Indoc The Fury of I-DAY

Indoc is the first two weeks of your life at Kings Point. During these two weeks you are taught about the school its principles and how to become a military person. Indoc can be explained to an outsider of the military as KP Boot camp.

The first day of Indoc is a blur. you get to KP walk through the gate and wait on line to leave whoever came to say good by to you. you see all these people dressed in summer whites and have no idea who they are. if you talk to one of them they will be extremely well mannered and polite this is because you are not their property yet. You have not entered Zero Deck or gone into O'Hara hall. Once you enter O'Hara everything changes you go from station to station handing in papers filling out forms showing ID hand in more forms it is a rush of unfamiliar faces. then you get to the far side of the gym. you learn the basics of facing movements in a 1 minute crash course. then they send you on your way to zero deck. Funny story happened here. After this you are supposed to exit O'Hara through a side entrance down some stairs. I saw two sets of stairs in my confused hurry and chose the wrong set. it only took me a few moments to realize my mistake but looking back at it its hilarious.

Now out of O'Hara you sprint across a road and down into Zero Deck. This is the real start of your journey in Kings Point.

You enter Zero deck with nothing but the clothes in your back you left your bags in O'Hara which will soon seem a worlds away. you follow a path and are directed by these people in red shirts. as one comes into view you have to greet them. in this furry you are getting fitted for shoes, given supplies a bag, backpack, some pants socks a bathrobe. everything you did not bring with you to Indoc. then you check out. After this process which seems to go on forever you come to the barbershop. and get your hair trimmed down to a zero. once you are done with this process you surface up the ladder well leading to Delano and exit to where you find a sign with your company number. this will be your first encounter with a Drill Instructor. they make you run through the basic facing movements again and again until they are certain that you have them down. all the while taking their saved anger at the KP System and take it out on you. at this point you have to think what did i get my self into. once the DI leads you to your company you really have begone your journey.

Now this is just my view on I-Day from my personal experiences yes i left a lot out because if you do decide to come to KP this is one of those things you will need to experience on your own.