Been there and done that. Fall of 68. I was about the fourth to step off the bus. One of the guys in front of me threw his cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it. I knew that would be the start of our "basic training". We got to duck-walk through the parking lot picking up whatever we could find. Oh well... If it hadn't been that it would have been something else.
Did you get that wonderful first army meal? Standing in the rain and eating from a metal plate with chunks of undercooked potato with the peels still on sitting in watery "gravy"? Somebody had to work awfully hard to make such an unappetizing meal.
Not joking a bit here, but when I had 14 years in the Air Force, I went PCS, to an Army community in Germany, with 17,000 Army and 2,000 Air Force. I went to eat at the Army dinning hall a few times. Without a doubt, it was the worst food I ever had. USAF dinning halls always had much better food. I don’t know how those Army troops ever tolerated that awful food.