Some of you don’t know but upon my return to Amercia I enlisted back in the military but this time in the Air Force, NY Air National Guard to be exact.  Well I arrived yesterday at Ft Meade, MD for three months of training.  I’m hoping this will make some good entries to my blog.  Let’s start from the beginning.

I arrived at Regan National Airport where I had to take a cab about 30 miles to Ft Meade.  I had a great cab driver that was very patient and missed lunch with his friends to get me there.  After we finally found the main gate we got in and I checked into my room.  It is actually fairly nice.  Much like a low budget hotel, but I have internet and cable and my own room.  I needed to check in with the Air Force office to let them know I arrived.  Well actually I first had to get a haircut.  I tried calling the AF office but nobody would answer.  I finally put on my uniform and headed back to the bus stop to look for some building.  I could not get the bus schedule right so I went back to the room.  I finally called the school I was attending and got in touch with the AF and they said just show up for school in the morning.

If you didn’t know I was in the Army before so this is a switch.  I have no idea how to wear my uniform and to make matters worse my instructions informed me that we had to wear our dress uniform 4 days a week.  I got everything ready and checked the bus schedule three times.  I woke up put on my uniform and had about a 15 min walk to the bus stop.  Got there and was told the bus does not stop there, but at Brett Haul… which is next door to my building.  I then had to run in the snow back to try and make the bus so not to be late for my school.  I made it and arrived at the school on time.  I waited for a while why others arrived.  One by one they came all in their camoflauge uniforms.  We finally entered class and out of 55 people, one person had his dress uniform on… and you’re reading his blog.

I’m taking a journalism class and after a short welcome we were told we would be taking a English test.  The kicker was if we failed we had to take an extra 3 weeks of remedial training.  If you read my blog you know grammar isn’t my best and I don’t proof read my blog, but that is because my bad writing makes my wife laugh.  Anyway it has been a long time since I had formal schooling on English.  We finished the test.  Then we had more orientation and we would get our results after lunch.  Well the computer system was down and we had to wait two extra hours.  The stress was driving us crazy to see if we would pass.  Well I am happy to report me know enuff english to pass test.

-Senior Airman Young out