In the summer of 1999, I spent 14 weeks learning to shoot people.Well, and to stab them with a bayonet. "Blood makes the grass grow green," and please do inquire regarding my war face.Georgia is unpleasant in summer, and OSUT — one-station unit training, the extended version of basic training that the Army grants to infantrymen as a very special personal gift — is exceptionally tedious. In the movies, basic training involves a lot of dramatic shouting and high-intensity confrontation, and... Read this story
