Playing Soldier

Today I spent the day (all day) at Fort AP Hill playing Soldier. We spent the day getting "familiarized" with the M16 and then qualifying on the M9. We reported to Walter Reed AMC at 0330 to get on a bus at 0400 for the 2 hour drive to the range to sit around for a hour before getting to fire our M16s. CPT Martinez (in the video) and I work together in the MICU/PICU. He and I zero'd our weapons pretty quick and then sat around waiting for our fellow soldiers to finish. While waiting I spent an hour studying and another hour napping in one of the vans (hard work, I know). After lunch we started sending rounds down range. After three hours of sitting around it was fun to be firing. Once we all finished at the M16 range we went to the M9 range. The M9 range went quickly and was fun. The pop-up targets and having to quickly switch magazines make this range a lot more interactive. After some more sitting around we finally left Fort AP Hill at 2000 and got back to WRAMC at 2200. A long day of hurrying up to wait...the true Army way!