Snow - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Well, as I'm sure we're all aware of, I'm also one of the USA. I used to live in Florida, which had beautiful weather year-round, though my particular area was prone to droughts and whatnot. My town didn't have much to do in it when I left it. Bowling Alley. Wal-Mart and the lake...and that was really it. You had to drive about an hour in any direction either to get to the beach or to go somewhere interesting in general. I loved when it got cold there though...

For the past ten weeks I lived in Missouri, and I have to say that the weather there was more bi-polar than anything I've ever seen. I mean, one time after our company came out for chow the sky was baby blue and the moment we left the chow hall to go back to the barracks it was HAILING outside. I had never seen anything so crazy in all my life. And the MOMENT we got back into the barracks the sky was blue again.  

Now I live in Texas and it's been triple-digit temperatures here since I got here last month. It's dry and dusty all the time and the wind is almost constantly blowing around here. The mornings are nice though and good weather for exercise.    I'm enjoying it here alot more than I was in Missouri, mostly because the weather is somewhat constant and not deciding on what to do everyday like a child trying to choose between buying Skittles or M&M's.

The dialect has changed everywhere I've gone as well. Euphemisms change with each border I cross, and I find myself adapting newer and different phrases with each place I go to. Like...a phrase for being unable to go any further, especially when it involves like physical training and things like that, people would say things like, "Oh man, that run broke me off." Stuff like that. Also the use of the words to refer to something that will be unpleasant such as, "Not the one you want." Alot of it is just Army jargon too, like things that are new, or different, or are just kinda of dumb because they're new or different; this especially applies to equipment or clothes that have neat little features on them and stuff like that. We refer to stuff like that as "High-speed."    It's actually funny, especially when you hear a Drill Sergeant use it.

Really the only thing I can say is different about where I live is not necessarily the place, but rather the organization I live in. Things are very to-schedule here, but at the same time, because we're in a secondary training environment things tend to be more relaxed than what they were in basic. I mean, I actually have my weekends to myself for the first time in ten weeks and I can walk around without having to have some higher-ranking person follow me around. I don't live in a room with eleven other guys in it anymore. I can change my uniform whenever our duty hours are over...

I've also done alot of things I've never really done before while I was in basic. Like shooting a freakin' grenade launcher. That was fairly awesome.    I know that's gonna get some stereotype-talk thrown at it. Also, this is probably gonna sound really odd, but going through the gas chamber was pretty fun. You blow alot of snot and cough you're brains out and your mouth and eyes burn like you wouldn't believe, but it was one of the best days I had the whole time in Basic. Mostly because when I came out the other side, I realized that I couldn't speak correctly no matter how hard I tried to articulate any kind of coherent speach, and even though my body was telling me that everything was wrong with my breathing, my nose, my mouth, and my eyes, I found it entertaining that I couldn't speak correctly at all. XD

Otherwise, I just wanna say that America isn't the greatest, but it's pretty alright despite some corrupt things and some stereotyped things. S'allright.

( Also about stereotypes, just wanna say I don't support any, though I think alot are funny. ) <--- The parantheses represent the opinion bubble.

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I'm planing to join the Airforce so Airfoce Basic is not that different from army basic from what i've read.

Uhm....YES, Air Force Basic is VERY different from Army Basic. See, Army Basic is like 9+ weeks long. The Air Force only has a 6 week basic training, and if I'm not mistaken they don't really do a lot of rifle-shooting, but please don't quote me on that. The Air Force physical fitness exams are less strenuous as the Army's as well. I don't know that much about it, but what I do know is that they run a two mile like we do, but it's not timed like ours. So, if I was told correctly, you basically pass the finish line successfully and that's that. But, again, don't quote me word for word. But yes, the Army and the Air Force are quite quite quite different.

As for LBT, I've only found one other person whose really got any interest in it, but it's nothing like my own.

As for Kor's questions: The heat here sucks right now, but I'm glad the weather here is constant rather than Bi-Polar like it was in Missouri. And I like to talk about stuff...that's interesting...? : D

Hey guys!!! I survived basic training! I'm kinda sorta back for now. Don't get too much on the details, but I have internet and a way to see all of you again, so I am happier than I was about three days ago. ^_^

I apologize for my absence everyone. I've been preparing myself for military life. Yes, that's right. I've been sworn into the United States Army.

No, I'm not going to be infantry.
Yes, I might have to go overseas to a certain place that has become taboo to talk about in such situations on other parts of the net.

I'll be reporting for basic training on the 28th of this month. Nine weeks will I spend in Missouri, and then Twenty-eight weeks of Career Skill training at an Air Force Base, and then three years of wherever it is that they will post me.

So, unfortunately, I must take a premature leave of you, my fellow GoF Members.

I will think about you when I'm on my belly in Basic, and when I'm training at the Air Force Base, and all during my three years.

I will try my best to pop on and say "Hi" if and when I can, but this will probably be the last you'll see from me for a long time.

I am very glad to have discovered you GoF, and it is now, sadly, that I must say Adieu.

I know I saw...but it didn't really matter to me because I didn't like her as much as I liked Hyp...

He just doesn't seem as mean and nasty without that more boxy head, and I think it is an injustice to his character for being drawn that way when he was perfectly fine before...

I mean, without Hyp we wouldn't have "Kids Like Us".

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