There was no room for us at Fort Ord, California, so they loaded us on busses and sent us across the country to a place called Fort Polk, Louisiana. It was there they would try to turn a bunch of civilians into members of the world's most powerful military.  The Army had quite a job in front...

I thought I had a good idea of what my first day in the Army would be like. After all, I'd seen a lot of movies and read a lot of books.  I was prepared. I thought.