August 13

So it turns out the test was today, not tomorrow. It also turns out that the test was ridiculously easy. I passed with an 88%, without trying.

We might have another test tomorrow, but if not, I have no clue what we are doing, so it'll be interesting.

We haven't really been smoked the last few days and my fears were confirmed tonight when we were annihilated due to discipline lacking. The whole bay was torn apart too, bunks flipped, bathroom destroyed, cleaning supplies dumped, etc. and we had to clean it up.

DS are saying we get to go to the PX on Monday after dinner which will be nice, I'll get to restock letter supplies.

The first week has both flown by and crawled. It feels like we just got here and that we've been here forever.

CQ duty tonight, will try to get some other letters written during that time.

Well, it's 0300 and my CQ shift starts now and ends at 0400.

Something interesting happened the other night I forgot to mention, apparently someone in our company had decided to go AWOL and was having their girlfriend/wife pick them up here. One of the Drill Sergeants stopped at a gas station on his way home and ran into her asking for directions. He gave them, then he alerted the cadre here who informed us. That's probably the funniest AWOL attempt I've seen, especially since they give us directions to the highway, and actively tell us to leave if we want, we won't be stopped, just not to come back.