Another long delay in entries; and I really wish I could write more - I have done so much already!
Our first big event asides from the small road/ruck marches was the CS gas chamber. Asides from getting hurt while here the gas chamber was probably my greatest fear! I made it through though and it really wasn't as bad as I had gotten myself worked up over. The worse part of it all was it felt like a TERRIBLE sunburn on my skin. It was of course difficult to breath when we had to remove our gas masks, and it burned my throat some/made my nose run but I had imagined it'd be much much worse. The next event we did was the warrior tower, a 30-ft repel tower we had to get down (after climbing up it first of course). I was pretty freaked/nervous initially with the whole height aspect but it was so much fun - quite an adrenaline rush. I also was actually chosen to be interviewed by the local/post newspaper and was given a copy when it came out, so that was pretty neat! We have also done the bayonet course, and the "team building" or obstacle course.
We have currently entered out "white phase" of training which is also our weapons training and qualification period. We have already started our BRM (Basic Rifle Marksmanship) and I feel okay about qualifying, but I am definitely not too over confident! I am really looking forward to Thursday night when we'll be preparing to leave and have a two week break over Christmas and New Years.
I cannot wait to get home and see C, of course I'll be excited to see family and other friends as well but well..yeah. I'm getting pretty ADD, so I'll back off of the rambling for now. Until later...
