Pink Eye CLP!

22.Feb.2006

Up at 0500 and raring to go only once again to be hurried up and wait and wait and wait. We went to breakfast and then I had an 0700 appointment but chow was done long before 0615. That was the first wait.

Wait until 0700, sign in at the medical center for a follow up on my eyes. Sit and wait again until the doctor arrives. At 0900 the doctor arrives, checks me out and tells me there is no way I had pinkeye. The culture came back positive for CLP, the frellin’ oil we use to clean our rifles!!! Turns out when I got hit in the eye the other day, it was CLP getting flung into my eye!

After all this, the doctor ends up prescribing antibiotics for my throat and all the crap I’ve been coughing up the last 4 weeks.

Finally ready to rejoin the platoon, I’m told I need a battle buddy (Army’s term for ‘never go anywhere alone’) before I can leave. So I wait… and wait… and wait some more… and then just simply wait until 1300 when someone from Charlie Company finally clears Med and we’re on our way.

My luck, I walk right into a health and welfare inspection (Basic’s term for tearing your wall locker to pieces) and DS Hampton (the one that loves smoking me the most) gets the biggest Cheshire Cat grin I’ve seen yet. “SHOUP! OPEN UP THAT DAMN LOCKER!” Didn’t matter that everything was squared away, he ripped it to pieces! Clothes sprawling, drawers flying, socks rolling. Oh, but how I got the last laugh. I had borrowed some maps and protractors from DS Sydnor to teach a review class last Sunday. DS Hampton saw these, flipped out, and thought he was really going to smoke me.

“SHOUP! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? STEALING THE PLATOON’S SUPPLIES!?!”

“No, Drill Sergeant! I borrowed them to tutor some soldiers.”

“THE HELL YOU DID!!”

“Ask DS Sydnor, I borrowed them from him.”

Now DS Sydnor was standing right behind DS Hampton with an even bigger grin on his face. DS Hampton pulls an about face, sees DS Sydnor and all that comes out of his mouth is “God Dammit!” as he flings all the maps and protractors into the air and stomps off. Oh, how I love pissing him off! DS Sydnor looks back at me and smiles, “Welcome back, Shoup. Welcome back. Now, about that locker…”

Buried in Basic Training | 2 Village Idiots have spoken

2 Village Idiots have spoken

  1. Really, ya just gotta luv it..
    …
    Hey TK, whens the Mammoth trip ??
    “I feel the need.. The need for ski !”

    Blurted out by No look – 22.Feb.2006

  2. yeah, geez… didn’t you shouldn’t clean your gun with your face?! ay!!! :)

    …
    hola, sir. i guess, we’ll use this as the e-mail connection (i’m not giving you my address, don’t need spam.. ha ha)
    ok, i have bad news and good news for you.
    bad news first: the march 9-12 got booked up… we are over capasity right now. had room for 6, got 10 volunteers. oopsie.
    now good news: since i don’t plan on getting a budget any time soon (ha! i know you are cringing now, you penny-pincher, you…), i might be going again at the end of march. so, i’ll definitely keep you posted about that. now, if we could only talk a certain lady with two kids to go as well, that would be fantastic… in fact, i’m making it my mission.
    ok, off to class… cheerios, tk

    Blurted out by tk – 22.Feb.2006

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