Day 56

Day 51 of BCT

Today started with an AGR. And the news that out retest would be on Wednesday! Yikes! I told my DS that I wasn't sure I could run the AGR and still do well on Wednesday, but she wanted me to run it anyway and try to keep up. I'm not sure how much of it was lack of motivation and how much was because my knees hurt, but I fell out after 1/4 mile. I didn't walk and I still went the 3 miles that the group did. The 1SG was yelling at those of us that fell out the whole time. After I explained that I had s "run at your own pace" profile, he left me alone. I barely could walk afterwards, my knees were so stiff. Hopefully, I can still run on Wednesdsy.

We changed, ate breskfsst, and got our gear and had motor movement to our last range. We were originally supposed to march out there (10 miles) but they changed it, thank goodness. The range is Bastonge. It is US weapons. Basically, we all get to shoot machine guns and grenade launchers. After the briefing, the top marksman in each platoon got to shoot live rounds to demonstrate, then all of us shot dummy rounds. We shot the M240, M2498(SAW), the M203, and the M184. It was actually pretty fun. The best part was that we had no concurrent training.😄

We had chow and then s little bit of time to start practicing marching for graduation. I really hope I can pass my PT test so I that I'm on that field! It was an early day and we were back to the company by 1400. We spent time cleaning our weapons and then our DS let us use our phones for an hour. I cried when I told my Mom I failed my PT test and might not be graduating.

We had chow and then mail call. We got info from the DS about inspections and then a short personal time before Hydration Formation and bed. My DS had been having me do pushups and dips all day. I then gave my mail(I had pictures!) to a battle buddy to keep until I did 100 pushups. I had to do them on my knees, my arms were so tired, but I did them. I'll rest my arms tomorrow, and hopefully be ready to do 11 pushups on Wednesday.

I had Fireguard from 0000-0100. I'm so ready for a night of sleep without FG.