https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/i-m-joining-the-army-for-the-second-time-now-and-because-i-have-been-out-since-2011-i-will-need-to-go-back-to-basic-what-should-i-expect <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Didn&#39;t notice the more details area.<br /><br />My main question would be that what should I expect the second time around going in as prior service. What is it like going back to basic with a combat deployment. How are you treated and so on. I&#39;ll be going back for my same MOS as a 19K and had to the one station unit training the first time. Will I be going through normal basic the second time or will I go through OSUT again? Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:08:17 -0400 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/i-m-joining-the-army-for-the-second-time-now-and-because-i-have-been-out-since-2011-i-will-need-to-go-back-to-basic-what-should-i-expect <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Didn&#39;t notice the more details area.<br /><br />My main question would be that what should I expect the second time around going in as prior service. What is it like going back to basic with a combat deployment. How are you treated and so on. I&#39;ll be going back for my same MOS as a 19K and had to the one station unit training the first time. Will I be going through normal basic the second time or will I go through OSUT again? SPC Matthew Patterson Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:08:17 -0400 2016-10-14T12:08:17-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/i-m-joining-the-army-for-the-second-time-now-and-because-i-have-been-out-since-2011-i-will-need-to-go-back-to-basic-what-should-i-expect?n=1975936&urlhash=1975936 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would probably venture a guess that you should expect almost the same thing as from your first time in BCT. MSG Private RallyPoint Member Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:27:03 -0400 2016-10-14T12:27:03-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/i-m-joining-the-army-for-the-second-time-now-and-because-i-have-been-out-since-2011-i-will-need-to-go-back-to-basic-what-should-i-expect?n=1976108&urlhash=1976108 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><br />I am actually surprised they are sending you through a standard OSUT training and not a PS reclass training? The reason they do not want to send PS through standard OSUT/BCT training is because YOU are too dangerous. You know too much. My experience is that you need to expect to be treated greatly different than the standard trainees. Do not even be surprised if you are barracked in the day room and basically left to your own devices when not training? Also, be prepared to be shunned by other trainees and Drill Sergeants...hope I&#39;m wrong but have heard those type of stories. MSG Brad Sand Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:15:26 -0400 2016-10-14T13:15:26-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/i-m-joining-the-army-for-the-second-time-now-and-because-i-have-been-out-since-2011-i-will-need-to-go-back-to-basic-what-should-i-expect?n=1976132&urlhash=1976132 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Well I just came from the unit across from 1-81 which is where you&#39;ll be going. Some things to expect is to see a lot of counseling for every little thing that you or the other Trainees do. There is no more &quot;quitting&quot;. at least in my unit, (Not sure if it was BDE policy) but if you try to quit you&#39;ll get a FG Art 15 45/45. Then you&#39;ll get recycled. Rinse and repeat. The current CMD team there is all about &quot;trimming the fat&quot; before sending Soldiers to the line. Also it would be in your best interest to get into shape before you go. There are people who show up who can&#39;t even do a single push up correct, so if you show up able to PT, and look like you know what you&#39;re doing things will be good for you. Who knows you might even get a weekend pass here and there. SSG Private RallyPoint Member Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:22:10 -0400 2016-10-14T13:22:10-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/i-m-joining-the-army-for-the-second-time-now-and-because-i-have-been-out-since-2011-i-will-need-to-go-back-to-basic-what-should-i-expect?n=1987224&urlhash=1987224 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I can&#39;t speak for your Drill Sergeants and you BCT wherever it is but I can tell you mine.<br /><br />Fort Benning, Jan 2016 - Mar 2016.<br /><br />We had three NCO&#39;s from the Navy who went Army so they had more freedom than we did as prior service. Though they were also NCO&#39;s so I&#39;m not sure if you&#39;ll get better treatment or not. As having already been through the Drill Sergeants may utilize you to assist with training on the range and obstacle courses as they did with out NCO&#39;s. They were aslo allowed to hit up the PX and do other stuff on weekends and had constant access to their phones and a tv.<br /><br />If they treat you the same as any recruit we if didn&#39;t fuck up were allowed to get our phones on Sunday to speak with our families for 10 minutes. We fucked up a lot so that didn&#39;t happen. SPC Private RallyPoint Member Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:17:56 -0400 2016-10-17T21:17:56-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/i-m-joining-the-army-for-the-second-time-now-and-because-i-have-been-out-since-2011-i-will-need-to-go-back-to-basic-what-should-i-expect?n=1988353&urlhash=1988353 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You only go through basic once for the same branch of service,how could the Army send you to basic after you are a seasoned veteran.Some drill instructors haven&#39;t seen combat.You have a Armor certification and if anything they might send you to school to reclass. SPC Geoffrey Jenkins Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:07:00 -0400 2016-10-18T08:07:00-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/i-m-joining-the-army-for-the-second-time-now-and-because-i-have-been-out-since-2011-i-will-need-to-go-back-to-basic-what-should-i-expect?n=1998090&urlhash=1998090 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Thank you all for the replies and help, my recruiter pulled some vodoo and got them to go off my IRR release date and not my ETS date so they are no longer sending me back to basic. Kinda wish they were as my flabby ass could not pass a PT test any more but I guess that just means I need to get to work. And to answer a few of my own questions for anyone else looking for info on this subject. The info they gave me is that because I am MOS trained already they would not have sent me back to OSUT but would have instead sent me to a normal BCT unit. I would have also lost a single rank putting back down as a PFC SPC Matthew Patterson Fri, 21 Oct 2016 06:05:26 -0400 2016-10-21T06:05:26-04:00 2016-10-14T12:08:17-04:00