11/8/2014 "Electronic Shooting Range"

Today was a good day. Electronic Shooting range. Playing with toy soldiers and phone day.

This morning was cold again. So much pain. Put me through as much physical fitness punishment as you want but I can’t handle the cold. Gross. We had warm up drills, CD1 and CD2 (five different exercises each), four for core, climbing drills again on the pull-up bars, 90 second max on pushups and then sit-ups. Another great chow morning. The other 3 platoons are now prohibited from eating muffins but our DS lets us if we pass our fitness test. For some reason that made my blueberry muffin that much better, along with two waffles, banana, grapes, strawberries, two biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, bowl of Lucky Charms, 1 piece of cinnamon raisin bread and 2 peanut butter packs and 3 honey packs. Delish.

Once again we loaded our Kevlar vest, full uniform and did the electronic range. It simulated our qualifying test on the shooting range that we take next Friday. Pretty cool stuff.

I did pretty good…sharpshooter status. Instead of getting the transit back, they decided to have us march a little over a mile back. Not far but the extra 50 lbs of gear is a pain. On top of that someone of course screwed up so we had to do multiple sets of squats and pushups in our gear. Then the DS let us take the gear off and do 20 more minutes of straight exercises since we were not load enough during morning workout.

Next we played with plastic toy soldiers. DS set up different battle formations and played like we were six years old again. Good visual learning but fun as well.

Oh! Oh! Our Sarge wanted us to sing a song with “soul”. most 18 year old white boys don’t do “soul” but in the middle of our DS lecturing us we broke out singing “A’int no mountain high enough…” Horrible sound but got a smile out of him.

We also took platoon pictures, so can’t wait to see them.

Phone privileges were today. About 20 of us got limited time due to the guys abusing the phone time last week. Because I am squad leader I had to be an ass and take everyone’s phones up 10minutes prior to cut off to ensure we were in the time frame. My service sucked but I did get to text a few friends. Everyone’s spirit here is pretty high now so that is a good thing.

By the way…AGGIES WON!!!! Saw the update on my phone. Upset #3 Auburn. Good news for me.

Love everyone back home. Happy weekend.