Woke
up this morning expecting a normal day ready for my A+ test. After I
was ready for PT and about to head downstairs for formation we found out
that we were not having PT and we needed to be dressed in ACUs. I
changed clothes and headed downstairs wondering what the heck we were
going to do this morning. This of course made me and about half the
company at least one minute late for formation and one of our sergeants
was at the bottom of the stairs making everyone who was late write their
name on the white board. Great...I wonder what that will bring. I got
out to formation and they did roll call. Then the sergeant started
calling off a bunch of names including mine. We all had to form up in
another formation.
After
standing and wondering what this was all about, we found out that we
were picked at random for a pee test (to test for drugs). We all had to
gather in the day room and wait. We were given water “to help facilitate
the process” which was good because most of us already went pee first
thing in the morning when we were getting ready. They had one sergeant
doing all the paperwork and collecting/distributing of the little
bottles, so the process was painfully slow. It actually took almost 3
hours for the entire process. By the time I went I had downed 3 big
glasses of water and was doing everything I could to hold it in. Finally
I went with 6 other guys into the bathroom where we filled our little
bottles under the watchful eye of another sergeant. What a relief! We
then brought the bottles back to the day room all the while keeping them held over our right
shoulders...and turned them in. I’m not worried about them finding any
drugs in my system, but if they check for chocolate milk they may think
I’m overdosing. Because of the length of this whole process a lot of us
missed breakfast....grrrrrrr. We had to head straight to class formation
and head to class.
Good
news is I took the A+ test and scored 100%. Now we’re on to CCNA 1. We
started the class, but because of internet troubles we didn’t get a
whole lot done. We did get our books and some homework.
Internet has been down all day today in the barracks. That sucks, especially for how much we have to pay for it.
More
good news, the supreme floor commander came in and said to go ahead and
move to the lower bunk. Great! I moved all my crap and bedding. I can
now say I’m in a much better area of the room (away from the door) and
I’m on the bottom bunk which is awesome.
Overheard Quote: “Chuck Norris went through puberty in the second trimester” (A private in formation giving out random Chuck Norris facts)
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