Board a plane for Fort Jackson, South Carolina. You think that would be a great thing especially in January, which is terrible month in New England. Except for the fact that I hate flying. Once of the plane in South Carolina you are herded like cattle to a holding area were you wait forever with hundreds of other people. In waves you board a bus which will talk you from the airport to Fort Jackson. I remember the moment we got on Fort Jackson and the bus came to a stop, I looked out the window and saw the Drill Instructors (DI) standing there feet shoulder width apart, arms bent at the elbow at a 45o angle with hands overlapping behind them. This large figure emerges from the shadow, it was 2100 (or 9 pm for those that don’t know military
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You will single file of this bus and line up on the white line out on the sidewalk. Your mouth will stay shut or you will realize what your experience will be like for the rest of your stay.” Talk about being scared out of my mind. As I get off the bus I remember thinking, what did I get myself into? By 2200 we had emptied our duffle bags out and separated what we can keep and what we can’t. Again we are herded from one room to another for the next three hours. Finally we were able to go to sleep. Now for those that are not familiar with the military process, the military only requires Soldiers to get four hours of sleep minimum. What they don’t tell you is that those four hours do not have to be consecutive. Well that was definitely missed in the beginning. The first week is called week zero, this all the in-processing items. Getting your shots, assembly line fashion and two shots at a time, pay set-up, uniforms and gear issued. After this is all said in done you are bused out to your barrack which is where you will call home for the next 8-10 weeks. I could go into grave detail about each training but honestly there was so much that I can’t remember everything. But there are two very distinct moments which were at the end of the …show more content…
Which ended up waking everyone up. Once they saw we all knew that what was in his hand was a canister on CS Gas. The DI’s plan was to drop the canister in our tent and gases us out. But thank you very much I was able to foil that plan. Crisis averted, yes! Two nights later we knew that we were going on our final ruck march, which would be the longest ruck march we would have to do. We all knew that during this march we would face attack simulations, but what the company commander did next nobody was expecting. As we were about to finish the ruck, or so we thought, the commander lead us right to the gate to enter our AO, area of operation, instead he turns left down another trail. The mood of everyone went from relief to a giant deflation of motivation. By the time we finished the march I think that final total was twenty-five miles. After the final FTX which was a weeklong of what if scenario’s, I coasted the rest of the way to graduation. Now when I first got to Basic Training I was 240 pounds, when I left Basic Training I was 180 pounds. All this training and physical fitness everyday helped me to be successful in every training exercise we did. Taking what I
You will single file of this bus and line up on the white line out on the sidewalk. Your mouth will stay shut or you will realize what your experience will be like for the rest of your stay.” Talk about being scared out of my mind. As I get off the bus I remember thinking, what did I get myself into? By 2200 we had emptied our duffle bags out and separated what we can keep and what we can’t. Again we are herded from one room to another for the next three hours. Finally we were able to go to sleep. Now for those that are not familiar with the military process, the military only requires Soldiers to get four hours of sleep minimum. What they don’t tell you is that those four hours do not have to be consecutive. Well that was definitely missed in the beginning. The first week is called week zero, this all the in-processing items. Getting your shots, assembly line fashion and two shots at a time, pay set-up, uniforms and gear issued. After this is all said in done you are bused out to your barrack which is where you will call home for the next 8-10 weeks. I could go into grave detail about each training but honestly there was so much that I can’t remember everything. But there are two very distinct moments which were at the end of the …show more content…
Which ended up waking everyone up. Once they saw we all knew that what was in his hand was a canister on CS Gas. The DI’s plan was to drop the canister in our tent and gases us out. But thank you very much I was able to foil that plan. Crisis averted, yes! Two nights later we knew that we were going on our final ruck march, which would be the longest ruck march we would have to do. We all knew that during this march we would face attack simulations, but what the company commander did next nobody was expecting. As we were about to finish the ruck, or so we thought, the commander lead us right to the gate to enter our AO, area of operation, instead he turns left down another trail. The mood of everyone went from relief to a giant deflation of motivation. By the time we finished the march I think that final total was twenty-five miles. After the final FTX which was a weeklong of what if scenario’s, I coasted the rest of the way to graduation. Now when I first got to Basic Training I was 240 pounds, when I left Basic Training I was 180 pounds. All this training and physical fitness everyday helped me to be successful in every training exercise we did. Taking what I