Leavenworth? Well, it doesn't sooouund so bad...

Not that I'm a real stickler for details, but in case you've ever wondered, I now know exactly what time it's necessary to get up to get more done before breakfast than most people do all day. Drum roll please: Yes, if you guessed 3:45 A.M., you're correct! Several people in my platoon were really questioning the wisdom of going to sleep at all last night, but given that we were scheduled to spend the entire day in a variety of lines filing paperwork and getting injections, a little sleep probably didn't hurt anyone. Oh, and did I mention that for variety (which actually was a good thing) our line-standing was occasionally punctuated by 45 minute stints of standing in formation in the midday sun, again wearing outfits that noone in their right mind should be wearing in south Texas in mid-September. When we were finally dismissed at 7:00 P.M., a mere 14 1/2 half hours after the fun began, everybody was positively loopy, with the exception of one second lieutenant nurse who just completely lost her cool, flew off the handle and loudly informed our TAC officer that she thought the Army sucked and could she "give back" her direct comission and join the Air Force instead? They would have made her a captain, you know. Hmmm. Yeah, no, you can't do that, responded the TAC officer, unless you would like to make a side trip to say, Ft. Leavenworth. I have a feeling it's going to be a piece of cake to stay under the radar around here...