What are your most vivid memories upon arriving at your first duty station (after training)?

The long bus ride from the Dragon Hill Lodge to Camp Humphreys. I was a new Soldier, in a new country, and I had no idea what to expect when I finally arrived at my destination.

Most vivid memory I have is sitting at the MAC terminal in Misawa AB Japan wondering what unit I was supposed to be in (didn't know how to read the orders at the time) and why my sponsor didn't show up to greet me. I had found a quite corner and was reading a paperback I brought with me when a pair of shiny shoes appeared at the bottom edge of my book. I looked over the top of the book to see a pair of bright silver Eagles staring at me. The Commander had personally come to greet and take me to the Squadron area. As it turns out, my sponsor had been discharged a few weeks earlier for misconduct and the unit failed to appoint a replacement. The Colonel felt responsible for the oversight. After chatting a few minutes he left me with the First Sergeant who took me where I needed to be.

Camp Pendleton. Wow them are some serious hills, maybe Motor T would have been a better choice than Infantry.