<p>Hi everyone. I just had a couple last minute questions about BCT.</p>
<li>Would you recommend memorizing anything?</li>
<li>Do the cadre teach you how to do stuff like make your bed or should you learn it beforehand?</li>
<li>How often do you check your mail?</li>
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<p>Thanks in advance for your help! </p>
<p>Katherine</p>
<p>Nope, they made it pretty clear not to worry about memorizing anything at orientation. No need to worry about it yet. Yes, all of BCT I is basically marching, physical conditioning learning a lot of the regulations, standards, ranks, knowledge etc including how to order our rooms and beds and closets lol. And the cadre take us to the mail room a few times a week as I've been hearing. Hope this helps :)</p>
<p>As Z-man said, BCT is there to teach you these things! So no memorizing or learning beforehand. </p>
<p>Depends on the Flight for mail, maybe ever other day, maybe once a week.</p>
<p>Know that priors and preppies know some of this stuff already, so they can often help out. (Don't needlessly bug them though, lol)</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! :]</p>
<p>I dont know... I would memorize some things. better to get a jump on things. I know it helped my basic times.</p>
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<p>I have some questions as well, about physical training: how many miles should we expect to be running (I know they said expect running up to four miles in a day, but how many at one time)? And are we going to be going on any early morning runs (like five o'clock early)? Thanks :)</p>
<p>You have morning runs every other day, probably around 4 miles total doing indian runs, jogging, and sprints. Formation running after morning PT doesn't happen too often and its usually VERY slow.</p>
<p>Inidan runs?</p>
<p>Indian runs that I have done are where you jog in a straight line and then the person in the back sprints to the front while the rest hold a jog, and so on and so on.</p>
<p>This has nothing to do with BCT, but about laptops: what do we need to get besides a printer (i.e. are flash drives and external hard drives given to us- actually what is given to us)?</p>
<p>You are issued external hard drives (at least 120 Gigs) and a flash drive (at least 512 MB). You won't need to purchase anything else unless you want a second monitor.</p>