how long it's been since that ended the ga tradoc days being so cold in the morning formation before pt that full time lifestyle in the army
georgia mornings so that experience tradoc (the army training division) too um remembering the early morning formations being so cold being so sleep deprived and borderline delusional (before later i'd lose my mind a little) um all those great meals at the dfac (dining facility)
so truly being a part of the program that being my entire life formations um and seeing a different new land times around augusta the cracker barrel the down town the seedy places the places that sold spice the car lots it being a 'arm pit' city by the base much later when my parents came and visited me
the barracks the book i was writing before getting shipped off to germany and staying in a hotel before catching my flight seeing the different demographics a wide range of people in the army young people old people whites blacks asians hispanics puerto ricans
when i quit masturbating for a while life in the uniform my pt clothes and my acu's my boots so the daily routines when it was radio school marching around having my mini books books of quotes shakespeare lincoln kennedy and my recorder to listen to music or later when i used it to record some early samples of my project the teletones
being at fort gordon all the junior enlisted e-0 private pfc specialist corporal the hot food truck coming to the trailers where we'd go to school at drinking 'venom' that energy drink how i eventually quit tobacco no more cigarettes using those nicotine patches
the hunger for the next meal breakfast there eggs breakfast meat bacon sausage biscuits and gravy potatoes hashbrowns the salad bar fruits cereal milk um my cargo pockets and ankle pocket um the early morning night skies running and push ups and the gym
really being in there sergeants all around to catch any slip up um walking the installation to the px to get stuff and weekends um my roommate um times i got reprimanded one time having some booze someone smuggled in um other times not following the 'phase' rules but somehow sliding through and making it further like when i got all my great radio certificates and later other training all the other units on fort gordon different tradoc companies
then when it ended and coming back again when it was the warrior transition battalion um my 3rd floor room to myself eating at the hospital being in a different unit the time a coworker showed me a video of a deployment where things are normal then a guy pops up and shots a rocket launcher um the more sleep then the new drugs that were sort of forced being a patient um the hospitalizations making friends there sort of
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