Monday- Classroom instruction on Call for Fire and Machine Gun Theory, it was something I absolutely wanted to learn, going to a light infantry unit I will be using mortars and setting machine guns a lot. Be ready to take thorough notes because there is a huge amount of information thrown at you. Again bring some knowledge of the systems with you otherwise you could be lost the entire time. There is a machine gun theory test at the end of the week as well.
Tuesday-Wednesday- We fired the 249 and 240B machine guns for day and night familiarization, I was a little awestruck during the night fire. We had a line of 10 249's and 10 240B's and to have them all firing at once and seeing the tracers skip off the barriers into the sky, it made me glad I was in the infantry and that I would not be on the recieving end of that.
Thursday- Recovery and the written exam. The exam was not very hard and if you studied a little bit you will do fine. As for weapons cleaning, again a fun filled day packed with CLP and carbon build up. I had to keep telling myself its good practice and the right thing to do. This is also a great time to get to know your platoon
This is sort of off topic from your post, but have you done the new pt test yet?
ReplyDeleteWe were the first unit at Ft. Benning to take it, but it was just a test to try and develop scoring and standards for the PRT. It is going to be rough if they implement all the events and keep the standards that they have in place. An event like the broad jump almost cannot be improved, you are either a good jumper or your not, and even if you train for it you will not see huge improvements. All in all you will still do well if you are in shape and that is its purpose, to see if you are in good physical condition.
ReplyDeleteDo you think they will cut any of the events.
ReplyDeleteProbably not. We took it so they could collect data for standards on scoring, so I think the events are set. We will just have to adapt to them, no matter how stupid they are.
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