At Ease

Alex is being eased into Army life.  He hasn't started Basic Training yet - he's still in Reception, which, according to the Fort Benning website, is where my son is being "received and processed."  He is also beginning the "Soldierization process."  As my sister Janet said, he's being SOLDIERIZED FOR OUR PROTECTION!!

Apparently, part of the receiving and processing and solderizing involves my son hanging out in his bunk a lot and eating cheeseburgers, corn dogs, ribs, and biscuits that are so delicious, you don't even need to butter them. 

I will be joining the National Guard next week.

In between the eating and the laying around, he's bored out of his skull.  He has actually been calling me just to talk.  He called my mother last night also just to talk - of course, it involved him talking and her crying. 

I asked him if they're at least making them do PT, but he said not yet. I told him he should probably start running off the biscuits and corn dogs on his own.

However, all of this will change very soon - it looks like he's going into Basic on Friday.  I imagine there will be no laying around, no ribs,  no buttery biscuits.  They're buttering HIM up right now, just to tear him down soon.

I hope to talk to him at least one more time before he goes incommunicado.  He promises to write a lot!  We'll see if he has the energy to pick up a pen once he gets started.