Three weeks down, 11 more to go!
This week they spent mostly in the classroom. Thursday they finally got out of the class. They had a platoon run and a team obstacle challenge course. He said it was really nice to not spend the entire day in class. Too bad it poured most of the day!! To finish the day off, they had two guys mess up during study time earning the company two smokings & loss of phone priviliges. Today they had a class on the law of warfare which Jim said was really interesting. That class and a leadership class were the two most interesting this week.
Jim was squad leader this week. They have four times they will perform as squad leader–two while in the field, two in garrison (meaning, the rest of the time). They have to pass 50% of their time. He passed this week, so he only needs to pass one more. Seems to me that 50% isn’t much for preparing these guys to someday lead soldiers into war!! His roommate was squad leader last week and, on his last day, forgot to lock his locker…failing his week!! He had done everything else correct and failed because of that. Ouch! And to add insult to injury, he is losing his pass this weekend!!!
Because of the two incidents last night, their weekend pass has been revised. Initially they were going to get a pass from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon. Now they have a pass starting Saturday morning but have to check in at 8am, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm. THEN they don’t have to be back until Sunday afternoon. We’re looking forward to having him home overnight!!
ETA: I talked to Jim last night. They are going to be out in the field all week for land navigation. They won’t have their phones, so I won’t talk to him again until the weekend.
