What a long freaking day. We got up early to pack and clean
our entire campsite. We are set to hike out on our final ruck 10-12 miles at
about 1400. We still had blank rounds left so for inventory reasons it is
easier to expend them all. Everyone loaded up a 20 round mag and fired the, off
one last time.
We had an official ceremony before starting our ruck. Lieutenant
Colonel came out as well. My Drill Sarge was re-upping for his second time and
signing on for another 5 years.
About 1420 we started the march. My platoon started off as
lead group so myself and my battle buddy set the pace for the entire company. During
the first three miles we were going to take “Stairway to Heaven” a hill that is
the highest elevation in the area. Due to our route. We attacked it after the
first mile and then turned around after about ½ mile and did it again. No lie…it
was pretty tough. During the march we stopped about every hour, so 3 stops in
all for about 10 minutes apiece. We kept pretty good time. Our rucks were
unloaded from 75 lbs. to about 30 lbs. the end of our march was the best. As we
approached out bay (CTA) area it was complete darkness. They had chem lights
along the path. Closer to our area they had tiki lights on the sides and smoke
going across the entrance. Music was blaring and everyone was pumped since our
Basic journey was finally wrapped up. Pretty sweet feeling.
The best feeling was finally hitting a shower after 5 days. Chow
was nice too since they made us skip lunch chow.
After chow it was already 2230. Instead of recovering we had
Drill Sarge Sierra (major buzzkill) so he had us lay out all of our equipment and
start cleaning. Worn out tired, right at midnight he finally left us alone.
Bed was amazing.
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