Basic Training Journal: Sunday, August 10th

We have fireguard right now (12:00am to 1:00am). Our platoon of 60 is broken down into squads of 15. We're doing fire guard as squads tonight because someone didn't get up for fireguard yesterday. Fireguard is usually done by two people. You can write letters and stuff as long as one person is always looking around the barracks with their red flashlight.

Sunday is a breeze. We went to breakfast at around 0600 and went back to the barracks and started cleaning it up. More on chow...reception was pretty bland and they always served the same food. It was usually cheeseburgers and a small pizza, Powerade, fruit, and desert. The Army likes Powerade, at least at Fort Benning.

Chow at BT is better and you get more variety. Breakfast is eggs and bacon, potato wedges, french toast, a bunch of Kellogs cereal, fruit, Powerade, etc.

Lunch and dinner are similiar...chicken, pork chops, mashed potatoes, potato wedges, salad bar, gelatin, apples, oranges, desert, Powerade, etc.

If you don't go to church on Sunday you just clean the barracks, which isn't bad at all. We tightened bunks, buffed the floors, cleaned the latrine, all that fun stuff. I did my laundry on Sundays too. Each platoon gets 3 specific days of the week they can do laundry, and Sunday is a free for all. Some people said they would offer quartermaster laundry service, but they didn't offer it to us and we did just fine doing our own laundry although you had to wait for an open washing machine. You always have the threat of people stealing your stuff if you don't guard it, but very few people sat around in the laundry room guarding their clothes.