Today is ship day. We got up at 6 a.m., although I didn't sleep well and had been awake since 2 a.m.. We marched up to our building and had breakfast, followed by our quiz. I was afraid we wouldn't get the first 5 questions correct and be forced to do exercises, but the Drill Sergeant was kind enough to give people a couple of chances and we managed to not have any "smokings".
We watched a couple of videos on sexual harassment and finished getting our packets, then they took us to the airport. We had about two hours before our flight left for Atlanta, so we ate lunch.
My travel buddy was the Air Force guy, SSG Brown. Turns out we go to the same church in Yukon! We had an easy flight to Atlanta, where we had a 2-1/2 hour layover. We ate at Chili's before our flight left for Columbia at 9:45 p.m.. It was only an hour flight, but a small plane and rather uncomfortable. I wanted to sleep, knowing we probably wouldn't get any sleep until Wednesday night, but couldn't get comfortable enough.
Once we landed in Columbia, we joined around 100 other recruits from across the country. They put on a bus and sent us to Ft. Jackson.
We arrived at the 120th Reception Battalion around midnight. And then the fun begins.....
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