No
PT today....I know...this week I have a total of one day of PT! Today
was a little different than any other day I missed PT. There are a
number of people called “shammers” who always skip out on PT or work
detail...you name it. Today me and the young Hawaiian decided to sham
out of PT. We dressed in ACUs instead of the PT uniform and left with
all the other shammers and the few folks that actually had appointments.
We went to the Charlie DFAC and ate breakfast, then went to the Charlie
barracks and took a nap in the day room until it was time for school.
I’ve never done this before, but it kind of worked out for both of us
today. I had a headache and the young Hawaiian had a hurt shoulder. Sergeant
Kent took two hours from us last night, we just took it back this
morning. I’ll call us even now.
I
now have to tell you a little more about M3. It’s more than just a
class, it’s a state of mind. Everyone in M3 is pretty pumped up because
it’s the last class. There is a lot of hooping and hollering all the
time. Everyone else all of a sudden is looked down upon and called A+
(the very first class taken at AIT) no matter what class they are in.
“If you’re not M3, then you’re A+” is heard all the time. M3 heads up
all the formations and the class is also issued weapons, so we always
march in front in a tactical formation. In the mornings M3 forms up in
front of the doors and then watches as the rest of the school files by
into class. In the past there was a lot of heckling that went on, but
that has largely been stopped.
There
is so much excitement and yelling a lot of the time that the sergeants
end up smoking all of M3 because they are too noisy. PFC Metal and I
found out really quick that we’ll just stay in the normal formation
instead of M3 to stay away from all the craziness. So now we don’t do
any M3 formations.
After
class we had our normal safety briefing, only this time it was much
quicker than normal. There was a side note to be careful if traveling in
downtown Augusta because there is a lot of gangs and it can be a
dangerous place especially for soldiers traveling alone.
We
left after the safety briefing for our usual RFAC trip. When we got to
the barracks we found out that they issued our class weapons in the RBK
formation before coming over. So there are some of us that will not have
weapons this week. Oh darn! (sarcasm) I had enough of lugging that
rifle around in basic. We don’t use it, we just carry it everywhere we
go and it just gets in the way. I hear we’ll just get issued one next
week...we’ll see.
The
entire RBK barracks did a mass cleaning of the common areas in RBK
because Sergeant Kent said he’ll be by to inspect them later. Who knows if
he actually will or not, but since everyone was helping it didn’t take
too long to get everything clean....now the weekend begins!!!
PFC Metal introduced me to this music video by one of his favorite bands...Five Finger Death Punch
It's a new take on an old song and they to a pretty good job covering it. They are also big supporters
of our troops and this video is of them in Iraq with the troops.
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