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Pass The ASVAB
The first step to get in the military is you have to study and then pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery better known as the ASVAB. -
Signing Paperwork
The day after you pass your ASVAB your recruiter will call you to his office and will start your paper work and the signing of your papers. -
Your 100 Day Rule
From the time you pass your ASVAB you will go through 100 days of training with your recruiter. During this time you will go through various exercise that includes running, push-ups, sit-ups, and jumping jacks. Also during this time your recruiter will be telling you what it's like and what you will experience while being in the military. His main purpose for this is to get you mentally ready so you won't quit or anything and you will be prepared for everything your about to go through. -
MEPS / Sworn In
After Your Paper Work you will have to go through something we call MEPS. MEPS is when you will go to Columbia for two days and get your physical and then be sworn in. When you are sworn in you are telling them that you will join the military and that you will do right and stay out of trouble. -
Graduating High School
You are not allowed to join the military without a High School Diploma or something Equivalent to it. So your fourth move/step should be Graduating High School. -
Fitness Test
After Graduating and Your 100 Day rule you have to do a fitness test which consist of a 1 mile run that has to be completed in six minutes and a certain amount of push-ups and sit-ups that has to be completed in a certain amount of time. If you don't pass this test you can't join the military. -
Basic Training
After you have passed everything you will not enter basic training where you will be sworn in for a second time and you will then go through ten weeks of hard training and exercise which will build you up to the Man they want you to be. -
Graduating Basic Training
On this day you will then Graduate Basic Training. -
AIT
After Basic Training you will go through AIT which is school for the military where you will go to school and learn about the job you chose and where you will train for that Job. While in AIT you will still be going through hard training and exercise -
Graduating AIT
On this day you will Graduate AIT. -
Coming Home
After Graduating AIT you are allowed to come home for nine days which is like two weeks for the Military and spend time with your family before getting stationed where you will be for the next three to four years. -
Getting stationed
This is the day you say your Goodbye's and you get shipped off to the base your going to be at and where you will work your job and live for the next three to four years.