Personal Writing: Boot Camp

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for
you to go to this program. A fee of about five hundred dollars all
together. That money is for the uniforms, bus ride, reserved tickets for
the bunks, and money needed when on the base.
After that the worn out bus load was escorted to a room with other
cadets from other cities. All together there was about four hundred kids
from all over Michigan going to this camp. Every camper was assigned to a
special squad. I was assigned to division six. When I arrived at my
barrack with the rest of the division I was assigned a bed. All of the
recruiters were told to stand perfectly still in front of our beds until
our drill instructor got therer. After standing there for a good ten
minutes, some people started moving around. Little did we know it was a
setup from the start. The drill instructor was already their watching us
the whole time. He walked out calmly and everybody moved fast to get back
in front of their beds to stand still. But it was no use, he saw what ...

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able to go to bed. Some people thought it was goof
off time and they got out of bed. Now in boot camp everything is about
team work, so when somebody messes up in a group or deal then everybody
gets punished. The people that got out of bed got caught that night. So
the drill instructor got everyone out of their bunks and made us run around
the barracks until the windows in the barracks got foggy from body heat.
That certain person got jumped in the bathroom the next day when we got up
because people were mad that they did not get enough sleep. On a regular
basis we went to bed at 10:30 and got up at 4:30. So sleep was valuable
thing.
The next day we were marched to a big brick ...

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