Army life is just my style...
Well, here I am. Still at Ft. Bragg. It has been the longest five or so months of my life since leaving for the Army.
Right now I'm sitting at Barnes & Noble just outside of Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. It's one of the three times I've been allowed of base and civilian clothes. It is the first time I have been on the internet. Joining the Army had definitely brought more to my life than I ever thought was possible. I graduate in three weeks, and going back to Florida is going to be a reunion that I can't prepare for. Here I'm living a life that is pretty much indescibable on paper (or screen.) They're training us to operate within Army Special Operations, and they do a damn good job of having us live a life of stress... like a war zone. I've awoken to .50 machine guns in the barracks hall at 0230, I've been through five days of field training when it has rained and poured and been cold with insuficiant food. I've killed and cooked a chicken with my barehands. I've given people black eyes in unarmed combat. Avoided ambushes in HMMWV's while wearing NVG's. I've fired M4's, M9's, M249's, and I've learned how to help rebuild a "country."
I say the training's been worth it.
I fly back home December 15th. Its been a hard life to adjust to here... But I'm sure it's going to be even harder to go back to my life before. I had a chance to go airborne this spring, but I lost my spot to a recent injury. I have a fracture in my femural neck. I have to "recover" for a couple months. I can't even be deployed. All of this training, and I have to wait to employ it. Everything happens for a reason, though, right? I'm going to take somemore classes at college, and then see where life leads me again.
Life is so much more exciting when you're doing something.
I hope all of you are doing ok, and staying safe. I want to hang out with EVERYONE when I come back. I miss Florida. Especially now that it's getting cold ;)
Right now I'm sitting at Barnes & Noble just outside of Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. It's one of the three times I've been allowed of base and civilian clothes. It is the first time I have been on the internet. Joining the Army had definitely brought more to my life than I ever thought was possible. I graduate in three weeks, and going back to Florida is going to be a reunion that I can't prepare for. Here I'm living a life that is pretty much indescibable on paper (or screen.) They're training us to operate within Army Special Operations, and they do a damn good job of having us live a life of stress... like a war zone. I've awoken to .50 machine guns in the barracks hall at 0230, I've been through five days of field training when it has rained and poured and been cold with insuficiant food. I've killed and cooked a chicken with my barehands. I've given people black eyes in unarmed combat. Avoided ambushes in HMMWV's while wearing NVG's. I've fired M4's, M9's, M249's, and I've learned how to help rebuild a "country."
I say the training's been worth it.
I fly back home December 15th. Its been a hard life to adjust to here... But I'm sure it's going to be even harder to go back to my life before. I had a chance to go airborne this spring, but I lost my spot to a recent injury. I have a fracture in my femural neck. I have to "recover" for a couple months. I can't even be deployed. All of this training, and I have to wait to employ it. Everything happens for a reason, though, right? I'm going to take somemore classes at college, and then see where life leads me again.
Life is so much more exciting when you're doing something.
I hope all of you are doing ok, and staying safe. I want to hang out with EVERYONE when I come back. I miss Florida. Especially now that it's getting cold ;)