These past 2 days have been full of more Combat Lifesaver Training. We learned various carries, how to make a lifter, how to call for a MEDEVAC, and how to decompress a tension pneumothrax.
Today (Friday) marks our first week of Basic complete, and we celebrated by attempting to give each other IVs for our CLS certification. Several of us failed which means we won't get the certification, but won't be recycled and our home units will get us certified there.
Tomorrow is Test Day for medical, which all must pass to move on. Apparently it's really easy and nothing to sweat through.
New week we start combatives, which culminates on Friday when we will have to get a lock on a Drill Sergeant who will be wearing boxing gloves and punching us repeatedly in the face. Sounds like fun, looking forward to it.
Got told by DS Vildosok that I'm a future Drill Sergeant or Officer. Think that was a compliment, but you never know.
We were issued our 10 blank rounds for our M4s last night, and given a class on how to load and unload them, as well as how tracers work and several ball/tracer combat mix ratios.
Spent the last 2 days matching up our lockers for inspection, they all have to be alike, so we had to fold everything the same way and display it the same for 56 people. Was fun.
Also received batteries for our M68 CCO optics, the red dot sights on our M4s.
Oh, another note about the IVs, the guy supposed to stick me couldn't find a vein so DS Davis had the guy stick him instead, then just grabbed the IV Bag and continued coaching. It was pretty hilarious.
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