27th December

I said farewell and hug my parents and grandma in the parking lot behind the recruting station after they dropped me off. Currently stucked in the nice Hilton Garden Inn on Staten Island with all you can eat buffet style dinner available from 1500-1800 HRS and a nice comfortable twin size bed. What else a boy could ask for huh? Well. Hopefully by Tuesday (29th) 1000 HRS I will get the plane ticket bound for Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. See you NYC sometime in July or August.