Chapter 9
Chapter 9
That day was the beginning of ‘hell week’ – the first week of basic training. It was the most demanding time of our training due to the stress that was imposed on us for the sake of our transformation in soldiers. We were up at five o’clock every day. After breakfast, we would fall out onto the drill pad for push-ups, sit-ups, and marching. It seems like when we weren’t doing anything else, we were either marching or running. Everything was performed by a strict set of standards. We learned how to fold our uniforms, how to organize our footlockers and how to make up our bunks. It all had to be perfect and mistakes were not tolerated. A complete absence of technology was insisted upon with the idea that if you found yourself in the middle of nowhere it was unlikely tha
