Drill Sergeant School - Day 7
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This school is as easy or as hard as you want to make it. Right now, my goal is to make the Commandant's List. In order to do this, I have to score 90 in each event on the final Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT), average 90% in all of my exams, get no negative counseling statements, and recieve all first time gos in my tests and written exams. The first set of Modules was on Tuesday, and I whizzed through those with Outstandings and was complimented on my projection and motivation. Sweet! Tomorrow I roll for the next module which I have to pitch on Saturday, but I feel confident in those for now that I'm starting to look ahead and see what I have coming. The modules are what get most people, although we have a remedial APFT on Monday that might get a few more people (we'll see). Tomorrow is also my first written exam, but I feel confident in the material. We'll see how it goes tomorrow. These first few weeks are basically a lot of mundane stuff, like classroom information and inspections and a whole lot of PT. The Drill Sergeant Leaders (DSLs) have no qualms about yelling at us or making us do pushups or whatever else they want to make us do. I'm constantly getting yelled at for whatever reason that I have to remind myself that I'm not in the reserves anymore and have to get into the active duty mindset. So I have a running list of things to work on.
My DSL keeps getting on my case during Physical Training (PT) for not going all the way in the pushups with the elbows tucked in at the side, and has yelled at me for the leg tuck and the pull up. My upper body is not in its prime condition but I know if I keep working at it and doing PT on my own time, I'm going to smoke that final PT test. But it can be frustrating when I'm giving it all I got and the Drill Sergeant is telling me that I'm not even trying. I wanted to snap at her for it but somebody put me in my place by reminding me that this is what she's supposed to do, and she's expecting me to do the same thing when I get down range. I just have to keep that in mind, do as well as I can on each of those events and the improvements will come. Just keep pushing at it and eventually I'll be a PT master! I've come to the conclusion that my personal time is going to be less and less. We screwed up on our PT session this morning and have to go in for remedial PT this evening to learn how to do it right. Tomorrow I get graded on leading it with my battle buddy. I'm only having to do the stretch drills. But I HAVE to get those push up excercises down, I know that the tricep is one of my weakest muscles right now but if I keep working it I'm going to be in awesome shape when this is all said and done. The run is kicking my behind something fierce. I better get my 16:36 on that final APFT when this school is over or I will be rather frustrated with myself.
Posted by Erickson on 3:57 PM : (((
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While I do really like reading about the life of a upcoming DI, if you need to excuse yourself from blogging we will all understand. Time is precious in moments such as these. Go for it and tell us about it afterwards!
WA Tom | Homepage | 08.24.07 - 12:40 am | #
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Thank you, Drill Sergeant.
homebru | 08.24.07 - 10:31 am | #
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Once again, welcome to Mizzery. How'd you like those thunderstorms today? The break in heat should help your PT.
Jeff | 08.24.07 - 9:19 pm | #
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