As I hugged and told my mother, father, brother and sister goodbye and headed off into the great unknown. Very unfamiliar to a kid fresh out of high school who didn't want to do the same things as his high school friends, which was to say work or go to community college. But when I got off the plane, to my surprise, I was just one of two to three hundred recruits waiting for further instructions. When I was placed in a division of about 30 men, the commander of the recruit division or RDC yelled at us. I was thinking to myself and I'm sure many others were also thinking "what have I gotten myself into?" Before going to bed, we all had to shave as ordered by the RDC. Now, this wouldn't have been a big deal if I hadn't grown half a beard before I left. Needless to say, I came out a mess and went to bed. The next morning, the RDC had declared: "If you fail any part of the test, training, physical test or simply make a mistake, you will start again on the first day of training camp!" Not that I wasn't already scared, but to think I would do it again would be foolish. I knew then that I didn't have to be so inverted and make a few friends to make it through boot camp. John Thibaut and Harlod Kelley's social exchange theory is that when an individual's indulgences in relationships benefit and avoid those that are. are not. A relationship is evaluated in terms of outcome, that is, benefits minus costs. A benefit could be financial success, social prestige, emotional comfort/security, or anything that could directly benefit you. A cost could be wasted time, money or lost opportunity, such as missing your audition or interview. Ideally it's better to have more benefits than you cost, but I think that's how most people would like...... middle of paper ......trainings and how they progress and change.Works CitedHeath, Robert L. and Jennings Bryant. Human communication theory and research: concepts, contexts and challenges. 2nd ed. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum, 2000. Print. Lee, Jaesub. Chapter 6 Theories of interpersonal and relational communication. Power point. Michaels, J. W., Acock, A. C., & Edwards, J. N. (1986). Social exchange and fairness determinants of relational commitment. Journal of Social and Personal Relations, 3(2), 161-175. Farrell, D. and Rusbult, C.E. (1981). Exchange variables as predictors of job satisfaction, work engagement, and turnover: The impact of rewards, costs, alternatives, and investments. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 28(1), 78-95. Littlejohn, SW and Foss, KA (2008). Theories of human communication (9th ed.). Belmont, California: Thomson & Wadsworth.