Posted: 7/5/2017 7:10:56 PM EDT
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I am going to a two week class at FLETC Glynco soon. Can anyone give me information about the facilities, chow hall, gym etc.?
I was looking over the rules and one thing that stuck out was that using the gym you have to wear their issued gym clothes. Is that for the basic training type classes, or for all of the classes, including local guys? Thanks in advance for any intel. |
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Make sure you wear their socks in the gym haha..place is fun but it gets old after awhile
beer is cheap at the G-bar. Don't wear your name tag in the G-bar, but you have to wear it everywhere else. The Chow is decent there, sallys cop shop it right off base, and you can uber everywhere from there. If you like the beach go to St. Simmons Island, lots of bars, beaches and good food. oh yeah keep your blue gun snapped at all times or an instructor will steal it and stick a banana in your holster. |
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It's been twenty years but the food is more than adequate. Really be on your guard to be sensible. I did their 28 day boat school. A guy in our agency in week three had to go get fatter pants because he ate fried chicken, wings and pecan pie or key lime pie the whole time.
We were put up in a motel in town as the base was full then. Not a whore house unless you're gay. It was ninety five percent male there. The G bar is for Gay bar. I bet the female ratio is much higher than it was. My class was mostly state agencies with some USSS from the Bush sr. Detail. Great crew and we had good instructors. As you would expect they treat outside agencies as professionals. Hell even their new boot classes were treated way better than my academy's wanna be Parris island approach. |
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I went 3.5 years ago. Gym is nicer than anything I've ever been to before. Yes, you do have to use their issued clothing...
The internet kinda sucked. Chow hall has good food. Lodging was good for me. Some had it a little harder off. DO NOT lose your ID. Keep that thing on you and visible... Like others said, if they give you a blue gun don't lose it. No pictures in the bar... If the 10 signs they have posted didn't say that clearly enough... Have fun. |
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Like everyone said, food is great. When I was there with the BOP it was during a huge CBP push and they were lots of hot CBP chicas.
It is fun to walk around and see all the different LEO agencies and how they act. Being with the BOP, we were made fun of the most, and rightly so. Didn't even get blue guns.... ours were pinkish red! 
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Like everyone said, food is great. When I was there with the BOP it was during a huge CBP push and they were lots of hot CBP chicas. It is fun to walk around and see all the different LEO agencies and how they act. Being with the BOP, we were made fun of the most, and rightly so. Didn't even get blue guns.... ours were pinkish red! I get to go back for 13 weeks soon.... Lemme tell ya how excited I am to be in the South Georgia heat again.... 
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Blue guns now... And since TSA goes there (In full TSA uniform) we don't get made fun of as much anymore... I get to go back for 13 weeks soon.... Lemme tell ya how excited I am to be in the South Georgia heat again.... 
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Some of the best deals I've found in pawn and junk shops were in St. Simons and Brunswick. I ended up sending a couple of guns to my home FFL from there.
If you can get off post, find somewhere with Golden Isles shrimp, for sure, and Crab Daddys was pretty good. |
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FLETC, as far as LE academies go, is probably the best there is. The facilities are purpose built and they have state of the art equipment for when its called for, and they have some old school brute force mock ups for those times where technology may not be the best teacher. The class rooms are better than what you will find in most colleges.
The food in the chow hall gets old after about two months. Its on a weekly menu. Tuesday is fried chicken for lunch, one of the few things they do that is actually pretty good. The dorms all depend on where you get placed. The Taj is nice, single person rooms with private bathroom and a pool in between the buildings which is like a college spring break on the weekends, but its a mile+ walk to the classrooms and chow hall. The building 95 & 96 dorms are nice as well, probably the best dorms there, better than the Taj, private room/private bath and they are a short walk from the chow hall and a closest to the main gate to catch an uber if you don't have a car. The other dorm buildings all share a bathroom with your neighbor which can be ok if you both are on different schedules. But if you both like to shower in the morning and both get back from class at the same time (like you share with someone in your class) it can be a real pain in the a$$. If the dorms are full, you may be put up in one of the hotels off base. As nice as that sounds, its not. You cant run back to your room to grab something you forgot and when you arrive in the morning, you will be waiting in a line with a couple hundred other students and staff that all have to be checked in at the main gate... FLETC is what you make of it, its a vacation from real work, you form some life long relationships with fellow LE, and you have a world class gym at your disposal. The OP said he is a local, but for those watching at home, if you don't mind the Georgia sand fleas and snakes, the god awful humidity and 100* temps, the location is nice as well. You are a 10 minute drive from the golden isles and 50 minutes from savannah or jacksonville. Not everyone is there for the same class, not everyone is a brand new rookie either. Before you open your mouth and say something, remember there are agency director/chief of department level people there all the way down to the newest park rangers. Some people are there for 6 months, some are there for a week. The guys who look like they are ready to quit or go on a roid rage are probably either ATF or HSI, and have been there for 4 or 5 months already (they both do 27 weeks at FLETC not counting holidays)... take pity on them and buy em a beer. Enjoy and play the game. Everyone's mantra there should be "cooperate to graduate and no one gets left behind"... |
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It's been twenty years but the food is more than adequate. Really be on your guard to be sensible. I did their 28 day boat school. A guy in our agency in week three had to go get fatter pants because he ate fried chicken, wings and pecan pie or key lime pie the whole time. We were put up in a motel in town as the base was full then. Not a whore house unless you're gay. It was ninety five percent male there. The G bar is for Gay bar. I bet the female ratio is much higher than it was. My class was mostly state agencies with some USSS from the Bush sr. Detail. Great crew and we had good instructors. As you would expect they treat outside agencies as professionals. Hell even their new boot classes were treated way better than my academy's wanna be Parris island approach. |
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FLETC, as far as LE academies go, is probably the best there is. The facilities are purpose built and they have state of the art equipment for when its called for, and they have some old school brute force mock ups for those times where technology may not be the best teacher. The class rooms are better than what you will find in most colleges. The food in the chow hall gets old after about two months. Its on a weekly menu. Tuesday is fried chicken for lunch, one of the few things they do that is actually pretty good. The dorms all depend on where you get placed. The Taj is nice, single person rooms with private bathroom and a pool in between the buildings which is like a college spring break on the weekends, but its a mile+ walk to the classrooms and chow hall. The building 95 & 96 dorms are nice as well, probably the best dorms there, better than the Taj, private room/private bath and they are a short walk from the chow hall and a closest to the main gate to catch an uber if you don't have a car. The other dorm buildings all share a bathroom with your neighbor which can be ok if you both are on different schedules. But if you both like to shower in the morning and both get back from class at the same time (like you share with someone in your class) it can be a real pain in the a$. If the dorms are full, you may be put up in one of the hotels off base. As nice as that sounds, its not. You cant run back to your room to grab something you forgot and when you arrive in the morning, you will be waiting in a line with a couple hundred other students and staff that all have to be checked in at the main gate... FLETC is what you make of it, its a vacation from real work, you form some life long relationships with fellow LE, and you have a world class gym at your disposal. The OP said he is a local, but for those watching at home, if you don't mind the Georgia sand fleas and snakes, the god awful humidity and 100* temps, the location is nice as well. You are a 10 minute drive from the golden isles and 50 minutes from savannah or jacksonville. Not everyone is there for the same class, not everyone is a brand new rookie either. Before you open your mouth and say something, remember there are agency director/chief of department level people there all the way down to the newest park rangers. Some people are there for 6 months, some are there for a week. The guys who look like they are ready to quit or go on a roid rage are probably either ATF or HSI, and have been there for 4 or 5 months already (they both do 27 weeks at FLETC not counting holidays)... take pity on them and buy em a beer. Enjoy and play the game. Everyone's mantra there should be "cooperate to graduate and no one gets left behind"... |