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Holy dogcrap! A WHOLE 5 KMs? With stuff in your ruck? And then the obstacle course? Hope you got the next day off, man, sounds brutal. I would have quit right there...
OK This entire post angers me...bled12345 said:k, i'm typing this semi-toasted at the recruit bistro, 8 weeks in...
WRONG!!!! With the new and improved bmq, everything has gotten way more hardcore, if you don't come in here at tip top shape, you will injure yourself, or they will cut you from the platoon. The instructors aren't here to babysit you. If you aren't fit, they will send you to the MIR, you will miss an important class, and they will recourse you back to week 1 or 2 just to make a point. There is full on swearing, sadistic pt, no sleep etc etc. Its pretty much full metal jacket, minus the physical beating, but trust me they do things far worse than hit you lol...
i only have 3 more minutes on the internetmachine so i will try to make it quick. uhhh what else to say, oh yeah... just dont go in thinking it won't be that bad, the first 3 weeks you are here, you are waking up at 4-5 in the morning, and working the whole day until you go to sleep at 11. There are morning pt's about 3-4 times a week, so you wake up at about 4:30, shave, make your bed, then go for a 5 k march. Here's another rumour to clarifhy... "you run at the pace of the slowest platoon member" wrong. If you fall out, they will give you major crap and frig you up the ***, you run at the sargeants pace.
The PT is not impossible (nor is it overly hard), most of the instructors are sane (I say most for a reason) and spending two weeks (with a break in between to go back for the weekend I believe) in the field sleeping in hoochies and eating rats is almost like a vacation from CFLRS (no marching, less to do on inspections) and certainly is no big deal at all.