Welcome to Active Duty...

Aye what a night. So yesterday afternoon I get a call from one of the captains nicely telling me that I'v been selected to be "on call" and that I might get a phone call with further instructions. Later I get a call from a Lt. Colonel explaining that I needed to be available at a moments notice to be able to show up in uniform at a to be determined location at a tbd time to do what will be explained at the time. Now of course I'm very curious about what might be going on here. Is this some sort of emergency scenario? Is this some kind of hazing event they do before you start pilot training? I have no idea. Anyway, so I hang around the base and don't drink any alcohol per the instructions and get to sleep around 1215 thinking I'm probably in the clear now. 

Wrong. I get a call at 215AM telling me to be at the Seminar Hall at 320, which of course I wasn't too excited about, I decide at this point it's not worth sleeping another half hour and risk not waking back up and decide to very slowly take my shower (in a very bad mood) and get ready to leave. I show up to find out they're doing mass dorm "safety (drug) inspections" and drug testing on all the unaccompanied enlisted folks living in the dorms. Of course since this is active duty, the reggies had the inspection directions in sealed envelopes and it was all very cloak and dagger and nonetheless I found it somewhat amusing. 

Myself and the 5 other guys (this by the way somehow included all 3 guard guys even though there's like 40 people in the transition group right now...odd) were put on the drug testing observation team and had to watch people pee in cups for 3.5 hours. I definitely felt bad for all these enlisted kids, i say kids because most looked like they were between 18 and 20 though there were some older ones. I definitely can't imagine an episode like that being much of a morale booster but I guess someone decided it was necessary to completely invade their evening and privacy. Perhaps the guard has just made me soft ~

 So that's how I spent my first Saturday night on base at Del Rio. Leasson learned: Go to San Antonio every weekend :)

I should say that our current boss was kind enough to let us sleep in tomorrow and not show up for the roll call we do at 0830. I'm pretty much done all my in-processing stuff now and ready for class on Wednesday!