Congrats! Decent station to have basic at! Wow, 2 years...I complained about 6 months! And yes you nailed it - squids get the cream of the feast when it comes to food supplies. And if you get carrier based and push 72" like me, you'll learn to duck, constantly. The passageways are not designed with ease-of-comfort when going through! Just take two hands and vault yourself through.
So I take it they give you some time off in between basic and schooling? That's nice if it's the case. It wasn't with me.
As I mentioned before, I only wish I had stayed in but when your in your 20's tomorrow seems like such a long ways away and then all of a sudden you find yourself being an old washed up has-been sitting at a computer keyboard pushing 50 and typing to someone how you wish you could have done things differently in life - but the only difference is now it's too late. Stick with it bro!
Either way, best of luck and seriously speaking for all of us here we'll do our best to help out with things on the homefront with the critters and all.