Well heres the first time I have ever really written anything like this down but thought Id give it a shot so here goes. Iv just joined the military and have been doing nothing but training and studying the past four months when I first got to the base where I did my BMQ (Basic Military Qualification) it was a good shock I had to change my entire way of thinking and looking at things to be able to do it which I did but it was rough being away from my little sister and have zero contact with anyone there was a payphone but calling across the country gets pretty expensive so I didn't bother Ill admit I thought of quitting at one point but I got closer to to my platoon and I just had to tough it out and I'm glad I did it has been nothing but good for me turned me into a better man then I was also a lot happier have a group of guys in my trade that id happily go into any fight with because I know they got my back no matter whats getting thrown at us. I decided to write this mainly because I'm on leave right now at home for Christmas and it honestly just feels strange to be here and to actually have time to myself hell its just strange to hear my first name I haven't heard it since Iv been gone takes me a few seconds to realize someones talking to me it'll be good and strange to be talking to my old friends the couple I have talked to things felt a wee bit different not good or bad just odd they didn't understand a lot of what I was talking about and was hard to explain it if I had been talking to one of my guys now they would have got where I was coming from and when he was talking to me about stuff that was happening down here couldn't help but think "damn that's a hell of a lot of drama" I just couldn't really wrap my head around a fair bit of the stuff he was talking about some of the guys I'm with now was telling me he went through the same thing with some of his old friends and he felt the exact same thing I was feeling he tried to tell a story to his old friends about some training we were doing and none of them got the funny bits to it he told me that he knew if he told us we would have got it and that it was a bit strange talking to people about our stuff and having to explain everything I thought it was odd but I get it now last one I talked to I had to stop every few minutes to explain what I just talked about I didn't mind it was just strange. alright well this was my little spiel for today I might write another probably wont be till the new year though maybe talk about some of the training I'm doing when I start my new course.
