Basic Training in The Military Can be Interesting and Quite a Rude Awakening

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I am going to share some more excerpts from my upcoming book, Signs of Hope for the Military: In and Out of the Trenches of life. with you today. They are from different parts of my military career.

In Basic Training, back in my day, we still had draftees. we had two in my platoon. They were not happy campers. The rest of us who enlisted finally told them to shut up and serve.

One of the draftees wouldn’t stop. He was a Native American. He was a good sized drink of water. Looked kind of like a linebacker.

The drill sergeant finally had enough of his whining and told him to straighten up and serve his country proudly. The Native American told him where to go.

The drill sergeant then told him to come into his room at the end of the barracks. It was pretty quiet for a while, and then all hell broke loose from that room. You could hear crashing of things, grunts of pain; cursing, and screaming.

Then it got very quiet again. We all figured that our drill sergeant had been beaten up, because he was 5’9′ and couldn’t have weighed more than 150 pounds. The Native American was 6 foot tall and around 200 pounds.

The door slowly came open and out staggered our drill sergeant. He looked like he had hit by a truck, but he was still standing. We all rushed to look in his room and there was the Native American out cold on the floor.

We had nothing but respect for our drill sergeant after that. Even the native american respected him.

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While I was deployed to South Korea, they gave us a thing called R&R. (Rest and recuperation.)

It was a week of going to Tokyo, Japan. All paid with free room and board. My very first vacation.

A buddy and I got there and settled down. The next day we went touring the area. We saw Japanese flower gardens. Pagodas, and lots of shopping areas. We were awestruck. Nothing like this back in the states!

Later in the week, we decided to venture into a bar that could be considered a disco bar later on in the states. We sat down and had a couple of beers.

Then an announcer who spoke English came on and announced that there was a belly dancer coming out to dance for us.

He went on to say that they were having a contest. The contest was to see who could hold onto the belly dancer’s hips the longest while she shimmied.

The dancer came out. She was beautiful and a caucasian girl. She started dancing around the circle of tables. At each table she would stop and invite a soldier to try to hold on to her. There were many who tried, but none that could hold on very long.

Then she came to my table. I had way too much the drink by that time and accepted the challenge. I put my hands on her hips and she began to shimmy. I kept a hold of her until she had to stop to rest.

I had won the contest. Then the announcer said what the prize was. YOU GET FREE DRINKS FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING!

Just what I didn’t need!! I also looked at my hands and they were full of blisters. The pain was setting in. What did I do about it? Had several more beers. I do not recall the rest of the evening. My buddy must have gotten me back to our hotel.

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More excerpts coming in my next post.

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How are things going for you.

Was your basic training interesting, or a nightmare?

Did you have time off when you were deployed, or did you sleep in a trench?

Some good things and some very bad things right?

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Remember:

You are never alone.

You are never forsaken.

You are never unloved.

And above all…never, ever, give up!

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Standing in the Path of a Volcano

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It is sometimes hard to come back from a vacation. It takes a few days to get over the jet lag, and the rush of trying to do so many fun things during the vacation.

I just got back from a ten day trip to Hawaii. It was fun and full of activities. I wore down by the end of the ten days because of the pace we were on.

One of the things we did was go to the Big Island. We were only there two days so we did as many things as we could in that time. One of the things we did was to drive to the volcano that is still erupting. It restarted erupting in 1983 and has never stopped since. It is an awesome sight to see.

There are dangers around a volcano. The volcano had an eruption from the side of the mountain, and the lava flow is heading right towards a small community of families. They are on alert to evacuate when ever it is needed.

I feel for the families, but I also am in awe of the wonders that God allows to happen. He created everything, including the volcanoes.

Those families are facing adversity. They may lose their homes. We all face adversity at one time or another in our lives. There will be storms that come in to our lives, and we will need to be strong and face them like the families in Hawaii are now doing.

The one thing to remember is that God is with you through all your storms. He will allow the storms, but He also will be there to help calm them. Never feel alone when something happens that causes you stress. God will guide you through the dark side and show you the Son at the end of the storm.

Remember:

You are never alone.

You are never forsaken.

You are never unloved.

And above all…never, ever, give up!