Finally got a letter from the kid, who's cleverly found himself part of an Armored Brigade at Fort Benning. Such is Basic Training, and stick with it Kid.
He writes, "Zero Week was lame as hell, all we did was hang around and get uniforms. Now all we do is work out and stay tired."
You know what they say, train hard, think positive, fight easy.
Go Panthers,
LSP
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Tip of the spear.
I imagine things haven't changes since my day. We were rousted out of bed at 3:30-4am and after our morning ablutions were taken on what the drill sergeants called our "morning stroll." Double time of course. That was just the start. We slept well.
That works. The more you bleed in training, the less you bleed in combat.
LL, I have to say I'm pleased he's going Signals...
I did the Brit variant, Jim, I won't say it wasn't brutal. But whoever said life'd be easy?
NFO, sometimes the old words are the best words.
Speaking of which, the boy was sitting next to a friend of the family at Christmas dinner last year and banging on about "discipline." The friend, by way of context, joined the Royal Navy in the '50s as a rating and worked his way up to command a sub. He fixed my son with a quizzical eye as I told the boy, "Don't talk about discipline, he was in the old Navy."
But whatev, good work, Kid. Stick with it.
Good on your boy. But he's missing out on the Mad Minute.
I was thinking just that, Borepatch... think that's in the next couple of weeks.
Really liked the 18 years piece, re-posted.
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