# What’s your story from when you served in the military? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-story-from-when-you-served-in-the-military/965185 "2022-05-26T22:42:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-story-from-when-you-served-in-the-military/965185/5 "2022-05-27T00:24:08Z")
My stories from induction and boot camp are over here, posted 16 years ago: > [@So, I'm at this Klan meeting...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-at-this-klan-meeting/353827/39): > > 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, … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-story-from-when-you-served-in-the-military/965185)._