Beginnings: Basic at Fort Benning

They told us it was only 30 minutes to Benning from Atlanta but they were wrong. It had to be almost two hours. We got into Benning around 0200 and as we got off the bus we realized that we were in fact, here; this is it, this is Fort Benning. As we got off the bus I remember Jandro turned back at me and said, “Are you nervous?”
“I think I should have used the bathroom in the bus.”
The reception room in Benning is nothing but a bunch of benches and a huddled mass of nervous kids surrounded by a drill sergeants in funny hats.
"Don't think of running," they said. "It's too late now."