That was how I feel when we walked out to airport. I was attracting by Chicago’s street because that was my first time to travel outside the California. The street was cold, but the buildings with light were beautiful. It looked like a country boy has never been to downtown before.
“What the hell are you doing? Hurry up and get into the bus! Follow the rest people!”
I got yelled again, and I was pretty sure that Petty Officer was mad because I did not follow his instruction. Sooner or later, we all got into the bus. I was so sleepy due to the long travel.
“Don’t try to sleep during the bus! Pay attention to the video and you will do the exactly same thing when you arrived to boot camp!”
Well, I felt so extreme nervous when I saw the video. I forgot the most detail in the video because I was thinking what I should do. The Petty Officers finally shut up and be quiet a little bit. Finally, we arrived to boot camp. The location was in Great Lakes, IL. The P day was beginning eventually.
“Hurry up! We are running out of time! Just do what I am exactly telling you to do!”
The P day was not funny at all. The first thing we stood a line with different new recruits. We had to get the sea bag, clothes, shoes, and other general military gear. I could heard the Petty Officer was yelling all the time to tell recruit what to do. Of course, they looked so mean and you would be scared.
Finally, I got yelled again because I did not understand the order. I got yelled so badly and I remembered my tears just around my eye’s corner. At the same time, some people were laughing because I had had English. I felt so shame, and really want to find somewhere to hide. During the P day process, one of the moments I felt embarrassed, that was changing all your clothes and put into the box to send it back to home. We had around 30 to 50 people in a room to face all military PT gear.
“You have 3 minutes to change all your clothes! Don’t talk and stop looking everyone around you! Just do what I say, NOW!”
Everybody just took off all clothes, and hurried up to wear the Navy PT clothes. That was my first time to change the clothes “in public”. Maybe the culture was different from America’s. I asked my friends later on in Navy, we all had the same feelings.
I forgot how long we had been waiting before we got into the new division. I just remembered my sea bag was full and felt that was so heavy. I saw some female recruits could not handle their own sea bag and pass out; some people was felt asleep and got a bad lesson from other Petty Officer; some people started crying and thinking to go home. My heart was struggled, and did not know how to describe my own feelings at all. I felt nervous and scared since that was my first time to be out of state.
Finally, we had our division. I forgot my first division number (because I went to other division later on). Luckily, Troy was the same division with me, and we were “roommate” again.
“You guys are very lucky. It is usually you guys never get a sleep during the P-1 day. Now you have about 4 hours to sleep before we start the new training. Hurry up, lights off and sleep!”
The Petty Officer turned off the daylight into red-light. I was the top wrack, and looking into ceiling and my sleepy eyes were getting closed eventually.
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