Weekends don't feel like Weekends
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Weekends aren't official days when talking about school. But that doesn't mean that they don't use them up for us. I slept in until 5 again today. Oh bliss getting those extra couple hours in. We also modulated again, I had to do Facing to the Rear and I got another Outstanding. Sweet! Well, apparently Sweet is a word I need to erase from my vocabulary when used in that context. Kind of like 'hooah'. So anyway, when it was all said and done, we got to the not so pleasant aspects of life, the fact that there are people in our class who don't take being in formation on time very seriously (among other things). We have a merit system here, which also includes demerits, and whoever gets a ton of demerits has to do detail that saturday. Well, in this instance, because of the trend going on in the company, everyone got demerit detail and so we were pulling weeds and shoveling mud off the drill pad and picking up trash and whatever they could think of making us do. Not very much fun in my opinion, especially since it is work that Privates normally have to do. Actually, a lot of today was based on how they could waste our time most effectively. It sucked. Hey, I don't intend to be late, and I haven't been yet, but in an environment like this, the mentality is 'if one falls, we all fall' so if a few people can't get to formation on time, all of us are going to be stuck pulling weeds out of crevices in the sidewalk or whatever else can be figured out to make us do. Tonight I pull CQ. I'm not even bothering getting out of my uniform until I'm done.
Posted by Erickson on 4:37 PM : (((
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Hmmm... It seems to me (and my naive view of things) that drill sergeants are the people who insist that privates are in formation on time. So it would seem to be a requirement that the sergeants be on time (or even early).
Zendo Deb | Homepage | 08.29.07 - 3:53 pm | #
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