How fit should one be before joining the military...

how fit should one be before joining the military? i can do 38 pushups nd sit ups is that weak lol also how fast should my 2 mile be before basic?

60 push ups in a minute is good. around 30 sit ups in a minute too, 2 mile run should be below 16:30 i think. Source: Army

yeah your weak bro

age 18-21
42 pushups in two minutes
54 situps in two minutes
15:54 two mile run
If you get close enough to making those goals going into basic, they'll smoke you enough to get up to where you need to be.
-11B

PT Score minimum for 18-21 is 42 push ups, 49 sit ups, and 15:55 on the two mile run. In order to pass basic training you need to be at that level. Make no mistake, pt sucks no matter what level youre at.

Basically you have to be chuck Norris to even speak with a recruiter. Anything less and our spartan God like military will not accept you into their elite ranks.

Leave for ft jackson in 2 weeks any tips?

be invisible

Wait like are those the specific infantry standards or are you saying that you yourself are an 11B?

somebody got disqualified for being overweight

Claim you identify as female so you can take the female APFT

>mfw i was 5'9 249 pounds when i joined

That's army Standard, if you're infantry you better be doing way the fuck more than just passable

kek same. still kinda chubby.

>tfw fatbodies realize it's not as easy as call of duty

I'm trying to get promoted to pfc so?

60 push-ups in one minute is beyond Special forces qualifications

>Army
Fat detected

wait until you get to your unit. PFC is an automatic promotion don't do anything but try and survive at basic

You all should be asleep goddamnit you got formation in the morning.

>82nd Paratrooper, fucking kill me please

just wait, it's automatic

here come the POG Marines....

shit wanna trade?
>1st Armored Division 11B

I recently saw a pair of army guys in Dunkin' Donuts and one of them was fat. At least 250 and round. How the heck is this allowed? How do you get through MEPS? I am currently on a weight loss getting from 270 to 191 for Air Force. At 258 now. The recruiter won't even talk to me until I'm 205.

i live life on the edge

plus if i pass out i don't have to do pt

How was Airborne school? Been trying hard to get into it, seems like it would have been easier to just come in with it on my contract except I didn't want 11 Bang Bang.

Oh damn ok I was just trying to so I'll make more during ait

if you need to ask you are not fit enough

The army is horrible at keeping it's soldiers to standard, that's why we are laughed at by Marines. The standards have gone to shit, fat fuck PFCs are walking around thinking they're hot shit, it's disgusting.

yeah and spend that money on what?

a tv?

you won't need to buy shit in ait

Ironically, you can get in without being in shape, but you cant be promoted until you pass the PT test, and possibly weigh&tape. This is known as being flagged.

Shit son, I did OSUT I don't know how that kinda shit works at AIT

No, literally every other branch thinks you're fat pieces of shit. Even your own branch

True and also I get a $5000 bonus but someone told me I'll have to pay it back when I get out is that true or?

Minimum requirements are:

42 Push-ups
50 Sit Ups
15:45 two-mile run.

With that said... you should be training for

50 Push-ups
60 Sit-ups
And 12:00 two-mile run

Oh, and shit before you take the pt test.
If youre constipated in the morning, drink coffee. Itll harden your mind and soften your shit.

Some guy didnt shit before his run and shat himself in the middle of it., and the guy behind him stepped in the shit and it splattered on the other guy next to him's ankles.
There was a big footprint in the shit, cutting it in half

The tention in jumping is what makes it so fun, but the problem is actually TRYING to jump when you need too. Jumping works in currency, you need to jump at least once every 3 months to maintain that currency to keep your bonus jump pay. May sound easy, but if your Air NCO is fucking you, then jumps are hard to get manifested for. All is takes is a bunch of brass/jumpmaster wanna-be's that outrank you to shove you off manifests. Also even slightly bad weather scratches jumps nowadays due to recent deaths and malfunctions.

Any marine would know he's not grimacing because of the log. He's just got the big green weenie in his ass.

if you switch mos's before your contract is up you have too, otherwise no

No I totally agree that the Army is full of fat pieces of shit, I'm just saying you're probably a Marine POG like most people that talk shit on the Army on Sup Forums

74D CBRN here, those are the overall army standards of at least 60% for the APFT, which is the absolute minimum. In basic it's lowered to 50% which for your age specific group is 35 pushups, 47 situps, and a 16:36 2 mile. My advice, run.

Tl;dr run for your life, every day

Alright thanks for the help most people I ask on here say fuck you pog

>formation
>pt
>formation
>class
>formation
>mrt class
>formation
>nothing
>formation
>sleep

rinse and repeat

that's how it was where i went though

No just getting ready for the all out meme war when i get into the air force legitimately. Air force dep here waiting for a job call

The px is only a couple miles from the basic training barracks. Youll probably stay at the starships on Hampton. If you get a cool bunkee he can watch your back while you slip out at night. Follow Hampton toward Dixie head west the px is by gate 2 for I77 get you some chew there just bring a unit crest and a specialist Velcro on your uniform no combat patch you'll wear the wrong one and people will ask about your tour with the 1st in desert storm or some shit

Fuck you POG. Shit, sorry, instinct.

It was a joke bro I'm still serving

Should've gone AirForce, Jelly as fuck. Enjoy it brother, I'll be playing with my dick in the middle of the desert.

When I see the word formation, my blood pressure spikes 10 points. I must've gotten ptsd from basic, but hey at least I have tricare.

52D. mechanics as a rule are always fat. Lots of flagged motherfuckers round there.

To be a wonder boy you need to be in the 80's with both push-ups and sit-ups. With a 2 mile run in the 12 min area. You can pass with less, but you're going to constantly get shit if you're under that mark while serving combat arms.

yeah and have fun with your chapter when you get caught

shit son, the real army ain't any better with them formations.

What the fuck?? Is this a personal experience

how hard is army bct? is it really stressful?

Sheeet I'm only in the guard, can't wait till I get deployed to feel special :,)

>Chairforce
Ahh makes sense...

You are the part of the biggest pussies in the military, the reason you insult others is because of your need to project your deep feelings of inadequecy.

I snuck out to the class six every other weekend but he's right op if you get caught you'll likely lose pay and cycle through again

airborne school is harder to get into when in big army, should have done it on your first contract. Usually classes are filled with new ass privates shooting for RASP contracts or they are 11B's going to Airborne units. Most soldiers who get into the course through big army are with non-airborne units and will likely remain 5-jump chumps. But hell I've know soldiers IN and airborne unit who remained 5 jump-chumps while letting the Army fuck them with Letter's of Indebtness for not jumping for years and years. If you don't jump in an airborne unit, get those Jump Orders terminated. Takes the pay away so you don't owe it in the long run, and take them damn wings off your chest if you don't use them.

20% physical, 80% mental. Just take everything with a grain of sand and pay the fuck attention when they teach you shit. Right place + right time + right FUCKING uniform = success

Jealous because you aren't alpha and had to beg the army to scrape you up with your shitty asvab score

Different user, Air Force Officer hopeful. I'll take the insults and enjoy my great standard of living. Granted, I might go Security Forces and apply for SERE or DAGRE so I won't really be Chairforce lol when I'm in a frozen forest eating weird shit to survive while getting 1 hour of sleep a night.

Not at all, the way the Army has been toning down Hazing and even fucking profanity, they get babied. Just have to deal with some buillshit like training all day everyday.

anyone here go to OCS after bootcamp? How was it?

unemployed college grad here looking into the Army

Depper here, gl man. Id do something with sere but im afraid that i get the sere training that concerns breaking your fingers or pulling off nails whichever one it is

Chairforce here, whats the pay grade most of you faggots started off with/ overall asvab score

>itt: A bunch of people claiming they know shit about Army Physical Fitness...

OP, it doesn't matter... The Army will get you into shape if you're not already... 38 push-ups is alright, but what's your sit-ups and run time, and more importantly your age?

First week or two of BCT, you gotta make 50% score on your APFT (PT test)... Second or third week, they change it to 60%... That's the bare minimum; you'll get fucked with if you're Infantry. If you're a POG, they'll just lightly fuck with you then leave you alone and focus on the fatties they're going to hand-jam through....

Google "Army APFT score sheet". That will help... Then, use the age brackets to match up with your push/sit/run count/time, then find your score... It's a pretty simple table...

50% gets you through the first week, after that you gotta start scoring 60% bare minimum... You should be looking at 75%-100%+, though, especially if you think you're gonna be a Warfighter, a Major-League Door Kicker, a swingin' dick blue cord having body slaying motherfucker...

Otherwise, don't bother.

>pic unrelated.

Army MP here, not sure the similarities you share with us, but if it is much the same... prepare to be anonymously hated across the board for literally fucking your own blood you server with.

Army MP's always catch the flack for pulling over people going 2+ or some bullshit. I like to think we are actually making a fucking difference when we catch the pieces of shit who are risking their career's by doing punishable act I.E. drugs, Underage consumption of Alcohol/DUI's Rape/sexual assault.

In my experience too, noone is more fucked up than MP corps ourselves. Seems like now more and more criminals/sleezy folks enlist 31 series to find the loop holes in the CJ system in the long run.

Yup, thats MP corp alright.

>"Hurr durr we're the creme of the crop"
>"Hurr durr best of the best
>"Hurr durr we uphold the standard and failure to meet that standard means you are unfit for the fucking army hurr durr"

what should i do if i wanna join but i am awful at running i can do 50 pushups and situps though

yeah, I'm sure it's horrible but hell of a skill set to have. I'm turning 30 next year and I've never been in shape, so I may not even try for that stuff or special forces. I might just try for intelligence, public affairs, or something else more desk-oriented. Part of me really wants to learn those skills, weapons training, and so on. I guess I'll see what is available and how fit I manage to get.

Army here. join the airforce.

E-2 82. I hadn't been in hs for 4 years when i took that test.

....you just answered your own question.

Run more.

>harmful acts
>underage alcohol
>youre browsing Sup Forums
>Sup Forums

checks out okay

60 push ups a minute? What the fuck?

wait a minute.... browsing Sup Forums is illegal now? Shit..


Dueces

Yeah, that's not how it works.... PFC and below are all automatic rank-ups for time in, if you're not a complete shitbag and get blocked for some reason.... SPC is too, but there are plenty of SPC's that get ranked-up quicker than the auto-rank time...

Your first focus is to survive BCT (easy as fucking pie these days, what with all the new regs, just be alert and jump when Drill Sar'nt says jump, and also take charge even if you fuck it up; point is to not be afraid of fucking it up, cuz you WILL fuck it up your first few times)..... Your next focus is to acclimate to your new unit and forget most of the shit you learned in BCT... Unless you got some high-speed DS's who were 101st and are teaching you to Infantry, in which case much of what they teach you will be legit and handy in the real Army....

After that, THEN you can worry about early rank-ups... And really, E-Fuzzy to SPC early-ranks aren't really anything special... E6+'s who are really young are impressive... Spc. not so much...

But, at least once you hit your Spc mark, you won't be looked at as a complete bitch.... Mainly because there are plenty of slick-sleeved NCO's now...

Shittt just do pest control and chill yo. Or do something that requires fixing shit so when you get out you can at least find work

Yeah, seems like cops across the branches get a lot of low-lives. I don't want to be an actual traffic cop or gate guard, but I do think I'd be good in SF because I have absolutely zero tolerance for people abusing authority and thus would never do it myself. I am fine with being hated by people I serve with if it means I am making everyone's lives safer.

Because Sup Forums is against the law right dumbass?

>Desk job
Seriously man just join the police force or something for that shit and actually make a difference

Or maybe join some big ass company that will pay you stacks, why be in the military if you are just gonna sit at a desk all day wasting away?

That's not hard user. I've been able to do 40-50 in a min since I was 13.

Exactly how I feel, but here's the bigger picture. We can clean up the military (Which granted has to clean itself up first from the top down) or you could do the bigger favor and police up the homefront. Shit, the way this nation is turning, I could definitely see myself going Civilian Police or State trooper because of the hole America dug itself into. Hell, pay's great too if you have a degree if state pays you.

If I manage to get in (medical history has some DQ'ing stuff) I might make a longer career out of it, that or use the G.I. Bill to get a computer science degree and becoming a programmer and just chill with a six-figure salary after I leave the military. I obviously can't say if I'm going to love military life since I haven't experienced it first hand, but I'd like to think doing more meaningful shit than menial retail/sales/tech jobs would make me satisfied in life.

non-militaryhasnoideawhatthisis,andhowmuchitsucks

Nice! They started me off at E-3 and i got an 83. Nice job brother.

If you feel a call towards civilian law enforcement, I commend you. With how the police are these days I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole. I would potentially like to be a detective or something, but not a beat cop.

MP's are hated because they didn't join the military to fight the enemy; they joined the military to be cops and fuck with those who do...

>Former Infantry

HEY PRIVATES YOU BETTER STOP JAW-JACKING AND CHECK ALL THESE GODDAMN DIGITS!!!!

If only i had just a couple more credits i could have been e-3 :/

Dude......

If you want SF, go Infantry... Going MP to get SF is like going to college for carpentry because you want to be a stock broker...

If iron mikes are the worst you got, you don't know what smoking is.

No shit? I used to be in 4-17 out on Biggs.

On the contrary, we do see combat indeed. First tour in Union 3 we convey'd out and took an IED and came under mortar fire. Small group of 4 insurgents got MK19'd. Believe it or not MP's are usually with some deployed infantry units if any high brass is around. PSD groups usually go out/lead the convey's.

You stand a better chance at being shot as a beat cop in America than you do as an Infantryman these days.....

Oh, how I miss the days of war!

oh now you've done it, you hurt my feelings!
you've just earned yourself an IG complaint mister!

Shit, better beat cops are what's needed right now. Can't walk through a park and pick a flower without some fuckhead recording you and antagonizing you.

This guy is airforce, when he says SF he means "Security forces" which is the Airforces version of MP's.

Yeah, I did PSD on one of my deployments because our Brigade Cdr. was an Infantry Col. He threw the MP's the hell out the entire Brigade and rebuilt his PSD with all Infantrydicks... It was fucking great!

But yeah, MP's have a spot in war other than as POW guards... I'm just cross-MOS ribbing. :D

>Mister

HOW ABOUT FUCKING SERGEANT??