Day 20

Day 15 of BCT

     The best part of Sundays is not having to wake up until 0600. And no PT in the cold and mud. And to make the day even better, since I was on profile for no marching, I got a van ride to the DFAC for breakfast and a ride back.
    We then had the morning to get our lockers ready for inspection. We have a diagram to follow and all of our lockers have to look exactly the same. We have to roll our shirts and socks a specific way and stack our ruck sacks and Kevlar's in a specific spot. When our DS came to inspect, 3 females had clothes hung in the wrong order, so he tossed their entire lockers on the floor and we had 30 minutes to fix them correctly. It was a good lesson in paying attention to detail.
     We then had lunch at the DFAC. I walked again instead of marching. I'm still getting winded easily, but hopefully by Tuesday I'll be feeling better. When we returned from lunch, we were all sent to our bays to get on  hands and knees to scrub the floors. We managed to make our floors look a lot better, but there's only so much you can do to an old tile floor. We then had an early dinner at 1600 at the DFAC before having platoon time. At platoon time, our DS gave all of us who had failed the PT test a coaching. Most of our platoon failed, but it was still hard knowing I had not meant my DS's expectations. He says if we don't pass the PT test at the end of White Phase (about 3-4 weeks away), he's going to send us home. I'm going to work hard on my own, but it will take God's strength for me to get 11 pushups by then. I would hate to make it this for only to fail. Next was personal time.
     We then had Hydration Formation. Our female DS decided to ask everyone if they had showered during personal time. Me, and some others, hadn't. I hadn't done much since my shower the night before, so I had opted to work on my homework assignment of copying the Chain of Command 5 times, instead. It ended up being rather humorous because she actually stood in our bay after formation and waited on us to take a 5 minute shower, so she could smell us and verify we had "washed our ass". Maybe now we'll  actually get time to shower each night.