Friday, September 23, 2011

Day 5 - In The Army Now

So today brings my week at NMPS to a close.  Tomorrow morning we hop on buses and drive down to South Carolina for 3 weeks of Army training.  I assume this will include watching Stripes, Full Metal Jacket, and MASH.  We were issued uniforms today, and then I got to walk the mile back to my room carrying my backpack and the ~50lb seabag.  Oh yes, and it was raining the whole time too.  Luckily, we have a truck swinging by the lodging here so we don't have to carry the bags back again.

The network here allowed Steam to download the Civ5 client, but the StarCraft 2 downloader failed me.  The network here is not very robust, and I doubt they intend us to do peer-to-peer downloads of 7 GB.  Thankfully the game still exists on disks at home.  In the future, with digital distribution becoming so prevalent, I wonder if any special concessions will be made for those in the military.

Well, below are some ridiculous pictures I took today.

  

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