The Reaper.
The recruits think of it as this impossible monster in their minds.
I thought that it would be nearly impossible to get up the hills from
the stories that I was told as a younger recruit.

By the time that I actually got to the hill I knew that I could conquer that hill.
I had it in my mind that I would make it ever if I had to claw my way
up it on my hands in knees.

Did it come to that? No. I made it to the top and stood triumphantly with tears
in my eyes with the thought that I had made it. I was getting my Eagle, Globe, and
Anchor in just a few short hours.

Moral of the story: Don't overthink the thing.

The real hills are at MCT.

Good luck to you.