The Boxer

Day #1

Well, our first day was a nightmare come true. It was a gruelling six weeks of training which involved drilling, pyhsical training, weapon training and lots of bawling and shouting. There were thirty of us in the troop at the beginning and at the end of the course we were down to twenty one in total. Trade training was easier and I passed with flying colors, we were then posted to Beverly to do driver training which I also passed. 

In trade training we were ordered to state our choice of posting, I wrote Hong Kong, Cyprus and Germany. 

I ended up in Germany at a place called Celle. 

As a lad I wasn't very strong and was bullied a lot at school, slowly the others realized that they could have a go at me. On seeing this my color sergeant called me to his office.