It's Thursday morning I think and i just got done with my night watch duties. It's 3:15am and I'm wide awake. Pretty amazing considering I only slept for 2 hours last night. I've been put in a leadership position: starboard watch. From what I hear, it's the third highest position for a recruit in a division. I don't like it, but I'm doing my best. I'm basically in charge of setting up the watch schedule. Once our RDC's (Drill Instructors) leave for the night, we have to have four guards at the door. Shifts are 1 hour long and people hate doing it. So I'm the bad guy who has to schedule people to get up in the middle of the night to stand watch for an hour. Oh well, someone's got to do it.
So normally recruits are in processing for only a couple days when we get her, but my division has been in it for over a week now. We've been waiting for more recruits to arrive so that we could fill our division. Apparantly there was a hurricane that slowed people down from coming in. Anyway, yesterday we finally filled our division so come next Tuesday (which will be 2 weeks for me) we actually really start training.
Yesterday we got fitted for our uniforms which was pretty cool. It actually felt like we were military. Up until now, we've been wearing the same blue sweatpants and sweatshirt. Hopefully next week the uniforms will be done so we can start wearing them.
Today we are going to medical for in-depth physicals and dental exams. That is one stop closer to making sure we are "fit for duty". At that point our RDC's can start hitting us with physical training-push-ups, running etc.
I better get finished up, our RDC's will be here any minute yelling at us to get out of bed so we can make it to our 4:00 am breakfast. I was put in charge of waking all 88 recruits up at 2"30 so they could shave and be ready on time. Sometimes I doubt my reasons for joining. It's been really sucks so far. The Chaplain came in today, which was encouraging. She said "I'm not going to tell you that it gets better with time. It just sucks less". I thought that was funny and we all are excited for it to "suck less". R :)
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