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Your supposed to get 8 hours of sleep each night but you will have to do whats called fire watch for an hour. It’s an hour long guard duty schedule that rotates through your platoon. Your shortest amount of sleep will come during the Crucible at the end of recruit training.
For getting dressed, you will not be given "minutes". For most of boot camp your DI will get everyone on line (the whole platoon stands at attention on a yellow line) and he will say something like "put your right sock on now, 10 9 8 7.." and he will count down very fast. If every single person doesn’t have their right sock on when he is done you will all take it back off and then probably push. You will actually do this for every article of clothing until everyone is dressed. It’s called by the numbers.
As for showers, at first you will literally just walk in a straight line through the running showers not stopping. As you progress usually they will give you a few minutes.
Eating, you never know how much time you have but it’s never enough! You aren’t allowed to talk or look around or you will be thrown out of the chow hall whether your done eating or not or your DI will punish the whole platoon and everyone will be told to stop eating. Don’t mess around during chow, just sit down and eat as fast as possible.
I don’t know what Scott is talking about going to a movie or a bar.. Your not going anywhere like that while in boot camp. I guess thats what they do in the Navy but that’s why every branch except the Corps is nasty and undisciplined. You won’t leave the squad bay to do anything but train or eat and that’s it. No days off. On Sundays you will get marched to church. You don’t have to go to church but if you don’t you will stay in the squad bay and clean.
The best advice I can give you is don’t be the first and don’t be the last. Just do exactly what your told when your told to do it. Don’t be the idiot who gets the whole platoon punished because you didn’t follow orders. Remember it’s all just a mind game, don’t take anything personal and you’ll do fine.
There’s rules that the DI’s must follow that mandate you get a certain amount of sleep, get to eat, get mail, etc.
You are supposed to get 6-8 hours of sleep, I believe, don’t try to find out how long you have to eat, just eat it all in 2 minutes, shower in 3 minutes, and your break is when you’re sleeping. Days off? Haha.
Your allotted 8 hours sleep a night, you might not always get it though. You will be getting dressed as your drill instructor is counting down from 60. About 5 min if your lucky to eat, 60 sec again on the rest room (head) and don’t go #2 on there time. you get about an hour every night to clean yourself. and you don’t get any days off in Marine boot camp, you do get a few hours on sunday to go to church, right letters, etc.
You may not get a lot of sack time, but after a day in boot camp you will be asleep before your head hits the pillow.
When I was in Navy boot camp many years ago, the time we were alloted to eat, sleep, shower, etc. was adequate. You can’t sit back and chat with your second cup of coffee after breakfast, take a leasurely shower, or take a nap in the afternoon, but you’re not going to starve, die from lack of sleep, or get cruddy because you don’t get to shower.
The main thing to remember in boot camp is to keep your nose clen. If any trouble is starting in the narracks, get as far away from it as you can so you don’t get treated as a participant. If you’re involved, you may get a midwatch and/or get to mop your barrack’s floor all by yourself. If you stay away from trouble, you’ll stay out of trouble, and boot camp won’t be a problem for you.
You won’t get days off at boot camp, but you may get some weekend leave so you can go to a movie or a bar (just don’t come back drunk).
My husband went through boot camp last summer. You get 3 minutes to shower, and you don’t always get to shower. When you are in the field, and you use wet ones to wash off there. I think the longest he went without a shower was 5 days. It really depends on your DI as to how many minutes you get to dress. I think most of the time he had only like 15 or 30 seconds, and if they didn’t get it done in time, they would have to do it over again. A couple of times during boot camp, like the crucible, you don’t sleep for like 2 days or something and have to hike I can’t remember how long, and I think you get 3 MRE’s in that time. Its all about breaking you down, and building you back up again. Its about working hungry and sleep deprived. You don’t get time off in boot camp. It will be 13 weeks of constant in your face telling you what to do, and no phone calls except the 15 second one you get to let your family know you arrived. You can write letters when they permit you, but if someone in the platoon messes up, they don’t let you write that night. That’s about all I remember from my husband. Oh, and they had to buy aqua velva and use their brown towels to clean the floors. There was plenty of cleaning, and dry shaving.