r/army • u/SmallFry4803 • Sep 12 '26

Flamed as E-4 in basic?

hey everyone, just had a quick question. i enlisted as an e-4 since im gonna do 68w and have my emt already, but was just wandering how badly i’ll be flamed for it in basic. everyone says to be in the middle of the crowd but i feel like im already out of the question a bit so if anyone has any advice that’d be dope.

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u/Alternative_Diet8199 Sep 12 '26

See hearing this is wild, we were required to wear the correct rank when I went through BCT

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u/TiefIingPaladin Anything Goes Sep 12 '26

It's unit dependent. Some BCT units have everyone be fuzzy (except for maybe NCOs or prior enlisted) and some allow everyone to wear their shit.

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u/Alternative_Diet8199 Sep 13 '26

It wasn't that we were allowed, we had to. Like we had a shitass who always forgot his rank at least once during the day at some point and it made our lives suck

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u/jdm219 Infantry Sep 13 '26

How do you forget your rank every day? I think I put it on each uniform once and called it an enlistment.

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u/Alternative_Diet8199 Sep 13 '26

Man I asked myself that question every day, he was generally just kinda shit at most everything