a bit cooler to see. It really shows just how big Barton Field is. The
red line is our march from Charlie company to RBK, which I should
only be doing one more time.
I
had hall guard this morning from 1:30 AM to 2:30 AM. The shift isn’t
too bad except for the fact that I have a hard time getting back to
sleep afterwards. I just tossed and turned in my bed until wake up at
4:30 AM. I then got up and got ready for PT this morning. Yes you heard
me...PT! It seems like forever since I did PT. PVT LD asked me last
night if I wanted to be his battle buddy this morning for an appointment
he had, but I had to decline. I’ve missed so much PT already and I also
didn’t want to be late to class today since we are reviewing for the
test.
After
I was all ready, the word was spread that we were to stay inside the
barracks. I thought for sure we were going to do barracks maintenance
instead of PT. It was raining pretty good outside and we found out after
about 10 minutes that we were going to do PT in the hall.
Strange...never done anything like this before. We spread out all along
the hallway and did a lot of push-up and sit-up drills. There were a lot
of people not doing much because the sergeants couldn’t walk around the
formation and check on them. I could feel the combination of being sick
and not working out in a while taking it’s toll on me. I got tired
pretty quick, but I felt like I got a pretty good workout.
Today
in class we did a review, which included the instructor starting off
just asking random questions. These are questions pulled from our entire
time here at AIT. He then started to make a game out of it he called
the Um game. Everyone had to stand up and the sergeant went to each
person asking them a question. If they got it correct, they could sit
down. The major rule to the game was that they cannot say “um” when
answering the question or else it’s wrong and they keep standing. If the
person gets it wrong the question moves to the next and so on.
After
lunch we practiced setting up a network using Cisco’s Packet Tracer
program. This is the time we had a little fun. PFC Metal brought his
laptop’s wireless mouse to the classroom and hooked the little USB
receiver to the back of PVT Celtic’s computer before anyone came into
the room. Then for the next couple of hours he would pull out his mouse
and right click, maximize windows, or add a bunch of routers and
switches to PVT Celtic’s network he was trying to build. This would all
be done anytime he wasn’t looking directly at his screen. He was about
to lose it. It was pretty funny. My stomach was hurting because I was
laughing so hard. Finally PVT Celtic saw me and PFC Metal cracking up
and he knew we were doing something. LOL
At
some point a senior sergeant in the school house noticed a guy in our
class that didn’t shave. He went and got our class leader the MOS-T
sergeant in our class and ended up smoking him because his class wasn’t
squared away. Needless to say our MOS-T sergeant asked everyone to shave
everyday...if we don’t we’ll be cleaning all the bathrooms in the
schoolhouse.
After
school the Charlie sergeant who marched us over lit into Charlie
company. I guess their inspection of the barracks didn’t go very well.
So he was pretty pissed off and giving them all kinds of threats. Looks
like we’re going to be coming back to Charlie in an interesting time.
Overheard Quote:
“If you were a dude, I’d drop kick you in the chest” (Our instructor
after seeing a girl in class texting on her phone - phones are not
allowed in class and she was trying to hide it from him while texting
under the cover of her cargo pockets in her pants)
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