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djchameleon · 09-10-2013, 06:12 AM

I was 17 at the time and still in boot camp. I believe it was week 6 or so. I remember that I failed my PT test and had to go to the solo make ups by myself. I was still learning the difference between cheifs and officers because they both wear khaki uniforms but obviously you are only supposed to salute officers.

So I was walking by myself that morning and I saw a flood of khaki uniforms on the base and had a feeling that something was up. It was too strange. I also decided it would be better to salute everyone than to pass up officers and NOT salute them but at the same time chiefs hate to get saluted. One chief stopped me and said "I work for a living, don't salute me". The second chief to stop me was one of the pesky chiefs on base that goes around giving demerits to recruits and it gets reflected back to the division that they are a part of. Well lucky me I ran into this douchenozzle and he gave me a demerit.

After I took the test and got back to the rest of my division they were gathering up people that either lived in Manhattan or had parents that worked down there. My mother didn't work in the towers but she worked in a building that was pretty close to it. I later found out that she didn't go into work that day but I was worried about it until I got a chance to call her. They decided to give the recruits a chance to call up their parents to find out if they were okay but only the ones that lived in Manhattan/worked in the towers everyone else was kept in the dark pretty much. They wouldn't let the rest of them see any footage of what happened for a couple of days and we only got to hear the address from Bush. I didn't get to see the footage of the plane crashes til weeks after I graduated from boot camp.