This letter was lost in our wonderful US
Last night I would have had a shot at finally getting seven hours of sleep….BUT NO. Right at 3.5 hours in my sleep the awaking came. File outside for a gripe session. One of the bays had a fireguard decide not to get up until 15 minutes into his shift. At 0130 we stood in formation for 30 minutes. Now it is 0200 and all the bottom bunks had cleaning duty from 0200-0300 and top bunks from 0300-0400. So instead of sleeping until 0500 we had to stay up. I am a top bunk, so I tried to catch some shut eye for an hour. Try that with 24 guys cleaning. Great start to the day.
The first part of the day we listened to people talk about stuff, I have no clue what it was but to me it wasn’t important. After lunch we finally hit the field to go over warm-up “PT” training. With 440 guys it took awhile to get started. The warm-up was 10 different exercises and it was pretty hot outside. Anything from toe touches, high jumps, push-ups, windmills, prone row and row are some of the exercises we did. I enjoyed this after not being able to work out for the last five days. 2 different guys fell out during the exercises and one more hauled off in an ambulance for heat issues. With the camel water pack we ALWAYS wear there is no reason for dehydration. Anyways short story longer…kind of can’t wait for the physical part to start.
We got word we are the worst group top come through in awhile (do all the groups hear this?). They threatened to hold us all back but I know it won’t happen because of Christmas. We are the largest group in awhile which in a random pool means we have the most “immature kids” that can’t stand not talking and cutting up. Some of the senior guys said this has been passed down range to basic, so we will have it tough at first to see if they can weed any out.
Should be easy the next two days since all the civilian workers are not here. As long as these guys don’t piss off the Drill Sergeants too bad. We should be able to get 7-8 hours of sleep minus the 1.5 hours to wake up for fireguard duty. Six hours would be amazing.
They hold church services tomorrow but not sure about starting this Sunday or next. Clearly there is not a Baptist or a non-denominational but they have about six different ones. Church will be a Sunday norm starting next week.
All I thought about was missing college football and my Aggies.
Weekly Quote- “Sometimes its hard to keep going but dedication is moving forward without giving up, no matter what.”
I hat having no control over what is happening back home. One week in and I know that feeling won’t shake while I’m here.
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