Drill Sergeant School - Day 3
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Only in the military, is waking up at 0500 considered sleeping in. So I passed my PT test by running the fastest mile I have run in a long time. I need to work more on my running still as I have every intention of passing my final PT test with 90 points in each event so that I qualify for honors, as my goal is making Commandant's list. This is completely doable. I'm nearly at 80 for the pushups and the situps and we run everywhere on the run so I'm almost there. I've just got to find a pace and stick with it. So far, Drill Sergeant School has been a lot of classroom stuff teaching us a lot of general information and what we can and cannot do to Privates. Hearing the instructors and everyone speak, it seems like Basic Training has gotten softer as Drill Sergeants are getting their hands tied, but a lot of it has to do with the Drill Sergeants screwing up. Whatever the case, there are certain rules one has to follow. Like you cannot go into the CAC (which is headquarters as I don't know exactly what CAC stands for) unless you state loud and clear that you are going into the CAC. And you better not go in there without a battle buddy present. Apparently somebody walked in there and the drill sergeant 'killed' him. Then who ever was standing around was forced to pull 360 security on the building while another soldier had to perform a 9 line medivac and first aid. Yes, this was all simulated, but it was still humorous. Meanwhile, I have come across as a bit of a know-it-all as I've been hanging out with a drill sergeant unit for the last year and a half and now that we are getting more into the Physical training and how we are supposed to do it, I'm one of the few that knows exactly what Conditioning Drill 1,2 and 3 are as well as Military Movement Drills and so on and so forth. PT is very much regulated now, you have to do it in a very specific way in Basic Training, apparently this is to prevent certain injuries. There was also the inspection we had yesterday, where we had to layout our initial issue for inspection to make sure we had everything we needed. The school is in a bit of a transition in regards to what we are supposed to have because we are moving into the ACU and the BDU wearout day is the first of october. The initial packing list had BDUs but now we are supposed to only have ACUs for our uniforms. I'm looking forward to week 7 where I will be reissued the entire initial issue again and I won't have to worry about having or not having certain items. Like field jackets. I'm trying to take mental notes and all about what I see here and what I hear about. Tomorrow we're going to see brand new privates get issued their uniforms for the first time. Its going to be a like a field trip! Being on Fort Leonard Wood has been an eye opener for me. Its the same post I remember way back when in 2000, but I'm seeing it for the first time outside of the Basic Training Environment. It seemed so big then, I'm realizing how small it actually is.
Posted by Erickson on 12:42 PM : (((
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Go Speedy! Keep at it and see if you can't shave another :20 off your mile with more practice.
CAC - Combined Arms Center?
Drew458 | 08.20.07 - 12:33 am | #
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Thanks for the update! Sounds like your blowing the doors off of this thing already.
WA Tom | Homepage | 08.20.07 - 1:54 am | #
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