This Sunday is the last day of zero week. Tomorrow is day 1 week 1 and they say it will be hard. Bring it on - I am done waiting. We also get to meet the third of our three drill sergeants. I think he will be harder than the other 2. He is black, which many of the other drill sergeants are and I think that intimidates me. I'm not scared of D.S. Padilla or Vangadong because they are both short and white - well actually Vangadong is Thai. He's actually from Chiang Mai. Small world.
Tomorrow we get to do some fun stuff. We go to Treadwell Tower and ropes course. I've seen film of other privates doing it and it looks pretty fun. We have to take all of our gear out there, which is a whole lot of stuff.
We talked to a specialist who went to Basic here. He said they had moved into white phase by week two. Do you know about the phases? The 9 weeks are broken into three phases - red, white, and blue. As we progress we recieve more priveleges and more reponsibility. They assign platoon leaders and squad leaders. I think I should get some responsibility.
Not going to church today, bummed me out pretty good. We weren't able to go last week either and I am feeling the effects. This environment is not very spiritual at all. I read whenever I can and pray twice a day and in between. Surprisingly we do have a group prayer some nights. About half join in and afew say some weird stuff.
I love you more than anything else.
Brad
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