Posted: 9/16/2006 8:11:51 PM EDT
| I ship out to MEPS this Friday (9/22). Wondering if you guys have any tips or suggestions to make it as smooth as possible. |
Wipe your ass and clean your ears. It is important you do one with a washcloth and the other with Q-tips.  I had a classmate at tech school who went thru the same MEPS 14 years before me and had the same doc. I think it is where you go when you lose your license to practice medicine. |
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NO = Numerous Opportunities YES = Your Enlistment Stops  Seriously, listen to your recruiter about some of the questions/procedures. Disregard, just saw that you were shipping, have fun in Basic or Boot whatever your service has. |
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they'll ask you the exact same questions prior to shipping as they did when you processed....don't change any answers!!!!!!! if you were given so much as a parking ticket since you processed, it had better be paid in full AND your recruiter made completely aware. Good luck, and welcome to the family! |
Hahahahahaha, so true. |
foogoo is right on the money. It isn't fun, but neither is boot camp, this a prelude. I still remember my day at Meps and that was 19 years ago.... probably about the time you were born. Now there is a scary realization.... where is my Scotch. 
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i went to meps on about 6 seperate occasions, i had three actual enlistment physicals there and three seperate individual consults. (i was DQ'ed 3 times from the army before i got in) its the most boring, mind numbing experience known to man. just make sure you dont piss frquently before you do your urine analysis. take their advice, keep your mouth shut unless its obvious and you are missing an arm or something. i could have saved myself half a decade of bullshit if i had simply kept my mouth shut. also, meps is also full of some of the dumbest kids i have ever met, and all they seem to want to do for 11 hours straight is talk about fictitious sexual encounters they never really had. its just like the real army! 
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| Also if you come to find out anyone is going into the same service as you get to know em. When i left there were two other guys that ended up being in my Basic flight that i met at MEPS. it seriously does help to have a firend going into basic. But dont stress it if you going it alone... |
 Oh, that will go well a the NUTS & Butts station, imagine the look on the face of the Crypt Keeper, er, I mean MEPS Doc when he sees THAT shit! Damn, I am rolling here.
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Sounds about right. That was the first time and last time that I ever watched every ESPN Sports Center. All 24 frigging episodes. |