Mon- Tuesday- The remainder of the Platoon briefed their OPORD's While the rest of us got to relax at home, so there are some good things about volunteering first. Tuesday morning we were bussed out to the Ranger Training Brigade where the Darby Queen is at to conduct the Ranger School 5 mile run. The road course is not flat by any means but it is not a horrible course I finished in 33:05, so I lost about 40 seconds off of my previous time. You have 40 min to complete the run so a few seconds will not matter. The company CO ran the 5 miler with us this time. A little background on him, he is a Crossfit junky and looks the part, and he finished 4th in the world Crossfit games so he's in shape. Anyways the point is that we ran together most of the route and of course I could not let him beat me at the end so it was a mad dash to the finish. There were only 4 of us that beat him so he gave all of us positive spot reports (my third to date in the course).
Wed- Friday- CAID classes followed by the exam. I don't think anyone in IBOLC knew what CAID stands for, not even the cadre. CAID deals with combined arms and how we can use them on the battle field. Some of the instructions were very interesting, like the CAS and CCA and knowing how to call and facilitate air strikes. I could have done without some of the other blocks of instruction, but I might need to know one day how to provide my soldier legal advise when he's in a Tijuana jail.
Something I did not mention before, the exams in IBOLC are solely memorization of terms and acronyms, not short answer or multiple choice. So if you want to do well pay attention and STUDY STUDY STUDY.
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