Please do note that the Army is not a place that allows you to
maintain good looking baby soft skin.
Even in BMT, you'll be put through a field camp and when you go
into the field you will suffer.
Your face will be caked with a paste made from camouflage paint,
mud, grass sweat and talcum powder. Your hair will be coated with
the same mixture. Oil trapped beneath your skin will mix with the
dirt and acne will appear... but you won't notice the small bulges
on your face because overnight, sandflies and mosquitoes would have
put marks much larger, all over your face and body. Some of these
bites may bleed. As you run and crawl through the green crap around
you, you will get cut, scratched & bruised and you will bleed
more.
Your muscles will ache. You will be undernourished.
If you're still placing high importance in your facial appearance.
You have the wrong mentality. Change it or you'll suffer.
Welcome to the Army. You enter a boy. You leave a man.
