From Andy
Dear Family,
So far, so good. I haven't gotten ASMODED (that's when the RDC kicks you out of the division for being stupid). RDC stands for Recruit Division Commander (drill sergant). Any way, the first night was probably the worst. I couldn't pee in the stupid cup for my drug test. I didn't have to go!!! What ended up happening was the person in charge took me into his office bathroom and starting giving me tips on how to force my pee out.
O yea. Before that happened, they made me march around in front of about 160 guys, who were all waiting for me to pee so that the process could continue.
Anyway, the first couple of days are called P-days (Processing Days). Each day is probably 18 hours long, and if you fall asleep you get a RDC in your face yelling at you to get some military bearing. The very first night in our barracks our RDCs found the stupid guy that didn't want to listen to instructions... Dibello... he was the first person to be made an example of.
After the first couple of P-days, a bald head, a really painful shot in the butt, and a dentist telling me that my wisdom teeth could stay, we finally left our temporary house for our new - Ship 14, the USS Arizona. Don't start imagining an actual ship. We call the buildings ships. The two mile march from Pearl Harbor (our processing ship) to Ship 14 was kinda wierd. Not only did I have an 80 pound sea bag on my back, but I was marching in a snow storm... yeah... snow. I was wearing a scarf, a benie, gloves, jacket, rain coat, boots, and sweat pants. The guy next to me was walking with his tongue out, and my tongue was safely inside my mouth, covered with a giant scarf that came up to my pupils. I thought that this guy was crazy. Here he was trying to catch the snow with his face and the only thing that I was trying to do was keep as much of it out as I could.
Well I'm going to go. It's holiday routine. We get about 5 hours to do whatever we want... yeah whatever we want. lol. We have another inspection tomorrow. I passed my first one already. Did I say that I was the division yeoman? Yeah, I'm like in charge of 6 other guys.
Yeoman
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dental medical EPO Education Starboard Port Shipstaff
yeoman yeoman officer watch watch watch
It's a pretty sweet gig. The only problem is that if anyone messes up its my fault. I know when everythings happening too. Battle stations (the final test) is a month away.
Ok, got to go iron (I hate ironing). You can write me at
SR Kilburn, Andrew W.
Ship 14 DIV 186
Recruit Training Command
3410 Sailor Drive
Great Lakes, IL 60088
Talk to you guys later,
Andy
P.S. cool thing about being yeoman, I never have to pull watch. How is grandpa doing?
dated: 4/22/07
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