The
weekends here especially at RBK are very nice. Everyone looks forward
to them all week long. The only problem is that they don’t last long
enough. This morning was normal enough, wake up and go to formation. I
decided to chance it and not shave this morning...living on the edge. I
knew I was going to have to shave before recall formation and our
morning formation is pretty informal. We just did roll call and then we
were set free until recall formation at 16:00
I
didn’t do much today, ate my normal weekend breakfast of Pop Tarts,
then later on went to the PX for some supplies and ate lunch there. By
dinner time we went over to the charlie DFAC in a light sprinkle of
rain. Everyone from RBK ended up having our recall formation in the
Charlie day room because of the rain. The rest of Charlie had to form up
in each of their rooms. All the sergeant did was call off everyone’s
names and we had to show that we had our dog tags and ID card.
The
day got a little more crappy when we arrived back at the RBK building.
The sergeant wouldn’t let anyone back in the building. He wanted
everyone to wait outside until all the companies arrived back. We made
one big formation (which we never do on Sunday nights at RBK). The
sergeant came out and started bitching and moaning about people up on
the second floor having dirty rooms, eating in their rooms, leaving
their lockers unlocked, and leaving valuables out. He went over how we
will all get sick and spend half our military careers here at Fort
Gordon trying to get well and pass our classes. He went on and on and on
for 45 minutes. He went over how we will end up in jail if we let
battle buddies borrow our cars. This is because they will crash the car
and somehow because we own it, we will go to jail. I guess he was trying
to relate this to letting buddies borrow your laptop. I think he was
mainly just wasting time making us stand in formation. He also said
that we are no longer allowed to eat anything in the barracks. If we
order delivery we have to eat it outside “I don’t care if it’s raining
or 130 degrees out” After formation he said we all have to clean and
then report back for another formation at 21:00.
This
put a damper on an otherwise nice relaxing Sunday. It’s crap like this
that I hate about the army. Things that are either just a waste of time,
or getting in trouble because some other ass is a slacker.
Next
surprise is the student leader ship came through and did room
inspections. They were told if our rooms are not squared away that they
will lose their weekend privileges, so this has lit a fire under their
butt. They are going through everyone’s rooms with a fine tooth comb.
12:00
formation was a pain in the butt. We did roll call, then the sergeant
wanted to know who had his sharpie pen. The guy who borrowed it loaned
to another who loaned it to another and so on. We all ended up in the
“front leaning rest” until he got his pen back. I’m so looking forward
to going to sleep and starting a new day tomorrow.
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