Well, I suppose its time to start journaling my experiences of the last yeear before theyre lost in memory. The logical place to start seems to be when I waltzed into the recruiters office.
So for some time I had been lurking about goarmy.com toying with the idea of enlisting as I had been depressed for some time and thought"hey the army, thatll get me active and I should pull out of the dingy mood. and damn theyve got plenty of money they seem to want to give me" so after a while I decide I want to get in to see a recruiter and get some more info, but delay as I had been discussing it all with my buddy and wanted to see if he would come along. and so, being the procrastinator I am it takes me a while to get in touch with him...but a few days later he calls me and says"hey, Ive been thinking about enlisting...wanna go see the recruiter tomorrow" and so the events are set in motion.
some time over the next few days we find an openning in our schedules and get into the recruiters station. being the idiots we are we just go right in, sit down and say "we want to be airborne infantry, we want the 20k signing bonus" all said and done we could have been a lot worse off, some guys didnt even get bonuses so I suppose it could have been worse. however, I could have come in as a PFC and been well on to my way to specialist by now but my bonehead recruiter didnt know what he was doing so I was proptly screwed out of that...ASS! But I digress, we were in and out of that office a few times a week as we solitified plans and signed contracts eventually setting a date to enter into service. you see the paperwork was all filed in November but we werent suppossed to ship out till January, 12. So the day before Thanksgivings we head down to MEPS to sign the final contract and get all of our physical testing out of the way. My buddy fails the weight but passes the taping[suppossed to measure body fat percentage] and so after a good few hours we head on home thinking all is well with the world.
We scheduled the DEP so we wouldnt be leaving till after the holidays so we each go about the business of enjoying what time we have left which for me involves not going to work anymore. Spirits lift as the light on the horizon seems to draw closer for once.
Presently...Im talking with this girl and its driving me insane becasue all I can think about is how much I wish I were with her right now. Its fucking me up, Im not the emotional type and I dont have any sort of bearing to go off of here. I guess I would describe myself as a stoic...I just internalize everything and put it behind me. But this seem uncontainable yet I dont know how to go about expressing it. merf...all I can think about is the last night I was home, right before she left. nothing more than a hug...but I was lost in the moment, just shut my eyes and buried my face in her shoulder...why is it a girls hair always smell great?
-smitten-
So for some time I had been lurking about goarmy.com toying with the idea of enlisting as I had been depressed for some time and thought"hey the army, thatll get me active and I should pull out of the dingy mood. and damn theyve got plenty of money they seem to want to give me" so after a while I decide I want to get in to see a recruiter and get some more info, but delay as I had been discussing it all with my buddy and wanted to see if he would come along. and so, being the procrastinator I am it takes me a while to get in touch with him...but a few days later he calls me and says"hey, Ive been thinking about enlisting...wanna go see the recruiter tomorrow" and so the events are set in motion.
some time over the next few days we find an openning in our schedules and get into the recruiters station. being the idiots we are we just go right in, sit down and say "we want to be airborne infantry, we want the 20k signing bonus" all said and done we could have been a lot worse off, some guys didnt even get bonuses so I suppose it could have been worse. however, I could have come in as a PFC and been well on to my way to specialist by now but my bonehead recruiter didnt know what he was doing so I was proptly screwed out of that...ASS! But I digress, we were in and out of that office a few times a week as we solitified plans and signed contracts eventually setting a date to enter into service. you see the paperwork was all filed in November but we werent suppossed to ship out till January, 12. So the day before Thanksgivings we head down to MEPS to sign the final contract and get all of our physical testing out of the way. My buddy fails the weight but passes the taping[suppossed to measure body fat percentage] and so after a good few hours we head on home thinking all is well with the world.
We scheduled the DEP so we wouldnt be leaving till after the holidays so we each go about the business of enjoying what time we have left which for me involves not going to work anymore. Spirits lift as the light on the horizon seems to draw closer for once.
Presently...Im talking with this girl and its driving me insane becasue all I can think about is how much I wish I were with her right now. Its fucking me up, Im not the emotional type and I dont have any sort of bearing to go off of here. I guess I would describe myself as a stoic...I just internalize everything and put it behind me. But this seem uncontainable yet I dont know how to go about expressing it. merf...all I can think about is the last night I was home, right before she left. nothing more than a hug...but I was lost in the moment, just shut my eyes and buried my face in her shoulder...why is it a girls hair always smell great?
-smitten-