welcome to the a3 course

This week I started the bradley leader's course. I know what you are thinking, didn't he already...yes, this is the A3 course, the last one was the A2 course. Apparently the A3 is the best new thing in the mechanized infantry world. They pretty much turned the Bradley from a car with armor and a gun into a computer (with armor and a gun). Everything has a overlord type computer monitoring it. This has some really great benefits but as we all know computers break more than anything and I'm sure this is no exception (at least this might allow me to fix bigger computers than I've tangled with in the past).

Last week I did successfully graduate the A2 course. We spent two days in the simulator doing missions (think giant video game) and one day on the range shooting actual bradleys. Good stuff.

This week has been slightly different but a lot of the same routine. Think groundhog's day but instead of a day, its been three weeks. We don't use the bus anymore, we drive. We still have pt and we have tests everyday this week.

My roommate zwirgzdas has been gone all this week and last. Lucky for him I got some sort of flu/infection. It's not too bad really, just irritating.

I'm really looking forward to the weekend. This might be the first weekend that I can remember where I'll get to sleep in. So far every weekend I have had to wake up really early to do something or another for somebody. I normally start my saturday mornings driving to atlanta's airport, then turning around and driving back (2 hours each way). Seems there is always somebody I know that needs to get to the airport for one reason or another.

Stay Classy.