Florida recruits get taste of BMT Published April 14, 2009 By Staff Sgt. Adrian Bray 331st Recruiting Squadron PACE, Fla. -- Air Force recruits here recently participated in an exercise depicting what they might expect upon arriving at Basic Military Training. Twenty young men and women in the delayed entry program participated in the session led by Senior Master Sgt. Grant Dugre, the 96th Security Forces Squadron first sergeant, and Master Sgt. Shauna Bauer, the 96th Mission Support Squadron career enlisted adviser. Sergeants Dugre and Bauer, both from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., led the recruits from the 331st Recruiting Squadron in a very realistic session, which is only a small portion of what basic training. "This is just a short bit of what these recruits should expect to happen when they arrive at basic training. We are going to try to mimic what is going to happen when they get off the bus and into their squadrons," Sergeant Dugre said. "They will definitely have to do push-ups if they forget their reporting statement." Tech. Sgt. Michael Forehand, the local Air Force recruiter here, was instrumental in setting this experience up and wants to do it again. "We are going to try this again in six months. It is a great opportunity for these young people to see what kind of environment they are going to be in when they ship out," he said. "It will be a great benefit to these recruits to be prepared mentally for what they are in store for." The 331st Recruiting Squadron is located on Gunter Annex in Montgomery, Ala., and covers approximately 88,000 square miles including parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama.