Today
turned out to be a pretty crappy day. The first crappy day since I’ve
moved to RBK I think. The day started out pretty normal just like any
other day here. I got up shaved and prepared for PT. When we got down in
formation they called off a number of names including mine and said to
make another formation. Turns out we have to do a pee test instead of PT
this morning. Great...what is the first thing you normally do in the
morning...you go pee! So I quickly drank my bottle of water. I thought
this pee test may be a good thing since the sergeants seem to be trying
to kill us during the PT sessions.
I
had to grab my ID card and then we rode in the duty van over to Charlie
company where a whole number of other Charlie people in the day room
drinking water. That was the situation for a while, drink water, drink
water and drink more water. There were a few who tried to go and either
got a little nervous or they could produce enough. The problem is that
we don’t have to go and we drink and drink, then all of a sudden we all
have to go...and it’s a bit of an emergency.
Once
I felt the need to go I got in the line which seemed to take forever.
Everyone around me was doing the pee pee dance. When I got to the front I
had to hand my ID card and in return I got a little cup with a sticker
on it that contained my info. Then I had to stand in another line that
seemed to take forever. From this line a sergeant would take 3 or 4
people at a time into the bathroom and watch them pee in the cup. I
think I had enough pee to fill about 20 of the cups by the time I got in
there. After we were done we filed back into the day room and stood in a
short line to return our cups and sign a paper. The sergeant then
singed next to us verifying he witnessed us doing the deed.
When
I got back into the room there was a guy mopping up the floor. I guess
one of the soldiers stated “I think I drank too much” and then proceeded
to throw up all over the floor. LOL
I
headed back to RBK to quickly change and eat, then had to go back to
Charlie company for a new formation they are going to have every morning
for everyone in software classes. Oh goody, I get to do detail at
Charlie company now even though I don’t even live there anymore. I do
detail all the time at RBK, we keep our place looking good. We ended up
doing all sorts of detail from 8:00 to 10:45. Lots of mowing lawns,
changing lights, pressure washing floors, picking up trash...you name it
we were doing it. What really sucked is that it was getting hot and
everyone was sweating pretty bad. This is fine for the folks who live at
Charlie and can change before school, but for those of us that live at
RBK...we can’t change. I was a little pissed, nobody from Charlie
company comes over and helps us clean up RBK.
So
it is looking like my perfect mornings with the included nap time at
the IET center may be coming to an end. I’m not too happy about that
either.
School
today was full of software taking forever and not working quite right.
The class didn’t make it through too much. This current class (Exchange
2007) is only two days long I believe so that is not a good sign.
Because of this the teacher offered us the chance to come in early
tomorrow only to be shot down by the command sergeant major who said PT
is too important to miss.
After
class and dinner today we had to go to some mandatory training which
was held in the church. The sergeant went over how to call in a medivac
in case of an emergency, pretty much a refresher of some of the stuff we
learned in basic. I think they have to do a certain amount of mandatory
training for the company each month and this just seemed thrown
together at the last minute so they could check a box marked that yes indeed...we did the training.
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