11/27/2014 "Thanksgiving/Suckfest Morning"

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

Whatever idea that us soldiers thought in regards to having an easy day went out the window quick before morning chow. Drill Sergeant Sierra had night shift and sometime this morning he locked himself out of his office. In return for his boredom, he spent the morning in my platoon’s bay harassing us. At 0500 we started morning PT as a group in our bay. At 0600 he came in and took over until 0730 making us do exercise rotation several times. This man has the abilities to take a cheerful spirit and morning and crush everyone’s desire to work. We get so annoyed by his tactics that we actually lose motivation. The loss of spirit causes the men to turn on themselves and start pointing fingers. As we started getting dressed for breakfast he stepped back in, didn’t like something he saw and started playing games. Giving us 3 minutes to change into full ACU’s (pants, green socks, boots tied correctly, tan shirt, ACT top, PC (Cap) then as one person was not 100% right we had 3 minutes to change into full winter PT (Shorts, long wind pants, white socks, shoes, gray short sleeve shirt, long sleeve shirt, wind jacket, fleece cap). This went on for about 6 changing’s…meanwhile other platoons were eatingL. Finally we get to eat and all that was left was granola bar each and 2 overcooked boiled eggs. NOOOoooooooo!

After morning chow we spent the time doing cleaning detail. Lunch was a special treat…one hour to eat…Drill Sergeants served us. Turkey, ham, chicken, roast beef, mac & cheese, stuffing, peas, sweet potatoes, rolls, salad, fruit and 3 kinds of cake. Music playing and everything was good again UNTIL right after. The minute we got back to CTA…we did a “gas drill” and had to put on our gas masks…then we had to do 30 minutes of working out. This sucked and lunch was trying to come up. Either way we got through it and things got a little better. We got our phones for a little bit to call family. This helped since most guys here have never been away from family for the holidays. My shift work has taken me away a few times in my civilian job so I was not hit as hard but I loved talking to everyone at home.

This evening my senior DS got everyone together…admitted to being wrong when he got my squad lost 3 hours and talked about how much of a “suckfest” it was. Because we didn’t complain and put all the extra miles in…he gave us an extra 30 minutes of phone. I used this for a few texts but mainly to listen to music. Man I miss music. Saw my Texas Aggies score first against LSU and that was it. Hopefully they pull it out. Gig ‘em.

More prep for the next couple of days. Y’all enjoy the rest of the week.

Miss everyone.