Day 31

Day 26 of BCT

     Today was muscle strengthening day again. It was tough mentally to give it 100%.  It doesn't help that I'm starting to get very homesick. As much as I want to successfully complete this, a part of me is also tired of all of the stress and discomforts and I'm ready to be back to my life and family. I just keep trying to stay positive and take it one day at a time.
      Somehow,  I've managed to have minimal appetite the whole time I've been here. We get pretty much the same food over and over again and while it tasted good, I'm tired of the redundancy. It's fairly common for me to only eat half of my food and give the rest away. I've lost quite a bit of weight, I'm sure.
     After a Hot -A breakfast, we changed and grabbed our full gear to head back to the same range to all shoot again and try to improve our scores. This time our platoon wasn't last, so we only had to do concurrent training for a little while before lining up to shoot.
     I thought I did better this time, but I actually did worse. I only got 24/40. A little disappointing, but at least I still qualified. We then put all of our gear on, only to clean our weapons before chow. We did a quick shakedown before chow, so we'd be ready to move out. Our platoon was too slow getting our gear grounded for chow, so we had to wait and eat last.We then had an early motor movement back to the company. We ended up sitting outside cleaning our rifles and having fun with our female DS to kill time before chow. Everyone was excited, thinking we were going to the DFAC for dinner, but it changed last minute to Hot-A. The sigh heard throughout the company was funny.
     We ended the day with Platoon time  where they had auditions for someone to sing The Star Spangled Banner on graduation day. I tried out, but the platoon voted for one of the males. Our DS then had some fun rapping for us. It's always fun to see them break out of their strict DS role a bit. I got a letter from Mom at mail call.
And of course, we had HF after some personal time and then off to bed!