Boring Day

After completing basic military training (BMT) and arriving at technical school for vocational training, you may think that the long, dense briefings about dry material are over. Let me assuage your fears my friends: your career of incredibly informative, helpful and not-at-all-redundant briefings has only just begun. Within their first few days, all of the new arrivals are corralled into one giant room and forced to enjoy watching presentation after presentation on all of the things they just learned about at BMT.

Was the thought of personal freedom and practical education too exciting for you? Well how about not one, not two, but three days of briefings on such interesting and relaxed subjects as the Uniform Code of Military Justice, sexual assault prevention, drug use and base safety? Each one is delivered via power point presentation with a speaker who clearly does this every single time and loves it.

The sarcastically enjoyable presentations are sprinkled with legitimately enjoyable videos that compliment the material. One example that I will remember long after I've forgotten the names of my children is the one about drug use. In the video, four airmen wearing the previous generation of uniform, a testament to the video's age, are passing a joint back and forth. The memorable part is that they do this outdoors, in uniform, and don't try to hide it at all.