Today was the most fun day I've had here so far at basic. This morning, for PT, we did running. I didn't do as well on the initial PT test as I'd hoped. I ran the mile in 9:56. I think it was the humidity. Anyway, we did what they call 30/60s. You sprint all out for 30 seconds, then walk for 60 seconds. It's supposed to be really good for increasing running speed and endurance. It was acutally pretty fun.
After PT, we took showersm then dressed in ACUs, grabbed our rifles, and headed down to breakfast. After breakfast, we loaded up in buses and headed off to something they call a leadership evaluation course. It's basically a team building thing where your team has to solve a series of physical puzzles such as transporting ammo containers across a ravine (simulated of course) to which the bridge has blown up. All you have are two pieces of lumber and a rope. It was pretty challenging, but my group managed to complete about half of them in the time allotted (10 minutes each). It was a lot of fun, especially the water ones. If you didn't complete it in time, they made everyone jump in the water. The heat index was 109, so the water felt pretty good.
That took most of the day, really. We came back, took showers, then worked on some things in the bay getting ready for upcoming events. Tomorrow we have the obstacle course and confidence course and I think we start hand-to-hand combat as well. Next week is Eagle Tower (or that might be this week) and the gas chamber, neither of which I'm looking forward to.
I did things today on that course I didn't think I could, even some involving heights. So I was pretty proud of myself!
PFC Sam Jones
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