B Company, 3rd BN, 47th IN, 1st Platoon (The Gladiators)
I'm on the top row, second to the left
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
woke up at our normal time today (about 4am) and got ready. We did our
normal PT and then added a 60/120 around the track. We sprint for 60
seconds then walk 120 seconds and repeat over and over. I was still
pretty sore from the 8k road march, so I couldn't really give it 100%. I
still got a good sweat going though. After PT we had no time for showers
(field shower time again). We got dressed, ate chow, and boarded the
buses for a new range. For whatever reason I didn’t shoot as well on
this range as the previous day. I shot 20, 29, 23, 23 & 25. So I
still qualified on all but one of my tries but not much room for error.
The range was nice, bit it was hot as hell. That made for some
uncomfortable shooting.
One
guy in the late afternoon complained to the DS that he was cramping up.
The DS made him fill his camel back and start drinking from it. The DS
wouldn't let him stop. Finally he threw up. It was actually pretty funny
looking. (I'm going to call him PVT Guy because since reception that is
all he calls everyone.) So PVT Guy opens his mouth and with no sound
at all (except the sound of rushing water) he starts throwing up the
water. It looked like something you would see in a movie. Mouth wide
open and a full stream of water just poured out. It lasted so long it
seemed fake. He ended up throwing up water twice. Moral of the story, on
hot days drink a lot of water over time...and don't complain to the DS.
We
also ended up taking our platoon pictures today at the range. Luckily I
was able to get in the group without my dorky BCGs on. PFC Metal wasn’t
so lucky, the DS told him to get them on.
When
the “gut truck” came we were not allowed to get power bars, only Powerade. Evidently, 8 people in our platoon left their weapons on semi
instead of safe at the range when they weren’t using it. A big no-no.
When we got back to the bay we also got a little smoking for it as well
(plus a long speech about safety on the range). As an added bonus we all
had to do “changing drills” because some people were taking to too long
to get dressed. DS A-Hole would start his stopwatch and give us all 2
minutes 30 seconds to get in our ACUs. We then would have 2 minutes to
get into our PTs. I’m starting to wonder if he just wanted to watch
everyone change.
Another
surprise...our guy who was added to our platoon late, only takes a dump with
the stall door open. I guess he doesn’t want to miss out on anything.
LOL.
Random DS Quote: “Control your hard-on!” (the response from a DS after a private tried to compliment him)
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