Moving on

This class is going by quickly.
I think it might help when we have a nice 4 day weekend to help move things along.

This morning we did a 5.5 mile run, it was a moderate/slow pace but some nice hills we went up and down. We had plenty of time at the bottom of the hill to do some push-ups and pull-ups too.

The rest of the day was filled with a short test on Methods of Offense and Defense then classes on map symbolgy (more complicated than one might think when we're talking military symbols), and a class on Operations planning which turned out to be horrible since the speaker didn't seem prepared and I couldn't even hear him over 1/2 the time. It may seem worse than it was since the previous teachers have been quite good and well prepared.

We wasted 1/2 the evening preparing for a ruck march tomorrow. Evidently the cadre was not satisfied with our spacing and how we tactically got off and back onto the road at rest points last time so we rehearsed for about 1 hour. There seems to be many things here that will eat up your free time, what little exists.

Tomorrow morning we have a 7 mile ruck march, this one includes the IBE (bullet proof vest) so it adds about 35lbs to the load. After that on Monday we have a 4 mile release run. This means there are very few major events left to complete. We will have a 10 mile ruck, a PT test, and a 5 mile release run, then pass some classes and that's it. I guess they don't want to waste much time training you if you cannot pass some of the more simple introductory events.

Well time to go and look at the lunar eclipse before bedtime, 3:45am comes awfully early here in Ft. Benning.