the horror.........the horror........
Published on August 5, 2005 By Spc Nobody Special In Humor
Woot, 14 days, 4.5 hours left in the Army. Outprocessed CIF (central issue facility) today. For all non-army folks who will undoubtedly be bored to tears by this, I turned in all the thousands of dollars of beat-up crap the Army entrusted to my care. In one go. This is not the norm. I rule.

I showed up at 4 in the morning, and was the first one in line at the gate. Not the first to arrive by a long shot, but the silly bastards didn't want to stand in the rain with all their stuff for some reason, weird right? And my diligence paid off, I only waited in line for 11 hours!

My personal favorite? The sleeping bag lady who averaged about 10 minutes a person for two items. Three hours for that one station. And then she still passed my slightly damp, shouldn't-have-passed inspection bag.

Good deal. I was starting to feel like Milton on office space......."i know we turned in the hood, balaclava, but i kept the old hood, balaclava, it was a red swingline hood, balaclava, and the new one kept jamming.....i'm gonna burn the building down, i could put arsenic in the pina colada......."

Whatever, one step closer to freedom........the good kind, not like the horrible death of William Wallace at the end of Braveheart kind........yeah. Look out Monday, S-1, here I come. Neener neener neener.

Comments
on Aug 06, 2005
Didn't anyone tell you to get your stuff cleaned by one of the Korean ladies in a store in town, and then leave the laundry tags on them? The last time I left Hood I did, cost me $40, but was well worth it for the peace of mind to be a 1st-time go at CIF. It's a corrupt system, but when it's the only game in town, that's what you play.

Good luck on the whole getting out thing.
on Aug 06, 2005
Still got out in one go, and it cost me a day at home cleaning gear in front of the TV and 16 dollars, heh heh heh........