Brent Huff, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John C. Worsencroft, October 20, 2009: Saving the Legacy tape no. IA-15, 17

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Brent Huff t b r 2 9 obviously that's what it's there for it's meant to be a culture hock it meant t desensitize you, but it took me a few weeks of really I want to get out of here. I w u]d have left if I could. Of course, when you 're in boot camp the myth is that if you decide you want to leave they put you in the brig for eight years or something. It was fun. When I was there I was kind of miserable. For the first half I was definitely in shock dealing with the fact that I was there, didn't really want to be there, I was second-guessing myself in my decision. By the end you kind of see if for what it is. You get the game. For one, you get to a point where you decide the quickest way out of here is to finish it, because you're not thinking about after boot camp, you're not thinking about your career, you're not thinking about your outside life. When you're in there, you're so focused, you just don't have time to think about anything else. So you just focus on that. JCW: How do you think you got over the culture shock? Or did you just get busy with other stuff? BH: I'd say that. It was just enough of a challenge there was a point at which I decided to deal with it as a challenge and accept it. The quickest way out was to go through it all. Of course, by the time you get to the end, it's not really that hard, it's not physically hard, not at all. It's kind of mentally hard just because you get up in the morning and you're controlled all day long and that's mentally demanding to have someone else in that kind of control. You can't sit down, you have to eat when you eat and you only have a certain amount of time to eat. It's like playing a drinking game twenty-four-seven; it's really exhausting (laughs). But by the end you see it for what it is. It's like it's a big frat game and it's fun. By the end you've really enjoyed yourself, you've really gotten used to it. In 5