Our company performed some experiment this morning called the Combat Maneuver Course, where we run 2 laps around a track with our weapons, and a timed course with several objectives such as high crawling and carrying a 150 lb battle buddy a few meters. The two parts that sucked the most were running with a M16 and dragging someone who weighed 20 lbs more than me, but other than that it was pretty interesting.
It was kind of a long march to the gas chamber. CS gas freaking burns, that's all I gotta say about that! It was kind of a weird sensation being in the chamber, I wasn't scared I was just nauseated and coughing up my lungs, I'm not quite sure how to describe it. Once we exited... lots of dry-heaving, miles of mucus coming out of my nose... Hell, my mask didn't have a good seal while I was in the chamber, definitely stung a little bit. I still haven't completely washed it off yet, will probably finish it up in the morning, must do laundry ASAP! Oh yeah, trying to rinse your hands off with water and then trying to wash your face doesn't seem to be that productive, seems like it just rubs it in even deeper.
Had my first MRE today, Spaghetti with Meat Sauce. It was actually pretty delicious, maybe I should look into getting some when I'm all done with training, haha.
In other news, I got detached from my old battle buddies (odd number of males in the platoon so one team of three) and was reassigned to a new guy. He made it to week 2 of red phase before getting pneumonia way back in February or so, I guess we'll see how it goes with him.
The Special Olympics opening ceremony was actually kind of fun, except for the fact that we had to march there, on top of the march to and from the Gas Chamber this morning.
I'm not sure what else to write about and there's a bit going on so I should probably sleep soon. Gotta get battle buddy a PT mat since PT will destroy us tomorrow, then we have Victory Tower tomorrow!
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