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Ben's Accomplishment  By: Nate Hodges

  “Hutt! Get ready men!” The general screamed as the air force training pilots marched. Ben Quirks had been dreaming of being in the air force since he was a little boy. He loved the planes and the rockets and especially the people who were in them. His older brother Luke had been in the air force for seven years now and now it was his turn. When Ben was a little boy he had heard many stories from dangerous to good stories from his brother. It was Ben's dream to be just like his brother. Ben marched in his blond hair and was about 6'3 in his air force outfit. His brother in the Iraq war was in a plane and fighting and he worried about him. It was the first day of boot camp and there was a lot of people around him. First the men marched to the planes hoping to fly, but did not. They went inside the plane and the general told them all about the buttons on the planes and the situations. Most of the men thought that this was boring but Ben found it very interesting that there where things that the general said that Ben already new from his brother telling him. Then they examined the missals and the machine guns and a last the end of the first day of boot camp was over.   The second day was about the most brutal day I had ever saw. The general told us other days would be worse. First the general screamed at the top of his lungs that if I am going to get you into shape you guys have to run twenty miles. You thought I was going easy on you day one because I thought you were a bunch a wimps so I let you off easy. Now it is time to get you into shape and toughen you up. So go and run that twenty miles and no walking. If you walk no water for you, so get going. The boys ran their lives out (almost) and it seemed to last for there whole life. Ben was drenched with sweat it was like he had all that water thrown on him if he as the coach won the Superbowl except with sweat. Some of the men walked, and they ran for the rest of the day with one paper cup glass of water but he was one of the lucky ones and barely made it. He felt as if he just ran his whole about of running he had done in any sports combined. Just as he was starting to breathe normal the general screamed to get over there and lift some weights that will almost crush you. The general screamed for the boys to choose something over seventy five pounds or more. The general then screamed like he always did, in Ben's ear to grab one and get to it. He grabbed one and could not lift. It was like trying to beat a cheetah in a foot race. When Ben was thinking about what he was going to do he heard the general scream at him and say you mange antelope get to work you piece of garbage, your like a can of beans Quirk what a lamo. The days passed and passed with even more challenging and treacherous things that almost made the men die. As the days past it started to get cold and freeze and Ben was freezing. As the days got colder the general pushed them even more and more to run more and more miles. Some men got kicked out of boot camp because the general thought they were too much of wimps. On the thirtieth day Ben was surprised he made it that far there was a skill they had to do that took the breath out of you. They had to go a whole two days with one glass of water. It took Ben's breath and about thirty more men's breath away. So they started off on there treacherous journey. It took Ben three days too finish his long journey the other guys four to five days. I could sense that the general was laughing the whole time.

 The final day came and the sun was shining through the windowsill. Ben was filled with scratches and was not doing very well, but he had made it that far and he was going to make it into the airforce no matter what it took today. Ben went out bright and early and washed himself up and heard the general reading off the list that were going into the air force. Ben only heard a couple names but he did not hear his. That worried him because he thought he had done the best.

 He murmured to himself “will me dream ever come true” and walked away.   The men started coming out of there dorms at around six thirty and washed themselves up. At nine o'clock the general came out of his tent and saw the men lifting things running, and looked happy. His smile looked (was the first time he ever smiled before) like he was happy for someone on his list again rarely ever happened). He yelled (not as loud as usual)