“Everybody has a dream. It is all of us to want more for ourselves. It’s not a natural desire. But, what’s not in all of us is the commitment and discipline to bring that dream to life. Few people are willing to put the work in and that’s what separates those who just kind of want something and those who actually deserve greatness. I believe it is in all of us to do extraordinary things, even if we’re just ordinary people. Nothing can stop the desires of the determined.”
Today is Sunday. With out second APFT (fitness test) tomorrow it is definitely a relax day. I’m surprisingly sore and tight so stretching is in the agenda. A couple of battle buddies and I opted to take a morning 2 mile stroll to church this morning instead of waiting on the buses. Weather is amazing today. Sermon was good but the song worship won today. Bad note: the Drill Sergeants don’t go to service. It's suppose to be our get away but they do occasionally drop off and pick up soldiers. I’m not sure what the trainee soldier did but it led to the DS getting out of the vehicle and proceed to use every cuss word along with a few F bombs to let the soldier know he screwed up. This is an everyday occurrence but this happened in the church parking lot. That left a sour note on a few of us that witnessed this.
Afterwards I cleaned some of the bay and broke my weapon apart and cleaned it. Now I’ll take some advantage of some free time to write and stretch before studying some more. We have made it to the half way point for basic.
Notes so far:
· Basic may be the same as the old days but modern depictions are pretty close. Drill Sergeants can’t put their hands on you (besides the range shakedown) but unlimited yelling, smoking, physical punishment, free time and sleep time cut down next to nothing, helping you realize how worthless you are, and so on still occurs.
v Last night the company next to us messed up so bad that they got “evicted”. They packed up all their belongings, took apart the bunk beds, and hauled every piece downstairs to the common area and had to stack it all up. (mattresses together, bed frame pieces, baggage and so on. All neatly stacked. It looked horrible.
· White phase is nice as far as the DS give us more space but when there is a screw up, we get twice the verbal beat down and smoking punishment. Bad with the good I guess.
· Learning the true make up of the Army and majority of the kids that give their lives for our country is eye opening. So young, inexperienced, yet one way or another, they end up here.
1759 Got back from chow. Worst combo ever. I will be hungry again in 2 hours. How can you validate 2 grilled chesses as a main course? I’m sure as a kid I would have been excited but now I want meat, protein. What a mess and they were out of peanut butter. So carb load it was. 2 grilled cheeses, salad, mixed veggies and some form of fake French fries. I added a blueberry muffin and red apple. 2 glasses of milk. Big disappointment. Shower time then CQ meeting at 1900. CQ is our central quarters where we are assigned cleaning duties for the night before we are allowed free time is we have any left before 2100 lights out.
1014 got lucky for CQ. I am squad leader for Squad 1 and DS chose all the Squad 2’s to do the cleaning tonight. With the PT APFT two tomorrow starting at 0400 wake up at 0300…little stretching and reading, then hit the bed right at 2100.
Everyone have a great Monday.
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