Physical exam for entrance into the Army National Guard
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006It was 5 a.m. and I was on the way to take the physical exam for entrance into the Army National Guard. My recruiter looked at his watch as we pulled up to the large downtown office building. “We’d better hurry,” he said as we headed for the door. We went into the building and took the elevator to the eighth floor. On the eighth floor we walked to a set of doors with “Military Medical Exams” stenciled on it. “Here we go,” said my recruiter. “I will sign you in and they will call me when it’s time to pick you up.” I looked around at what looked like a big waiting room. “Cool,” I told him.
We went to a desk at the end of the room and signed in a book. The guy behind the counter handed me a sticker, told me to put it on my shirt, head through the door on the left and down the hall to the briefing room. I did what he told me to do. I walked into a big room where there were a few people sitting at desks like we had at high school. A large heavyset lady wearing a nurse’s uniform was in the front of the room and she told me to take a seat. We waited in silence until a young lady came in and took a seat as instructed by our large friend. The nurse grabbed a phone on the wall and told someone that she was ready. She passed out folders to all of us. Two other ladies in nurse’s outfits came in the door. “OK,” the large lady said. “I am Nurse Holman, these are Nurse Schmitt and Nurse Gamins. Today we are going to get you all through the military entrance exam. Go through the forms in the folder and fill in your name and social security number on each form.” I went through all the forms and filled in the information.
