Training was Tough

When I first went in we did 24 weeks of basic training which is, you know, sort of a rough and tough sort of a thing because out of, I think there was 23 of us in the platoon. I think only about 22 or some made it. But that’s six months of training, hard training. Getting up at five o’clock in the morning and go on a five mile run before breakfast. It was tough, there’s no question about it and most of the time you didn’t sleep in your bed because there’s inspections every morning. So you wouldn’t sleep in your bed. You’d sleep in your sleeping bag, or we got a mattress where you could hide. That’s where you slept. You certainly didn’t sleep in, like in them days we worked Saturday morning too, five and a half days of work and Saturday morning used to be a sea worth inspection. And Friday night, definitely wouldn’t sleep in your bed. Everything had to be laid out the night before.