February 13, 2009

Well today is Friday the 13th and we ship to actual basic. We did a bunch of crap and my battle buddy Allen tripped and fell and hurt her ankle. We took her to to sick call the doc said she has a 50/50 chance of it being broken. She told them too bad and to ship her so hopefully they will let her go. Well we have to hold our personal bag and our laundry bag in front of us...THANK YOU STEPH & SGT BORN FOR MAKING SURE MY PERSONAL BAG WASN'T TOO HEAVY!!! We loaded on the bus with all our stuff on our laps then we were told to put our heads down and close our eyes. When we arrived about 15 min later we were yelled at to get off the bus and run and hurry. Then we got smoked with all our bags for about 20 min then we had to run and get our other bag. So now we have all the clothing we were issued and we were issued a lot of stuff. I felt like I was going to fall over. The rest of the day pretty much went like that all day. Getting smoked and running. We went through all our bags and put personal bags away and cell phones in ziplock bags in case we earn them. They did let Allen come with us but she is on crutches. Our unit got all our little bag stuff taken care of then we all sat around and learned how to make the bed right. The DS looked around and assigned squad leaders and quess what??? He fricken picked me, DAMNIT! which means I lead my squad in formations and marchs. And I have to wear a rank thing so everyone knows. Well I suck so tons of fun, yeehaw! We got back to our barracks which by the way we all got to stay in same barracks 70 females to a bay and this cycle we are short on females so there are a lot more males in my platoon (3rd) We have 59 soldiers and only 14 are female so 45 males. Atleast here we can all sit together because in my squad I don't think I have any females. Well we were 2nd done tonight and the other 2 platoons (there are 4 in our company) got in about 30-45min later only have like a half hour to shower and clean barracks and toe the line??? (be at attn in uniform at foot of bed)