So, Basic Training was interesting to say the least. I learned a lot from a really amazing Sniper. However, I ended up doing an extra fucking month and a half of duty though, so that was 4 months, & not 10 weeks of training. During the first week I got hit in the head with a rifle and had an aneurysm. But that didn't stop me at first. For the next 8 weeks I continued all training (live weapons firing,field marches in excess of 7 miles, combatives, p.t. tests, low crawling through a field of barbed wire as machine gun rounds flew just a foot above our heads, and other assorted trials ) even as the swelling was on my temple pushing against my skull/brain. I had gone to the doctors right after it had happened and both of them surprisingly gave me a clean bill of health (even with an abnormal growth on my temple), but in the last week I returned yet again to get medicine for the migraines I had been having every day for the past month. As fate would have it, The nurse freaked out and told me to go to surgery ASAP. There the Captain, and Surgeon (same person) had discovered when I got hit the artery and veins on my temple had been ripped open and healed back together in a very unsafe fashion, so unsafe that when she went to remove it with the forceps it popped and my blood pressure dropped fast enough for me to have to be defibrillated, later she would tell me that if the swelling had popped at anytime in the past month I would have died from internal bleeding within 30 seconds.. The veins has grown into the artery, feeding bad blood into good blood, for a month, hence all the headaches. Being as such, and having stitches on my scalp, I was barred from completing the rest of the training, and then the restarted me a month behind instead of a week behind. Another month slowly passed, but I obtained my leave.  So It gives me great pleasure to say I am back home visiting friends and loved ones. I haven't missed all of the fucked up drama of this place, but It is nice to see familiar faces, and embrace those that I love.