My name is Will and I am 21 y.o. I have been in DEP for several months now and never knew this site was here till a few days ago. I am leaving Mobile, AL in a little over a week to go to recruit training. Then after the 8 (or is it 9?) weeks of camp I am off to Charlston... So I have read a bunch of posts and I'm sure all of you have answered all possible questions on this board, sorry to make a new topic. I am scared, am I going to survive this? I graduated high school in '03 and havnt done anything with my self since. I told myself last june that i had to do something, go to college or join the military, so i did. Now that I am a week away I am getting nervous, I have heard too many vague horror stories and gotten the sarcastic "good luck" from too many people. Is it really that hard to pass my schools, and what happens if I fail A-School? I read on another topic about people failing NPS and getting another non-nuke job with whatever rating there a-school was... but what if i dont even make it through that? I mean, I am going to give this my 110% and try my hardest to do the right thing all the time, but there is always the "what if". What will the housing be like in A-school/NPS? I have heard some people refer to dorms, others to barracks? Is it apartment style/college dorms? group houses? barracks?
Also, is there anything important i should know going in? Anything that will get me a millimeter ahead of the rest of my peers?
