MEPS …

Well, I had my first experience at MEPS (Ft. Meade). It was less than exciting, not productive (my fault) and FREEZING! I did, however, come up with a few tips that would be handy for your first (or all) trips to MEPS (end of the post).

I went to my recruiter’s office Monday morning around 11 AM. Me and two guys were driving up to MEPS in a van by a driver who…well, for niceness sake I’ll just say I was less than impressed. So, we got to MEPS around 11:45 or so. I wasn’t really told what to expect, and I wish I had been. Luckily I had the forethought to take a book with me. We were checked in, had to hand over our bags (salvaged my book) and told to sit and wait. We did, and we waited for 6 hours. We just sat and waited – welcome to the military: hurry up and wait.