04.11.99
Relief Room 204. 6 hour CQ shift from 0001 to 0600. Big Fun. At keast here they don’t care if you shine boots / read/ etc. on duty…so right now I’m restoring my FTX boots to life – spent 1 ½ hours on them already…
Airborne School – I finally made it, after a bus ride & dinner in Atlanta at some Korean lady’s liquor store. We (Nav/Brown/Lee/Kennedy/I) stopped in to ask if there were any restaurants open nearby @ 8 PM – negative…so she started makign microwave pizza b4 we could even object…It was as K put it, “an awkward situation”…
Initial impressions of school make it seem easy—easier
than I expected. There’s a lot of brass & NCOs…my squad leader
is a fucking Major for Christ’s sake…
So I ended up shining boots for @ 2 ½ hours -
& one of ‘em has already flaked off a bit…Oh well – once I leave here
I’m prolly gonna toss one of em…but then again, maybe not…always good for
down & dirty detail…
So the military worked for me for once, instead of against me – no holdover or holdunder despite arriving at about 1AM and missing the early morning roll call/class roster formation…Left Thursday – inprocessed Friday – start school Monday. Weekends here are our won personal time – and most of the evenings except for jump week…
The gang went out a few hours ago w/o me. Damnable Duty…but such is my lovely army I ‘spose. Went to a strip joint last night –The Petticoat Junction – an alright place except a) the women didn’t know how to dance b) the alcohol was watered down – took 7 TQ sours to get a good buzz over the 4-5 hours c) Long cab ride & d)no lap dances …so in a way, it was a junky place…there’s anoter club called the Loft or something…We might try it next wknd –
Have found my way around the jump school area – Subway/Smoking Spot/Burger King/Shoppette/PX/Gym…We’re supposed to eat in the OCS DFAC on wknds, but I missed every meal there today – BK breakfast & Subway dinner.
There actually are a few women at the school, but most aren’t all that hot…though a couple decent ones came in from nightlife on my shift @ 1 hour ago…
Finishde my taxes last weekend – mailed them Thursday – grdauated DHG, got my AAM & stopped at CS to get the ribbon, back at Ft. Jackson. (thought I should mention that)
The baraks here are crappy & run down, but I’ce come to expect white paint over bare brick. 3 man room is anotehr step up though – although I got stuck w/ the 2 tier bunk bed. Lee is the other guy on it (I got bottom ? )
Got a letter from Christa last week. I’m waiting till class actually begins to write her back – so I have a lot more to talk about. Mom & Dad are getting home from Australia (if they haven’t already) in the next few days I think. And I need to write Anderson too…Considering I have 2 ¾ hours left on shift, I may just write Anderson a bit of a note…Hell, I will right now…
0535
About 25 minutes left on my duty and I’m really only just now getting tired. That’s the right answer there. Take a shower & go back to sleep for several hours…
0945
Wake Up. Nav/Kennedy & I headed to Subway @
10:30. I missed nothing but a long pointless walk this morning…Went
to the gym – some 36/21 b ball, raquetball, pool, good sweat. First
Slurpee in ages on the way back. Now its lazy man till 0445 PT test
on the morrow…Powerbar, bagels, Slurpee dinner…