Day 52

Day 47 of BCT

This week is getting long and tiring, but each day brings vs. closer to the end. PT was muscle strengthening again. I really pushed myself. I'm worried about the PT test on Saturday. My female DS did give me a "good job" after watching my pushups, so I really hope I'm on track to pass the test.

Motor movement was early today, so they fed us breakfast on the range. Today we went to Chip-yang-ni. It's named after a battle during Vietnam. Today we practice for buddy team movements with live fire, which will be tomorrow. Again, most of our time was spent at concurrent training. When my battle buddy and I went through, the DS said we did really well. The goal is to move forward from cover to cover, making sure that you don't shoot your battle buddy and providing cover fire for each other as you move forward to the target. It takes good communication as well as a lot of thought with each movement. We've been practicing this for weeks in concurrent training.

We had a DS from another company helping us. She was Romanian, but had lived in Germany and knew German. She knew how to say my last name and wanted to know where I was from. I told her "Oklahoma" and that I was 4th generation American.

We had chow, more concurrent training, then policed the range. The day was pretty warm, so we were ready to head out and get off our gear. Our DS threatened to make us do 5 pushups for every piece of brass he found. Luckily, he only found 4.

Chow was at the DFAC, followed by mail call and some joking around with our DS's. We then cleaned on our weapons until personal time.

We had HF, were counted into the bay, and then I was out. Last Fireguard shift for me.