well...only a 10 day gap this time, not to shabby.
current sitiation: for the last week weve been getting up early and working late training for our EIB testin coming up(EIB=expert infantry badge) and have simultaneously been preparing for a dress uniform inspection.so last night we get done with our training, come back and turn in weapons then get started onour class A(dress uniform) preps. a few minutes later were told to come draw our weapons again and clean them because now the inspection is going to include the weapons room. so after an hour or so of cleaning the weapons we turn them back in and get back to the uniforms...afterwhich we have to clean the room as its dually a room inspection. so after hours of adjusting pins and polishing boots we wipe down everything in the room and sweep and mop then rack out aroud midnight. this morning after first formation we sham out on PT and te squad comes back to our room with their class As to put the finishing touches on with the sergeants help...at which point he starts bitching about how dirty the room is and how apparant it is that we did no work on it the night before...this of course having nothing t do with the fact that weve got 9 guys with dirty shoes trapesing through the place?
finally 8 rolls around and a while later were released for breakfast chow with hardly more time to get dressed and eat. were told theres no 0930 formation and were just to stand by in our rooms...then told to be outside them and just bounce back and forth for a while. a passing sergeant major asks us what were doing, we tell him about the inspection and hes asks if we mind if he gives the room a looking over and of course we dont deny him the pleasure. he comes in and looks about asking about the water stains on the ceiling, saying we need to get some work orders in for that and a few other things. he sees my skis and we start to bullshit about the slopes, turns out hes from the same area and skis the same mountains back in the states. we shoot the shit for a while more, him noticing my buddys drawings on the wall and my other roomies nice tv and blah blah blah. after a while he moves on to the next room and were back to sitting around on the stoop. lunch rolls around and were released yet again, we hit the BK lounge where Unver is more than well known...his order was actually ready for him before he placed it. so we grab and go. we eat in the room and return to "standing by" which involved a bit of napping until were told we have to go outside. so we step out and start going over dissassembly of a few weapon systemsand after a short while theyre returned to the arms room and get together for the final formation. as were going to have to work sunday we get a weekend safety brief and get released at which point I hit the bottle and take a shower leading up to the present where I find myself wasting time on ebay and cursing AIM for being so damn worthless!!
more to follow possibly. hooray for the weekend!
current sitiation: for the last week weve been getting up early and working late training for our EIB testin coming up(EIB=expert infantry badge) and have simultaneously been preparing for a dress uniform inspection.so last night we get done with our training, come back and turn in weapons then get started onour class A(dress uniform) preps. a few minutes later were told to come draw our weapons again and clean them because now the inspection is going to include the weapons room. so after an hour or so of cleaning the weapons we turn them back in and get back to the uniforms...afterwhich we have to clean the room as its dually a room inspection. so after hours of adjusting pins and polishing boots we wipe down everything in the room and sweep and mop then rack out aroud midnight. this morning after first formation we sham out on PT and te squad comes back to our room with their class As to put the finishing touches on with the sergeants help...at which point he starts bitching about how dirty the room is and how apparant it is that we did no work on it the night before...this of course having nothing t do with the fact that weve got 9 guys with dirty shoes trapesing through the place?
finally 8 rolls around and a while later were released for breakfast chow with hardly more time to get dressed and eat. were told theres no 0930 formation and were just to stand by in our rooms...then told to be outside them and just bounce back and forth for a while. a passing sergeant major asks us what were doing, we tell him about the inspection and hes asks if we mind if he gives the room a looking over and of course we dont deny him the pleasure. he comes in and looks about asking about the water stains on the ceiling, saying we need to get some work orders in for that and a few other things. he sees my skis and we start to bullshit about the slopes, turns out hes from the same area and skis the same mountains back in the states. we shoot the shit for a while more, him noticing my buddys drawings on the wall and my other roomies nice tv and blah blah blah. after a while he moves on to the next room and were back to sitting around on the stoop. lunch rolls around and were released yet again, we hit the BK lounge where Unver is more than well known...his order was actually ready for him before he placed it. so we grab and go. we eat in the room and return to "standing by" which involved a bit of napping until were told we have to go outside. so we step out and start going over dissassembly of a few weapon systemsand after a short while theyre returned to the arms room and get together for the final formation. as were going to have to work sunday we get a weekend safety brief and get released at which point I hit the bottle and take a shower leading up to the present where I find myself wasting time on ebay and cursing AIM for being so damn worthless!!
more to follow possibly. hooray for the weekend!
