Monday, October 23

Ah, Monday morning. We met outside our hotel at 0500 to load up on buses to head over to Camp Bullis. By 0700 we once again had M-16s strapped over our shoulders. At 0800 my platoon began M-9 training at the FOB. At 0930 we began grenade training. That was fun. We reviewed safety protocols and then teamed up to practice moving down range covering each other and then threw dummy grenades at our attackers. It was fun to actually practice what we talk about all week.
After lunch we went to a Leadership Challenge thing called the LDC. We broke down into groups of 10 and had to accomplish different tasks at different stations. We took turns being the leader and worked as a team to complete each task. We did not accomplish all of our tasks but we were successful at working as a team.
Immediately after dinner we had a quick briefing regarding mounted Land Navigation. They were preparing us for Tuesday’s exercise of climbing into the back of the trucks and taking turns getting from point A to point B. We also had a quick brief on how to use the Garmin GPS system that the Army uses. We were done by 1930 and had lights out at 2200. Early nights are my favorite.