Hi, I’m Private Nathaniel Alejondro, I’m from Texas and I’m doing at basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Alejondro: The only thing I’d heard about the confidence tower was that it was really high.

Alejondro: They go through it step by step with you. The drill sergeants very, very helpful. He does yell at you a lot, but that’s just part of basic training.

Alejondro: So they tell you, what you’re going to do, when you get up there. So that so you go straight up and do it.

Alejondro: I’ll admit it was, it was pretty steep, it was a straight 90 degree angle straight up and down I had to prove to myself that I could actually, actually just go through with it and get it over with, because that’s what I wanted to do.

Alejondro: What this confidence tower does build confidence. Because going up you really, it really looks high but as soon as you get down your wishing it was higher. You’ve just got to take it one step at a time. If you try to rush it, basic’s going to be awhile. But if you know what you’re doing, you listen to the drill sergeant, you listen to your fellow Soldiers, you’re going to have fun.