A haircut, for example, will figure prominently in your future. Note that this applies only to men in what seems to me to be a stunning example of institutional sexism. You will not come out of the post barbershop looking like Warren Beatty. You ll probably spend a lot of time riding in a Humvee with a corporal who used to be a sergeant until he exercised his first-strike capability on an obnoxious lieutenant. We ll skip basic training for two reasons.
Combat units get out more.
Second line units tend to not get new equipment until the new equipment is phased out of the front line units as being obsolete. Of course, each branch is different. I think they run the coffee makers and deliver mail. Anyway, don t expect real-world military life to mimic that in the movies. It won t, and you ll feel quite the fool when you regain consciousness and can feel anything at all.