Drill Sergeant School - Day 8
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"Death from Below!" Well, we had to come up with a platoon motto, and I'm not sure why but this was picked as First Platoon's motto. The problem with it is, well, what does it mean? And what does it have to do with a bunch of Drill Sergeants? When it was mentioned it was related to submarines, the point was made again. What does this have to do with Drill Sergeants? I have a feeling we'll be having a new platoon motto really soon. Meanwhile, I conducted PT this morning, got a Go on conducting it, but don't know how well exactly I did. Obviously there wasn't a whole lot for me to improve on, other then the fact that apparently the drill sergeant thinks I'm singing when I'm calling commands. I just thought I was supposed to use inflection in my voice but I guess I'm using to much, so I need to work on that. And the bobbing of my head. I guess I get to much into it, and make strange facial expressions. And other things. In other words, the privates will probably mimic me in jest. Just another thing I need to work on. Well, and also pushups. I think to improve on Pushups I just have to do them. We also had a Class A uniform inspection, where I learned a little bit about my uniform, and the fact that I have some stripes on it that I may or may not be authorized to wear. After coming back from Kosovo I was told that I was authorized to wear two overseas service stripes for my service in Kosovo. However, when we were going over the uniform, I was informed that the stripes are for service overseas in a combat zone. Looking in the regulation, Operation Enduring Freedom counts, and when I was in Kosovo, it was put under Operation Enduring Freedom, so it may or may not count toward those stripes. However, Kosovo doesn't authorize the wear of a Combat Patch. And seeing as its kind of an honor thing anyway, now that I know exactly what those stripes mean, I'll likely take them off as I don't feel like I deserve them, and I'll probably get some weird looks wearing them without that combat patch. But I learned a lot about the wear of the class A uniform. Good stuff to know. Meanwhile, we had our first written test today, which I didn't do so well on because the questions, or how they were worded, threw me off. One of the hardest army tests I have ever taken, which is saying something because I usually breeze through army tests, but I missed 8 questions on this one. It made me reassess how I study for them, and seeing we have another test on Monday on general subjects in the army, I plan on looking over that information fairly thoroughly to make sure I have everything I need. So far every thing is still a go. This has been a long week, I can't wait for us to get out of the class room and do the hands on physical stuff.
Posted by Erickson on 11:00 AM : (((
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I remember a lot of the cadances we called at FLW had more to do with the navy and scuba than they had to do with engineering.
Now I'm wondering if it isn't some sort of FLW tradition or something.
Apollo18 | 08.28.07 - 1:01 pm | #
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Submarines once, submarines twice...
Ahem.
Sounds like a great motto to me. But then again I wear submarine dolphins!
Chap | Homepage | 09.12.07 - 3:34 am | #
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Yeah, I think I even have some documentation saying I earned two combat stripes for Kosovo but learned the same thing you did by reading AR 670-1. It says OEF is a criteria for combat stripes, but since Kosovo isn't in the CENTCOM AOR, we're disqualified.
nobody | 10.12.07 - 9:28 am | #
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