THE MEPS CENTER
Ah yes, the meps center. It's a beautiful day, 65 degrees, bright partly cloudy day, and just getting out of school. It could not be more perfect.
Well I met my recruiter at the flag pole at school and we go for an hour drive to the MEPS place. Road construction and bumper to bumper traffic, what a way to spent your evening huh?
We get there, My recruiter signs me in, he leaves and i go watch movies for a while. They call my name, I go, and i get my hearing and vision test done. For the hearing test they lock you in a soundproof box with illusionitical walls *I got very dizzy* they have you put on the tight head phones and hand you a button. You pass the test for every sound you here. Then they took me to the vision test, I stuck my head inside of a box and read the letters off of the thing.
Afterwards they took me and the other kids to a hotel and we ate and slept. The food was very good and the rooms were cool (temp wise) Everyone has a room partner but lucky for me mine didn't show. Phone call 4:30 in the morning and i get a shower, run downstairs, and eat more great food. We took a bus back to the MEPS.
Then the fun begins, they hit us with the power points and verify our numbers. We all got handed a plastic tube and no one knew what it was for, we found out tho, breathalyser. We all passed *PHWEW* Our folders that were handed to us has the titles and locations of a few tests we had to get done. among them were; blood test, history, urine, and THE UNDERWEAR OLYMPICS (DUN DUN DUN)
They had us all strip down into our underwear and go through many exercises in a cold room. They has you walk on your knees across the room, then on your heels, and then the toes. Land on our knees at the same time and stand back up without moving our feet our touching the floor. We all were weighed and measured and if your over weight you got tape for BFP Body Fat Percentage *I was one of them, Its the muscle I tell ya* In sent was a doctor who has an IQ of like a million came in and issued his own tests. One by one he had us put our cloths on and sent us out.
And we watched more movies as they processed the paperwork to see who passes and who does not. Classic Batman and Happy Gilmore. Those who pass then go get fingerprinted and security checked. *I was clean* Then those who passed that were sworn in. Raise your right hand and copy the little funny guy. Thats it, my recruiter came picked me up, everyone congratulated us, and we had another hour drive home.
My mother met us in Elk River and we ate in the Hong Kong Buffet *Best food ever* we went home and then my parents then began interrogating me milking me for every ounce of information about weather I enjoyed it or not and all that parent junk.
All in all I had a great weekend doing pretty much nothing!
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