day 8/4
March 28
Today started out at 06:00 AM, went to chow and then to a senior NCO meeting with the Post Command Sergeant Major. The afternoon consisted of Personnel Recovery training, that is what to do when you become separated, captured and how to evade and escape. We had classroom instruction, briefings and online computer training. This took us to evening chow. At 6 PM we started what ended up being three hours of secret counter insurgent training, so obviously that is all I can say about that class. We finished the training at 9 PM tonight and returned to the barracks to pack all the gear we will need for tomorrows non lethal training. Full battle gear will be worn tomorrow; you’re talking about sixty pounds on our backs. Safety was stressed as to not have any broken bones tomorrow; this should prove to be a one fun day providing we don’t die from exhaustion and heat stroke lol. Oh and we found out tonight that we are now scheduled to leave camp atterburry for Kuwait on 16 Aprill. They moved the date up on us again. We will be the first unit to ever proccess through this mob station in its history. they are pretty impresed with us and how well trained we already are. This is good in two ways, one is that it shortened our six day Forward Operating Base training from six days in the field to three. Secondly it will get us home faster, our time does not start untill we step on Iraq soil so the sooner we get there the sooner we get home.
But that is tomorrow and will be bloged tomorrow if I get a chance.