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MCRD San Diego

"Good morning Sir, this is your wake up call." It was five in the morning on June 24th, 2001 and I was about to embark on the biggest adventure of my life. This had been something that I had been looking forward to for almost my whole entire life, finally I was going to be serving my country. Those few hours of sleep had went by way to fast for someone that was not going to sleep for the next three days. The strangest feeling I have ever had in my life was getting on an airplane with nothing, not even a cell phone or any luggage other than a folder with my orders in it and traveling half way across the country to become a Marine..
It had been just two weeks since I had walked across a stage and received my high school diploma and now I was walking across an airport to board a bus on its way to MCRD San Diego. Once aboard the bus I was told to put my head down and close my eyes and put my head between my knees so I was unable to see the way onto the base.......

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