1 Boot Camp

Gideon awoke to the sound of a buzzer. He stood up to stop the alarm and starting getting dressed. It was 5:30am. Gideon took a shower then changed for the day. He wore a grey tee-shirt with green canvas pants and well-worn boots. He picked up his duffel off the ground and took one final look at his parents house before locking the front door and placed the key under the mat on the porch. He looked at the for sale sign on the lawn before boarding the bus that would take him to boot camp. Gideon sat down next to a skinny fellow with blonde hair. The person turned to greet him. "Hello, I'm Alex Henderson" and held out his right hand. Gideon shook it and responded "Gideon Delta" Alex reached for his bag and pulled out a small leather bound book. A few minutes later spoke "Your the son of Terry and Marsha Delta. I'm sorry about the loss of your parents." Gideon responded "It's ok I know that the died saving lives from base they worked at. While I was playing with my best friend, when they found out and form then on the took me in. I moved to my parents house when I was 16 to let me have some space." They were both silent. Someone else entered the bus. He looked like a body builder. His red shirt seemed like it was going to rip if he flexed a single muscle. he sat arias the isle from Gideon. The bus moved again. Gideon and Alex talked to get to know each other.

3 hours past before a Military officer walked to the front of the bus. His uniform had a General's rank and several other hi truck badges. He spoke "I'm General March Storm, I will be you boot camp director, activity director, and I will have the final say on any matter on site. Am I clear?" there was a call of "Sir Yes Sir" from us all. March continued "We are 30 minutes from area M2 a military installment in the woods. There is no cell service, no wifi, or mess hall. During your basic training. We will improve your stamina, strength, strategy, and Weapon handling. Each morning at day break you will be ready for Morning Taps, then after that you will be feed 1 ration MRE for breakfast, you will have 1 hr to eat before a morning 5 mile, followed by an obstacle course. You will then have free time until 1 only after finishing both the hike and the obstacle course. then the afternoon you will work on weapon handling then another 5 mile hike. Dinner consisting of 1 ration MRE. Then Evening Taps. After that I don't care what you do but you will be ready for Morning Taps. Am I understood" The same ring of "Sir Yes Sir" was shouted. He observed us carefully before holding up his left arm reveling a glowing band that cover most of his fore arm. "This a military issued System used to send and receive orders, locate other squad members, keeps track of your stats and ranks and will notify anyone in a 5 mile radius of your vital sign if something happens. These are permanently bonded to your body and there is no way to remove it less the limb is removed. Now we will not force you to get one if you don't plan on staying in the military. As for those serving a few years. You will be using a bracelet version that can only be use for vitals and communications. we will issue them there. Is there any questions?" No one raised their hand and the General returned to his seat. 15 minutes later we arrived at area M2.