These
entries are from the letters that Brandon has mailed to me. His writing
at times can be a bit difficult to determine his words... bare with me,
I do my best, especially with army terms.
Last
night I was on Fire Guard duty from 3am to 4am. Fire Guard is one of
those things nobody likes to do, but everyone does it at least a few
times a week. What makes it worse now is the DS changed some of the
rules because there were some problems with people getting up on time
and the previous uniform incident. Now fireguard has to be woken up 1/2
hour before their shift instead of 15 minutes and we have to be in full
ACU uniform instead of our PT uniforms (shirt, shorts and sneakers)
As
another punishment...we had to get up at 5am today instead of 6am like
the rest of the company. I’m still pretty sore from all the smoking we
got yesterday along with the PT test. I’m glad Sunday’s are a day a rest
from training and PT. My big toes are numb on the outside of each.
There are few others that are having the same issue. Something with
these boots we wear is pinching a nerve or something. I’ll be in
sneakers most of the day today except for church. We have to wear the
full ACU uniform to church service.
Just
like last Sunday, no training. That does not mean we will be doing nothing.
We have to deep clean our bay. We’ll be moving all the beds and lockers
so we can buff out the entire floor. We also had to deep clean the
bathrooms and courtyard area.
Went
to church, that was a nice little get-away from cleaning since 5am. The
service definitely wasn’t long enough though. There were a lot of
people there, we had to use the overflow seating.
It
seems every muscle in my body is sore today. I think the worst was what
the DS called “the Indy 500”. We had to take a step (with hands on our
head the whole time) and squat to the ground, get back up and take
another step alternating legs and squat again. We had to do 4 laps
around our bay. When I walked down our stairs this morning my legs felt
like jello.
The
pink eye has spread, There is one more confirmed case and another
suspected case. The bad thing is that they are both right next to my
bunk. I’ve been trying to wash my hands even more and use hand sanitizer
any time I think of it. Hopefully I will not catch it!
During
all the cleaning one guy went into the stall in our bathroom and
actually fell asleep. LOL. He said he woke up with his head on the
toilet paper. Sleep deprivation is affecting everyone. While in church, I
looked down my row and beside me everyone was asleep except for two
people. There are no DSs there to make you get out of your seat and do
push-ups.
Everyone
is talking about what they want to go eat once they get out of here.
The food here isn’t too bad, but there is no time to eat and enjoy it.
It is also a bit healthier for the most part - no fast food type items.
All the talk about everyone’s favorite foods made me hungry. I could go
for pizza and an oreo blizzard right now. mmmmmm.
We were given this week’s schedule, Land Navigation another obstacle course and the dreaded gas chamber are all on the menu.
Update
on the guy who had to go to the hospital in my platoon. He got a bad
spider bite on his butt and I guess it got infected too. He’s back with
us, just on bed rest with medication. I guess I’ll call him “Pvt.
Spiderman”. Other nicknames…”Vin Diesel” (a guy who’s voice sounds just
like him); “Douche” ( a guy who’s real last name rhymes with
douche...formally known as “Boston”.
Shoot’em in the head…Shoot’em in the head…Kill ‘em…reload and shoot’em again.
Tonight
was very laid back. For the first time since starting basic. After
dinner we finished up the few things we had left to clean. Our DS left
early because something came up. The other platoon’s DSs checked in on
is from time to time. We double checked with one of them to make sure we
could shower and he said yes…shower whenever you want, just make sure
it’s done before 21:00 (it was only 19:00). So I quickly grabbed all my
stuff and took a long hot shower. Very awesome!
During
the time the DS was here he ran into someones fart. He asked who did it
and when the guy raised his hand he said “drop” (aka push-ups). While
the guy was doing push-ups he said “Don’t talk our of your ass you” LOL.
Overheard Quote: “in Cadence…Push!!!” (in the latrine (bathroom) all the stalls were full and a guy was trying to get things moving)
mahaffey
I remember that quote that was to funny
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 04:50 AM
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