Boot Camp- Week 2

Coming in to week 2, everything was becoming a pattern. Waking up around 530am to get ready for our chiefs at 6am. They would barge in telling us to get the heck outta bed, and make our racks, and be dressed and ready to go. Then we would go to breakfast, literally the same thing every breakfast. I started to like yogurt a lot, and putting those little crunchy things on top. mmm so good. after breakfast we would normally pt in the compartment, which was stupid cuz we would sweat everywhere and then have to swab the deck with a mop.

Week 2 was also when i got my "ship staff" job. I tried to stay under the radar and not volunteer for anything, but they picked the kids who passed their PRT, and also passed their swim. Little did i know, these  guys (like 8 of us) would become my best buds at boot camp. We has ship staff everyday at 530pm i believe it was. and we would have to eat before that, so we all ate together. we were an elite group seperated from our original compartment. After we ate, we would do our daily duties of cleaning our "ship" aka our building that fit like 32 divisions in. My job was on the quarterdeck, but a bunch of us just went off and joked around with our kids from different divisions, and asked them what was going to happen in the up coming weeks. There were recruits from every week in bootcamp on ship staff, so we got most of the answers/ advice from these kids.

We also had "watch" which was basically the first line of defense for the "ship" which was stood for like 4 hours all throughout the 24 hour day. We could usually schedule our "watch" during important inspections and with fellow shipmates that we liked, so the time would pass fairly quickly. Some watches i would be in tears laughing so hard, which made it extremely fun.
Week 2 also consisted of getting a lot of our uniforms and stenciling them with our names. NSU's (Khaki top black bottom) NWU (Blue Camo's-sweet) Dress whites/blues. Each and every one of us had to get fitted, and it took 5 hours. Then we had to spend another like 2 days learning how to stencil our names on them, and fold them correctly.