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RTC 1998 there were no curtains, soap on a rope. Shit shave, shower, 10 minutes for port side, 10 minutes for starboard side.

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

Same thing today, bleeding from the 1 minute shave, no curtains most of boot camp 😂

@TheMangolorian735

3 ай бұрын

Graduated BMT a few weeks ago and didn’t have curtains and 7 shower heads

@user-yd5ks7sd8x

Ай бұрын

Still using open bay showers over 20 years later.

No. Marine Corps Boot Camp does not have curtains. Its called a rain room and the showers throughout all Marine life (except barracks or private quarters and occasional office building showers) will be open showers with either pole style multi- headed showers or individual shower heads lined against the bulkhead(s). Even at Staff Academy it was open showers. Also in Bootcamp and Infantry Training School (now SOI) was open toilets. No front dividers and sometimes no side dividers. Nobody cared because we were getting yelled at the entire time... we just wanted to get whatever done and get out of there...to be yelled at somewhere else haha.

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

Perhaps you misunderstood, I said I thought the pole showers were for marines only but no the navy has them too for boot camp after you leave the pearl harbor.

I was in Boot Camp 42 years ago, NTC Orlando, Fl, which has since been plowed down and made into a park, unfortunately. We had 2 huge metal poles with eight spigots out of each pole for our showers, no curtains, you had to hold your own bar of soap and bottle of shampoo with a little metal soapdish attached to the metal poles and of course the soap would slip out onto the floor because everybody was trying to use them all at once! There was no such thing as body wash back then! With 60 women in the barracks we had to wait our turn on the bench until the others were done, so you had to move your ass quickly! And if I remember correctly, there was a couple doors missing from the toilet stalls! Deliberate? Who’s to say! Needless to say you lost all sense of meekness after a few days and did what you had to do regardless of who was sitting next to you in the head or watching during showers! We were all in the same situation! We had less than five minutes from head to toe to get done what had to be done and out of there with a female CC watching in intervals. Back then there was no prior warning that a CC was coming into the shower room.. Things have obviously changed a lot throughout the years!

Man I passed through RTC back in 2006 Div 100… listening to to talk just brings back a bunch of memories. I remember there came a point when everyone just started 💩 with the curtains open because some asshat would always walk by and open them🤦🏾‍♂️😂😂

@HaedenBeck

2 ай бұрын

LOL

I had this same experience in 2019. Private showers first day or two then the circle jerk shower heads for the remainder of boot camp 😂

RDCs would stress on shower time more so being apart of a push division (less time to graduate) although the same quals. We are not supposed to take unapproved items such as soap in a zip bag to swim in the early morning. The procedure is to hit swim quick wash down regroup with your division and get a proper shower. Well chief RDC was very happy to hear I snuck soap in a bag to skip the extra shower and be able to assimilate right back into schedule. For context I had to go for swim class as a way to have my left knee to recover from severe swelling without visiting corpman and getting asmod. 1 week of recovery plus sticking my knee onto the metal bunks when I sleep healed it right up 😂

When I was at Great Lakes, in 1966 showers where all open and so was the shiters. No Problem same on my ship I was on for 4 years.. use your own soap etc.

in AUG2009, we didn't have curtains in the showers. Nor did we have doors on the sh|tters.

1975 Great Lakes company 175 July 1, 1975 Open Showers ten minute port/starboard shower. Competing for Sinks was a bitch to shave and brush teeth. Most of the time you got into uniform still wet as we had to line up for chow. This is surprising as in High School at Gym Class we had nothing but open showers so there was no big surprise.

In my bootcamp, back in 1997, we use to take shower all together with absolutely no privacy. But as you said, at the barracks or at the ships you have your own shower with privacy. P.S.: Brazilian Navy…

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

Thank God for that, communal showers are not the most fun I've ever had.

@fabiocamilo8713

3 ай бұрын

The most embarrassing situation we may experience in our life! Nobody deserves that!

Not sure if you have a video on this yet, but can you make a video explaining the quality of life in the Navy. I heard terrible things with sea duty, but heard that shore duty is alright. How does QOL compare to other branches with the exception of the Chair Force ofc.

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

I haven't been to sea yet but the guys who have told me that it tests the limits of human boredom, and the worst part is there's no internet or ability to go anywhere. They'd go to the gym a lot and be in good shape partially just because there was nothing else to do. When the ship pulls into a port you have more fun and you visit a lot of cool places. Here at this shore command besides the fact that I'm in a third world country everything was fine. I made friends, had a lot of free time and we used it to make the best out of the situation.

I'm Pagan, so i have already written a letter before I've seen the Recruiter in person. The accommodations i wrote out of respect to the Recruiter, Where having my Prayer bead on a string on my person at most of if not all occasions. All hair on my person must be as long as possible yet remain maintained because it's a sign of strength, masculinity, and ability to protect others and family. Lastly.. that i die with a weapon in my hand so i may enter Valhalla.

@HaedenBeck

Ай бұрын

Uhhh that's a case I haven't heard of before, the navy is going to accommodate for this?

@nicholaicrawson3305

Ай бұрын

LMAO good luck with that

Starship Troopers😂😂 epic

Did you guys ever clean your shower shoes?

There are a few navy bases such as naval air stations at NAS Oceana where they still use open bay showers in the gyms. That was back in 2010, 11ish. I don't if they still have them today.

@HaedenBeck

26 күн бұрын

Well in the gyms maybe but in the barracks and off-base heck no

@user-yd5ks7sd8x

26 күн бұрын

@@HaedenBeck oh yeah, for sure in the gyms, but NOT in the barracks! lol.

@user-yd5ks7sd8x

26 күн бұрын

@@HaedenBeck however, there were open bay showers in the barracks in a place called the Locker House on Keesler Air Force Base back in '98. My class stayed there for C-School (Navy Basic Calibration). I think that place is revamped now into something else.

Company 158 RTC San Diego Feb. 19-May 14, 1964. Company Commander MMC James A. Hanley, Jr. Open bay showers. Get in get out. Navy showers. Wet down, turn off the water, soap down, water back on rinse off and get out.

Omg lol this is crazy thank God I’m not insecure about my size but I’m getting ready to leave for boot camp thanks for the heads up bro

@Me-eb3wv

3 ай бұрын

How many inch

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

Yeah man it's awkward but it's awkward for everyone but by the end you'll be talking and laughing with each other 😂I promise you boot camp will be the easiest part of your career. Good luck!

@legsalad4088

3 ай бұрын

A little heads up before going to RTC, either be laundry PO or Laundry crew. That crap save me plenty of times from being IT.

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

@@legsalad4088 I was laundry PO that's 100% true

@potatodoggo6309

Ай бұрын

@@Me-eb3wvmine is 6 inches exactly and on a good day it’s a little bigger

Yeah… I didn’t have no shower curtains at all lol. Just a pole in the middle of room with 6 sprinkler heads on it. 6 naked guys

@HaedenBeck

Ай бұрын

Same as us then

Army basic training had these exact same shower heads and the rooms they were in were really small and one shower room for 2 platoons so that's 120 naked dudes trying to shower in a small room with 2 posts with 4 shower heads and its really hard not to drop your soap because there's no where to set it so your bound to drop it soon or later but the worst or funniest part was black dudes would actually point out dudes with small peckers and they would laugh and make fun of them, I was just glad they didn't say anything to me. We didn't split into groups we had to stand in line until there's enough room for you.

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ yeah the Navy definitely had a better experience.

When did they add curtains? Must be new

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

For P-Days, I was surprised too. But for like 75% of boot camp there were no curtains at all for showers.

how does one study for the AFQT and the ASVAB

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

Focus on the math and reading sections, I used the Grammar Hero KZread channel and got an 84.

@lathanio2015

3 ай бұрын

@@HaedenBeck thanks !

There was a guy in my Army BCT batch who would not take a shower. He would just curl up in ball in the corner, and we would say "Dude, you stink were not going to diddle you just shower!" Well, he stank so bad that the DS chewed his ass and now he had to shower with them watching him, making sure he scrubs every part of himself. Chins up, wash, and gtfo. Simple.

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

Every group has one, there was someone that we swore never saw in the shower and stank but finally got in there after people started really paying attention. That's pretty messed up hah great advice.

You can’t keep your underwear on?

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

What do you plan on doing with your dirty, soaking wet underwear when you get out? Laundry is only done at certain times.

Jesus Christ loves you bro

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

I love him too

@Vontavius901

3 ай бұрын

@@HaedenBeck W bro 🙏

starship stroopers both genders showers would be awesome, especially if there was a Denise Richards in my group. So where do the transezzuals shower? hahaha. are they even in the military?

@HaedenBeck

3 ай бұрын

I've only met one trans person in the military, but there were a bunch of them at my last job before I joined.

I went through boot camp at Great Lakes in 1983. We had free time and could shower anytime during that time, so the showers were never full of guys. I wasn’t bothered at all showering with other guys, just had to be careful to not look at anyone cute too much or I’d get excited. My only shower nightmare was the day I went to take a shower and found my best friend showering. Talk about awkward. I seriously thought I was going to get excited, as not only did I have a secret crush on him, but low and behold, despite being only 5’1” tall, he was gifted when it came to his manhood. So much so, as a straight guy I would have probably laughed and made a joke about it. But being gay, I just tried not to look down. 😅 Luckily, I passed that test with flying colors. We just chatted like normal the entire time. I remember boot camp quite fondly. Great experience overall and I really miss my little buddy.