<p>you'll need to bring your own running shoes if i'm not mistaken. I have mine all ready to go.</p>
<p>goarmybeatnavy77, you're not alone. I have one pair of boots from prep school and that's it. Fort Monmouth doesn't carry leather low quarters and they can't order them, plus I can't order them online.</p>
<p>I could try Fort Dix, but that's about an hour and a half away from me, so I think I'm just going to get the rest of my footwear on R-Day.</p>
<p>I had no idea that the majority of our time would be spent in low quarters not boots... ??? Does anyone know how a general Beast schedual goes?? Like even the people at AAFES said I would need to break in the boot and not worry about the low quarter and the guys who have been to WP says focus on breaking in low quarters... Ga so confusing :? Could anyone go over a general day at beast barracks?</p>
<p>I had a cadet buy me a pair of low quarters at the C-store. That way you know that they are the correct kind. But even if you get the wrong kind you will be issued a new pair during the first few days, so you can tough it out a bit.</p>
<p>A general day depends on the detail. During the first 3 weeks, first detail, you wake up at 0500 to do PT, you eat breakfast. You have lunch around 1100 (if I remember right) dinner around 1800. The time between meals you are mostly either in line at issue points, attending briefings, or attending PMEE classes run by the upperclassmen, which generally cover the honor code and similar stuff. After dinner, if a briefing isn't scheduled, you generally have Chain of Command (COC) time during which the upperclassmen can pretty much do what they want with you until 2130, at which point they have to leave you alone to shower and get ready for bed. You are supposed to be in bed by by 2200. Anytime free time when there is not an issue point or briefing is usually COC time. During these times you do uniform drills, learn how to put together your TA-50 (ruck sack, LBE etc.), take a short trip to the C-store to get needed items, or do like stuff. Occasionally you will have time during COC time to yourself. At that time you can study "knowledge", clean your room or do whatever you feel like and have the privileges for.</p>
<p>Second detail is the same except for the fact that you will spend lots of time in the field qualifying with your rifle, practicing battle drills, going through the CS chamber and the like. You will probably stay in the field 2 or3 days at a time. The 6th week (3rd week of second detail) is spent entirely in the field. The 7th week is reorgy week when you are moving into your company's barracks and getting ready for the academic year.</p>
<p>Uniform drills :(</p>
<p>Should I be scared? :P</p>
<p>Only if you hate PT.</p>
<p>PT is a joke. Upperclassmen like to talk about how my class had it so easy because they dumbed down the PT. Granted, that is true, but I would not have minded it any more if they had made PT a bit harder. The PT is not what makes Beast difficult. No amount of it could have put me through the stress I was through. With PT, you work hard and long then go to bed smiling to yourself about the work you went through. </p>
<p>The real stress, in my opinion, comes from a combination of being deprived of nearly everything you enjoy and having as your only diversion a "Hell's Kitchen" (if you've ever seen bits of that show) like experience. I can take a little boredom, and I can take being spoken down to, but it wears down on you when day after day you are performing beneath your level because of the stress and you are rewarded for this with more stress.</p>
<p>That, however, is not really something to be scared of ahead of time. I'm sure you are having images, as I was, of you being able to tough it out and maintain your cool because you know that the cadre are really just acting. That's probably a healthy attitude to have before you get there, and will allow you to relax a bit more and avoid the shock. In fact a good number of people were right about themselves when they decided they could take it. Some of us, however, turned out to be wrong.</p>
<p>I was scared of was the PT before I got here. I thought they would really push us when we got there, but that turned out to be no problem at all. I actually got a bit out of shape during Beast.</p>
<p>are Bellevillle's any good? cause those are the ones i got...</p>
<p>I hear those are the best. In fact, I am very much upset that when I ordered boots they weren't Bellevilles. I tried on a pair of Bellevilles that were a half size too big, ordered a half size smaller, and when they came in they were McRaes. Very dissappointing. Be happy man.</p>
<p>i got the bellevilles too. I love them. it doesn't even feel like a boot because they fits so well. and if any of you guys like arch support in your shoes, these are the boots to get.</p>
<p>Altimas are amazing...</p>
<p>So about cleaning the boots - I bought that "recruit care kit" that comes with a brush, some kiwi boot cleaner, and a rag, but after i gave my boots the once-over they seem pretty much like what they were before...I'm just doing it wrong, I take it?</p>
<p>Hmmm....I just went to a shoe store and bought this little kit that has a stiff brush and an eraser thing. Thats the only thing I know of to clean the boots, but they don't clean well from what I hear. Just don't get your garrison pair dirty :)</p>
<p>Yeah, mine are pretty dirty-looking too, but the bottoms sure clean nicely. Just a little stomping on pavement and just about all the dirt comes off. Or a little water.</p>