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.
We
started of the day with an “ability group run”. Depending on the time
we got on our one mile run we were split up into 4 groups. A group, is
all the fast folks (7:15 and faster); B group, a little slower folks
(8:15 or faster); C group, which I was in, (10:15 or faster); D group,
are all the slow pokes that had any longer time than 10:15. Each group
ran at different paces and ran for about 20 minutes. I was able to stay
in my group for the entire run. There were a number of people who fell
out. There was a van driving a ways behind D group that picked up all
the people who couldn’t make it. We need to do a lot more running if I’m
going to get a better score on my run time.
After
breakfast we were hanging in our bay and the DS came in and saw a lot
of people sitting, he asked if we didn’t have anything to do? Then he
started tossing beds that weren’t tight. Throwing boots off lockers that
weren’t set-up correctly and also emptying out peoples lockers all over
the floor if they weren’t locked. Luckily nothing happened to mine, but
my battle buddy had his bed tossed. Then we had to move out and worry
about cleaning it all up later.
Since
my battle buddy had the pink eye, he had to go to sick call first thing
in the morning. Since he was gone (and you can’t take your rifle to
sick call) I got stuck carrying it around all day long. I had two
rifles slung on my back during chow trying not to hit stuff or people
with them. A pain in he butt! Speaking of chow, there was a guy walking
with his tray of food and drink and our DS started screaming at him for
something. It made him jump and he spilled his drinks all over a guy in
our platoon. It was pretty funny, but we weren’t allowed to laugh.
When
we got back from lunch our bay was even more trashed. Cleaning supplies
in the bathroom thrown all over, the trash knocked over, etc. Still had
no time to clean because we were off for another field assessment. We
went out in squads (7 or 8 people) and had to perform first aid,
evaluate casualties, transport casualties and such. We were graded at
each station. Carrying the people around was pretty tough. Since I was
the heaviest, I was not carried. I was always the carrier. That’s a good
workout carrying a dude around a track. Our squad did the second best
in our platoon, so that was good.
There
was a number of new DSs around today. I think they are new and getting
the feel of how everything works. The one assigned to our platoon is a
borderline midget. He’s so small it’s hard to take him seriously. It
will be interesting to see how he works out. They are supposed to be
here for just a couple of weeks.
Today
it seemed we were smoked randomly here and there all day long. At the
end of the day, while still in full ACU uniform our DS smoked us pretty
bad. He said we seem to be going backwards as a platoon. Everyone keeps
messing up all the time... I wonder if we will be able to pull it
together.
We
got long showers again tonight which was awesome. After showers, Pvt.
Spiderman ended up going to the hospital again. His bite seemed to
getting worse. He grossed out a few people by showing them the bite (on
his butt). I didn’t feel like taking a look at that, but I heard
everyone getting grossed out by it. Tomorrow we will go out in the field
and try to practice what we learned about LandNav in class today. It
will be interesting to see how lost we get. LOL.
Hew
i hope DS Midget doesnt see your blog heheh
Sunday, May 2, 2010 - 12:18 AM
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