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Another Drill Instructor enters the room (why are they all so large?)

He immediately see you (and about six others) busily filling in the blanks on the form. "Freeze, maggots! The very first thing you need to learn about Military Boot Camp is that if we want you to do something, we'll tell you to do it! If we don't tell you to do it, you don't do it! Did anybody tell you to start filling in that form? You, you, you, you, you, and you, get your butts to the front of the room, and bring my DD Form 332-6 that you just ruined! Move it!"

You get up with the others and move to the front of the room.

"Now give me 20! Everybody else, count them off!"

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three"

"Four......."

With the push-ups out of the way, the D.I. hands you each the small stub of an eraser. "You got 30 seconds to fix my DD Form 332-6," he says.

	Return to your seat
	Return to Beginning (Part I)

Above Photo Official DOD Photograph