Group Exams

I had only one group exam: a military exam for ROTC. Assembly line medicine is definitely an interesting experience.

@Aardvark I had only one group exam: a military exam for ROTC. Assembly line medicine is definitely an interesting experience.

My gf, the colonel's daughter, liked the hell out of them. She would go to the front desk at the hospital to get pain meds for her period and often have a parade of naked GIs pass by just for her to review.

Some sergeants I worked with wouldn't let their wives take the kids to our military hospital for the same reason.

Only when i was in the navy,i wouldnt say it was anything special

As I posted previously, group physical exams were common in the military, especially upon entering and leaving. The other humiliating experience was to return from shore leave and be required to report to the ship clinic for "inspection". Many men didn't bother to use condoms (wrong!), and ended up with a drippy dick of one sort or another.

It has happened to me on two occasions. The first was in high school for sports and the last was during college while I was on the crew team. Both had a lasting impression on me and continue to serve as incredible memories.

High school involved us going to the nurse's office with coach and undressing to our briefs. We then lined up in one room about 10 of us and 2 at a time entered another room where the doctor was giving the exam. The nurse held the 2nd guy just inside the door way as the other guy had his exam which involved immediately removing one's briefs and receiving a hernia exam after the doc did the steth exam. It was all very fast but rather embarrassing to be displayed in front of the nurse. There was a lot of nervous noise coming from the other room while more of us waited.

In college exams were held at the health center in a large room. We had two crew teams so about 18 of us went on a Saturday morning for physicals. They took 8 of us in at one time; you stripped to briefs; and were weighed. Then told to remove briefs, line up, and see the doc. Again exam was basic with eyes, ears, nose and lungs;heart. A full genital and hernia check followed by a rectal exam. For several of us, the finger was a first and met with considerable gasping.

I have not, but I am very intrigued by all stories posted here. I would very much like to be part of a group exam, be it a play exam or a real experience!

The only time I had the experience of a group exam was when I signed up for the army.

We were about two hundred guys, all between 17 and 18 years old, all waiting anxiously, we were called in groups of five to a closed room where the doctor was, a soldier instructed us to take off our clothes, but the underwear, and put them on a chair, we were called one by one by the doctor so while one was examined the others could watch.

During the exam he asked me about my medical history, about health problems and about medications for continuous use, he made some notes and then examined the eyes, ears and throat, listened to the heart and lungs and then asked me to take off my underwear, he examined my testicles, did a hernia check and retracted my foreskin, then he asked me to turn around and bend over, he checked my spine and asked me to spread my cheeks to look at my butthole. So I was able to go to the chair where I left my clothes and get dressed.

Seeing the other guys being examined was very exciting, but knowing they were going to see me was also embarrassing lol

Never been part of a group exam...and have no desire to be in one, unless its me and several women getting checked...lol

Never been a group exam but it sounds interesting to give it a try. I haven’t been naked in front of others before. Maybe one day I’ll join a group exam.

I've posted in this thread before (I had group physicals for sports) but one little, minor detail is always kind of cool to me and I wonder if anyone else had it happen: My school was very large, and the school health services also serviced a couple other nearby schools, so the days we did group physicals, the groups of boys were huge (and usually subdivided into smaller manageable groups). Anyway, the detail that I think is cool, is that the sub-groups were color coded and you had to wear a a colored band around both your wrist and ankle. The ankle one, if I recall, was because there were rows of portable dividers that had a gap of a foot or two off the floor, so the staff managing the movement of boys through the process could look and see colored bands under the dividers if they were missing someone from a given color group.

For some reason, this little detail was always cool to me.

My younger sister and I used to be examined back to back so she saw my check up and I saw hers.

@PatientH

How old were both of you the last time you were examined together?

@sensei1980

Teenagers

In the 10th grade of my school we had a group exam. I had a broken arm, so my exam was quick. But I could see the exam that was more complete than my peers. It was very exciting for me.

It's not mandatory. but I would need to do one in a private hospital. the procedure is separated by gender. you waited in a line and when they called you by your name then you entered a group of five or six together. in the room there were 1 doctor and two nurses. the nurse asked the routine questions, the second nurse the weight, height and prepared you for the doctor. and the doctor did the whole exam. It was easy to see your friends taking the exams and for them to see you too

It seems to me that (at least in the united States) the more embarrassing group exams for male teenagers or young men took place not at school but rather at college for freshmen in a recent past and when Pe lessons or sports were mandatory. I presume that it has changed since at least ten or twenty years.

In many relations, we can read that a huge number of young men were summoned together which was in a certain way understandable and logical and that for efficiency the exam was performed in plain view in a gym or the equivalent like a large room in a clinic and without any respect of their dignity.

Very often the complete nudity seemed to be the rule for all the exam without any medical necessity, just to win a few minutes, or may be to be sure that the young men would stay quiet and obey without reluctance to all instructions, it was well admitted that young men in the nude felt more vulnerable and therfore would be more obedient, all the young men being under control, and the young freshmen had to wait naked for a lot of time..

I have read on an other forum that in a college they were told to line up in the nude but like all had not been already examined when it was time for lunch they were told to dress again for lunch and then to undress until nudity again for the afternoon before being dismissed at the end of the afternoon to dress again with instruction to come again next day morning and same the next day, once they arrived, they might strip again and wait, and the last ones to be examined had to dress again for lunch before undress again for afternoon until the end of the exam for all so, some of them stayed naked standing in line for one day, some for one day and a morning and a few ones for two days until the end of the second afternoon. It seems stupid but apparently no authority cared about it, the only thing which was important was that all young men had been examined in two days!

Same at ROTC physical examinations or in military schools, it seems that they were more embarrassing than in the army : more boys to examin together, no privacy at all, presence of women secretaries and nurses, sometimes female nursing students.

In #153 I didn't describe our exams in the regular army so here tiz.

They had us get naked then about 30 or 40 of us lined up facing two medics. We were told to skin em back and milk em down, then they started on opposite ends of the line doing the short arm check. Then we were sent out into the connecting corridor that ran across the front of the hospital to another room for more indignity. The front corridor is where the reception desk was and some chairs for a makeshift waiting room so there would be wives of soldiers with kids waiting to get them seen. That's where my GF liked to go for any excuse she could think of to watch the naked GI parades. Of course we had a sheet of paper we carried for them to enter test results on so we could hide behind that. After about 10 or 15 steps you felt kind of stupid trying to hide behind that so why bother? If they didn't care why should I? Then we had to walk back to the first room where the lockers were that we left our clothes in, giving a whole new audience a treat. You get used to “the army way” after a while.

About 50 years later I was at the VA hospital to get an x-ray. There was me and a woman a few years younger waiting to be admitted. I took her to have been a nurse in Nam. I was called first to go to the changing room and put on the old split front or back cape. The changing room was across the hall from the x-ray room. I got my x-rays and went back to change into my clothes. When I walked in she was in there taking hers off. Me coming in didn't bother her at all so I took off the cape and put my clothes on then went back to the waiting room to be released. When she came out there she said to me they shouldn't put a full length mirror on the door, we certainly don't need to see ourselves in that.

To “Aadvark” message 152

can you give us more details about your military group exam for ROTC, what you call “an assembly line medicine ” that you found an interesting experience ?

“Ramiro68" message 165

Why was your group exam at tenth grade of high school so exciting for you who could see your classmates being examined while it was quick for you with a broken arm ?

how much were the boys examined all together, how was the exam performed, in front of whom, how long it lasted, how much were they undresssed ?

why it was the same the other years in 11th and 12th grade ?

“to Roscoe” message 168

It is rather funny to read you but the set up of exams in that hospital seems to have been strange, even if every thing was possible in a military hospital, even something which would be incredible in a civilian hospital.

What was strange was not the instruction to be naked by group of 30 -40 young men for a short arm inspection, I have known that too in France in the 60's, it was part of medical inspections regularly performed on new inductees during the first months of basic training, but it was more surprising that they made you walk in the nude to go to an other room with just a medical file to hide your naked genitals in the corridor running across the front of the hospital where there was the reception desk with a woman sitting behind certainly and wives of soldiers with kids (and of course sometimes your curious girlfriend) waiting for an examination. and all these persons could see the GI group soldiers parading bare ass to go to that room and then walking back to go to the locker room so that they could watch you naked from front and from back !

You said that it was the “army way” to justify it…

Of couse we did not expect from the army a great respect of the modesty of young men but it was one of the worst situations that I have read and it shows that the set up was really not appropriate. We could have said that these persons could have seen you for a while accidentally or occasionnally because that time you might walk by the corridor but only that time, but as you related it, it was all the time the same show for spectators …

It was not the same as to be exposed naked to secretaries doing their work or cleaning ladies than to be exposed naked in group to mothers of patients or patients like your girlfriend, the authorities in charge of the set up could not ignore that there would be a lot of persons in the waiting area to look at you …

I am also surprised that they did not require to the kids accompanied by mothers to undress in the waiting room to win time, I have read one time a relation about exams in a military medical clinic and all the boys who came with a parent, of course mainly mothers, might undress completely in front of everybody under instruction of a nurse to be ready to be examined when they entered in the examination room and they were aged from 8 to 16 age at that schedule of time. After 16 age it was different because they were no more examined by a pediatrician. But it meaned that even a boy of 15 or 16 age might strip naked in front of his mother and other mothers and younger kids until he was called and of course he was also naked when he get out of the examination room wih his mother.

To esaterman

My experience was as I was getting out of the army so I already knew of the operation at that hospital. Most of the married career soldiers I worked with at the school either wouldn't let their wives and kids go to the post hospital or their wives refused to use the post hospital. My GF whose father was a colonel did find excuses to go there for the sights. A few years earlier when her father was at Ft. Bragg she and a girl friend used to drive around the post after dark to watch the GIs going to and from the showers naked. We had no window coverings in our barracks so anyone could see inside after dark and most of us walked naked to the showers from our bunks. They did paint the lower half of the windows in the WAC barracks so we couldn't see them.

The hospital was not set up for privacy as there were no women in the army when it was built. It was arranged like a sow with piglets. A long front corridor with rooms connected to it. I assumed that was in case of a bomb hitting it only one room would be likely to get hit. Our exams were not all in the same room and we had to go from one to another using the front connector. You left your clothes in a locker in the first room and took the key with you hanging around your neck. If dependents came to the hospital they waited in that corridor.

I can remember two group exams

First was a college entrance physical at the college. Must have had a couple hundred guys standing in line. As got closer to exam stations could see the guys ahead of you naked. When got to the head of the line, 3 guys at a time stripped nude. Pin prick for a drop of blood. Check genitals. Turn around and bend over for the anal check. Check of eyes, mouth. Then got dressed and next 3 came forward. Easily watched by 10-20 guys closest to exam station.

Second was a military group exam. About dozen of us from college drove to a local USAF base for the AFROTC physical. First took blood sample using a syringe. Then herded to a room and ordered to strip naked. Did various calisthenics in full view of each other. Then split into 2 lines facing away from each other. A medic came down the front checking genitals. We were then ordered to bend over and spread-em as a medic came down between the lines checking out our butts. We were given cups and told to give urine samples while still naked. Finally allowed to dress and return to school.

To" jayg"

Your message about your group exams is confirming what I have written, that college physical exams for entrance or for sports and ROTC physicals or AFTOTC like yours were the exams where the privacy of the students examined was certainly the less respected in group exams.

For college entrance, I have already read relations of physical examinations like your entrance physical with a couple hundred guys standing in line, so I was not surprised, when thre was so much young men to examin, the methods were obviously inspired by military methods for mandatory military service or selective service when it was necessary to go fast and to be efficient with a numerous line of guys in a gym or a hall.

You do not say how you were all undressed to wait in line, you were not naked since you write that you had to strip nude once arrived at the exam station. I presume that you were already in underwears, otherwise you would have lost much time to undress by group of three at the head of the line.

If you were as I presume already undressed in underwears, where do you leave your clothes ? in a locker room, in a corridor with hooks or at the back of the room on benches or hooks against the wall ?

It was not very private since as you said ten guys or more could see you when you were naked and examined, who was performing the examination ? a doctor -male or female- assisted by nurses or not? I presume that a few supervisors were necessary if you were a couple hundred young men in the room or in corridor, who were the supervisors ? Pe teachers as usual .

The exam seemed to be a little quick and not serious if you had forgotten nothing important in your relation, if there was no orthopaedic exercices to check the balance and muscles, no spine inspection, no listening to heart and lungs, no check of reflexes, and no weigh-ins and other measurements. It was surprising that the doctor did a check of genitals and a visual inspection of the anus area instead of some important checkings more necessary at a college entrance physical.

If there was several stations, how were they separated, by partitions or just one after one without any protection of privacy ?

When your exam was finsihed, I presume that the three guys might come back at the head of the line to take on again their underwears ?

If you stripped by group of three, were you examined one after one at each station watching the guy before you being examined or one was going to one station and an other one at an other and the third also ? If you had to wait once naked at the head of the line, it might be embarrassing to feel the staring eyes of the next guys in line ten or 20 like you said on your naked buttocks ?

I presume that your college was co-ed, do you know if the entrance college exam for girls was carried on in the same way or was it different ?

For your AFROTC military group exam, it was also interesting even if you were not so numerous, only a dozen of young men, apart from the first station for blood sample where we were not already undressed, I notice that all the exams including various calisthenics were performed in the nude if I have well understood your relation.

Who ordered you to strip naked in the room where you were herded? How much military and medical persons were in the room to watch you first during calithenics, and after during checking genitals and anus area ? how long did it lasted ?

You did not talk of a weigh in or other measurements ? or listening to heart and lungs? and check of blood pressure after the calisthenics exercices ?

And for urine sample, who gave you cups, and where took it place, in a restroom adjoining? or in the same room in a corner ? with whom as supervisors?

Not surprising that you were still naked, it was common in the army to prevent anybody to try to cheat or ask at an other guy to give him a few urine, I have known also a check of urine sample in the nude and supervised by male nurses on each side of urinal walls and a sergeant behind us watching a line of eight naked butts.

Apart from the calisthenics and the dreadful inspction of genitals and anus area, the exam seemed to be cursory or it was because you have only talked of the parts of the exam that you remember the best because they were the most impressive ?

The only one I had was in middle school. It was just in gym to check spine alignment. Guys were called in small groups to a back room, asked to remove shirts, bend over and touch our toes. The part I really liked was having to shower after gym in the open hang showers.

" Roscoe "

I remember that you had already explained why there was a lot of exams rooms with their acess only from the front corridor. I understand the explanation that the privacy was not considered as useful when it was built since there were no women in the army at that time but the authorities might know even at that time that the families of military men could also come to see a doctor, it was obvious that the waiting patients would have a view on guys walking by the long front corridor in the nude and that all the exams could not be performed in the same room, so that walking in the corridor from a room to go to an other one was obviously frequent and necessary, and they could have allowed them to put a towel around their waist ( but normally in my memories in france the military towels were too short to be wrapped around the waist,) or separate the hall in two parts with a curtain ?

And they might know that there were more and more women in the army… and I am surprised that no women coming with daughters had complained about the view of naked men walking in that long corridor, of course not your girlfriend since she came in it to have a view on naked bodies of men. She had found a good way to see naked men and she was at the good place with a father as colonel to know how exams were performed and be allowed to come !

At Fort bragg when she saw the GIs going to and from the showers stark naked a few years before, she might be still a very young girl? it was certainly interesting for her .. but I presume that the view was better in the hospital ! you were amused by their relations rather than shocked apparently ?

What do you call the WAC barracks ?

To leave all clothes in a locker room and to take the key around the neck for all the examination was common, we have see it in american or russian movies but it was the same in France during a long time.

In fact, there was a group exam at school in my life. However, it was not a group exam in the sense of a physical. We were younger and it was kind of a fitness test. Students had to go to the gym and wear gym clothes. Then we had to do exercises, after which the pulse was measured several times. I found this pulse control very intimate at the time because I was a bit exhausted after the exercises. I remember that after the gymnastics my heart was beating very fast and I felt a little uncomfortable that someone should take my pulse in this situation. The heart rate was measured in the middle of the hall. Several students stood side by side.

@Seany Very interesting! Did you all do the same amount of exercise, with heart rate being the measure of fitness? When I was at school (between ages 11-13) we did group fitness tests running from one line to the other before a beep sounded on a tape. The gap between the beep would get shorter and shorter and we ran until exhausted or we couldn't keep up with the pace. The number of rounds we completed was taken as a measure of our fitness, with no pulse taken or anything.

@Seany Very interesting! Did you all do the same amount of exercise, with heart rate being the measure of fitness?

I'm not sure anymore, it's been too long. I think we all did the same exercises. Your story is also very interesting. But our fitness test wasn't as exhausting as it was for you, I still remember that. I had only experienced such a described exercises once, and then never again.

The closest I can recall was once in school (I attended a boarding school) when there was a particularly virulent strain of flu going around. A lot of students fell ill, and for about a week we had our temperatures taken every evening in our dormitories. Anyone with a temp was given a quick going over - just throat exam and a few questions really, and sent to the infirmary if thought to be ill. Eventually the outbreak was severe enough that students were kept in the dormitories unless they had very high fevers, and tended to there.

We didn’t ever have full physicals in a group setting. We did have yearly eye exams that occurred in front of the others though.

" Roscoe "

I understand the explanation that the privacy was not considered as useful when it was built since thre were no women in the army at that time but the authorities might know even at that time that the families of military men could also come to see a doctor, it was obvious that the waiting patients would have a view on guys walking by the long front corridor in the nude and that all the exams could not be performed in the same room so that walking in the corridor from a room to go to an other one was obviously frequent and necessary,

It obviously wasn't designed to be a waiting room so I don't know if they treated dependents when it was built but many of the guys I worked with who had families didn't use it. They were willing to pay for medical care in town for their families.

And they might know that there were more and more women in the army… and I am surprised that no women coming with daughters had complained about the view of naked men walking in that long corridor

Not when I was in. We probably had less than a hundred on a post with 30 to 40 thousand men in the two schools, signal and MP.

At Fort bragg when she saw the GIs going to and from the showers stark naked a few years before, she might stiil a very young girl? it was certainly interesting for her .. but i presume that the view was better in the hospital! you were amused by their relations rather than shocked apparently ?

She may have been 14 or 15 I never asked her. She was 15 when we met. She was also quite fond of her time in Germany so I assumed it was recent.

What do you call the WAC barracks ?

Women's Army Corps. They had a Company (four barracks buildings) but were only using one platoon barracks.

I've looked at the post on satellite now and there's a new hospital. The barracks we used for classrooms are gone as are the ones we lived in. The master sergeant I worked for designed a new bowling alley and gas station which was being built as I was getting out. Even that's gone.