today i enlisted in the Florida army national guard. the guard has been something ive always had an intrest in for a number of years but never did anything about it but after weeks of paper work, thinking, talking with the recruters, and randar and other friends ,testing and backgroud checks i finally enlisted and swore in today after a long day at the MEPS ( military entrance processinf station). anyone thats in any armed forces know what thats like lol. but overall it wasnt that bad tho except for the part where they draw blood i hate needles . the night before at the hotel was quite fun getting to meet other applacants, people actully shipping to duty and off to basic. Most of us ended up at the pool sitting around talking for about 5 to 6 hours about what branch we are in our MOS's and all that till we had to go to our rooms cus of curfew. there was even some girls flashing us from there room :p. one cool thing tho was as we was sitting around talking a guy came up to us and said " yall must be shipping off to basic and all that hu" to witch we replyed yes sir and he was like awesome well i would like to thank you for yalls service to our country and fighting to keep us free its really good what yall are doing and he shook our hands and all that and left that made us feel pretty good . it was great to get to know some people tho cus never know may end up fighting next to them one day. then our day started got up at 4 am tho wake up call was at 4:30 breakfast at 5 and on the bus to MEPS at 5:30. went through all the medical stuff there and around 3pm i was sworn in. tho i was a little nervous about joining at first and hesitent, even after i signed i was like why did i do that but after some time to calm down and think and talking with my sargent on the ride home i do feel good about it finally made something i was interested in for a long time happen. my ship date to basic is october 23 to Fort Sill oaklahoma and my MOS training is at fort leonard wood in missouri all together will be about 5 months long . so as for cons ill be at Rainfurfest but ill be unable to attend MFF sadly but it is what it is . im gonna miss my husky alot tho but ill get to come back around christmas time i think so that would be good . as for my MOS im a motor transport operator in the 1218th trans co so basiclly anything the army drives i would drive so that should be cool. as to why i enlisted as stated before ive always liked what the guard dose as to responding to national emergencies such as forest fires or floods or hurricanes and all that thats something i would really enjoy doing and have wanted to do so now i can im excited for that but i wont get to do none of that till after all my training but as for my monthly drills i have to attend if im into the system by friday i have to go this weekend since its time for it so im excited to get to go do that if i can. gotta get a hair cut tho even tho my hair is already short it has to be even shorter that sucks but anyway tommorow i go back to the armory and will get all my uniforms and all that and from there just wait to see if i have to go this weekend but im looking forward to what lays ahead today starts a new path for me jsut gotta see where it takes me .