BCT Day 1

These post are from letters that Jason has mailed to me. Sometimes his writing is hard for me to read so bare with me if some of the terms aren't right. I hope that you enjoy as much as I do.

BCT Day 1
September 13,2010

Today was a big day, the start of Army Basic Combat training.
We started the day off in reception, Everyone had a chance to take care of anything, they needed before BCT. The ones that didn't need to do anything(me) had to clean up our bay. We did that until time to go...

Ship time for BCT was 13:00. We loaded up all our gear and were bused to another part of the base. This is where the fun begins.

We stepped out of the buses and it was MASS chaos. There were about 400 recruits running around trying to figure out what was going on. Drill Sergeants were everywhere, constantly adding to the confusion by yelling at everyone. They were randomly telling soldiers which group they needed to go to. This was how our companies and platoons were form. I ended up in B Company (Bravo), 1st platoon. We are called Spartans. They made us find our bags (more mass confusion) and march to our barracks. Once we got to the barrack, we formed up by platoon. Guess who the the first one to get called out was? It went something like this:

Drill Sergent- "Specialist?!!!" (that's my rank)
"How the bleep bleep bleep did you get Specialist?!!"
ME- "Bachelors Degree, Drill Sergeant!"
DS- "Are you an OSC Candidate?!"
ME- "Yes, Drill Sergeant!"
DS- "You might as well get on the bleep bleep bleep bleep and
start bleep bleep pushing!!!"
Me- "One, Drill Sergeant! Two, Drill Sergeant! Three, Drill Sergeant!...

So much for flying under the radar.
After that they took us up to our bay and assigned us bunks. I then fell out.