In basic training, you take group showers. There's no way out of communal showers. They're required. Everyone in your barracks will enter the shower room assigned to your barracks when commanded.
If you take too long a smoke session will probably occur. Can soldiers in basic training use the bathroom whenever they need? No, they can't. One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a recruit in basic training is to leave the area for whatever reason without telling your instructor.
In the military barracks, everything is communal including the personal space for hygiene. Thus, recruits often shower together with a unit and are also expected to keep the shower “clean, dry, and ready for inspection”.
A Navy shower (also known as a "combat shower", "military shower", "sea shower", "staggered shower", or "G.I. bath") is a method of showering that allows for significant conservation of water and energy by turning off the flow of water in the middle portion of the shower while lathering.
Showers are also have to be brief. There are 60 airmen all trying to get a shower in a very limited time. Give yourself 2 minutes. You just need to soap down and rinse off.
No you don't need to shave. However, It WOULD behoove you to shave the night before you leave for Basic training.
In basic training, you take group showers. There's no way out of communal showers. They're required. Everyone in your barracks will enter the shower room assigned to your barracks when commanded.
Bathing requirements in Field Manual (FM) 21-10, Field Hygiene and Sanitation, state that optimally, Soldiers should have access to a shower or bath every day, or at least once every week for good personal hygiene.
Turn water on, get wet, turn water off, soap up and shampoo, turn water on, rinse off, turn water off. Total time water is on is about 30 to 45 seconds. Water use is minimal. Every once in a while, we would be allowed “Hollywood Showers” where you didn't turn the water off though we were still pretty quick.
No PDA. PDA, or public displays of affection, is considered unprofessional, and a big no-no while in uniform. However, each unit, branch, and area treat this rule with different severity. This can include hugging, kissing, holding hands, and even holding children.
Bases have stores with menstrual products available.
Many troops live on them—sometimes with their families! —so there are restaurants, post offices, and stores known as “exchanges” that sell hygiene products (among other things), including tampons and sanitary pads.
Basic Training Barracks
During Basic Training, men and women live in separate quarters, which consist of shared bunks and bathroom facilities.
In all the branches' basic training programs, bedtime is usually 2100, or 9 p.m., except during times of special events, such as night exercises. In basic training, lights out means go to sleep. It does not mean talk to your buddies, study or write a letter home.
Sleeping arrangements during Basic Training may differ depending on where you're at. Generally, you'll either bunk in a bay containing about 40 people or in a small room with three to six others. You can expect to get between seven and eight hours of sleep.
Soldiers are not given the opportunity to go home after basic training as most AIT school check-ins are required the day after basic training graduation. AIT schools Phase IV is usually three weeks long. It focuses on training soldiers in the values of the Army, and also starts a focus on their specific MOS skills.
"On average, military personnel sleep approximately six hours" a day, said Dr. Tom Balkin, a senior scientist at the CMPN's Behavioral Biology Branch. An average of six hours of sleep isn't enough – at least seven hours is recommended, Williams said. Running short on sleep could lead to poor health or poor performance.
The BUD/S trainees stay awake for five plus days in Hell Week to make sure they can do it in a war zone. SEAL operators and war veterans often have had to stay awake for 72 hours on and 12 hours off shifts.
Between rigorous training schedules and long work hours, many soldiers survive on less than five hours of sleep, and under extreme circumstances some may stay awake for days.
Once you're wearing a uniform ALL of your civilian clothes and unauthorized possessions are taken away and locked up until you graduate. While you're there you'll sleep in your issued underwear or PT uniform. (When I went to BMT they didn't issue PT uniforms. It was just plain GI underwear for sleeping.)
If you need to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, most likely all the other recruits in your division (except the watchstander) are asleep, so there's nothing to prevent you from getting up and using the head. How physically demanding is the boot camp experience?
Hair should be no longer than 4.0 inches. Hair may not touch the ears or collar. It also cannot extend below the eyebrows. Hair bulk cannot be more than 2.0 inches.
Men's Hair in the Military
Sideburns cannot be longer than the bottom opening of the ear. Cannot wear braids, cornrows, twists, or locks. Shaved designs cannot be worn on hair or scalp.
An induction cut, also referred to as a mighty fine, is the shortest possible hairstyle without shaving the head with a razor. The style is so named as it is traditionally the first haircut given to new male recruits during initial entry into many of the world's armed forces, but most particularly in the United States.