Today was our first "day off". Got an extra hour of sleep before chow, then headed off to church, which was a half mile walk uphill. Broke a nice sweat. Church was an hour long, too short, but a nice break from everything. Got smoked when we got back because Griggs a guy in second platoon everyone hates wouldn't stop talking in formation. He's on profile too, so he couldn't even do the exercise. They are kicking him out though, so it's okay.
Speaking of guys who we want out, we're trying to weed out two from our platoon, Vance and Short. Vance always does his own thing, often sleeping while we clean the bay, an refusing to help. Short just screws up and slacks off too much, left his weapon on beam today and almost got us all smoked, DC V instead used him as an example, asked him what he would say to the parents of his Battle Buddy if his weapon had gone off and killed him because of his negligence. Very sobering.
Did PMCS (preventative maintenance care and service) checks on our M4s and M68s, as well as our gas masks which we no longer need, and my squad (1st squad) is Duty Squad for the week, meaning we carry crap and clean stuff. Swept the parking lot and curbs/sidewalks around the battalion area today. Wasn't that bad but wasn't overly fun either.
Got our initial briefing on Combatives, the history behind it and such as well. We start fighting tomorrow, it will be awesome.
Don't know if I mentioned it, but our first ruck march is Wednesday, will be 2+ miles, packed our rucks tonight, very light load. With our IBAs (body armor) it's probably about 50 lbs. or so, but only 15 without IBA. (that's including weapon and helmet).
Have our first ability group tomorrow, I'm in C group , my goal is to make it to B group by graduation. Just gonna push as hard as I can tomorrow and hope it works out. Gonna sleep, that's all for now.
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