This
morning I had my last PT with SFC Kent. We only did our normal warm up
and stretching because today is a battalion run. It is also a costume
run as well. Anyone who wanted to wear a costume did. SFC Kent dressed
up as Freddy Krueger…I guess because he's in our nightmares…lol. There
were also sergeants in the run dressed up as Jedi Knights, Jason (from
Friday the 13th) and the command sergeant major was dressed as a
cheerleader which was pretty funny. One of the funnier soldier's
costumes was a guy who obviously bought a kids batman costume and forced
it on. It was pretty funny. The run itself was run at a pretty slow
pace and we went a little over 3 miles.
This
morning in class we tested out of M3. There was a written test which
included questions from our entire time here at AIT. We went over most
of them in the review that we had yesterday though. There was also a
hands on test that had us setup a network with two routers, two
switches, and two desktops. After we finished we had to wait in the
student break area until lunch. After lunch we came back and then were
told our scores. I scored 100%! I believe I will graduate at the top of
my class now….wow!
After
we were given our scores, we just kind of hung out in the classroom for
a while, then we cleaned up and left. We had a safety brief which gave
us the normal "don't do" list. We then were told that next Friday is
Centurion Challenge. This is where our companies will compete against
each other in different events. We'll see if Charlie can do better than
last place this time. Our commander also told us that effective
immediately there are going to be some changes for people that fail out
of school or can't pass their PT test. The army is over staffed at the
moment and there will be no more re-class options for people in AIT.
This means if someone can't pass a class or their PT test, they will be
chaptered out of the army.
We
left to the RFAC and then to the library, but found out it was closed.
We then waited outside until the RBK formation arrived to enter our
barracks. Once there we saw that there was only a few people from
Charlie there. Then PFC Metal got a frantic call from PVT Celtic
telling us that everyone was called back to Charlie. So we lock
everything up and planned to get a ride from PFC Metal's wife back to
Charlie. As we're running to his car we hear "STOP…where are you
soldier's going?" We then told him about the Charlie recall…he
called Charlie and asked. It turned out there was no official recall,
they just called everyone back that was in the area for mail call. SFC
Kent then asked if we came over in the formation. "No sergeant, we
missed the formation so we battle buddied over here". Then he looked at
PFC Metal's car and asked "Who's car is that?". PFC Metal said it's his
wife's car. Then the subject was changed, the sergeant told us only to
believe what we hear from a sergeant and not word of mouth from
privates.
We
then started packing for our move back to Charlie company. Since PFC
Metal's wife had her car here we just started putting stuff in her car.
Then we drove over to Charlie. Everyone else had to wait for the duty
van. PFC Metal and I were told we would get a two man room, so we wanted
to get everything squared away before hand. We were very disappointed.
The sergeant wanted to know how many people were coming over and then
proceeded to put us all in 8 man rooms. We locked up what we had and
then went back to RBK for the rest of our stuff. All in all it took us
three trips. I have a lot of crap! Our room has the young Hawaiian, PVT
Celtic and one of the original roommates we had when we first started
in Charlie as well as a few other guys.
We'll
see how this goes…I was so looking forward to just a two man room. I am
very glad that we are done with classes though…I needed the break. We
have a short weekend because on Sunday we have to pack and leave for
Capstone. This is the FTX (army camping) event that ends our official
AIT stay here. At this event we stay at a FOB (forward operating base...well a pretend one at least) for a week with other MOSs
from around Ft. Gordon. We have to setup a network for our part is what
I'm told. I guess we'll see when we get there. There are no electronics
allowed, so I'll be writing things down the old fashioned way and then
updating the blog when I get back. The event is supposed to last a
week….ugggghhhh.
Instead
of the overheard quotes I'll put some quotes from SFC Kent that we
would hear a lot during PT each morning at RBK. I won't be hearing these
anymore since I'm back with Charlie:
"We gotta shake off the weekend rust" (Usually every Monday morning before a run)
"There ain't no cool way to do it" (Granted…we do look pretty stupid doing some of our exercises)
"Show me your doggone b-boy stance" (When we are stretching our thighs)
"You guys are in doggone sustainment phase now"
"Victory, where's your doggone motivation?"
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