Drill Sergeant School - Day 1
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Another day in this fine institution we call the United States Army. Today was pretty laid back once the Pee Test was all said and done. Most army schools, the pee test is a given, though I used to claim the impressive ability of being able to Pee on command. Not anymore. I went to the bathroom when I woke up this morning and headed on down to formation when I realized that I screwed up. So I drank water, not really thinking that I would have a problem, because I can go pee again right away. Er, not so. My body is still acclimating to the heat and humidity and I think it was busy assessing how much water it needed to absorb to accomodate the sweat I was releasing, which I did not account for. This was the first time I've ever bolloed a pee test. Meaning I couldn't provide enough speciman to fill the cup. So back to the holding room I went, and I sat there and tried to pee for a good hour, drinking LOTS of water and giving myself a good workout. When I finally did get to peeing, I got out of there quickly and only had to pee three more times before chow. Lovely. Other then that, right now we are in the mentoring phase, so the Drill Sergeants are showing us everything we need to know in regards to giving commands, marching, whatever, and on Monday, we take over and are under the microscope for every little thing we do. I'm trying to observe as much as I can but the commands continue to throw me off, as I'm trying to remember all of them. My goal is to make commandant's list, and I think I can do it academically. Its the phyiscal I need to work on. PT test coming up here on Friday. If I run like I did on Monday, I have shaved two minutes off of my run time, which is something I hope I did. We are running everywhere when we aren't actually marching there, so the constant running should help me on my run time, which is my major concern. I'm ok on my pushups, though I can just hope I break the plane as they may be grading to a higher standard then I'm used to back at the unit. Situps are ok as long I keep a good pace and just keep trying to knock them out. The run I've just got to give it everything I've got. I hope to pass the PT test with a 70 in each event. By end of the school, I'm hoping to increase that to a 90. Which gives me about five weeks to improve on whatever I do on Friday. They've been giving us insanely early first formations. Tomorrow is another 0345. Ouch!
Posted by Erickson on 6:16 PM : (((
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I would love to tell you those early wake-ups will pass but they didn't for us. Looks like you have a good bead on things!
DS Brennan | 08.15.07 - 9:59 pm | #
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Go get em Sgt E!
WA Tom | Homepage | 08.15.07 - 11:29 pm | #
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Permalinks aren't working for some reason. I know you won't have time to fix it, but thought you should know. Bummer.
Hope it all goes well.
And thanks for your service.
Zendo Deb | Homepage | 08.18.07 - 9:10 pm | #
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