- Faceplanting off the cattle truck - right at my Drill Sergeant's feet.

- The first words I heard when I got off the cattle truck at my company barracks: "Welcome to 'The Rock'."

- "Shark Attack" - getting smoked within the first .00004 seconds of arriving at basic training.

- Running the bayonet course with my battle buddy Fiasco and almost gouging my eye out.

- The gas chamber. Nuff said.

- M16 Qualification day - Drill Sergeant Busick pinning a Sharpshooter medal on my body armor and saying "Good job."

- Night infiltration course - stopping in the middle of the course in a puddle of water and just lying there underneath barbed wire while they medevaced somebody.

- Grenade qualification - Vandal claiming he pulled the pin on a grenade before throwing it; but it was actually still in the grenade.

- U.S. Weapons - finished shooting the M203 grenade launcher, only to get smoked by the 1SG because my company was sitting in the bleachers talking: "I'm doing pushups because you're too loud!"

- 15k road march in the snow without field jackets or gloves.

- FTX - doing missions on no sleep during the day, pulling double shift guard duty at night, getting gassed in our camp, constant rain, the most fun I've ever had.

- Playing "nut ball" - you make a ball out of socks and try to hit the other players in the crotch (it hurts... a lot).

- Shaving cream fights

- Singing corny love songs in the shower

- Quotes from the Drill Sergeants:

*DS Perales: "Doing your own thing. Got it. Got something for that!"

*DS Lee: "Good freaking job, freaking you!"

*1SG: "You better pull your heads out of your 4th point of contact, Charlie company!"

- Playing the "Oh, I got you good, you f***er!" game with Shook.

- Brown wearing a neck warmer like a mini skirt

- Running around in 3rd platoons barracks with Meagher and Hufferd in our black trenchcoats and sunglasses dressed like Neo.