My new title...

So last Monday I finally got a call from my National Guard recruiter I'd been talking to. My medical got cleared so on Thursday evening I went to MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station.) Here is a picture of the building...

I took the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) to see what I could do. I needed to score a 31 to get infantry, I scored an 88. It was supposed to take three hours, which I of course completed in about 50 minutes. I than went to a hotel where the military rents out the entire second floor and slept there for the night. Paul came and hung out for a while since he'd already been through it and knew it would be extremely boring. We played a couple games of pool in the bar, we were in there for maybe a half hour and three seperate groups of people tried to buy us drinks (Paul was in uniform.) He told me that always happens and people are always coming up thanking him... Lights out was at 10:00. Apparently the Army is strict, I heard someone leave a room at about 10:15 to go to his own. Some officer caught him and he was instantly kicked out.

The next day started with a 4:30 wake up. quick breakfast, and off to MEPS again for the longest day of hurry up and wait I've ever had. We took physicals, vision, hearing, blood, height, weight, fingerprints and tests to check range of motion.

After all that we got with a guy who went over what I qualified for. He was a little confused since I scored an 88 on the ASVAB, I could have done chemical weapons, counterintelligence, psy-ops (psycological operations,) and pretty much anything I wanted. But I wanted ground infantry.

Paul showed up to get pictures of me getting sworn in, but after waiting for 4 and a half hours he had to go do stuff. So unfortunately I have no pictures of it... But at about 3:15 I took the oath and was officially sworn in as a Private in the US Army National Guard. I could say more but it really reminded me of sitting at the DMV for about ten hours.