Labor Day weekend Sept. 5

Making this note here to force me to actually write an update for the last few days, but first sleep.

So this has been our slowest weekend yet. Had absolutely nothing to do on Saturday but a quick morning PT session, then the DS all went home and we cleaned our bay, then did weapons maintenance outside in the LTA for a few hours.

Today (Sunday) we've done even less, just cleaned the bay and caught up on sleep.

Everyone is pissed off because our mail is screwed up, we haven't gotten mail all week and thanks to the 4 day weekend, we won't get any until at least Tuesday either.

Speaking of the 4 day weekend, we of course don't get Monday off like the rest of the country, and will instead be spending it all on the range, finally shooting our M4s. We actually went to the EST (Electronic Soldier Trainer) which is basically a massive PlayStation, that simulates a firing range and has air powered M4s. We used the simulator to practice shot grouping, and I grouped in 9 shots, which was about average, with the minimum being 6 shots and max being over 20.

Franks and Hall are back from the hospital, they had some kind of viral infection so we got to sterilize the bay again.

We have a radio now, which we can use when we're cleaning. There was a lot of fighting initially over what to listen to, but we've got a rotation going.

Someone is messing with our fireguard roster, adding and switching people. I was woken up twice last night for shifts I wasn't scheduled for, the second of which I did anyways because I was too tired to fight. The PG and I have a plan to catch whoever is messing with it though. If it happens tonight I'm going to scream, we have a PT test in the morning. Hope we get phones tonight, but it doesn't seem overly likely.