What’s your story from when you served in the military?

[Skywatcher]

My stories from induction and boot camp are over here, posted 16 years ago:

So, I'm at this Klan meeting...

At the encouragement of a couple of classmates who enlisted before me, I joined the Navy right out of high school. This was nearly 20 years ago so let’s see what I can remember. Scene: the military induction center in New Orleans, summer, 1986. If you’ve heard “Alice’s Restaurant”, you already have the general idea: a bunch of little rooms where they inspect, detect, and neglect you. No injections, they come later. One room we went into, the inspectors, detectors, and neglectors had us strip, …