This time I got of work early enough to get there on time. This meeting was not during the first week of the month, like normal, because the station had a review that week. Our first topic was military bearing since one person from our program had been less than formal when talking to an officer recently. That officer chewed out the office lead, so he was not happy. We talked about why and how and when to be militarily formal, including how to sit at attention and not look around ever when at attention and how to be rigid. One letter from someone at boot camp right now talked about how the RDC caught them not being rigid enough by being able to move their arm by pushing it out of position while they were at attention. It's nice to learn things like this... what expectations will be like before getting there.
This lead us in to a discussion about what the first three weeks of boot camp will be like... lots of yelling and vulgarity designed to disorientate us, how we will wonder why on earth we joined and how we will feel like it was a mistake... until we get used to it. And most of all, how we will be extraordinarily tired the entire time. He told us about the awful shots they give and about his awkward experience trying to get a uniform that fit when he went thorough.
The next bit was about some of the benefits of being a Sailor. The college fund, the GI bill, and things I didn't know before like the program that takes the profits from the Navy Exchange and uses that for recreational assistance when available. We talked about paid leave and how it's possible to use military aircraft and bases for significantly reducing the costs of traveling. Immediately I thought of seeing Germany... :) We'll see...
We ended the meeting by going over military bearing one more time. Petty Officer Jordan selected me along with two others to try and get people to mess up, and I was flattered, but I am terrible at getting in people's faces.
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