Drill Sergeant School - Day 14
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I have never done the PECs Course before until Friday. I always wanted to do it, and now was my opportunity. Actually, it was a wee bit over rated. But I still had fun. Me and another female in my squad have been getting dogged for not having the upper body strength necessary to complete some of the tasks here (for some reason, I suddenly suck at push-ups) so when we got to the Confidence Course we were getting yelled at and found our motivation lacking. Well, you go through the PECs course in a buddy team and we decided to motivate each other instead of waiting for the Drill Sergeants to motivate us. Of the two of us, well, I discovered that I'm the more physically fit one as I blazed through the obstacles and found myself waiting on her. Nothing against her mind you, as I am already on the radar with the drill sergeants and I don't think anything I could have done on the PECs course short of climbing up the rope would have fixed that. So we decided well, if we are going to go down, we might as well go down together. I enjoyed the PECs course, and actually didn't mind the whole waiting on my battle buddy bit as though I was running in place the entire time to keep my heart rate up (the whole point of the PECS course mind you) it allowed me some opportunity to catch my breath. I need to run more. I have found that this school has taught me a lot about myself, and has helped highlight a lot of my weaknesses, areas I need to work on, and I've been finding my motivation to be steadily streaming out of me at times where I have wondered if I made a mistake in coming here. I think I can do the job, its just that I don't have the confidence or the attitude I did when I was a Private going through Basic Training, and being outshone in almost everything I do, feeling like I make mistakes with every turn I make, and overall finding that I can't do anything right, I have discovered that in a lot of ways, this school is not as hard as basic training was, in other ways it is increasingly more difficult. There is more expected out of you, and I have found that the motivation of my peers is lacking as well. This experience is a lot different when you have a little rank on your collar and you are surrounded by people in the real army when you are the one and only female reservist (and that does set you back in a lot of ways, as I have found myself at a great disadvantage coming into this school). The Commandant's List is out. I pretty much flubbed the Leadership portion of my 1059, though it doesn't help when you have no leadership experience to begin with, so my goal is to get my hat which I know I can do and then drive on. This week is the beginning of BRM Phase, which I know I got. Maybe I can get out from under the radar with this training and prove that I got what it takes to do this.
Posted by Erickson on 5:27 PM : (((
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OK granted I have a seriously limited perspective on military life, but I do find this interesting and am trying to cheer you on. So do as best as you can, your readers ( myself included) are right behind you.
WA Tom | 09.03.07 - 12:16 am | #
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