The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

As our time in the Army is coming to an end I figured I would come on here and blog about the good, the bad and the ugly of the last 10 years.

My first memories of the Army lifestyle was actually before he joined. Dwayne had to lose a good amount of weight to join the Army, around 50lbs to be exact. His recruiter would take him to the gym on Langley Air Force Base a few times a week. He also started the Atkins diet to help him lose weight, so I remember lots of bacon in our household during this time. But what stands out the most is hemorrhoid ointment. Yes I said hemorrhoid ointment, lol.

His recruiter told him a little trick to drop a few inches around the waist for when he went to MEPS to enlist, so he would pass the tape test. He had to rub hemorrhoid ointment all over his stomach, hips and back then wrap it with saran wrap and wear it all day. So I can remember going to Walmart a few times a week and clearing off their shelf of hemorrhoid ointment. I can just imagine what the cashiers thought when I went to pay for it, lol.

Needless to say all of it worked and he was able to drop the weight in a few months and was able to enlist into the United States Army.