one year down

Ok so one year ago yesturday i left for bootcamp and started my new career in the navy..bootcamp was crazii..i learned alot about myself and made some of the best friends i've ever had..it was easier than i expected but still verii tryin. the hardest part was being there alone..i didnt join on the buddii system so i had to support myself thru the hard stuff..after about a week i became close with a few of the females..interestinglii enuff the females i was closest wit where all straight..there were about 25-30 lesbian or bi females between my div and my brother div which is a lot considering there are onlii 80 females in the compartment..and those are onlii the ones that where out.

from the moment i got to bootcamp i didnt lie about my sexualitii..none of the petty officers or my master chief asked me but those females surelii did. it was interestin how we as the lesbian females came together..almost everiione had gfs and most of us where older..sheesh i thynk one of my rdc's was one the homo team. a lot of bootcamp was mental torture..i mean we got 8 hours of sleep a night but compared to 16 hour days there was no match..plus we where always under the constant fear of being ASMOd which is a navy term for being set back in training..that was the worst stresser of them all..the idea of havin to be sent to a new division with new recruits and rdc's was torture..plus who wants to spend more tyme in bootcamp. we did loose a lot of ppl..almost 30..some left the navy..some got hurt..and some couldnt past the swim or run.

i myself had trouble with the swim..well the prone float to be more specific. this survival technique was my achilles heal..havin to float slash tred water for 5 mins in this navy created technique was the hardest thyng i have ever done..tryin to float in the middle of the 12 ft end killed me..i had to go back and forth to the pool 6 additional tymes before i finallii passed. the crazii thyng is that mostlii onlii the black ppl couldnt pass. there where hardlii anii other races at the pool tryin to earn their 3rd class swim qualification. im tellin you right now..if you plan on goin into the navy before you go to bootcamp learn to prone float..not being able to pass the swim test limits the jobs you can hold in your division to the ones that dont require you to be there all the tyme. i was laundry p.o. which was the most tyme consuming job ever...its crazii the ways the navy wants you to clean a washer and dryer..and wrappin the cord on an iron. but i digress..the 3rd class swim qualification consists of steppin off a 10 ft. platform and swimming 50m..in anii style except competition backstroke..a five minute prone float(the hardest part) and the coverall float which takes lyke 10secs to perfect. the whole division goes within the first week of training and then if you dont pass you try again that day and if you dont pass that you go everiiday except saturday and sunday for the next 6 weeks..if you dont pass that you get put on 6-5 hold til you do. i refused to be on 6-5 so i passed within the first week.

while in bootcamp alot of things happened..a few fights..ppl fallin out..found out one girl was pregnant two weeks in..she got sent home wit a quickness..but the biggest scandal all thru bootcamp was when one of the petty officers of my brotha div asked their yeoman who all the lesbians in the div where..and the stupid ass yeoman told her..so here we are almost out of bootcamp and this bitch is bout 30 ppl page 13's..let me take a minute to explain exactlii wat a page 13 is..it is a legal document that is signed for anii thing..you sign a shyt ton of them throughout your career and its basicallii sayin that you agree to wateva is on the paper..but they can also be bad..because if you are found to be a homosexual in the navy and they dont kick you out they make you sign a page 13..which outlines wat they found out about you..how and wat act or acts you are being accused of committing..that the bad part..because aniione with access to your service record can read it..so everiityme you go to a new command everiione will be watchin you extra close to see if you fukk up. so here we are pissed..they tryin to give us page 13's but we aint havin it we was bout to go to the top of our chain of command and bust that ass bout her breakin Dont Ask Dont Tell policy..so they ended up droppin all the page 13's if we didnt say aniithyng to the command..there was soooo much drama in our my div and brotha div..but overall the 2 months flew by and then we all went our seperate ways and i havent seen my two besties in almost a year..

i miss those days alot..sometymes i wish i could go bakk and redo tho two months jus to be able to spend that tyme wit my friends again..onlii cuz i kno we wont eva be lyke we were for those 2 little months in the spring.