CTC-1-06 Good Luck Tommorrow/ Day 1- 179 to go

[DESERT RAT]

Oh the butterflies in your stomach! The worst night of sleep in your life, in some strange hotel. You try to sleep, but can't! So, you channel surf way too late, finally you feel like getting some Z's. Then it starts! Up every hour making sure the alarm is set for 0500 and the power has not went out. You'll ask yourself a 100 times, Did I forget anything? Oh shit my boots! Heart racing! you sigh.....Its only a bad dream! 0500 comes by way of wake up call from the front desk, 30 seconds later the alarm is raging. What the hell have I got myself into? You will console yourself and tell yourself, I can do this! Your appetite is gone, however you force yourself to eat whatever left overs you had from yesterdays drive or last nights dinner. You manage to get all your stuff back into your vehicle. You drive down Reed Ave and see alot of Shaved heads standing out in front of StarBucks! You pull in and look around, which one of these guys are gonna quit?, you ask yourself! (Of course, the one you think will quit, ends up being the Company Commander!) You introduce yourself and comment on how much law enforcement experience you have already and where you worked before today! Of course there are a couple of Military geeks that think they got it all figured out. Someone will bring up, what kinda boots did you buy? This will lead to the inevidible Question: Did you remember to bring(Whatever)? and that's when the ton of bricks will fall and you begin to pucker! What? We are suppose to have (Whatever)? The pucker factor is huge, but you only have 26 minutes to report to the south parking lot of the Academy. You feverishley try and find someone with an extra (Whatever) and to no avail! You report to the south Academy parking lot and sit in your vehicle, you dont wanna be the first one in line, so you wait for someone else to get out of their vehicle. You see a few people get out of their vehicles and start rummaging through their stuff, this is the sign! You get out of your vehicle and get your stuff, all the time waiting for a group of people to pass by, so you can slip into their group and head to the brown wall by the flowers. As you are walking you are trying to get your bearings, you say "ok, that is North, and that is East". Then you notice, you have more bags and luggage than most people, you ask yourself. Do I really need all this stuff? You get about half way and decide, I dont need this six foot ironing board, 3 sets of boots, X-box 360, so you head back and drop off everything extra that you brought and lighten your load by 30 lbs. You head back to the brown wall by the flowers with only two bags of minimal items. As you get near the wall you see an Officer talking to everyone and you have missed whatever the information he was giving, so you ask someone near you"What did he/she say?" and they don't know either. The Officer tell's everyone to get lined up heal to toe and get ready to meet the Staff Office. There is this long silent waiting period as you stare into the scalp of the person in front of you. Does my head have as much crud in it, as this guys you ask yourself? Then from the parking lot you here it, thump, thump ,thump, heavy breathing, ...............its 0735 and some putz is late and trying to figure out where he is in the line. Of course his place is right in front of you! You move your stuff as fast as possible, but the Staff Office is already out, they see all the movement and you moving your stuff and this guy trying to get in line! Here they come! So much for flying under the radar, the radar just fell and landed on you. Oh and the late guy, Meet your new roomate!

All characters, places, and situations are fictional. Any similarity's to actual events are purely coincidental and could NEVER happend!

[dw]

Oh the butterflies in your stomach! The worst night of sleep in your life, in some strange hotel. You try to sleep, but can't! So, you channel surf way too late, finally you feel like getting some Z's. Then it starts! Up every hour making sure the alarm is set for 0500 and the power has not went out. You'll ask yourself a 100 times, Did I forget anything? Oh shit my boots! Heart racing! you sigh.....Its only a bad dream! 0500 comes by way of wake up call from the front desk, 30 seconds later the alarm is raging. What the hell have I got myself into? You will console yourself and tell yourself, I can do this! Your appetite is gone, however you force yourself to eat whatever left overs you had from yesterdays drive or last nights dinner. You manage to get all your stuff back into your vehicle. You drive down Reed Ave and see alot of Shaved heads standing out in front of StarBucks! You pull in and look around, which one of these guys are gonna quit?, you ask yourself! (Of course, the one you think will quit, ends up being the Company Commander!) You introduce yourself and comment on how much law enforcement experience you have already and where you worked before today! Of course there are a couple of Military geeks that think they got it all figured out. Someone will bring up, what kinda boots did you buy? This will lead to the inevidible: Did you remember to bring(Whatever)? and that's when the ton of bricks will fall and you begin to pucker! What? We are suppose to have (Whatever)? The pucker factor is huge, but you only have 26 minutes to report to the south parking lot of the Academy. You feverishley try and find someone with an extra (Whatever) and to no avail! You report to the south Academy parking lot and sit in your vehicle, you dont wanna be the first one in line, so you wait for someone else to get out of their vehicle. You see a few people get out of their vehicles and start rummaging through their stuff, this is the sign! You get out of your vehicle and get your stuff, all the time waiting for a group of people to pass by, so you can slip into their group and head to the brown wall by the flowers. As you are walking you are trying to get your bearings, you say "ok, that is North, and that is East". Then you notice, you have more bags and luggage than most people, you ask yourself. Do I really need all this stuff? You get about half way and decide, I dont need this six foot ironing board, 3 sets of boots, X-box 360, so you head back and drop off everything extra that you brought and lighten your load by 30 lbs. You head back to the brown wall by the flowers with only two bags of minimal items. As you get near the wall you see an Officer talking to everyone and you have missed whatever the information he was giving, so you ask someone near you and they don't know either. The Officer tell's everyone to get lined up heal to toe and get ready to meet the Staff Office. There is this long silent waiting period as you stare into the scalp of the person in front of you. Does my head have as much crud in it, as this guys you ask yourself? Then from the parking lot you here it, thump, thump ,thump, heavy breathing, ...............its 0735 and some putz is late and trying to figure out where he is in the line. Of course his place is right in front of you! You move your stuff as fast as possible, but the Staff Office is already out, they see all the movement and you moving your stuff and this guy trying to get in line! Here they come! So much for flying under the radar, the radar just fell and landed on you. Oh and the late guy, Meet your new roomate!

All characters, places, and situations are fictional. Any similarity's to actual events are purely coincidental and could NEVER happend!




It was six and a half years ago when I reported and now you've gotten me all uptight for those poor souls tomorrow! ;) Very accurate description -- I mean piece of fiction.

[makakona]

HA! my brother-in-law's roommate/best friend is in ctc i-06. he showed us his huuuuuuge duffel bag today (which was in addition to the large carry-on and garment bag) and asked, "is this okay? it's everything that was on the list..." he's a pretty buff guy and could barely lift it. i just laughed as my husband said, "hey, if it's what was on the list..."

how exciting! :smile: good luck to everyone!

[16528]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Like it was yesterday!!!!!!!

[roaming_gnome]

Today, March 6 @ 0900 hrs.....

1 hour down, many more to go.....

[HwyChaser]

Wow, that brought back some fond memories!!

[Lucky Seven]

Well done Desert Rat. That even stirred some memories from some long deep dark place of years past! :lol: