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My first day of BMQ was the longest and most stressful day of my life.

There were many "longer" days in the army than that day, but that shock of the first day is something i'll remember. Non stop from 5:30am to 11:00 pm.

We got yelled at plenty. And my 19 year old ears had never heard such swear words. Never got physically touched though. This was in 2003. But we did a lot of physical exercise for messing up. And we got our bunks tossed around and all our kit strewn everywhere if they found something wrong.

I did my BMQ and SQ in Lethbridge, and our bunks were in the community college, so we had a bit of privacy. But inspection took forever to do because they had to go into each living space which had 4 recruits each.

I remember standing in one spot one saturday for about 5 hours waiting for inspection to come. They would have inspection for a certain time and then sneak around and look in the windows to see if anyone was sitting or moving. If they found someone moving they'd ream him out. So we were scared less so we didn't move for hours for an inspection that never came. Ahhh good times.

I had an Master Bombardier as an instructor and he yelled at us pretty much exactly like the Drill Sgt. off Full Metal Jacket. It was unreal. By the third day his voice was totally gone from all the yelling.