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The original inspiration for this blog was Brandon Mcguire's excellent account of his BCT and AIT experiences at mcguires5.com, which I highly suggest you check out.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Who ARE These Guys??

Sunday- February 3, 2013- So, it's been a couple of weeks and more personalities are starting to show up in the platoon, the bay, and the company. In our bay, there are all the makes from 1st and 2nd platoons. We've got PVT Sick Call who has spent more time at the clinic or in med quarters than he has in training. He broke his collarbone yesterday when 1st and 2nd platoons wrestled in combatives training or possibly the day before when firing his rifle for the first time on the range. This guy's immune system breaks when someone farts too hard next to him, it seems. PVT Grumpy is my bunkmate, who is always sour and complaining about people with not a positive thing to say ever. He has no clue what teamwork is and I feel sorry for him because it seems a life like that would have no hope or purpose it in. There is also PVT Goober who is a young kid from Oregon who is mostly clueless without much life experience. Then there's PVT Really, who sleeps in the bunk next to mine. He is very young, 18 I think, and ALWAYS losing his things because he's disorganized. What makes it worse is that he's always blaming people for stealing his stuff and I always tell him to look harder for it and inevitably, about 5 or 10 minutes later, he will come back around with a sheepish look on his face holding whatever item he claimed was stolen. We also have PVT Quitter, who gave up on the 2nd or 3rd day we were here and made up some BS excuse to try and go home. Now that he sees us doing all the fun and cool stuff, he regrets quitting but no one really feels sorry for him because he was bragging about going home and drinking or eating Burger King. He screwed it up and now he's gotta live with it. I personally can't stand the guy. He reeks of failure and laziness, both of which I'm trying my best to leave in my past. We also have one guy who is a Jehovah's Witness which is interesting. They can't accommodate his religious needs because he can only go to his own church. Anyways, I gotta go or else I won't get a chance to mail this!

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