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Diary kept over 8 weeks of Basic Training and 2 more weeks of briefing military leaders and selling the diary to Osmond TV and one of the networks. Turned into girls with big tits falling in the mud and was going to "star" Maria Osmond playing me. No thanks. I returned to Lucasfilm (after working as Production Assistant on Star Wars) and committed myself to the Star Wars franchise and to marketing ILM's services for the next 20 years. Then, I switched to the golf industry for the next 5 years. Now I volunteer at a beautiful regional park Golf Course as a "Player's Assistant." It is somewhat hilarious the fear that most golfers have of a "Marshall." I just drive up and say with a smile; "Any complaints? Anything I should know about?" And then I offer to help them find any errant hit balls. Great job. I also volunteer to deliver food to housebound folks in wheel chairs. Meals on Wheels. I work just 1.5 hours a week in a 4th grade classroom in Berkeley public school system. Schools are so important. I wrote this diary as a way to record the actual experience of going through basic training. There were no editors and my emotion is given full reign. I always wanted to host a reunion, a gathering of sorts, for these platoon mates and characters I call by the initial of their first name. Enjoy the Diary. I was 26 when I experienced Basic Training.