Reception Day 3 31 July 2009

We've been here at 30th AG for 3 days now. 3 long hellacious days. We aren't PT'd and in fact are largely ignored by the NCO's often standing in formation for 30+ minutes waiting to be noticed. Our legs and backs are sore, and our feet were killing us until we were issued our combat boots today.

ACU's were issued yesterday and we've been wearing them with our running shoes, which by the way are a size 7, compared to my usual 9 1/2 size shoes. They're small as hell, but I guess they'll work.

Shots were yesterday, along with audiology, optometry and blood work. Royally sucked, butt/hip bone still sore from Penicillin shot, actually worse than yesterday. We've had so many drugs pushed into us that we're out of it. Had 4 shots yesterday, 1 in butt, 2 in left arm, 1 in right arm, and the arm shots were all at once. Also had about 7 vials of blood drawn too.

The drill sergents keep telling us to stay positive, that this isn't the real army and that even they hate it. It's hard to be here, we're often bored and tired, but we'll persevere. Next week sounds promising, PT and lots of free time. I personally as almost done processing, just PBA left.

We're on barracks maintenance right now, which means we chill in the bay, tidy it up, and then relax, but can't sleep. We do maintenance whenever they can't find stuff for us to do and it's basically our favorite thing to do.

We actually just played a joke on Sellers, tied his boots to his bunk rail. That's what he gets for sleeping. Stuff like that we take on care of ourselves since if one person is wrong, we're all wrong for not squaring them away. Oh crap, we've got up to 15 shots on Monday. Had one in the forearm today. Sucked.