Ben's Address

It's a long one:
Roster#21 PLT 2nd Benjamin Guido
Charlie Company, 1-50 IN Regt
198th Infantry Brigade
9240 Treadwell Drive
Fort Benning, GA 31905-5919

Please write to him with your return address. He'll love to hear from you. He cannot receive food and other stuff, so only letters please.
There are 3 phases of Basic training - red, white & blue. He's in red now - red being the most strict. Blue means you graduated.
He has to take a shower in 2 min (his first one in 50 sec!), eat breakfast in 5 min. Here's description of a day - gets up at 3:30 am and go until 9:30 pm, then he has to do 2 people's laundry so they can sleep. Then have to do guard duty in full battle gear from 1 - 3:30 am, then get up at 4 am. He has 3 crazy DS (drill sergeant).
He seems to be doing better - got his M4 rifle (named Lucia) & 10 blank rounds. They are keeping him very busy with lots of soldier training stuff. The DS makes them do push-ups when they say 'thank you'. I'm sure he'll tell you lots of funny stories when you hear from him.