Okay, I just graduated basic on OCT 16. Here is what happens: 1st week or two is spent trying not to make eye contact with your RDCs and follow simple instructions that everyone is too scared and retarded to understand. Then you actually go to medical and get cleared for REAL bootcamp, where you will continue to avoid eye contact for a couple more weeks and try to memorize about 50 things and not say or do anything dumb enough to get IT'd. Which is impossible. So the first day of real bootcamp, they (RDCs) will find a reason you are all dumb, and you will be IT'd for about 2 hours until one (usually a female) can't take it anymore and leaves in an ambulance. You will probably never see her again. Then the RDCs get cool around the 3rd week. Even better every week after that. But you will always be dumb, and require IT to make you smarter at least 3 times per week. You will mostly read a book called your training guide, when not reading that book, you will be carrying it everywhere you go, it is part of your uniform of the day. You will have classes in classrooms, and work on computers, and study, every single day. You will PT 6 days a week. You will probably IT 3 days or more per week. Usually right after your shower, or right before bed time. It's not really that bad, since your PT isn't very significant enough to get you in that great of shape, look at it as time to loose weight or get stronger. More than half of your division will fail the first PFA. Nearly no one will fail the last PFA. Only those that can't run for crap, and they have a special program you get sent to fix that. Then you go to Battlestations, which rocks! I had to do it twice, my entire team failed the first time, don't ask, I'm not inclined nor allowed to talk about it. Then you graduate and come here to NNPTC, I've been here almost a week.
At NNPTC you will get up and muster to clean around 07:30. You will PT around 10:00, you will shower and eat chow, and muster to clean what you just cleaned again. Then sometime between 14:00 and 15:30, you will be told to go do whatever. Your room is a room with 2 beds and a sink and a couple of closets adjoined to a room just like yours by a bathroom that is a toilet and shower. You are on liberty from the time you get off work until 00:15. The door to your room knows if you come in late or leave too early, so don't chance it. On the weekend liberty starts at 05:00 and ends at 00:15. The catch is you will wear your peanut butters everywhere you go if off base, until they tell you otherwise. If you are good and pass your PFA you get to wear civilian clothes on liberty weekends, but this takes 4 weeks after class starts (about 6 weeks after the time you get there). Then you will be on phase 2 for another 4 weeks, and if you are still good, you will be allowed to wear civilian clothes after class on weekdays, too. And drive. Finally drive. Phase 3. So, Big Brother is watching, no females in male rooms, and vice versa. And no underage drinking, or getting in trouble. There will be plenty of guys marching around doing crappy jobs in bright green vests to attest to not being dumb. Restriction looks like it stinks. Then you will class up, do more briefs and begin your journey into the nuclear field. Exciting stuff. But bootcamp is just initiation. It's not hard. And a word from the wise, do NOT get your hair cut at the NEX. Go to the mall on liberty weekend and get it cut there. I am a woman, I had beautiful hair, I went in and asked for a layered bob. She shaved me like a cocker spaniel. I cried. My chief saw my hair and asked what happened, and I cried again in front of everyone, I thought I had to shave my head. Chief took it up the chain of command to the Master Chief of the base in one day and took pictures and everything of how I got screwed over. It was that bad, but I didn't think serious enough to go all the way up. I just thanked God my chief scheduled me to go the mall escorted of course, since I'm only phase one. I had to get MORE of my hair cut off, so now, I'm walking around with the lower half of my head shaved, and the top part short, but better than what was going on previously. I cried. Like a little girl. AVOID the NEX salon!