the Benji Karmis website experience

                Holy shit, it’s already April?? It still feels like 2025. In fact, I just typed the date to this journal as 2025, which thinking back at it, I’ve done most of the time in the last journals I can remember.               Maybe that’s the sign that things are good. Like, when you look back at something and thing, “Yeah, those were the good old days,” you forget that you’re always in the “good old days,” in some sense. That’s “basically” the mentality I had going into Basic Training, except I knew those days were especially important. “These are the good old days” was something I had written on my hydration pack, which I wore everywhere. It was the mantra to my time there, and honestly? I had so much fun. Basic training was probably the highlight of my military career, or perhaps at least around the same as when things were good at the 1 st Engineer Battalion. Two diff...