Do you remember your first day of basic training?

Getting to Orlando at Midnight, Getting First Issue, Giving up everything I own. Getting to my Rack at 0-Dark Thirty. That jack-ass thorwing that garbage can down the P-way 0530 am. Oh yeah that is burned in my brain and soul pretty good. Learning to Hate the term "Recruit".

I sorta remember the first...Def remember the last! With fellow Rally Point Member SFC Ian Lumgair , 1987, Harmony Church, E 1/38. (Me on the left)

5 July 1983. Flew from Columbus, OH to Philadelphia, PA arriving at around 8pm. Got on a but to Ft. Dix, NJ which got a flat tire somewhere between Philly and Dix. Ended up getting to reception around 3am. There were only 3 of us and they put the three of us in one bay.. no one else was in that bay and told us that wake up was at 4:30. About 5 am two drills came in yelling and screaming that we were late and the rest of the platoon was waiting for us. Needless to say, it was quite the smoke session! Yeah.. I remember... got off to a real rocky start there! I was never happier than when we left reception two days later to join our BT company so I could 'start over'. After that initial shock, nothing else even phased me! LOL!