Well its certainly been a while since I posted. I did however try a while ago but the conection timed out and as the entry was an angry one I was in no mood to retype the shit.
Part I: EIB(Expert Infantry Badge)
This was was an extraveganza of shit! We spent two weeks, one of which was a solid 8 day work week, training for the EIB testing. Thats two weeks of lowcrawling, throwing hand grenades and testing on any other of the 30 some odd tasks included in the test. And at the end of the day did we come back to the barracks and relax, of course not, we trained some more in the company area...and once the extra training time was put in were we done for the day? Oh no...not yet, you see we had to clean all of our equipment so it looked all nice and new so that the next day when we started crawling around on the ground it would only be that much dirtier! The best part? It almost never rains in this god forsaken country, but the day we started out practice testing a fucking monsoon rolls in! So now were lowcraling through half a foot of muddy, puddly shit that for some reason unbeknosnst to me reaked to high heaven. So now at the end of the day it takes twice as long to clean our equipment and our days start reaching into the high teens with work hours eventualy hitting 20. So now sleep deprived and generally ran ragged we begin the testing. We started testing with roughly 800 candidatesand the brigade had expected about 60% to pass...480 or so. By day 3, the last day of testing, we were down to about 200 and at the end there were only 128 who got it...I was a last day no go, damn the saw.
So all said and done the great majority of us had wasted close to a month training for a badge that we never got, put in some of the longest days trying to learn more than 30 odd tasks that we had never once performed.
And though there were E-6s there who didnt get theirs I was pissed the hell off when I fell out of the runnings...main reson being there wasnt a thing I got a no go on because I didnt know how to do the task, they were all stupid mistakes that I made because I wasnt paying attention to the details. Fuck that!
Since the EIB weve done nothing productive. In fact this week, all 3 days of it, were working from 9-12 every day! And thursday I fly home, that night Ill be dining on disco fries and an omlette...glorious.
Ive almost managed to get all of my christmas shopping done so I willnt have to be running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to do last minute shopping. Freakin day after tomorrow.!
FIN
Part I: EIB(Expert Infantry Badge)
This was was an extraveganza of shit! We spent two weeks, one of which was a solid 8 day work week, training for the EIB testing. Thats two weeks of lowcrawling, throwing hand grenades and testing on any other of the 30 some odd tasks included in the test. And at the end of the day did we come back to the barracks and relax, of course not, we trained some more in the company area...and once the extra training time was put in were we done for the day? Oh no...not yet, you see we had to clean all of our equipment so it looked all nice and new so that the next day when we started crawling around on the ground it would only be that much dirtier! The best part? It almost never rains in this god forsaken country, but the day we started out practice testing a fucking monsoon rolls in! So now were lowcraling through half a foot of muddy, puddly shit that for some reason unbeknosnst to me reaked to high heaven. So now at the end of the day it takes twice as long to clean our equipment and our days start reaching into the high teens with work hours eventualy hitting 20. So now sleep deprived and generally ran ragged we begin the testing. We started testing with roughly 800 candidatesand the brigade had expected about 60% to pass...480 or so. By day 3, the last day of testing, we were down to about 200 and at the end there were only 128 who got it...I was a last day no go, damn the saw.
So all said and done the great majority of us had wasted close to a month training for a badge that we never got, put in some of the longest days trying to learn more than 30 odd tasks that we had never once performed.
And though there were E-6s there who didnt get theirs I was pissed the hell off when I fell out of the runnings...main reson being there wasnt a thing I got a no go on because I didnt know how to do the task, they were all stupid mistakes that I made because I wasnt paying attention to the details. Fuck that!
Since the EIB weve done nothing productive. In fact this week, all 3 days of it, were working from 9-12 every day! And thursday I fly home, that night Ill be dining on disco fries and an omlette...glorious.
Ive almost managed to get all of my christmas shopping done so I willnt have to be running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to do last minute shopping. Freakin day after tomorrow.!
FIN
roaring_tulips:
Thank you for reminding me why I never joined the military. I keep thinking to myself "Hey, go see the world. Have a secure job. Military ain't sooo bad." But, now I'm remembering that you have to physically exert yourself.