PT
this morning...let’s just say I’m not the kind of guy who wakes up in
the morning and thinks “hmmmmm I’d like to go for a run”. That is just
not me. I’ve felt good after a run knowing that I got a good working,
but I don’t just go run for fun. Knowing that today was a run day made
it hard to get motivated for PT. We ran as one big group today all the
way to and up “Victory Hill”. The pace was decent enough to get a good
sweat going, but it surprisingly turned out to be a pretty motivational
run as well. Sergeant Kent as well as a guest sergeant were calling our
running cadences and it got everyone fired up.
We
went back to the normal school schedule today which meant we had to
hurry and shower, eat, then clean up our room and our other duties (the
latrines today). We started our new class VOIP, but it is mainly
focusing on Cisco switches so far. Our teacher sounds like he’s straight
out of Russia. He reminds me of that Russian cosmonaut in the movie Armageddon. Other than trying to understand him, he seems like he’ll be a
decent instructor. We’ll have him through Security+ class.
I’ve
noticed lately that my freakin’ facial hair has been growing faster
than normal. I seem to be getting a five o’clock shadow before noon! I
figured out why after reading this article.
I blame it on my wife...she is coming up this weekend and because it’s
been so long I’m sure it will be like my cool drill sergeant would
always say (it’s like a honeymoon every time you see each other).
After
class and dinner today we had to have some mandatory company training.
We marched to a church and a civilian briefed us on hate groups. There
are hate groups all over and from what he says, Georgia has a number of
them here in this state. I guess I was a little ignorant, but I thought
that the younger generation didn’t even care that much about racial
issues anymore. We were shown a number of photos of extremist tattoos
that people or soldiers had as well as a lot of graffiti and other hate
artwork. Some of these photos were from Fort Gordon. There are a number
of extremist groups that try to recruit people that are already in the
military or others that would like to harm us because we are in the
military (because we are seen as just part of the big government machine). It was actually an
interesting brief and I was surprised when an hour had passed. The
civilian was only about half way through, but he had to wrap it up.
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