more training

So I thought I'd have some time off from training but boy was I wrong. Monday rolls around and I walked on to my next mandatory school. What fun, right? Week one is about over, I got some time off today to go see my buddy get married. Tomorrow I'm planning on driving up to cincinnati to see another one of my buddies get married.

The school I am in is bolc 2, stands for basic officer leadership course 2 (bolc 1 = rotc). It is a course designed to teach war fighting skills (warrior skills) to those leaders not in a combat arms branch, but just the same they send us combat guys too. It is seven weeks long, two of which are in the field. We get most nights off and weekends. Some tasks we will accomplish are land navigation, combat life saver certification, platoon patrolling, and m4 qualification (rifle) with a red dot sight.

We went to the central issuing facility on wednesday. I received all my equipment for my training here at ft. benning (finally!). I even got my own body armor with sapi plates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAPI_plates) and mich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICH_TC-2000_Combat_Helmet). Very expensive stuff.

Time to go back to work.