2nd Day at Drill

Today was my second day at drill and I started to get into the flow of things more. I have my uniform, but I don't have my name badge, US Army badge, USA flag, rank or boots. Ill receive those at basic training.

Today we did PT (physical training) for about 2 hours. Then we went into a class on sexual harassment and suicide prevention. Suicide prevention is really being stressed now in all branches of the military because of the recent rashes of soldiers killing themselves. We were in that class for about an hour and a half. Afterwards, we drilled for a bit.

Then it was time for chow. Basically, the food was horrible. All pork & other things I don't eat. I was going to eat a salad, but it had bacon bits in it! So I just ate 3 pieces of cake (bad i know).

After chow, the first timers went into another class while the other soldiers did something else, I don't know what it was. This class was all about rankings and how to address officials and higher ups. After that the E-1's took their test, while the other soldiers cleaned up.

Then we had to go to a fighting class, teaching techniques about fighting and we had several spars. It was a lot of fun, probably the best class they had there! It was exciting and it wasn't any old fighting, there were techniques that had to be used.

After the fighting class, it was finally time to go home! But not before the soldiers who earned it got their promotions. About 11-12 soldiers got promotions. Another 8 got coins for coming back from basic training and AIT. In a few more months that will be me, I cant wait.

After the promotions it was time to go home!