year own room... then in October we moved into the brand new high rise hotel style barracks only for 2 months.

I just want out of the barracks so I can have my doggo back.

I’m 16 and take Wellbutrin for anxiety, if I stop before I’m 17 and I’m good without it should I tell my recruiter I used to take it?

@ChaN-ks3ov

3 жыл бұрын

You have to tell to avoid disqualification at meps. Sometimes it can be waived.

I bet it its nice living rent free while in the Army.

Thanks for your service first of all but I gotta say I’m just wondering why you just didn’t do the 50 percent left to get money every month the rest of your life. I mean youda been retired way back in 2019.

You gotta make ssg right ?

I ship out July 20 31b

What branches don't require a drivers license to join? Because I'm an adult with a learners license

@Bushyturnip

3 жыл бұрын

Any branch. I’m in the army with an ID right now. Just get it once you hit your unit. Don’t expect an operator mos though I wanted watercraft operator but I didn’t have a license.

Moved off base kept barracks room had 2 roommates F the Navy.

? ? ? Has anybody mentioned that probably up until the 1950's, soldiers lived in 20 man open bay barracks, with communal showers & latrines ? ? ? :)

@dougtheeliminator1077

3 жыл бұрын

Those "community crappers" were the worst.

@SteveJ2824

3 жыл бұрын

@@dougtheeliminator1077 but it was supposedly easy to pass the newspaper /sports page down the line from one guy to the next :)

@dougtheeliminator1077

3 жыл бұрын

@@SteveJ2824 LOL!!!!!!

@lelandgaunt9985

3 жыл бұрын

Reception barracks at the 43rd was like that.

I always heard that u have to make 6 or get married to get out of the barracks

@christopherchaos

3 жыл бұрын

To get BAH and BAS, yes. Outside of that it has to come out of your base pay if you can afford it but usually your lower ranking soldiers do not make enough to afford an apartment.

@ateam6279

2 жыл бұрын

@@christopherchaos Ima 88m in ait, you can be a single E6 or E5 and live off base at the government’s expense. Do you think I can live off base at my OWN expense?

@golfery5119

2 жыл бұрын

@@ateam6279 You would still be assigned a barracks room if you're enlisted and not married. You might be able to get away with staying with someone off post to avoid the nonsense of the barracks (while keeping your barracks room looking as spotless as possible) but I doubt your leadership would allow you to just rent a place out the barracks (even at your own expense). The only ways to avoid this would be either to get married, or join as an officer and you wouldn't have to be in the barracks at all. The only real way for someone enlisted and unmarried in the military on active duty to get out of the barracks sooner would be to join the air force instead of the army/marines. The airforce let their unmarried enlisted leave their barracks at the rank of E4 whereas the army/marines won't let their unmarried enlisted people leave the barracks until E6 (in rare cases E5 depending on location and how crowded the barracks are.)

Im interested in considering the army as a career path but I don't really like the idea of living in the barracks and having to wait so long to rank up. So what does one need a bachelor's degree in exactly to be am Officer when u enlist.

@christopherchaos

3 жыл бұрын

Does not matter what your bachelors degree is in just that you have the education. You then apply for OCS and then they will place you where they need you. You only have a few scenarios where you sort of pick what you do but otherwise you go where they need you when it comes to being an officer.

@golfery5119

2 жыл бұрын

you might want to consider joining the air force instead since they let you leave the barracks when you make E4 instead of E6 like army/marines.

The one thing I got tired of hearing was "Technically the barracks aren't your home" Really? If that's the case why tf am I eating, shitting, showering, shaving, and sleeping here?

@edwardnakagawa4262

3 жыл бұрын

** SOMEBODY WAS AROUND SMOKING SOMETHING GREEN ?

@Holyhandgrenade-tx6xd

3 жыл бұрын

@@edwardnakagawa4262 It wouldn't be the first time

@braydenlance7392

3 жыл бұрын

5 years ago I was ranked up to 1 star general

** BAD IDEA, BEING IN THE BARRACKS, IS THE BEST PLACE TO BE ! YES, THERES DOWN SIDES, SUCH AS (CQ) *CHARGE DE AFFAIRES, BUT, ALERTS,AND EVERYTHING ELSE, YOUR IN THE BEST SPOT !

@edwardnakagawa4262

3 жыл бұрын

** MANDATORY ALERTS ? DONT SHOW UP ? F* CKING *A*W*O*L* - JAIL !

I’m a marine the story’s only happen to army

Notification platoon.

Your in a dorm setting with privacy so why would you want to move out. It's not like back in the day stuck in a big room with bunk beds like you see at basic and on movies.. ?

@golfery5119

3 жыл бұрын

"Your in a dorm setting with privacy" you must be thinking of Air Force, which you can leave when you're E4 instead of E6. Wrong branch. There's a lot of reasons why people get tired of being in the barracks. There really isn't much privacy. Even if you keep your room clean there is always some nonsense going on that people not in the barracks don't have to worry about. You still have sergeants doing inspections on your room and going through whatever you have when you aren't there. There's been a few times on the weekend when I've been off post and in town, I've gotten a message saying come back to the barracks because there's a GI party going on and they want everyone in the barracks to be there regardless of how clean your room is. There was a time where E6's came and woke everyone on my floor up at 0330 on a weekday to get in a formation to watch one guy (an E3 at the time) they had problems with walk up and down the hallway in full battle rattle just to make a point. Then there are the rules in todays time that weren't around years ago. I had a sergeant major tell me that when he was a private in the barracks (18 or so years ago), he was allowed to smoke in his room. You are not allowed to smoke in the barracks in today's time. That's one example. So yeah, lots of reasons why people get tired of being in the barracks and want to move out.

Notification platoon

Joining the army in 2 and a half years!

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@tuberdumb7377

3 жыл бұрын

Third* actually