US Air Force BMT Haircuts

This is a personal video from flight 023 / 024 Oct 2005. 320 trs.

[@madskyltd]

i thought i was going to bite my tongue off to keeo from laughing. The TI's set it up so he was first in line for a haircut. the barber was a retired vietnam era vet - with a long pony tail. barber asked the kid if he wanted to keep his long locks - the kid said ye, the barber said "ok. CATCH!" and off it went! great videos

[@mattjones4175]

The quickest haircut ever 😮

[@46Mongoose]

Rainbows Rainbows everywhere, My buddy Kelly sat in front of me and I was trying so hard not to laugh when he had the Ben Franklin thing goin on. When we got back to the dorm we were covering our faces with the training manuals because we were laughing so hard. Our Sgt. was screaming at us no laughing, no touching your heads while we were in buzzby's. Brings back memories. Crewchief years ago.

[@StylemasterKaze]

I swear those same three barbers have been there FOREVER!

[@darrylhaynes]

i was there in 1974...and i told the barber...just a little off the top please...lol...i see they have new clippers now...they use a vac..

[@kurtb8474]

August, 1983. I had hair to my shoulders. It was hot and losing all my hair felt good.

[@borneranger300]

hahaha when I got my hair shaved in boot camp, i tried being funny and told the guy " just take a little bit from the top" he responded " shut the fuck up and sit down" lol.. oh good memories..lol

[@Harbinero]

LMAO the guy at 40 sec looking around was me! I deff don't remember the haircuts though. Good times lol. I'm still in actually.. Seems like 10 years ago.

[@DonSchenck]

Remember afterwards, when you couldn't recognize the other guys any more? That was funny. 3702 BMTS, Flight 331 Sept-Oct 1978.

[@cdubois13]

I went through BMT in 2001.That old guy yelling has been there forever and he always liked to think he's a TI.That Training Instructor for those of you that don't know.

[@darrylhaynes]

i remember this o so well....i was there in 1974....3710 BMTS...flight 17....and the cold part was you had to pay....

[@rocker316ify]

I remember those days.

[@TheNikeAirman]

goodluck man i gotta wait one more year to graduate

[@schaeffermotorskia20]

I was a 320 gator.. i remember i was first watching this video before i went to bmt. last year.. now im proud to be 22 oss in mcconnell afb

[@twowheelworld]

when i read this i thought he'd have like liberty spikes but come on that mohawk look like his mum did it haha! these clippers are amazing

[@DomBarber]

Those electric hair clippers the barbers use are awesome love the lady barber called Melissa "she" was very effecient and beautiful !

[@MeganPhntmGrl]

From what I understand, female recruits often have their hair cut to chin-length, but the armed forces actually don't allow servicewomen to have very short hair.

[@madskyltd]

flight 044 3803rd. some htings you NEVER forget!

[@dustylefou]

I don't understand why Marines always post comments scoffing this vid. AF recruits don't have to learn by the infantryman perspective like in the Army or Marines, so why even pretend they have to? They learn by the aircrew perspective, that's why it's different. I'm a Marine by the way.

[@XGen_23]

Those were the days.........

[@basbalfrk]

They do bring them in at night or at least they did when I went through (Dec 2002). But I think it depends on the Instructor how much sleep they get that first night. My group got in after 2200 and went to bed around midnight and was given 8 hours. Of course, I didn't sleep the whole way through, expecting them to bust in only a few hours later.

[@jeeperjus]

this was 2 months after I came in on september 13 2005. this was a fun day.

[@DomBarber]

Awesome clippers being used

[@darrylhaynes]

back in 1974 when i was there they had the old kind of clippers.....with out a vac...

[@mrlebowski562]

man those r some damn good clippers

[@soloban81]

@nopedamnit Doesn't hurt at all feels like running a comb over your head. In fact it was kind of nice to be able to sit down for a minute.

[@MKIVWWI]

Yep, things haven't changed alot at Lackland since I went thru basic back in 1979. Only difference is back then long hair was in style, so you wouldn't have seen many coming in with such short hair. In those days the hair really piled up!

[@nukedude]

Ah brings back memories.....of them hitting the knot on the back of my head.

[@EricCris10sen]

lol I thought it was funny how no one ever smiles, so when I got my haircut and they filmed it, I sat there smiling. Kinda got yelled at that this isn't supposed to be fun, but it was well worth it :D

[@Andybadtothebone]

lol at the kid in the middle's facial expression at 2:22 "oh shit. please, please nooooo.."

[@AndEyesRBloodShot]

what a bunch of happy looking lads :)

[@tuck2009]

at 2:38 that dude looks like he was about to fall asleep haha

[@TheRuggedWay]

Good old Slackland! Some of these scared looking guys are staff sergeants now!

[@seanharbin7244]

That’s me at 0:40 looking down. I can’t believe that was almost 14 years ago.

[@ChrisS-iy9gv]

Flight 023! I'm at 0:13

[@Rekendo0661]

@n68188 lol. I'm a Staff Sergeant, a Senior D.I. and i do know it was and still is in the Army today.LOL.

[@copstryin2takemycrop]

Sweet, so is this part of the video they give you after Basic Training is done?

[@nirsi19]

beiber should go to this place for his haircut

[@SuperWarking]

Definetly sir! Because you take a MTI's fun away then they take away your smile :( Lol...BMT was good thought, out of curiosity, how was it back when you went through? People tell me the military in general is a different world now then it was back in the old days...always kinda wondered what that means exactly so if you don't mind educating me it would be appriciated! Thanks sir!

[@WingmanRising]

@MoovieMane it depends on your height. if your over they measure your muscle mass.

[@TheHandsFreeMethod]

Don't Get your hair cut before, My Dad was in the army, and I'm a future airman (Next year hooah!), and he said that if you shave it off before, they'll yell at you and shave the top only, making it look like youre balding. I'm just gonna let them do it. Thats what theyre there for.

[@SuperWarking]

Thats is true, at least in the 326th it was, that, and wearing an AF shirt the night of "breaking in" made you an easy target quick, my advice to any new folks, don't go with a shaved head or anything AF related on, you will get singeled out quick...Side Note, any fellow 3P Defenders around here? :)

[@scooniepenn]

@flyhigh1123 Sure why not? Its the Air Force.

[@Jamesnuton]

If u have a huge scar on the back of ur head are u able to have and inch of hair?

[@Delightbunnie]

The guy at 3:05: I did NOT sign up for this!

[@ChaseR_SvG]

They still run the trimmer over your head. Don't ask me why but they do.

[@danteslight]

@YoungBoy0816 They use the crude BMI system, it varies greatly. I mean I had to drop like 20 pounds and I literally couldn't drop anymore without falling below a safe weight. It is kind of ridiculous. If you have a larger frame and more muscle, you will weigh a fuck ton more. Just be glad you don't look like him and the fact he was able to get in, probably means he doesn't have much muscle mass. You will feel a lot better than him when you meet the pull ups bar.

[@tannerstap1]

I know some of them are thinking-I have to piss but ahhhh, can't remember what to say.

[@josh222a]

Does this video also show immunizations being given???

[@basbalfrk]

The TI's must have had fun with the guy @ 40 seconds.

[@danteslight]

@209mann Lol, you don't pay for anything once you are in to the airforce, hell they even give you $400 for supplies right when you get there.

[@MrNobody808]

Does no one ever think of shaving their hair al off before they leave? Would be a lot less painful.

[@elite2828]

The recruits look really scared lol

[@46Mongoose]

@borneranger300 We had one guy say just take a little off the sides, he became a roadguard.

[@YoungBoy0816]

@danteslight YEAHH..i played football through out highschool soo i have soo much weight & muscle its krazy but my recruiter told me to jus work out my neck muscles 2 make my bmi go up..but i might try the droppin weight approach too.

[@darrylhaynes]

and the cold part was you had to pay the S.O.B....1974...

[@The_Lucent_Archangel]

@afterthefact15 No kidding. For the Army's part, the old barber didn't give a damn if he mowed down sores on some poor private's head. 2 or 3 guys I did Basic with came out of their haircut looking like they had head wounds. rofl

[@aero121389]

i remember this they grab like trying to palm a bowling ball ahh good times good times

[@scooniepenn]

@23Shainna23 If you say so

[@TheWorstWarlock]

A lot of these guys already had haircuts so short that it's the next best thing to being bald. What the hell did they need a haircut for?

[@MjolnirMarkV]

I remember my BMT haircut...

[@skew06]

none of them came out bleeding thats no fun. I remember in the army most of us came out bloody and with cuts all over our head.

[@darrylhaynes]

the guy at 2.40 looks like kobe bryant.

[@TheRotaryman]

@Twicelighter so everyone looks the same. all start from the same spot

[@boogiefever1985]

I don't know why some of them look so upset. In most cases, it is definitely an improvement on the ugly haircuts they walked in with. Now at least they are presentable.

[@dutchmcgee101]

@StylemasterKaze They were there back in 07 bro i remember them.

[@Sabre0327]

@scotty10211 Your still wrong.... though yes I have answered myself before.... The point of the BMT haircut is to put everyone on the same level.... All of a sudden your not an individual you all have the same haircut the same uniform.... also its kept short after BMT to look professional

[@mrtrainfreakdk]

Can you buy those vacuum clippers somewhere?

[@Airplanesaremything]

The kid at 2:18 is like "Aww shit" Lol

[@ziegler117]

LMAO @ the kid with the fo-hawk at 0:41

[@Security98]

I thought u could keep a little hair.

[@209mann]

do you have pay for the haircut??

[@JonMo94]

@afterthefact15 yea thats cause they break everything lol

[@megga0]

its Security Forces/Military Police

[@jimmythedirecttvguy]

@StylemasterKaze the old guy cut my hair back in 2000 haha

[@LuxKadafi]

shit im going to the army in a few weeks,

[@darrylhaynes]

yep.....its kobe...

[@ritopgun]

they will make you hold your finger over the bump

[@Agent1W]

OH damn, in my tech school days, we weren't allowed to cut our own hair just because it "looks like crap". With shaving kits, airmen didn't want to spend money with those shitty AAFES barbers. We settled with skin cuts because those were easy to do...don't have to deal with even cuts, tapering, and what not.

[@EricCris10sen]

@Andybadtothebone rofl must be going into comm

[@mrtrainfreakdk]

What length is it?

[@darrylhaynes]

thats kobe at 2.38..

[@ritopgun]

@Twicelighter everyone is stripped of their personality and start fresh as a unit

[@actualbeau]

@superFREEgamer theyll shave ur eyebrows if theyre pissed

[@Kajemyster]

i now have a skin bump on my head from those hot ass blades!!!

[@Revidescent84]

I'm guessing you've never attended a Catholic school or one that required uniforms? Or even worked somewhere with strict dress code/uniforms? Similar concepts. (Yeah, I know, ass old comment is old. lol)

[@skew06]

@THEEDSHOWS Kobe*

[@flyhigh1123]

0:25 they allow over weight kids in BMT 05?lol

[@produccionesterrero]

0:25 how this guy got into the military

[@darrylhaynes]

kobe bryant at 1.30....

[@caribbaviator7058]

Not the air force.They don't cut all that hair off in that branch!!!!

[@angryspec63]

Well I’m in that video and it is definitely the Air Force.

[@blitzvomitew16]

it easy for us who sport the low cuts...will i have a mohawk, a short one. we just treat it as a bad haircut...my hair grows fast..by the 3rd week i will be hunting down somebody who can do mohawks. BUT i feel for the "long hair don't care" dudes...bye bye long pretty hair.

[@ChaseR_SvG]

The look on their faces is the sleep deprivation from the first night and the reality that they are going to have to deal with the same harassment and non stop pace they encountered upon arrival at Lackland. You are getting a bit too far into it man. If I hadn't joined the military I wouldn't have such a desire to better myself and push myself forward in my future endeavors. 98% of the people in that room didn't join the military for either of your reasonings. You're not a psychologist for sure.

[@sonic619760]

@Pasguiroq Um, to keep the hair from going itno your face while in war. Thats just what I think lol. But tbo, I think most if not all people who join the military and get their hair cut(shaved) look better than they did with their hair. No homo.

[@rzorNvme]

Holy S*** there is a chubby dude at 0:25... its like right on the 0:25 marker lol... check it outtt

[@TechnicalEnemy]

dude at @;36 looks like he could be kobe's son

[@YoungBoy0816]

@produccionesterrero Hell yeah im wonderin the samething im tryna get into the airforce and i have 2 drop 5%body fat n this guy is like 4x's as wide as me..

[@ritopgun]

that's me at 1:22

[@ChrisS-iy9gv]

I'm at 0:13

[@TheRealTaco87]

NO!!! Dont't do it! And honestly its not a big deal.

[@stevecook172001]

What I find the saddest thing is the look of absolute mirthless misery on the faces of all those young lads. This can only be due to either a self-imposed cultural pressure to conform to some kind of fucked up masculinity, or it was imposed by the militarty staff in that room. Either way, fucking sad.

[@actualbeau]

@13tharealest haha yes it would