Ever been so sweaty and so hot that you have steam coming from your clothes? I learned what that was like this morning. Had no PT, just straight downstairs, and set off on our march about 0630. The pace was somewhere around what most people consider a jog. I stayed with the platoon for over half the 2.5 mile trip, but started falling back thanks to the ingrown toenail I'm dealing with. Going to Sick Call on Sunday so I don't miss training. Anyways, I did in fact complete the march, which is all that matters.
Had no time to shower, just dropped our gear, changed into GFT uniform (ACUs worn without any patches and tennis shoes, for combatives training) and straight to chow and combatives right after. Learned some chokes and actually got to fight each other. The company tournament is tomorrow, our best 4 from each weight class are competing to win our platoon the first quidon
of the cycle. Duty squad (which I am part of ) went and prepped the fight house tonight with DS V, we assembled the judges tables and the ring, etc.
Also started learning Land Nav, which is what we are doing next week, only this is a little more beefed up than the Boy Scout version. Sounds like it will be fun.
We lost Pvt. Ames today, he was discharged due to a family crisis he had to handle. He's the first from the platoon to leave us and it was very sad. Despite all our infighting, we are still a family.
Remember Vance? Well he's actually good at combatives so we're having him represent us in the tournament tomorrow. If we win, it'll go a long way towards improving his standing.
You know you're in the Army when you sleep 5 feet away from 8 different heavy weapons, all capable of massive firepower and actually forget they're there.
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