A photo over each of the urinals I thought was kind of funny. You
watch your pee come out and compare the color of the chart above
the urinal to see if you are adequately hydrated.
These entries are from the letters that Brandon has mailed to me.
This
morning I had a fire guard shift - woke up everyone at 3:45 instead of
4:00am because we were told to report down in the classroom at 4:45am.
When we got down there the DS’s seemed a little confused as to what and
where we were supposed to go. After a bit of discussion they lead us all
to the medical for guess what?… more shots! (with a couple of nasal
sprays as a bonus) We got there before they opened and had to sit in a
line on the floor in the hall ‘till they came and opened the joint. I’ve
heard stories of people passing out, but after all these shots we’ve
had, nobody has passed out yet. I think I may be immune to all diseases
known to man now. LOL!
Breakfast
was after that, then we headed back to classroom 1 where the cadre
(these are all the processing sergeants and staff) helped out everyone
who had issues with their clothing or boots and such. We then headed out
to a field where we practiced some of the basic movements such as
“attention” and “about face”. It was warm here at Ft. Benning, so at
certain intervals the DS would have everyone stop and drink. (We all
have to wear these things called camel-baks. These are small back packs
that we can fill with water, they have a tube that comes around the
front with an adapter you can suck the water out of. This is part of our
required uniform whenever we go outside here at basic.) So the DS had
everyone shout “Beat The Heat Drill Sergeant, Beat The Heat”. After a
bunch of those we would start practicing again. Lunch came and went,
then the DS divided our bay up almost down the middle and had us all
move to classroom 2. We were then informed we would be going down range
(to basic) on Thursday for sure and that half this bay would most likely
be "A Company". I sure hope so because there are some real jokers on the
other side. One of those jokers I’ll call “Pvt. Pusher”. He likes to push
everyone’s button, he's an agitator and doesn’t take anything seriously.
He’s always doing something stupid in formation. That’s going to get him
and his company in a lot of trouble.
Later
the DS was telling everyone to drink, when he saw not everyone was
drinking he said “open your mouth and suck on it, I wanna see everyone
with the tube in their mouth.” Of course he saw someone who didn’t
listen and we all had to get in “front leaning rest position” (there is
no rest for that position). We also had the tube in our mouth while he
made us start doing push-ups. People started coughing and choking.
Luckily we didn’t have to do too many.
After
dinner, bay leaders had to report to the DS office. This kind of sucked
because it took forever and it was eating up my personal time. Finally
we found out we’re getting an inspection at 4:45am tomorrow. We also
have a list of items that everyone needs to have in their duffle bag.
Tomorrow may be interesting.
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