BLAH BLAH BLAH FIRST DAYS OF KOREA

So I got on the flight. I don't even wanna know how much it cost all you taxpayers. I appreciate the nice monitors with plenty of movies and games though. Two meals, slippers, geez i was getting spoiled. I got a blanket too. At LDAC we had all these rules and stuff so it was weird getting treated like a human being who was capable of going to the latrine(bathroom) by myself. I took a nice nap. Bought that book devil in the white city, and got to pge 43 before i crashed. The flight was 13 hours but very enjoyable. Theres like 50 or so cadets who are going from LDAC to Korea so i wasn't lonely.

We got to Inchon, which is like an hour from Downtown Seoul, at like 1900 on Tuesday. Its cool because like 61 years ago Americans landed there to beat up some North Koreans. Wisconsin doesn't have half the history that is all around in Korea. But anyway we got picked up and went to Yongsan garrison. Now this base is literally in downtown Seoul. We weren't allowed to leave though. We had to spend a night in this place that was like a giant group home type set up for soldiers passing through. The next day (Wednesday) some of us got moved to Camp Stanley. Its a tiny base where in processing happens for the second infantry division. O yea i forgot to mention that. Well I'm with the second infantry division for this trip.

So we went to some of the in processing that all of the soldiers go to. We got put in with privates. Its funny because everyone knows all the ranks and stuff like SGT, or LTC, or what not. No one knows what the cadet rank is. So they ask us and they don't whether there supposed to salute or call us sir ha. Its pretty funny at least for some of us cadets because we were told for a lot of the last month what s*$%bags we were and now all of a sudden we get respect... crazzyyyy.

So sorry i know i have a lotttt to explain because of the army jargon so bear with me. So anyway im with 2nd ID righttt. Theres about 30,000 US troops in Korea. A lot of them are second ID. Im with the 1st heavy brigade combat team. So we got briefed not to have sex with prostitutues or else we will get black syphillis, dont get swindled by the bar girls(there called juices), and don't drink if your under 21. blah blah blah ya know. Also some Koreans tried to teach us customs and language. But there english was kinda pretty not good. I mean i don't wanna say it was bad because they did try so they get an A for effort. Also one of the guys teaching the class went on a tangent on why South Korea should fight North Korea. At least thats what i think he said.

OK i know im jumping around but this was a few days ago. But basically wednesday came to camp stanley. Got some in processing. Went to the base theatre and watched transformers(yea i saw Milwaukee in that i got hype). THen i crashed early at like 2000 because of jet lag. Thursday went to the DMZ(ill devote a post to that don't worry), 2nd ID museum, and crashed again early (1900). Then today (friday) went and drew equipment(like helmet, and body armor) for my time with the 2nd ID. Then i got moved to Camp Casey (ill devote some time to this in another post)

Man this is a lot of writing your crazy if you are actually reading all this crap