There
were a lot of rumors today that PT would be another run day, because SGT Kent wouldn’t want to lose a run day because of the holiday
weekend. This was not the case however as we did the normal warm up
exercises and then a number of push-up and sit-up drills.
Today
at school we only had a half day which was nice. After lunch we didn’t
have to return, but the Russian instructor was sure to remind us of all
that we had to get done over the extended weekend.
After
lunch we had safety training scheduled. This was not the ordinary
weekend safety briefing, but a full blown session with a number of
speakers and the entire battalion. Because of the 4 day weekend coming
up I guess they thought they needed to remind everyone to be safe. We
were broken up into males and females. Males headed to the gym and the
females headed to the chapel. Sitting in the gym bleachers with no air
conditioning and a few hundred other hot and sweaty dudes was not a very
comfortable experience. We ended up getting briefs from several
different sergeants, each going over a certain topic. The battalion
commander started things off letting us know how important this
information is and ended his speech with having the entire battalion
repeat after him...”Wrap That Rascal”. The topics included: Going AWOL,
Suicide Prevention, Sexual Assault, STDs (complete with the graphic
photos of STD covered penis and vaginas), drugs and alcohol, and finally
Traffic Safety. This last segment was done by our own SGT Kent who
during his brief said the word “doggon” 50 times (a guy behind me was
counting). 3 hours later we were dismissed to our company areas.
One
more note on STDs...we were all informed that the 15th signal brigade
is in first place in the entire army with the number of STDs! I’m glad
I’m married and monogamous. (I'm also guessing this is a scare tactic)
We
had about an hour break then had to have our normal safety briefing
from our 1st sergeant and our commander. The commander said a person in
our battalion committed suicide this last week. Our lone girl sergeant
took the stand after that and asked if anyone wanted to talk to the
commander about this suicide (they stated the name because there were
some that knew this person). The girl sergeant is just a total bitch and
I’ve hated her from my first impression of her. She stood on the stand
in front of everyone and after asking if anyone needed to talk to the
commander about this suicide she just stared at the
formation...anyone...anyone...OK, moving on and started to do mail call.
She is pretty heartless and from what I’ve seen treats all the privates
like crap and doesn’t care about any of them.
After
what seemed like an eternity of standing in formation in the hot sun we
were finally released. It turned out only to be an hour, but when
you’re in direct sun in full ACUs with sweat rolling down your belly and
legs...it seems like forever. Those of us in RBK then marched over to
our barracks. Everyone was fully expecting some sort of cleaning
marathon because of the 4 day coming up, but to our surprise we were
released for the night. The sergeant on desk also said he’s treating
this like a weekend night so we don’t have to be back until 1AM (Phase
V) or not at all (Phase V+). We later found out that the folks in
Charlie had a 21:00 bed check (a half hour earlier than normal). Sucks
to be them!
Me
and the young Hawaiian went over to the bowling alley. We met up with
my old assistant bay leader (back from reception days), PVT Diesel from
my platoon in basic, and a few others. We had a few beers and talked
about the times in basic and how AIT has been treating all of them. PFC
Metal and his wife joined us later on, it was a pretty good night. Nice
to unwind and relax.
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