It was a bit harder to get up today. The bags under my eyes looked horrible. Today we are wearing our boots all day for the first time. Hopefully I won't get any blisters! It was VERY chilly this morning with just our PT gear on. We had to wait our turn for chow, so our DS gave us some lessons on Drill and Ceremony. Maybe now our platoon will do a better job at moving together.
After breakfast, came what I have been looking forward to most. Uniform issue!! We received our ACU (Army Combat Uniform) and rank patches. Then after assuring we had everything we needed by performing a shakedown, we put on our ACU jacket, with name tape and rank and took a picture for our yearbook. Pretty exciting to finally have our uniform!
We then had a chance to purchase a video of BCT (they'll follow our company during BCT with cameras) before heading to lunch.
After lunch, it was more waiting. At least instead of benches, we were on padded pews.
Note: Due to the extreme busyness of my schedule, I didn't journal for over a week, so there are less details that my exhausted brain couldn't remember from this point on.
Basically, the rest of the day was spent clearing up people who had missing paperwork, etc. We also received our ID tags (dog tags) and our last name stencil to mark our duffle bags and laundry bags. We then packed our bags, multiple times, until we had them as tight as possible. After chow, we had to then stand in the cold yet again, and get our duffel bags all in order, because we ship tomorrow morning! We also had to move to new barracks because the heat was out in ours. Since some people can't pay attention to detail, we ended up standing in the cold until almost 2 am. Then off to bed. And of course, I had a fireguard shift the last hour, so sleep was going to be minimal.
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