Basic Training in Lackland AFB, Texas
... The medical technicians stuck the needle right into one's right butt cheek; it felt like someone stabbing us with a hot needle. I have never felt pain like that before. The medicine felt as if someone had set my butt on fire, and the pressure was soo intense. Most of the girls were sick after getting all of the shots that they needed. I never got sick, but my butt hurt for a week. In the third week, we had to train for the big physical training test, which takes place during the sixth week. We had one week left before we were timed on the run. I ran the practice run, but I did not do too well. I ran the two-mile run in twenty-four minutes and forty-nine seconds. I was technically the slowest girl in our squadron. The pushups and situps, however, were easy for me. I ended up doing more than the men in our squadron. The men were a little upset that they were beaten by a girl. The fourth week came as fast as a snap of a finger. It was finally time for me to prove that I could do anything. First, I ran the two-mile run in nineteen minutes and fifteen seconds. Then, I did fifty-four pushups and sixty-seven situps in two minutes each. I came to the conclusion that if I could complete b...