Random Flashback
For some reason or another when I woke up this morning I had this random flashback about Army basic training. One thing that I think about often is the six random pills they gave me when I got off the bus at basic training. I remember it like it was yesterday. I left my hometown of Killen, Alabama on a greyhound bus headed to Atlanta, Georgia. I was 17 and had never traveled alone. From Atlanta I flew to Oklahoma. Once I was in Oklahoma I followed the random signs pointing new recruits to the “staging” area, a term I heard very often from that point. Once in the staging area a random guys comes along asking if we were headed to basic training at Fort Sill, we all replied yes. So we load up on the bus and it takes about hour and half to get to Fort Sill. We pull up and sit for a few minutes. Then the door to the bus opens and a very large guy comes on the bus and just looks at us for a minute, then all the sudden he start yelling, get off this fucking bus right now. I see people tripping over each other trying to get of the bus because this guy starts grabbing our belongings and throwing them off the bus along with any small guys he could pick up. As soon as you get off the bus there was another guy with cups of pills yelling at you once again, “take the damn pills shit brick”. I took the pills as I feared for my life. To this day I wonder what those six pills were and what affect have they had on me.
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