Friday the 13th=GREAT day!

Today was base camp day (you can see part of last class' on that video)
Here is a blurb from Dan's e-mail tonight:

Base camp day was pretty cool. Instead of a recording of reveille played on a bugle, we were instead awoken to Guns N Roses "Welcome to the Jungle" and brought out into the passageway indoc week style, except a whole lot less serious and stressful. They beat us lightly, and joked around a little bit. We teased some of the other platoons too. My favorite part was when they had us do jumping jacks while sounding off "Mr. Tanksley is compensating # sir!" (He is the alfa 2 platoon officer and we are in alfa 3). All the while, there is other music playing in the background, like highway to the danger zone, the theme from caddyshack, everybody wants to rule the world, message in a bottle, etc. It was pretty funny. Then we got ready and went and took our prog. Everyone passed. I got an 86. Not great, but right around where everyone else did. It was a hard test. Then we had drill competition. Since I wasn't competing, I went ahead and just took pictures, since the majority of the company spent the entire thing in parade rest. It was nice to be able to move freely and all. Then we had base camp day. Made fun of the staff officers, played some games, ate some food, etc. Then the privileges. We were granted senior status. There are a few perks associated with that, I don't remember them all. We were granted the freedom to take our eyes out of the boat, not square corners, and swing our arms in the passageway of chase hall. AND WE GOT CELL PHONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But we can't use them until tomorrow.

I didn't write about it, but earlier in the week (Tuesday I believe) they were playing capture the flag. Dan got run over by another OC and caught his face and throat were hit pretty hard by the OC's shoulder and elbow. They sent Dan to medical where he was given meds, told he has some nerve damage, and was told not to sound off or talk much. He called last night and sounded pretty bad, but he said it was a big improvement from how it was. Because he wasn't able to sound off he couldn't compete in the drill competition today. It was the top 3 people from each company and he had been selected to be one from his company.

Tomorrow they will be bused down to Virginia to meet up with the Eagle. Then Monday they will set sail back to New London and arrive the following Monday, the 23rd. Dan has earned individual liberty for Sunday as long as he doesn't have duty, which they won't know until later. It seems like he's looking forward to getting off campus and doing something new.

They will not have e-mails or anything while on the Eagle, but when they get back and he lets me know how it went I'll update then.