As all fans know, this week is the 5th week that BTS members like RM, V, Jimin, and Jungkook enlisted in the army. As usual, this is the time when members of the group graduate from basic training and are deployed to official units to perform military service.
However, unlike the other three members, RM, Jimin or Jungkook, V will not be transferred to his official military unit immediately afterward. He is even the only BTS member who must continue to receive training even though he will graduate in the next few weeks.
You must be very curious about the reason for this, right? Check it out below and there are a few perks that V will receive during this 2nd training period:
On January 15, Big Hit Music announced that RM, V, Jimin, and Jungkook had completed their basic military training. In the announcement, BTS's management company also reminded fans:"The military barracks are communal spaces shared by military personnel for training together. If a large number of letters and gifts from the fans arrive at the center all at once, it'd be difficult to store them and they could be easily ℓσѕт. Therefore, we kindly that fans refrain from sending anything by mail. Use the hashtags to leave msg on Weverse instead".
After this announcement by Big Hit Music, кσяєαn media also loudly reported on the graduation ceremony of RM and V that will take place tomorrow, January 16 at Nonsan Training Center. This is the traditional ceremony when each new clαѕѕ of recruits graduates at the Training Center. On this day, V and new recruits will have the completion ceremony and their parents will come to attend. V will be allowed to go out and spend time with his parents for a short time.
As usual, after the graduation ceremony, new recruits like RM or V will be deployed to their official enlistment unit to complete their military service for the next 17 months until demobilization. However, V's case seems to have some changes compared to other members of the group. That is the fact that he will not be transferred to the Special Task Force of the Army's Capital Defense Command - the unit where he will officially enlist after tomorrow. Instead, on the 18th, he will move to Army Administrative School in Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province, where he will be trained for the second additional training for three weeks.
Compared to previous weeks of training in Nonsan, the post- Nonsan training center course or the additional three-week training course will be differences and the trainees will get greater benefits. According to a man who served in the military as an SDT after completing the training course, after five-week training, they receive a guide to the second additional training (such as job positions and location of the place for the second additional training, Yeongdong, Chungcheongbuk-do for SDT).
He wrote about the proccess on the blog: "On the last day of the training center, I packed my bag in a huge double bag and moved on a large bus. I was saying goodbye to my colleagues who were trained with me, and I was very sad at this time. Wearing that heavy backpack, we took a bus and took a train to arrive at Army Administrative School in Yeongdong.
All of the training instructors who were waiting when we got off the bus were wearing black uniforms, and it felt real that we came to receive SDT at that time. (I was impressed that the facilities were so nice there.) I was αѕѕigned to the unit dormitory, unpacked, & waited. From the next day on, you will receive 3 weeks of training, including Repel training, PRI training (shooting sкιℓℓs), CQB (internal mobile combat sкιℓℓs), morning running, military ρσℓι¢є & SDT equipment training.
Differences between Army Training Center and the second additional training: In the training center, all actions and time are controlled, but in the second half additional training, the degree of freedom slightly increases. Watching TV & using PX, using phone room (video call is possible) Special military ρσℓι¢є from the entire army gather here, so you will be trained with the Navy, Army, Marine Corps & Air Force. The meals are very delicious. There is a lot of food. Pls eat a lot."
It seems that to become a SDT, V needs more rigorous and detailed training than other military jobs. But fans also believe that he can pαѕѕ the next weeks of military training as excellently as he showed before. Fans also expressed their support for V on SNS these days:
- I’m sure he’ll make lots of friends. He’ll probably have the time of his life. Good for him! As for RM, I hope he doesn’t get hurt as well. We all know how he is
- Tae is definitely going to do well and come back healthy and strong :)
- hope he copes well
- I can imagine the excitement on Taehyung’s face when he moves to the second training
- Hope Taehyung is happy
- I hope he pαѕѕes through the first training successfully into the second
- I so look forward to these posts! Thank you for providing us with these insights! It helps manage the pαѕѕage of time. Seventeen months to go! Me waiting to see Tae online!
- This is so exciting. I know our Taehyung would love it
- To be train with another special force units.. Tae must be excited! I bet the whole special force units will befriend him in a short time!