Day 54

Day 49 of BCT

Three weeks from today and I'll be waking up in my own bed! I can hardly stand it! Today was an early wake up for the PT test. I am so nervous. I really want to pass and get this behind me.

We marched to the PT field and warmed up. I ended up in the line with the new female DS. Pushups are always first. I did good for the first 5, but then I started to hit muscle failure. I only managed 8 pushups, 3 short of what I had to have. I was so disappointed. To match my mood, right as I finished my pushups, the sky opened and we were all pelted by a freezing cold rain with strong winds. It was extremely difficult not to just give up right then and there. But I told myself that I had to do my best on the situps and run if I wanted any hope of getting chaptered out. I managed to get 66 situps and a runtime of 18:46. Both were an improvement. Mentally, the run was very tough. My DS did seem like I would get a retest. There were 4 in our platoon that failed and about 10 in the company.

The rest of the day went okay, but it was really hard to stay motivated, feeling like a complete failure. We went to Wanat today. It's a range named after a battle in Afghanastan. It was actually kind of fun. We did convoy operations. I got to ride in a Hummer for the first time! They are not very comfortable! Lol. Our group lucked out and we managed to avoid concurrent training for the most part.

Before leaving the range, our Battalion Commander gave us a bit of pep talk and basically just told us to keep up the good work. He says we're by far the best company at Fort Jackson right now!

When we got back, we had a quick briefing on some other weapons that we will get to fire on Monday-the grenade launcher and M240 and M249 machine guns. We then had chow at the DFAC, some platoon time, and then mass chaos in the female bay. They decided to change out all of our old lockers for less old lockers. It was crazy! And now the floor of our bay looks horrible! Sunday will be spent scrubbing, I'm sure.

After HF, I crashed, then did my Fireguard shift from 2200-2300. I always want more sleep than we get. I can't wait to sleep in again!