Day 69

Day 64 of BCT

Today is our last Sunday here! Hooray! Wake up was at 0600 with our usual chow at the DFAc. We then began the fun of weapons cleaning yet again. As I had not yet spent much time on mine, I took several hours to really start detail cleaning it. Simple Green cleaner, pipe cleaners, and Q-tips work wonders on an M16! Around 1100 our platoon was sent outside to clean the company vehicles. I didn't think this was really fair since our duty week was over, but it's the Army. You do what you're told. We then went back to work on weapons in our male bay, only to have our DS get quite upset when he discovered a lot of people had not been cleaning their weapons. There might have been some weapons tossed across the room.
We went to lunch and spent the afternoon quietly cleaning weapons and trying to keep from making our DS upset again. We also got to spend more time yet again on the gear. We had to recount the sleeping bags and repack the ruck sacks. Everyone was getting so tired of cleaning that it didn't take much for us to all be short with one another. Thursday needs to hurry up and get here!
After dinner, we of course spent the rest of the evening cleaning our weapons. We did get 20 minutes to use our phones, but not the hour we were originally going to get since our DS wasn't happy about the lack of weapons being cleaned. We then were sent to change clothes before getting a quick lesson on the bugle calls that would be used during graduation. Graduation practice starts tomorrow and our 1SG wanted us to look sharp. So we got smoked (for a whole 2 minutes) when some people couldn't figure out how to stand perfectly still. We then had Hydration Formation and off to bed. I get last fireguard from 0400-0500. Yay. :-\
Just 4 more days until I'm home!