Basic Training Diary - Day 24
Day 24, Oct 9
Last day! Graduation!
We sweated out the graduation ceremony had a really quick lunch and was outta there. Nothing much to write about today. The ceremony felt rather rushed and a totally for show formality that nobody seemed to care too much about. But it did mark an end to our basic training and was in a weird way a rather fitting way to end it. It was quite representative of what the training was all about. A test of our commitment to order and discipline.
My final thoughts about this month in camp:
A very interesting experience. A rewarding experience in the sense it taught us about discipline and in the same vein some good habits, which we hopefully will remember. A rewarding experience in that you get the chance to make some good friends and in our case, maybe even some useful connections that may become useful in the future. On the flip side, there was much too much time spent on doing meaningless tasks and simply wasting away time. Brain cells most definitely died by the millions when I was in there! Overall, I would say I agree with sending guys to military camp for one month but any longer isn’t recommended!
Here’s a quick snap a friend of mine took as our bus caressed itself out of the front gates.
Leave camp!