Good luck man, I did boot in the army right down the road. The sand flea thing is true. They will wake you in the middle of the night and make you march in place to wake them, then like gene said make you stand at attention while those lil fuckers bite you. Aint nothing to it, but to do it... GOOD LUCK and Stand out. If you do you will remember boot camp and it will be a great learning experiance.
I made sure that at reception even before boot camp I made my name known by DS.(drill serg) the first few weeks sucked because of it, but once the ds's got real and quit being dicks I learned a lot of shit from them and got special perks. Got to drink coffee while the rest of my platoon drank juice... It has it's perks to be known for working your ass off and leading a platoon.