Explanations 3, May

May Explanations

Things seem to be smoothing out this month for him.  He can see the end of basic just a few weeks ahead and does not sound depressed. 

At sometime in basic training everyone goes out and stays in the woods and become tactical.  They make it as real as it can be.  You are always pretending that the enemy is right around the corner.  You carry everything with you, eat C rations (which is different than the K rations he had earlier.  I am not sure what the difference is – we ate C’s while in basic.)  I bet they have been doing this for years without changing a lot.

He likes going to the movies and more so because they are free while doing the war games.  

He shaves out of his steel pot, like we did.  Burners are put in large water cans to heat the water, like we did, ran out of cigarettes, like we did.  Tried to sleep when they had their 24 hour war game, but couldn’t because of all the racket, so did we.  Ate every chance he got, like we did, especially if we were lucky enough to guard the mess hall.  Hated most of it while doing it, like we did.  Thought it wasn’t that bad and enjoyed it after it was over, like we did.  Like I have stated earlier, some thing never change.