US Army, Part 6..Gettin To Know You

When you arrive at a new duty station, you have to in proccess, that's
going around sign a shit load of paperwork, become part of the big happy
family. My unit, company, battalion, 2nd Bn/81st Field Artillery,
consist of....this is the breakdown.

Its consist of 6 Batteries, or companies, we called them Batteries.
Headquarter, Headquarters & Headquarters, Alpha Battery, Bravo Battery,
Charlie Battery and Service Battery. Alpha, Bravo and Charlie Battery
are Firing Batteries, each of those Batteries have 6 M109a1 Self
Propelled Howiters. On those 6 guns in each Battery, there are called
Platoons, in each Platoon there 8 to 9 crew memebers. Now in each
Battery, there is an Armor, Communications, Fire Direction (FDC), and
Messhall Platoons also. Sooooo, you're looking at about 40 to 50 people
in each Battery. You have a Captain, he is charge, a First Sargent, a
Gunnery Sargent, and an XO (Safety Officer). Each M109a1 has a support
tracked vechile also, its called a M548. So you see, each firing Battery
is like a family all to itself.

Back to in proccessing. It takes about a week to complete. I was
assigned some one, can't remember who it was either. This I SHOULD
remember, right? Cause the week it takes to in proccess, is week of
doing nothing but shamming, that's what they called it. Since my unit
was a one unit post, we had to travel by army bus 11 kilometers away to
a major Army post called Baumholder. That's where all the major offices,
supplies and such comes to before it reaches my post. I don't even know
how many soldiers are stationed there, but there is a hell of a lot of
units there. Like I said its a large military installation, the largest
in Europe in fact. A lot of shit was to happen there in the future, but
not now, I'll get to it later.

Everyday, for that week, all I did was get on that bus and go from
building to building, submitting paperwork, picking up gear, and
submitting more paperwork. Was glad when it was all over. Finally I was
all set, proccessed into my unit, now the fun begins.

Hold on, its gonna get wild.

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