Cooking In The Army

I finally found out what cooking in the Army was all about. The most important thing to remember about cooking, is reading the recipe, always be careful when reading the recipe and make sure all of your measurements are correct and very accurate. I got to make quite a bit of food so far, from meatloaf, to baked chicken, fried chicken, baked fish, omelets, muffins, biscuits, sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, pies on monday, and for our bakeoff we have to make a pinneaple upside down cake and peanut butter cookies, im excited for it. After we get done with baking we do small quantity cooking like making breakfast and setting up a salad bar and a fruit bar for the rest of the people in the building if they want to eat. Days are going by fast, classes start at 0830, lunch is at 1200, class until 1700 than personal time for the rest of the day.

A Fresh Start

When I first got to Ft. Jackson it was about 10 o'clock at night, fresh out of the civilian world, it wasn't too bad, than we got our first experience of an NCO(Non-Commissioned-Officer). It wasn't a pretty experience for some people, I already new that this would be a fun experience for me and my battle buddies. Peolpe were already pushing, quite funny, of course I wasn't. It was called reception, not actually Basic Combat Training. A week there was one of the most boring things I have actually done. No pt at all time went by really slow, I thought it would be like that the whole time we were going to be there. The day came, we packed up all of our shit and shipped out to Basic Combat Training. That's when the real fun started for us, the second we got off the bus they started yelling, I was scared to death, honestly I didn't think I would like it. If you even looked around moved your eyes or your head they were right in your face yelling, telling you to start pushing. Happened to quite a few people, but not to me, never really got yelled at too much, maybe once or twice, but nothing big. Got into our classroom, that was when I knew I was going to like this place. We got to know our DS's a little better which helped because they are pretty laid back. BCT was a lot of fun for me, got to work out, taught me when to be serious and when I could have fun. A lot of physical work actually, not like the movies where they are constantly yelling, only for like the first 2 weeks that happened but only because they wanted us to start thinking like soldiers and not like civilians. It wasn't that hot there, it was hot a couple of days, but not too much. Got to AIT, its pretty good, liking the passes but thats all i got for right now. New cell phone number is 804-481-0243, so give me a call when you like, leave me a voicemail, i have class from 0830-1800, so i will call you when i get back from class and i have classes Monday-Friday so I use my phone on the weekends mostly. But I love all of you guys and hope to hear from ya soon, this blogspot is a new thing for me so hopefullt i can keep up with it weekly.