I think the one thing that opened my eyes at basic was when they said,"A Combat Engineer's life expectancy during a combat breech, is 12 seconds!" After that fun, our Drill Sargents started cheering and laughing. It was late November 02', they came in yelling, "We're fuckin' goin' to war! Get ready fuckin' privates, we're going to Iraq! Shit's on for real now girls!" I held some respect for my round browns due to the fact they were either operating during Desert Shield/Storm and 2 were from the 75th Ranger Batt. I still never want to see Fort Leonard Wood again.