Saturday, July 7, 2012

My internet just crapped out on me, so I'll continue with my story.

So we were all lined up in front of the MEPS at moffet field. Standing outside getting our bags checked and such. Then we were all put into a big room where we had to fill stuff out and take a test to check for alcohol in our system and check our blood pressure. We listened to different power point presentations on how to fill out that stack of forms that we had in front of us. After a little over an hour we were all sent to medical. We sat waiting in chairs. Mostly everyone was worried about peeing in their pants, because we were not allowed to pee until it was time for urinalysis. The males were lucky, because they got to do this before the females. But a few of the guys were bladder shy and couldn't perform in front of the worker hah. It wasn't until ours later that the females finally got to pee! We were really struggling to hold it! We had to go to the bathroom in groups and had the med workers physically watch us pee into cups. Then we had to take our samples to lab to see if were pregnant and clean of drugs etc. We took several different vision tests. A test for color blindness,a basic letter reading similar to the DMV, and a perception test where we looked at different circles in rows to see which were protruding forward. We also had hearing tests, and blood tests. At one point we were all in our underwear doing different exercises and the famous physical exercise the "duck walk" where we had to crouch down and walk across the room in our underwear lifting our heels and toes up like a duck. If you couldn't do any of these, you were disqualified. Then we also had one on one interviews with doctors and check ups. i would write more in detail maybe tomorrow, I'm just really tired right now. It was a long week of briefings and meetings with recruiters to prepare me for MEPS and the actually process of my full physical.

But in the end I passed every part of my physical! Got my job and signed my contract. We even had our swear in ceremony. It was pretty cool. But everyone was so exhausted and just wanted to get it over with hah.  But when we were officially all sworn in, it felt really good! Now next step, Basic training! That should be fun!

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