03-19-2009, 02:31 PM
amins Wrote:1) Volunteer for everything you can, after time, you'll be given opportunities to advance you knowledge and increase your skill set: Advance schooling/training, which pays off during the last 2 years ofyour 4-6 year contract.AFTER basic training sure.
IN basic training, no. I agree with Thudz there: don't volunteer for shit in basic. All it will be is an extra thing to screw up and get yelled at over. The less responsibilities you can get put on you, the better. All you want to do in basic is get through it as quickly and easily as possible.
Although if you get a chance to volunteer for cleaning tasks (everyone gets one), I actually thought bathroom cleaning duty was the best. If you do anything in the main barracks you'll have 30+ other guys running around doing their thing and potentially messing up the thing you did (e.g., sweeping, dusting, etc), which will lead to you getting yelled at. The bathroom is easily contained. Your team cleans the whole thing then basically ropes the whole thing off except for one stall and Bob's your uncle. You can even make the people who use it after cleaning do their own cleanup so that your team basically cleans it once prior to inspection and then does nothing except supervise the place. The people who sweep the floors in the main rooms basically have no recourse but to learn to like being yelled at because it's impossible to keep it up to specs with so many people running around.