Traveling

Well, I am currently in Vinita, Oklahoma at a Holiday Inn Express. Tomorrow, I finish the trip and live in sunny Oklahoma City for 10 weeks. It always sucks-your first day of travel-especially away from your wife. Then, you get used to it and where you will stomp around.
I don't think any time could be worse than living in North Carolina during AVT "A" school. You lived in the "donut". A fresh-out-of-college architect's design. Shaped like a donut and poorly ventilated, the stench of urine and sweat clung to the place. Not to mention the windows were fastened closed to prevent any suicides. You got to live with a roommate and your whole damned class next to you. It was bad enough being in class together, but then living together 24/7. Then you get duty where you stomp around the halls on a two-hour shift from oh dark hundred to 0630 checking fire extinguishers when you got a test the next day. Or worse, driving all the non-coms around on the weekend to all the bars 'til oh dark hundred. Nothing like being the airman takin E-4 thru E-6 around and you can't even get a drink and you get to wear trops and cover. Take all that and no alcohol allowed to drink away the situation, life was a bitch.

Even boot wasn't as bad. Sure you missed home and got screamed at alot, but hey, you got to eat-didn't worry about the taste or what it was, you only had 5 minutes-and got some good exercise. You didn't have to worry about what anyone would say or what to do with your time or even what you would do on watch. You didn't have time. You just did it. If you did it wrong, you got more exercise. You even got a day of liberty off base and I got a few drinks and even an offer to suck my dick if I returned the favor to a fellow boot camper. Hey, its boot, you don't get blown very often. Just kidding, his whiskers scratched my nuts so we rented a whore.

I guess it beats getting ready to go to Iraq for a year. Plus, I don't get a roommate now and civilians get treated like kings compared to the military. Miss the wife and 2 cats though. No, Mikey, your pipe cleaning service is not necessary. You charge too much.