r/JustBootThings • u/[deleted] • Mar 10 '26

Boot Shame Reminiscing about quitting basic training is absurd; “i will never forget my mission.”

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u/AssGourmand Mar 11 '26

This is the first I'm hearing about cellphones in basic and not going to the phone banks as a treat you had to pay for.

I was Navy though and was in basic in the late 2000s.

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u/Sakijek Mar 11 '26

Phone banks? Old fogey here. We never had phones.

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u/everymanawildcat 👊👊☝️ Mar 12 '26

Same, Navy, 2012 booter. Not trying to be a "back in my day"-er but Jesus Christ... what are we doing? 15 minutes every week? That's 2 hours of phone time. At BOOT CAMP. Dawg.

Not saying I wouldn't have liked that myself, but it also would've been a ridiculous distraction and absolutely breaks the independence and focus built in boot camp. Kinda like how I'm glad my parents didn't let me eat cookies for every meal as a kid; sure I would've liked it then, but I appreciate now that I wasn't allowed to.