09-12-2008, 09:56 AM
I was in Navy boot camp, near the end. I think I was about a week from graduating. We were learning how to fight fires and did the long march down to the firefighting training building. It was an odd march, since there were zero cars in the road as opposed to the usual countless. Once we got there they just made us all sit down for like 45 mins while our instructors were in a meeting talking about what happened. Then they came out and took away anybody who had family or friends in the affected locations and let them try to contact them. Eventually they told us all what happened and we somehow made our way through the day. The next couple of days were real strange, even for boot camp. Really made me realize what I had gotten myself into though.