Today was a relatively easy day here at Ft. Dix, besides having to wake up at 4 a.m. just to beat the rush to the showers. There was hardly any training done today, but instead we got our vests issued to us...these bullet proof things that I could care less to remember the name. They're not too heavy, but I'm sure after a long day these things will get ridiculously uncomfortable. What's good is that the style they give us, I'm the only one out of 4 platoons (40+ people in a platoon) who has the same style of uniform.

Well, one other person came here today, but he doesn't count cause I've been here since saturday.

So, whereas I usually stick out because of this fact, everyone else looks pretty ridiculous with these vests on, so that makes me happy.

Tomorrow will probably be another easy day as far as training goes. I'm not expecting it to get too terribly hard within the next two months so it's not a big deal, but it might be a while before I have ample time off again, so that's a downer. Not that I won't have a few hours here and there.

Good news is that I have a good group of people that I'm training with that should definitely help the time within the next year go by pretty fast.

I never expected that I'd be going to Iraq with a friend of mine I met in A-School two years ago. Because of him I'm actually having a good amount of fun instead of keeping to myself. Even though I still plan on taking care of personal stuff while I'm gone, at least I know it won't be a total bore at least the next couple months.

This is turning out to be a little bit of a journal entry, which is upsetting to me, so I'm going to have to end it and get some different writing done.

More updates to come.