Day 46

Day 41 of BCT

      This morning went better since we had a better idea of what to do. Our platoon woke up early to start packing our tents before doing security. They did "attack" us this time and we soon were told to finish packing. After getting everything together, ruck sacks lined up, and policing the area for trash, we had breakfast and marched back to the road for motor movement. They did give us mail before leaving, which was nice to get a quick letter form home.
     Today, we are supposed to be doing Medical Stin. The goal is to practice or CLS (Combat Life Saver) training. We split into  squads and went through a "lane" as a ten-man squad. Each "lane" was a different scenario. Ours was a HUMV crash with 4 casualties, one was missing his legs. They had soldiers from 4th platoon covered in fake blood and acting as the other casualties. We had to move in and secure the area, then  treat the wounds as we had been taught. We then called a Med-Evac and moved everyone out to the evacuation area. The whole time there was a soundtrack of gunfire playing and the casualties were screaming and yelling. After completion, we had a quick AAR. Our squad had done pretty well, just needing more communication to move quicker.
      Of course, once we were done, we had to do concurrent training. There was a 2-star General checking on us, so we had to all be engaged in training. Knowing how exhausted we all were, I think the Lord gave us a reprieve and it started to rain - with lightening. So we got to sit in the lightening protection area. And it kept raining. So we spent all morning there. We ate chow there. And we stood there again while waiting to go through the lane again. It was still pouring rain and lightening so they couldn't march us back as planned so as people finished going through twice, they utilized our huge truck and vans to get everyone back to the company. We were the last squad, and we ended up not going twice. When we got back, they gave us time to shower. Our gear was soaking wet. I was so glad we were not still in the field!
     We spent time cleaning our weapons, had mail call (lots of mail for me!), and a Hot-A in the classroom. We had to kill time cleaning our weapons again before personal time, but I got to be on messenger duty with another female and let everyone know what time was HF. I think everyone was pretty excited to get to bed after the long week. I had FG, but at least it was 2nd shift from 2200-2300.
      Right after going to bed after FG, my battle buddy decided to sleep walk. She jumped out of bed yelling my name, saying she didn't know what she was supposed to be doing. I told her to go to bed and go to sleep and eventually she did. It was pretty funny.