 What is happening guys? Staff Sergeant Massey here also known as R. Chisel on social media and welcome to another episode of US Army Basic Combat Training mini series, Your Future Starts Here. For today's episode we're going to be talking about the US Army uniforms. It doesn't matter if it's the OCP's, the Dress Blues, but for me what really matters the most is the beret. This is that moment where it completes your look as a soldier. But if you are a trainee halfway about to graduate, you can see right there the finish line is right there. Without further ado we're going to share you a few more stories as usual from trainees and the drill sergeant and what it means to them to wear the US Army uniform. So today we have them going through deferred issue basically where they're going to receive their ASUs and anything associated with that so berets, shirts, pants. Once they get their dress uniforms they start to see everything that they're receiving at that point and they're just looking forward more to graduation because that's the uniform that they're going to wear whenever they walk across that field. So they still have to learn how to shape and wear the beret. We actually take them up and give them a class. We watch them very carefully because they actually shave their berets and so if we just let them go loose they're going to put holes in them and cut the wrong parts and all that stuff. So we still shape their berets with them and we make sure that they're fitting properly and looking good. The best advice I could give for somebody that's looking to join the Army you're not going to know exactly what you're getting into but just go in with an open mind make sure that don't don't keep quitting on the back burner like that's an option because in your mind it shouldn't be an option. Whenever you join the Army you're going to be basically doing the best thing you could ever do to jumpstart your life. I mean whenever you're whenever you're looking at you know everyone that's your age right now and then you're going to see a noticeable difference once you graduate of everything that you've accomplished things that you thought you would never do you're putting yourself ahead of your own age group and I think that you know the country needs something like that right now because you know a lot of people don't understand what it means to serve. So today we got fitted for our skirts we got fitted for our shirts our berets our pants my pants were a little bit long they had to fix it we got size for right side shoes my 7.5 and we got our big coat and we got size for our graduation uniform. It made me feel very like to keep on going to not give up because you're one step ahead and it made me feel like you're this close to graduating so just keep up. I joined because my family right now they're struggling financially and I found out the Army could help me with my college especially since I wanted to do criminal justice. Drill sergeants my battle buddies my family a lot my family back home was seeing me writing letters telling me to keep on going and they're waiting for me back home because that will motivate me a lot. It feels amazing because I remember getting that letter from my mom and I just saw her handwriting it felt like she was writing she was speaking to me it feels great to receive letters every time. So my favorite MRE is this one right here it's the cheese tortellini and it comes with trail mix vanilla pudding crackers and peanut butter chocolate and the cheese tortellini which is not the good but I like the dessert.