Day 33

Day 28 of BCT

     I started the day feeling exhausted. PT was muscle strengthening. I tried to do my best, but my pushup and sit-up numbers were not as good as they have been. We then marched straight to the DFAC for breakfast and came back to change into our dirty uniforms for MAC training. All the other platoons were setting our their TA-50's , but we didn't since our DS din't tell us to. We should have gone ahead because he was mad we didn't. We were just afraid of being in trouble for failing to follow instructions.
      MAC training was a little better than last week. I finished all of the exercises this time. I felt like I did a little better on The Eel. My elbows still had sores from last week and I made them bleed doing the Superman again. My PG was worried about me since there was blood on my uniform, but I assured him I was fine. We then learned another move. This one was more complicated and we didn't get much time to practice, so I don't feel very confident on it yet.
     After MAC, we had 10 min to set out our TA-50's and grab our wallets to head to the PX. We just barely made it. It started getting really cold outside while we waited on the males to get their haircuts, but it was nice being female and getting to shop first.
     We then marched back, ate chow, and changed back to clean ACU's . All of us females ended up helping in our male bay to get all of the extra TA-50's set up to be counted. Once the commanders came in to start counting, we had to sneak out the back door and head back to our bay. Then we spent hours standing around waiting to be counted. With the bay door open, it got cold quick. I guess a cold front moved through.
      We ate a quick Hot-A before they counted everything in our bay. It took quite a while and we were more than ready for personal time when it was all over. All I could think about was how much I wanted to go to bed.
     HF was quick since ti was so cold and windy. Felt like a cold winter day in Oklahoma. Luckily, they let us wait inside our bays to be counted in for the night. I was in my bed and almost asleep before lights out at 2100. Thank goodness for an extra hour of sleep tonight and no Fireguard!