Military Physical Examinations

Any one remember their first army physical.

a line of grown men, well 18 thru 20 year olds, standing in a room in their undershorts as a doc moves down the line has you lower your shorts while he exams your balls and checks for hernia, with your new army buddies stand right next to you.

On joining the training depot we had to undergo a medical examination.

We were all down to our underpants and had to go forward one at a time for the check.

Once out in front of the others we had to step out of the pants. Then all the normal breath, heart, eye checks were done.

Then the doctor checked our penises. Looking back it seems a very thorough examination, but that may be fantasy! I remember the foreskin being pulled way back and all the glans checked and a close look into the opening.

Then we had to bend over with our legs apart. Bum cheeks were spread and anus's inspected. Nothing was inserted but I do have this memory of why is it taking do long.

This was a particularly embarrassing situation for me as at 15 I still had quite a small penis, not much pubic hair so really looked like a small boy. Most of the others were well developed lads and seemed unaware of their naked state.

I think this is what has given me my love to be in similar situations now.

Yes the military seems to avoid the modesty items like gowns in the need for speed. We had the whole run thru just like you explained at our first station. We had to do some walk thru exercises like walk on your toes and heels and duck walk. Then thru all the stations and finally at the end you see the doctor one on one and had to get totally undressed for the full genital and rectal exam. We go the proctoscope done after the finger prostate check. I guess times are changing since Doctor's would rather have a patient die from a disease rather then risk getting sued for checking early.

Having been both in the Navy AND a Hospital Corpsman, I can tell you that they are quite thorough in the induction exam, although they didn't do a DRE or procto. (They aren't really necessary, as most inductees are between the ages of 18 and 21.)

As for the modesty aspect, it's not important, especially when the M.O. is doing three or four hundred exams a day. If they find something on the initial exam, they usually separate you out for a more thorough exam. Besides, your going to be spending the next 8-10 weeks (or however long Boot Camp is now) in the presence of 80 other guys in an open bay barracks with communal showers and no doors on the bathroom stalls. It's the beginning of recruit training. The purpose is to remove your sense of individuality and the remake you as part of a team. Besides, most guys have seen their peers naked in gym locker rooms and showers before that, anyway. Besides, you don't get much privacy shipboard.

I remember my induction physical when I joined the Navy. Once all the paperwork was done, we were told to strip to our skivvies (females were in another area), then proceed from station to station. EENT, heart/lungs, etc. The last station they did a brief neuro check (Similar to a field sobriety test) then we all lined up and were told to drop our drawers. The doc went down the line for "turn your head and cough," then went behind us, told us all to bend over and spread our butt cheeks apart and gave us all a visual inspection for hemorrhoids or other abnormalities.

I got one question.

Why were you taking a n induction physical at 15? You can't enter the Navy until you are 18. (17 with parental permission.)

Just to clear up the age thing. I joined as a 'boy' at 15. The first three years service do not count towards your sign up time. This was in '67 and the RN had a special shore base to induct boys into the service and we were training there for a year before we went on to specialist training. Hope that helps.

I guess privacy is almost non existent because the amount of berth space on ships is limited.

It was in France when the military service was still mandatory.I was 18 age.

We were a very large group to be summoned on the same day in a pre-induction center and after we were separated in group of about 20 guys.

We had first a shower in group under showers gang being supervised by some sergeants very strict.

After that, we dressed again to go to an other building where we were instructed to undress in briefs and the exam began like that by walking in a corridor fron station to station and waiting our turn lining up, we were examined five by five or three by three when the exam room was too small. It was for the eyes, the ears, the throat, the nose, the teeth, the blood pressure, the blood sample and so on.

after, it was the second part in an other corridor, we arrived in a large room where we were instructed to remove our briefs and to line up in the buff. And here we were weighted, heighted, we had many measurements and after, the exam of the skin, every where, even between the nails or the asshole, the check of the heart, the lungs, a check of our gait by walking a little and squatting, and eventually the genital exam and the check hernia, just before a visual inspection of our anus and a digital rectal exam. All these exams were performed without any privacy we were in display, being exposed to the view of the other guys which were the next to be examined and also the sergeants who were sometimes very close to us and getting the best position to have a good view as if we were in a zoo.

At the end of the day, we had an exam always naked in front of a group of six men, three officers and three doctors sitting behind a desk, we had to stop just before a line on the flood and to stand like in at attention, then to turn around and to bend over again, then to stay on the left side and then on the right side, they asked us some questions about our situation, our family, our studies, our wishes for the army and it was finished.

It was the most degrading physical exam I never had in my life, until the next ones in the army when I was inducted.

Military Induction physicals are fairly standardized, but the amout of people being examined in a group depends on the facilities and the number of staff.

I remember my induction physical when I joined the Navy. Once all the paperwork was done, we were told to strip to our skivvies (females were in another area), then proceed from station to station. EENT, heart/lungs, etc. The last station they did a brief neuro check (Similar to a field sobriety test) then we all lined up and were told to drop our drawers. The doc went down the line for "turn your head and cough," then went behind us, told us all to bend over and spread our butt cheeks apart and gave us all a visual inspection for hemorrhoids or other abnormalities.

I think that was the only time I ever had a group physical, but my pediatrician did make house calls and I remember getting examined on the kitchen counter when I was about 4, and Mom went into the exam room with me until about age 11 or 12.

Ah, there's the confusion. You are referring to The Royal Navy, and I'm talking about the US Navy.

I spent a lovely, and unexpected, 3 days in Plymouth back in 1988. As a Corpsman, I was back and forth from the RN Hospital there.

I accompanied a patient in to be examined and treated (I don't remember why, but it was something we didn't have facilities and/or meds on shipboard.) When I got back to the ship, I turned his record into the Chief Corpsman, he looked at the signature and asked "Didn't he see the Medical Officer?' I replied in the affirmative, and he set the record in front of me and pointed out that the signature had RN after it. (In the US, "RN" is the abbreviation for "Registered Nurse."A medical officer would sign "MD, (rank) USN") I started to laugh when I reminded him we were in England and that, in this case, "RN" stood for "Royal Navy."

A friend in college was in the Navy ROTC program and had to have a phsical before attending his summer cruise. He and two fellow midshipmen appeared at the Navy medical facility for the exam. They were told to strip to their waist for their X-ray before the full exam.

Sitting in the waiting room, bare to the waist, they were joined by a young woman who was also to have a physical. One of the middies said that they had been instructed to strip to the waist for their X-ray. Embarrassed but not detered, the girl proceeded to take off her blouse and bra and sat with her arms crossed covering her breasts while waiting for her name to be called.

The duty nurse eventually appeared to call the first male and was appalled to see a topless women in the waiting room. She quickly informed everyone that only males needed to uncover on top and took the red-faced girl first.

The nurse got her revenge on the boys later during the full physical when they found that the girl had been recruited to assist with the male physicals and was recording the data from the male physician who conducted the exams. Each midshipman was required to drop his shorts in front of the girl during the genital and rectal exam and she ended up seeing a lot more than the boys did in the waiting room.

I am curious about your experiences with the military medical machine. During your induction physical, were you nude like the men, or did they have you use a gown? Panties on or off? Gyno exam? In basic training did they issue you underwear like the men, or specify what you wore? Anything in this area is of interest.

For the first part of the physical there were about 20 girls in a room. We were all in our bras and panties. We had to do all these exercises like stretching and walking and bending over and touching our toes while the doctor (male) watched us all.

For the second part, we went into a private booth and took off our underwear and put a gown on. Then we had to go into a small room with just the doctor (still a male) and a female sergeant. In there he did the whole physical, including pulling the gown down for a breast exam. He pulled the gown down lower to check my abdomen. He checked all the way down to my pubic bone. By the time he got down to my lower abdomen, I was basically pretty exposed. I know he must have seen pretty much everything, because I could feels his fingers touching my pubic hair when he was feeling the lowest parts of my abdomen.

Then I got to put the gown back on and I had to put my feet in the stirrups. He pulled the gown back so he could examine the private parts. He didn't do an internal exam, but he did feel all around, including spreading my lips open and feeling on the outside. He also felt on the outside of my anus, but again, he didn't put his finger inside.

In training I got to wear my own underwear.

What branch of service? No internal exam, did you find that odd? Since you were allowed to wear your own underwear, were there any special requirements? I would guess the bra would be white under a dress uniform shirt.

I can't comment on the induction physical, but when I was in the Navy, a female's annual physical was as thorough and invasive (If not more so) than the ones we men had. They check everything, including a pregnancy test, bi-manual exam, and a full pelvic. (unless you are actively menstruating.)

I do know that women were issued "standard" underwear in boot camp, just like use guys. Of course, being Navy, they had the same dungaree work uniform as us, so were required to wear both a bra and tee shirt. (Now they have "Cracker jack" uniforms for female enlisted, and again, they have to wear both the bra and tee shirt.)

Once we guys left boot camp for "The Fleet," we could wear whatever type of undershorts we wanted to, but still had to wear the military issue tee shirt. I would imagine that the same rules applied to the females. (Going bra-less is against regulations, just as not wearing a tee shirt is for men.)

There are many uniform changes in the works these days, so I can't say exactly what the uniform regs are at the moment.

If I were writing the regs, I thing that "standard issue Braziers" should be something along the lines of a jog bra. (Which we didn't have in the 80's)

Hello!

As a new member here I would like to read about military procedures on recruits in other countries. To start with I am sharing here my experience in the beginning of 90s in Northern Europe.

I was serving my mandatory military service in a small army base in remote area. My unit of recruits, total of some 120 guys, was divided to three subgroups and again to four rooms hosting 10 men. The room was a base unit.

On third day in the service we had morning exercise marching out in full uniforms (it was hot summer days in Nordic standards) and after the exercise and breakfast we were ordered to our rooms to prepare for full medical checkup. The preparation was simple: undress, place all clothes to closet and line up in the corridor. There we met other guys from other rooms and soon our sergeants marched a group of 40 nude guys, most in their 19s/20s but some a bit older as well to upstairs medical ward.

In the ward there was a corridor where we hardly did fit in: we were lined up literally next to each others, body to body, looking at the guys neck in front of you. Here we were told that exam consist of checking paper work (we had all had individual medical exams prior entering to service), basic measurements, meeting with doctor and some injections.

At the end of the corridor we saw through an open door a room where two nurses in their mid-20s prepared for injections but also peeking at the lineup of some 40 nude guys and hardly covering their giggling...

As it worked you entered to a room on right hand in the corridor where a nurse (lady in her 50s) was checking your name and medical records on pre-induction check up, took body weight and body height. After that you moved a bit further inside the room where a male army doctor was giving the checkup: Listening lungs, ordering recruit to touch toes to check up the backbone and a quite comprehensive check up on genitals: palpation on testicles and movement of prepuce.

The doctor exam was conducted in a room adjacent to injection room, so injection Nurses (later on we learned Nurse Practitioners) had a full view through open door on the exam what took place just two meters away, and they certainly peaked in!

After the docs exam you wnt to injection room where you stood up as one nurse gave an injection to shoulder while another was shooting the bum.

Then you left the injection room to corridor to line up on the other side of the corridor, and only as all guys were done we were marched back to our rooms to dress up again.

This took a long time, some hours, so I fully understand there was no time to undress and dress at the ward: examining all guys nude was much more efficient. But regarding NPs there was some funny details: first of all we had no shower in three days so guys were quite sweaty...Secondly the NPs were totally astonished to see all guys there totally bare! I guess nobody had warned them on this but certainly they have a good memory on enjoying a full view on male anatomy of all of us as well as other subgroups later in the day...They tried to be as professional as possible but as I was waiting my entry slot just a few meters away from the open door I overheard them whispering as a one guy left the injection room :" what a hung guy again, but terrible smell..."

It would be interesting to read stories on processes of group medical exams in other armies. I think in the past nude exams have been a standard all over the world but nowadays as compulsory military service is becoming less and less usual these all nude group checkups do not happen any longer...

I remember getting a group physical when I was in the US Army. It was 1964. A bunch of us had been selected for a special training program in the INTC and the physical was conducted in the first or second month of the program, about a month after the end of our Basic Training. (The total program lasted about four months.)

This happened at a place called Fort Holabird in Baltimore MD. There were about a dozen or fifteen of us and we were ordered to strip to our boxers and were given exams, shots and tests by two nurses, both women, and later by a female doctor. At least one of the nurses and the doctor had come over from Fort Meade, MD. (Holabird was a small, specialized fort, dedicated to Intelligence Corps training, on the eastern side of Baltimore harbor. It had a very small infirmary, two or three beds and no permanent doctors, just a medic for sick call and one or two nurses.)

I remember the exams being much more thorough than other exams I'd had and took about two hours in total. We were told to remove the boxers about half way though. Most of the tests before then were things like hearing, vision, blood pressure etc., but the rest included the first thorough genital check I had ever received up to then. Also, hernia, skin check and a body movement check, done while nude. Most interesting was the psychological profile which was taken in two parts, one wearing boxers, one nude (that was by the doctor).

The nurses were no-nonsense. One cute, the senior one sort of bitchy. The doctor was middle aged, maybe 45, thin, Jewish (had a tiny Star Of David around her neck on a necklace which you could see because her blouse which was open at the neck -- she was not in uniform -- something I will never forget) and I felt very odd when she checked my foreskin. There were only one or two other guys who were uncircumcised. I remember wondering if she had seen an uncut penis before (because she was Jewish) and then realizing that was pretty stupid because she was a doctor! In any case we were nude for about an hour or a little less while they worked on us serially.

The scuttlebutt after the exam, in fact much later on, was that the exam was primarily a psychological exam, and that was why it was done in two segments - partly dressed and fully nude. The exam questions for that profile were fairly odd though I cannot remember them now exactly. That may or may not have been the reason for the exam because we never really found out. The rest of the exam was pretty thorough too however.

I have always found it interesting that many men can recall specific details of their military service group physical exams, even after the passing of many years. Al described an Army physical that occurred 45 years ago, and mine were just a few years later.

Al describes being examined during an "in service" exam, in a group smaller than company or platoon. Well, for most of us, these were merely another day on the job. On the other hand, for us Americans, the more memorable physical exam experiences occurred during the Selective Service Pre-Induction and Induction day exam, that occurred during the Draft era, particularly during the Vietnam War.

It was typical for the MEPS to examine 200 or 300

men each day, but some of the larger examining centers could process over 1000 potential future soldiers each shift, in a disciplined assembly line manner. These physical examinations were almost universal for every 18 y/o to 20 y/o male in the US. And for those of us who had student deferments, these exams were often annual events.

For over a decade I have moderated a Yahoo Group focused on these

group physicals. With the Erotic-Clinic moderators permission I will post both the URL and an invite. Most of the descriptive narratives of the group-physicals are found in the early message archives of the group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/group-physical-exams/

Al, I certainly remember the "one size fits all" OD boxers that we were issued for boot camp. Like many, I had never worn boxers until my 2nd day of basic training. The "uniform de jour" during the draft board physicals was normally white briefs.

Al, a nude psychological exam was not that unusual. There are several discussions in the Yahoo group describing the psychiatrist

station at many draft board examining centers. It was common for examinees to be required drop undershorts, and stand nude in front of the psychiatrist for the question and answer session.

Finally, many of us recall the orthopaedic portion of the exams where we had to strip nude and demonstrate our skills in performing group calisthenics

In the past in France when there was still a mandatory military service for young men, it was for me in the last 60's, the injections were always made in the butt and they were a little painful, it happened a few years after our induction, one morning after shower, we were a large group of inductees standing in line and naked being supervised by two or three non commissioners officers, and we were instructed to turn around when you arrived in front of the doctor and then we received one by one in front of each other the injection in the butt.

I never knew why the injection was not made in the arm or the shoulder but no new inductees was enough bold to ask the question, it was the rule and it was enough.

For the record, I would love to hear from anyone who is willing to discuss his MEPS/induction physical(s). I just missed the draft in the U.S. which ended in the Spring of my 18th year. One person who was discussing this with me elsewhere said that in his case, it depended totally upon who the officer was who led the group through the process. One group would be told to take off absolutely everything from the get go. Another group would go through the stages in underwear. A final group might be more or less dressed (if I remember this correctly that is). So points at which the groups might end up in the same room/space at the same time, some naked, some not which, I would imagine, made the process even more embarrassing for some of them.

I have seen and read about the stations in which military recruits receive their physicals, the doctors making their way from one to another, standing shoulder to shoulder. Given my limited internet skills, if you Google in Google images 'MMA physical exams' you will come up with flickr pics which indicate that with mixed martial arts, the fighter starts out in street clothes, sits down for his blood pressure and pulse and then stands for the doctor to do the rest of his exam. You can also Google 'MMA physical exam form' to find out what does and doesn't get checked out. It depends upon the state the event is to take place in.

The ringside physical exam form is located here: aco.ohio.gov/FormsLicense.aspx which I can assume correct because a referee was pictured also getting a physical. It is much less invasive than the physical exam form also on the site which requires hernia and testes checks.

Since I graduated from high school just as the U.S. draft was ending, I can't provide personal details. I do remember the draft scene from Alice's Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie having been a student at my school 😃 The men walked throughout the facility in underwear only whether for physical inspection or psychological evaluation. I found a post somewhere (perhaps the old Yahoo group?) in which the person stated that it all depended upon the officer in charge of a given group of recruits/inductees. Some found themselves being told to take off everything, but this group found themselves circulating naked among others wearing underwear or more or less fully dressed.

There is the contrast between the old stations method in which men went from doctor to doctor regardless of how invasive versus the new MEPS model in which recruits are taken into a private room for the most detailed part of their exams. According to the MEPS website, women are examined privately wearing gowns. Men, not so much. It would help if posters indicated the timeframe of their experiences.

I'm 47 and I'm from Belgium.

When I was about 21 I had to go for my military medical examination as I had to do national service.

I was very nervous about this. I had seen a documentary on television, in which they showed a long line of naked men, waiting to be examined. I was very scared I'd get an erection when standing in such a line.

Fortunately things had changed.

When we arrived we first had to do all kinds of psychological tests. And we all had to have a chat with an officer about the service we thought we would be best at.

Next came the medical exam.

We were divided into groups of 20. First thing they wanted was a urine specimen. Therefore we were led in a big toilet room with urinals. Each of us got a cup which we had to fill at one of the urinals. As I am very pee shy, I wasn't able to provide a specimen at that moment. I had to go back later and fortunately I was alone in the room and I could pee.

Then had to strip our upper body. We were weighed and measured, were tested on colour blindness etc.

For the more detailed examination we first had to wait in a waiting room. That waiting room showed 5 doors which lead to separate changing rooms. Once you were called, you had to enter such a changing rooms and take of everything, underwear included. That changing room had a second door which led to the doctor's examination room.

When I was called, I entered stark naked (as told) with a dangling penis, fortunately without an erection.

The doctor examined me, (listened to heart and lungs, looked at our back, took blood pressure, checked ears etc).

Then I had to stand in front of him. He examined my penis thorougly but quickly, pulled back and forth my foreskin and did a testicular check. Right at that moment, the next guy entered unasked. He clearly hadn't listened well enough as he was still wearing his white classic briefs. The doctor shouted at him that he had to leave the room immediately. I felt very red at that moment as the unwanted guest had seen the doctor touching my balls.

When the examination was over, I had to get back in the changing room and get dressed.

After this I could go home.

Well, this is how it happened to me in Belgium. How did it go in other countries ?

I worked as a medic in The Canadian Armed Forces Reserves , we had an old doctor that use to conduct medicals on weekdays in the evenings. I had to do the basic tests to males and females , such as eye test ,urine etc. , then the doctor would call in the patient into the exam room I thought it was funny , he was an older gent civilian as all reserve military are , he would ask the people if they were shy and wanted a gown. From time to time he asked me into the exam room , to retrieve one thing or another , a young man or lady would be in the middle of taking off their underwear. Many times the person was very bashful, mainly the girls, it was always interesting.

When I was a senior in high school, a girl that I had dated for a while during our junior year wanted to join the Air Force. This was in 1988, so things might be done differently today, but this is what she went through. Since we were still friends, she told me all the details.

She reported to the local MEPS. The males and females were separated. The male inspections, as they were called, were done first. When it was time for the female inspections, they went through several "stations". One was for vitals, another for the urine sample, eye exams, hearing checks, etc. Then all the girls, I think she told me there were about ten of them, were brought into a large room. Along one wall were a bunch of small lockers. On the opposite wall was a scale and a height scale on the wall. At the entrance to the large room, on the left, was a door to an exam room, which was open. She saw a standard exam table, a couple of chairs, a small sink, and a couple of cupboards. The girls were instructed to undress down to bra and panties and to also remove their socks, and place their clothes in a locker. They were then told to line up in rows. Then the Navy corpsman, who was male, and a couple of nurses had them do a bunch of range of motion, balance, and flexibility checks, like bend over and touch toes, do a few squats, do the duck walk, etc. After that, they were told to line up single file with their charts, and they were weighed and had their height taken, and as they went through, the corpsman went into the exam room, and one of the nurses told the girls as they were done with the height and weight check, to line up outside the exam room. The first girl was escorted into the exam room by the nurse, and the door closed. My ex-girlfriend was fourth in line. Several minutes went by, then the door opened and the first girl came out. She looked embarrassed, but said nothing as she went to her locker and got dressed. Finally my ex got to the doorway to the exam room as the girl in front of her went in. As the door closed, she saw that the stirrups were out on the exam table. When she first walked by the exam room, the stirrups weren't out. Now she knew ahead of time to expect a pelvic exam of some type. Her male recruiter had a form that she had to initial in several spots, and then sign at the end. On it, were several statements that needed her initials. One said "males wear undershorts, females wear bra and panties". Another line said "Females will undergo a breast exam". Another said "I also understand that I will undergo a pelvic/rectal exam (females only)." But her recruiter told her that it's basically just a visual check, no big deal. But the sight of the stirrups, plus the other girls' facial expressions as they came out of the exam room, made her nervous. No one said a word when they came out, and she didn't have the nerve to ask. Then the door opened, and the girl came out, she looked like she was about to cry. The nurse came out and said "next"! My ex reluctantly went in. The corpsman had just changed the exam table paper, and told her to sit on the table. She sat between the stirrups. She had a pelvic exam almost a year earlier for birth control pills, when we were going out. So she at least knew what to expect. The corpsman checked her eyes, ears, nose, and throat. He listened to her heart and lungs. He then told her to remove her bra for the breast exam. He checked her breasts sitting up, then lying down. Then he checked her abdomen thoroughly while she was still topless. He told her to sit up as he pushed the table extension in. He told her she can put her bra back on. Then he checked her reflexes. Then he told her to remove her panties, place them on the chair, and sit back up on the table. She stood up, slipped off her panties, put them on the chair and sat back up on the table. He told her to lie back and put her feet in the stirrups. As he put on latex gloves, he told her to scoot down until her bottom is at the edge of the table. He then said open your knees all the way to the sides as he gently pushed them open. He did a quick visual and external check, then she saw him lube up his index and middle fingers. He said I'm going to give you a brief internal exam. He then slowly inserted his fingers into her as far as they would go, rotated them around, checking all sides. He checked her uterus and ovaries with his other hand pressing down on her lower abdomen while his fingers were still in her. He slowly slid his fingers out of her, and she thought he was done, until she saw him putting on another glove. She thought oh no, I hope this isn't what I think it is! Sure enough, he lubes up his index finger, and tells her that he's going to give her a quick rectal exam. Before she could say a word, he says bear down and slowly slides his finger into her rectum. She gasped and said ow, he tells her to relax. He rotates his finger 360 degrees, feeling deeply, his finger pushed firmly in as far as it would go. She had never had a rectal exam before, and she said his fingers were thick AND long! After what seemed like a good 30 seconds, he finally slowly slid his finger out. The nurse hands her a few tissues, she wiped herself off, and the nurse held up a small wastebasket for her to throw the tissues out. She is told to sit up and put her panties back on, and he filled out her chart, handed it to her, tells her she passed her physical, and to go get dressed and go out to the waiting area for further instructions. She quickly threw her jeans and tank top back on, slipped on her sandals, and went to the waiting area.

As she told me the story and I kept asking questions for more detail, all I could imagine was watching her get that exam! She was quite an attractive brunette with a nice, firm athletic body. I asked her what color and kind of bra and panties she wore for her physical. She gave a little smile and told me that she wore my favorite matching set she had bought when we were going out. It was a shiny beige, skin toned satin bra and panty set with lace trim. The bra was a demi cup style, and the panties were a low cut bikini style. When she wore them, if you just glanced at her quickly, it almost looked like she was wearing nothing due to the skin toned shade of beige. I kept asking myself, why did we break up again? After graduation, she went off to the Air Force, and we lost touch, but thanks to Facebook, we have talked recently, and she's still in the Air Force, pretty high up in the enlisted ranks, too.

I went thru the Army Medical Induction Physical... but don't recall any time when we were all nude. In the showers at the barracks yes, of course.. but otherwise, no... or at least no such memory.

Curious 101

I am a Chinese. In China, the military exam is humiliated. All the recruits are examined together in a room. After they entered the room, the doctors required them to take all their clothes off, included their underwear. Then the doctor will weight them, mearsur their body and make them do some strange exercises. A person's examination can be totally seen by all the people in the exam room. And these examinations also include the penis and testicles exam. It is the same to men or women.

I was a military dependent in the late 60's and early 70's. I believe that the doctors were very thorough and made all the kids undress completely nude for all checkups and physicals. The civilian physicians

that I saw later never made us undress nude.

I have experiance of military exam when I was 18. and yearly I have to examinated again. But I have to go to university, i dont go to army

There are a lot of real and fictional stories, regarding that topic. I`ll try to explain my own attitude about the role and purpose of draft physicals and military selection committee, especially in ex USSR and some ex totalitarian countries in the near past. For purpose to obtain implicit obedience and submission of intended soldier the totalitarian system use draft physicals as kind of “initiation”. Ideal circumstance for such “initiation” holds out the medical examination. The frightened and fluster young man falls into absolute power of dozen females in white overalls. No strict sergeants or officers in military uniforms - just nurses, medical women and clerical staff in plain clothes. All they trivial women with own families, husbands and children. Most of them have other occupation in the regional hospitals or offices and are appoint temporary by their command. They haven`t actually direct attitude to the “initiation”, but are obligatory element in it. Quite often in the striving to appeal to their command and to system as a whole, those ordinary lowly females be overzealous and frankly commit outrages on defenseless young males as insisted to undress and still naked during entire exam or to go about all consulting rooms in nude.

Other element of one “initiation” is the compulsoriness. Compulsoriness, fortifying with fear of an ominous state mechanism and hers military structure, militia and public organizations makes draft physicals practically inevitable. First call at that military board starts at age of 15 and continue in schedule every ear till 18. Every diversion of that routine automatically mark you as enemy of the system and lead liability before the law and put an end to every dream for future education or good employment. The totalitarian system stand in need of obedient and uncomplaining soldiers and depersonalization and crushing of the people`s dignity is way and mean for that purpose.

My 19 year old niece just went to the MEPS last week, and I guess it was quite a shockiing experience for her!

She was in a group of about 20 other girls. They had been told that they would be required to strip down to bras and panties to perform all of their range of motion and balance tests as a group. They were instructed to wear "practical" underthings. No thongs, see thru material, etc. They also knew that after the group exercises they would see the doctor in private. The exam would include a breast exam, and at the very least a visual inspection of the vulva and anus, with further examination at the doctor's discretion. They were told they would be provided drapes for any part of the examination that required removing under garments.

So she knew what to expect, or thought she did anyway, and denied any nervousness. That is until it was actually time to strip down and do the exercises, and the evaluator turned out to be a very attractive male Medic. It just made her more concious of the fact that she was nearly nude. Except for being a little self-concious, the group portion passed with no drama.

For the "private" part of the exam, the girls were led to a bench in a long hallway. They sat there, still in bras and panties. There were two exam rooms side by side, and the girls were called in one at a time. The girls at that end of the bench could see into the rooms, and it was quickly reported that the stirrups were not extended on the tables. Most of the girls seemed to think that this meant there wouldn't be the humiliating spread leg exam but maybe just a peek down their underwear.My niece was especially relieved, because she had never in her life been treated by a male doctor, and was not looking forward to being exposed to one now.

So she is about the middle of the line, doesn't have to go first, is now thinking it may not be as embarassing as she feared, and there is still a chance that it will be a female doctor, and she's feeling much better about the whole thing. The handsome Medic from the group exercises directs the first two girls to their rooms. My niece is a little dismayed to see him follow the first girl in and close the door. She's just thinking that no way will he be involved in the private part of their exams when he pops out of the first room and into the second. He's only in that room for a moment before coming out. He then knocks on a door near the exam rooms. A man comes out, presumably the Doctor, and goes into the first room by himself, closing the door behind him. My niece now figures that the Medic is just there to get the girls into the room to be ready for the Doctor. She's not thrilled that the doctor is male, but she is relieved that the handsome Medic won't see her naked as well like she first feared.

Her relief is short lived though as the first door craks open and the Doctor summons the Medic. He enters the room and closes the door behind him, and there are suddenly a lot of nervous looking faces in the hallway. Several minutes later both men exit the room. The Doctor knocks and goes into room 2, the Medic waits outside room 1 for a minute until the first girl comes out. Her face is bright red, but no one gets to ask her what happened because the waiting Medic leads her to a waiting room, then returns, pops into room 1 to quickly prepare it, then calls in the third girl. He closes the door, and soon is back out in the hallway, barely in time to be there when the Doctor summons him into the second room.

And so it goes. The Medic shows the girls who are done out, returns to set up the room and get the next girl in, then join the Doctor in the exam room when called. It's like watching a well coreographed ballet, and it runs so smoothly that my niece doesn't have much time to spend worrying about what is going to happen in the exam room. But she IS wondering, especially if the handsome Medic is actually going to see her naked at all. She hopes not.

When she's down to the end of the bench, she know's she is next and kind of doesn't want the girl ahead of her to ever be done. She has seen about eight girls leave those rooms. A couple seemed unfazed, but more often the girls look pretty embarassed. She doesn't want to do this anymore, but then there is the Medic, directing her into the first room.

He matter-of-factly orders her that when he steps out she should remove her bra AND panties, sit on the table, and cover herself with the drape, then he leaves, closing the door behind him. She quickly removes her underwear, picks the drape off the exam table and climbs up and sits on the end. The drape is a simple small sheet, and even after fussing with it the best she can do to cover herself is hold it to her chest and let it drape over her lap. Her entire back is exposed, and the sides of her fanny, but there is nothing she can do. She wonders agaiin about exposure in front of the Medic, and only then realises that there are still no stirrups out on the exam table. She convinces herself that this means she won't have to open her legs in front of the Medic after all. Maybe the Doctor would just peek uunder the drape, or maybe not even that.

She was thinking about this when there was a knock on her door, and in walked the Doctor. He was an older man, average looks, didn't seem friendly or mean. Just a real average man. He started asking her a bunch of questions, some of them very personal, and when he was done with that he started a routine exam. Blood pressure, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, etc. It was just like any other exam she had had, and she was starting to feel at ease when the doctor announced he had to bring in a chaperone for the rest of the exam. And just like that, the good looking Medic was in the room, standing by the counter.

The Doctor wasted no time before ordering Nichole to drop the drape to her lap, left arm by her side right arm over her head so that he could perform a breast exam. Nichole wasn't especially shy or modest, but she had never had a male doctor before, and her female doctors didn't use chaperones. So now here she was, topless, with a male doctor touching her breasts while another guy watched. She was mortified and her face turned bright red.

The Doctor finshed the breast exam, then told her to lay back so he could do it again in the supine position. She lay back and the Doctor extended the table to support her legs. He finsihed the second exam, and pulled the drape down to her pubic bone so he could palpate her abdomen. Finally he pulled the drape back up, covering her breasts, and she was glad to have that over until she heard him tell her to grab her knees and pull them back to her chest so he could examine her genitals.

She was almost in shock as she brought her knees up until she could grab them with her hands and hold them up. The doctor had moved to the end of the table and slid in the leg support. He told her to open her legs as far as she could, and she realised that now her bottom was at the end of the exam table, spread wide open so that every last bit of her was visible to not one but two men.

The Doctor started very thoroughly examining the outside of her vulva, while the Medic watched, and she thought it couldn't get any worse. Until it did. She heard the Doctor say "lube", and the Medic stepped over to the end of the table. Nichole heard a little squirting noise, then suddenly the Doctor's fingers were forcing their way inside her! And now the Medic was right there with a ringside view of every humiliating second. The doctor poked and prodded for what seemed like forever before she felt his fingers slip out. She had time to think that it was finally over when she heard the Doctor say "lube" again. She thought surely he wasn't sticking his fingers back in her vagina as she heard a squirting noise, and she was right, Becuase now he was sliding a finger in her rectum! She reflexively clenched down. The doctor ordered her to relax and bear down like moving her bowels, and just like that Nichole had a finger in her ass for the first time in her life. This exam was much shorter than the pelvic, and before she knew it the Doctor was telling her to sit up. He collected her paperwork as the Medic instructed Nichole to wipe if needed, put her underwear back on, and meet him in the hall as quickly as she could. And just like that the men were gone.

I was examined for compulsory military service, about 20 years ago when i was in my early twenties. The whole process was taking an entire day, including dentist, psychologist, lab tests, several doctors. Doctors could prescribe additional exams at military hospital. It was a very annoying and humiliating process to go through. I dont know what the medical reasosn were for all these exams, i think it was just for the purpose of making people miserable.

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