11/7/2014 "What happened to my shot?"

This morning my watch didn’t wake me up early…usually I have the last fireguard shift wake me up but they forgot. I still happened to get up 11 minutes early so I can get in a set of pushups and shower. I picked my two team leaders as well. I let the team submit names and let them choose one and I choose one. Hopefully we can line this squad out. PT this morning was warm-up drills, high knees, lateral walks, shuttle sprints…then split into 2 groups for a group run. 15 minute 2 mile and below in the first group. In formation we ran the 2 mile right about 15 minutes. Breakfast was for champions. French toast, biscuits and gravy on top of scrambled eggs, grapes, strawberries, Special K berries cereal, banana and a lot of syrup, honey and peanut butter. J

We spent the rest of the day at the rifle range. Today we were shooting 40 rounds. 20 prone support, 10 prone, 10 kneeling. Targets were silhouettes at 50, 100, 150, 200 and 300 meters. I was uneasy about the sights on my rifle since I only shot 15 times. Out to 150 was spot on, 200 was about 5-% and 300 was off. User error is a good probability but if the zero was off then the further at the target the more accuracy varies. Hopefully I can line it out tomorrow.

The last two days have been more gear. ICTV- Kevlar vest (30ish lbs), assault pack, FLK pack and usual ALU, helmet and weapon. We wear it to the range, strip it, then back on after the shake down. Worst part of the day is running the same hill that we ran day one for the shark attack. ¼ mile hill in full gear still sucks. The DS still find a reason to put us in resting position to do pushups. Pretty tough I won’t lie.

Today’s targets would fall down for about a second before returning to the upright position. That was pretty neat.

Big thank you to my Mom. She gave me a James Avery religious necklace shield with a cross and it says on the back “fear not for I am with you.”  I left it at home because I didn’t know I could wear it. When I found out I could I asked her to mail it. Somehow the necklace went missing from the priority box she sent it in. without telling me she ordered me a new one and mailed it directly from the store/ website and I received it today. Keeps a little part of home on me.

Easy day tomorrow. Electronic Shooting Range working on pop up targets. Another week almost gone. Will be home before I know it.

Yay