[Franek]

One month after I turned 18, I was drafted into the Army. I was sent to a IRTC ( Infantry replacement training center) .camp in Camp Wheeler Georgia. It was not long before I realized that we were cannon fodder. Our day started by some nut blowing a bugle at 5AM.
We cleaned up,made our beds,and went to chow Regardless of what you may have heard. I thought that the meals were good. At 7AM we assembled in formation and went about our daily routine.
The first week we were giving an apptitude test to see where we were going to be placed. A cop was sent to MP school. A truck driver to transportation. Cook or a Baker, to a cooking school ETC.As for me. Prior to the Army,I worked in an aircraft factory making B26 Marauders My job was to rivet a sheet metal box to a bulkhead to insert a radio. So what did they do? Christ they made me a radio man. Prior to this the only radio that I ever saw was the Zenith in our living room. That was cool though. The time it took to teach me saved me from the invasion.
The rest of the time we did close order drill,A lot of marching, the firing range,bayonet practice,and a lot of other dumb stuff.
We were shown a lot of movies about venereal desease.
The basic training was 6 weeks. I stayed much longer because they taught me communications.
After a couple of monts. I was promoted to a pfc. and went home for a week before I was assigned to the 99th division in texas.
The rest is history.