 so I'm at the airport right now getting ready to ship out to basic training so I had my meps shipping day today and I wanted to kind of go over it really quick so you all know what to expect from the shipping day at meps so first thing you're gonna wake up about four o'clock and you have to be down in the lobby about 4 30 you ready to go during the air force today I see mommy she's not awake yet I'm I'm like let's go we slept like zero last night we were yeah it was not good and then you're going to eat breakfast breakfast at meps is usually not very good my personal opinion all right I will say this breakfast is better than like the eggs and biscuit and everything I'm gonna get some yogurt the next thing is you will get on the shuttle and they will send you over to meps all right up the meps steps you'll go through security excited tired ready to get on the bus and sleep after that you go directly to your liaison for your branch to check in after that you'll go to the briefing room for a quick overview briefing of the day and then you will go directly to medical now ladies will have to go pee in a cup again this time it is unsupervised but this is just for a pregnancy test so guys do not have to do this part again but after that the ladies will go to the medical room the guys will go to their medical room you get down to your underwear again and the doctor is going to do a super quick check over your body and make sure you have no new cuts scrapes scars bruises anything like that and they will also check your height and weight super quick process this time thankfully and then you will get dressed and you will go into a private room with the doctor to have your doctor interview doctor will ask you a few basic questions just making sure nothing has changed since your last visit so making sure nothing has changed medically you have had no new law violations no new tattoos if you do you want to make sure that your recruiter knew that before and you need to write it down on your tattoo form because it does have to be documented so just a few things you want to make sure like you're not taking any new medications because things like that can hinder you from being able to ship out that day now i almost had a heart attack during all of this process because something happened that made me almost not be able to ship out but that is going to be a story for another day so i'm just going to continue on but you definitely want to stay tuned for that because i was i was not happy i was about to freak out so once you have passed all that and you did the medical eval you did the interview you have passed the medical part that is really the hard part and then you are good to go back out of the medical wing and check back in with your branch liaison now at this point you are going to do a lot of back and forth you're going to go to your branch liaison and go over your contract and you're going to go back with a just a general meps person i don't know their title but then they're going to go over your contract again the one you just went over with your branch liaison so then you'll go over that with the meps person then you'll go back to your air force person and go over it again and after that you are just going to wait around until it is time to go swear in now if you're active duty this is going to be your official air force swearing after the swearing you go to the lunch room and they give you like a bag to lunch so i had a ham sandwich and some chips and cookies and a drink when you're done with that they will have all of the shippers go into the briefing room again you will turn in the name tag because that you've been wearing all day then they will give you your meal voucher and your plane info then you just wait for the shuttle to get there you go outside once the shuttle gets there you load up on the shuttle and you head to the airport which is the point that i am at right now i'm waiting for time to load on the plane i'm gonna fly out of mashville to houston have a super quick layover hopefully i don't miss my next flight because it's literally only like 35 minutes everyone's flight information is going to be completely different depending on where you ship out from so i'm just waiting for my flight to san antonio texas to start basic training all right guys right down these escalators our journey starts so this is the end of the road for me today and i will see you guys after basic training