How much communication with family is allowed in Army basic training?

You can write all the letters you want and your first week at BCT, your DS will require you write at least one letter to inform someone back home that you made it to BCT and you are in training. We want you to get letters as they encourage Soldiers! You will not get any computer time. You might get a few minutes on a pay phone on a weekend after you have been in training for a few weeks. That is up to the individual command.

Your first week will be spent at the reception battalion in processing the Army. You can write home from there, but you won't have a good address to give them because you won't know which BCT unit you will be in until you get there. We ask you never give out the Reception Battalion address as you won't be there more than a week and they don't have time to forward the mail of every private who doesn't follow instructions. Good luck!

You might get a couple minutes of phone time on a good day. No computer time. No computer. You can send and receive as much mail as you want. What you have heard about the first week is probably about Reception, not Basic. You're only there a few days.

well the first week of BCT is actually reception. you can write home but you will not have a real address till you go "down range"

with in the first few days of BCT your DS will tell you to sit down and write home. this is to give family your address. then by week 2 or 3 you will start getting phone time.

BCT and AIT have changed so much since i went. my husband is now and AIT PSG and his PVT's are always on their phones. they are allowed to have them after school. same with their computers. his first class liked to post stuff on youtube every few days. we found it and watched the stuff they were doing up in the bays. lol. also he has phone passe's which allow the soldier to use their phone during the day.

crazy how relaxed it is these days.