February 21, 2009

Well today we had our first road march. We as a company "alpha" did not have a single person fall out and that has not happened in the last 5 cycles. It was like 3 or 4 miles and we had on our cavilar helmet. Our assault packs, 4 qts of water each and of course ourM16A2 and we atarted out at 5:30 am so it was dark for most of the time marching there. Then we did land navigation all day that is fun. We are gettin out in the field on monday. I am majorly bummed because I have to go to the gyno instead to get my prescription filled and make sure they don't bounce me because I am in menopause. A bunch of crap...One of the thing I'm good at & I really like and I have to go to damn gyno appt. I can't reschedule because it took a fricken week to get this one. Hell who knows maybe when I get done they can take me out to the field and my team. Well we plotted our course and when walking back to the bay we walked through the male bays and one of the females was running toward males and flirting and I told her to stop. She kept running toward him then I yelled at her and she yelled back at me that if I talk to her like that again she will shoot me but she listened. I told her if she acted like that again while I am her buddy I will turn her ass in. That really pissed her off and she told me she would turn me in. I was like go for it. I have nothing to hide. I have not done anything to break the rules. So needless to say I was getting daggers in the classroom. When we got back to teh bay she was talking more smack and getting the females all worked up and somehow miracuously my name got taped over with black tape. I was actually finding the whole thing funny and childish. Then she yells accross the bay "What Tils, you trying to set me up?" I replied "No, I'm over 30 and have better things to do" Well we got called down to write an essay about what respect means to us and after we were walking to laterine and I saw this girl and told her that I should not have yelled at her and that I was sorry for yelling, but I was not going to get in trouble because she was fraternizing. She also apologized for being dumb and yelling at me. She said just due to my age she should have shown me some respect. Then we all turned in essays and went to bed. I now have fireguard from 0300-0500 arg so much for getting some good sleep tomorrow is sunday YIPEE!

February 19-20, 2009

2-19-09 Death by power point again and it is tiring. We are all so tired and then we sit in class and try not to go to sleep. We are going to chow now to chow. 64 days till we are done. We are going to get smoked again today. I hope we don't have to go to the pit on army crawl because I have my battle buddies weapon so I would have to do it with both and we are the only platoon that still has their plates in our IBA (bulletproof vest) ARG! Well we did not get smoked thank goodness. I got a phone call today. Called my girls, had to leave Freedom a message, but got to talk to Nikki for a min. Did not call boys cause they were still in school.
2-20-09 More death by power point. We got the hell smoked out of us. We had to low crawl again through pit, not too exciting.

February 18, 2009

Went to sick call to get prescription filled this morning and had to come back in afternoon. Had class most of day. Went to hospital and the doc there was talking like my meds can't get filled and tehy may bounce me out. I will go without before I will let that happen. Then I told her that my shins were acting up to get some tylenol instead she put me on profile. Not running or jumping or over 20 lbs. Damnit I will only do it if they make me more classes. Now bedtime

February 17, 2009

Well during PT today we ran 2 miles up hill. I did not walk only jogged. Thanks SGT Born I did not get much shit even though I was toward the end of the pack. We ran two miles and I didn not stop jogging it was slow but not walking!!! I am pretty sure someone broke my shins with a baseball bat. After PT 1st time I cried because holy hell they hurt so very bad. Then we went to chow and went back to the barracks and changed clothes including putting on our IBA (bullet proof vest) We then marched as a company for 1 1/2 miles to an obstical course. The course is about 1 mile long with walls to jump stuff to climb through high step over and another tall ass cargo net to climb up and down. Our platoon got the fastest platoon banner so that is posted with our flag which is pretty cool. We have the heaviest guys in our platoon and the smallest also.We are a very diverse company for sure. We have been at actually basic for almost 2 weeks and we have one person out of our platoon for a broken foot, another that refuses to train, and a couple others on profile already (profile=broken soldier) after the fit town (obstical course) We put our gear back and marched back. My shins were hurting again not just some but tears every step. It only hurts every second, but when I stop its worse. When we get back we learned how to stand, lay, move when in combat with our rifles. Then we went to classroom and learned more about presenting arms. After learning about presenting arms we had a fire drill. Then counted weapons and people. Then off to bed. I had fireguard swept and mopped our entire side of bay, not enough sleep for sure.

February 16, 2009

Wake up was at 4am. We got up and had to get our barracks in order then PT which really sucked this morning. Then we learned how to take apart our M16A2 that was cool but today I am so tired I can't even see straight. Now we get to do 20 push-ups after each chow and we are wearing our IBA (bullet proof vest) it weighs about 20 ibs min and its heavy an dhot so do 20 push-ups wearing it is not something that looks very cool cause it is pure ugly. I fell to my face before I get all the way down and of course all my muscles are sore as hell. Learning tons of stuff about our weapons and sanitation. Well that was fun we got our helmets today and get to do obstacle course tomorrow. I am also on detail for tomorrow so hopefully I will just be like feeding people and nothing big. My platoon is in charge of the the course tomorrow so hopefully everything will go well.

February 15, 2009

Yea! Church today! Cried like a little girl, boy is this an emotional rollar coater! Well after church we had some time to organize our lockers then we got issued the rest of our gear. Even more shit to put into the darn wall locker. One thing the barracks are new so that is cool. We got issued our M16A2's today and our platoon made straps for them and everyone else still has to carry theres so were pretty lucky. We got sent back to our barracks to get our lockers done again. So I got my locker organized and helped my battle buddies. We still got smoked and really bad last night for 1/2 hr we did push-ups, leapfrog, and hold our weapons straight out then over our head and so forth. We did not get to bed till after 10 and wakeup was at 4 am. I am so tired!

February 14, 2009 Valentines Day

Well today is victory tower! Some females are freaking out. I can't wait! We get there and we got to do a couple things on the course. We did a rope slide where you lay on a rope sna slide down it without falling also a couple other rope walks. I did not fall off any of them! Also climbed down a cargo net that was about 50 feet up and then repelled down the wall, its 60-65 ft. It was cold but lots of fun. I wish everyday was like that. We got back and were told to get into a classroom. We were issued our bullet proof vests and our company had to wear them for the rest of the day. Well I kinda messed up today...The DS was giving formation directions and I thought it was PG (platoon guide) and I asked him to speak up and then he got in my face and and asked me what I sais so I was honest and told him it was me and I thought I was talking to PG. Well I did not get smoked and later he had us follow him out and we were supossed to to around corner but I followed him, DS (I was 1st) into his office. Needless to say he got back in my face and told me that was my 2nd strike and asked if I was crazy. I told him I must be crazy. We got done and got sent back to our barracks of course after making some head hydration thingswe had to make 150 of them so that took some time but only like 5 of us did it and got to the barracks at like 1900 (7pm) We were the only platoon there until like 8:30 pm in fact I got to shower alone. That was a great treat! Found out Allen has a broken foot in 3 places so she has to hang out in hospital for like a month. Well everyone came back and while waiting our platoon 3 made their beds and swept the whole bay did not get to bed till like 2200 (10pm)

February 13, 2009

Well today is Friday the 13th and we ship to actual basic. We did a bunch of crap and my battle buddy Allen tripped and fell and hurt her ankle. We took her to to sick call the doc said she has a 50/50 chance of it being broken. She told them too bad and to ship her so hopefully they will let her go. Well we have to hold our personal bag and our laundry bag in front of us...THANK YOU STEPH & SGT BORN FOR MAKING SURE MY PERSONAL BAG WASN'T TOO HEAVY!!! We loaded on the bus with all our stuff on our laps then we were told to put our heads down and close our eyes. When we arrived about 15 min later we were yelled at to get off the bus and run and hurry. Then we got smoked with all our bags for about 20 min then we had to run and get our other bag. So now we have all the clothing we were issued and we were issued a lot of stuff. I felt like I was going to fall over. The rest of the day pretty much went like that all day. Getting smoked and running. We went through all our bags and put personal bags away and cell phones in ziplock bags in case we earn them. They did let Allen come with us but she is on crutches. Our unit got all our little bag stuff taken care of then we all sat around and learned how to make the bed right. The DS looked around and assigned squad leaders and quess what??? He fricken picked me, DAMNIT! which means I lead my squad in formations and marchs. And I have to wear a rank thing so everyone knows. Well I suck so tons of fun, yeehaw! We got back to our barracks which by the way we all got to stay in same barracks 70 females to a bay and this cycle we are short on females so there are a lot more males in my platoon (3rd) We have 59 soldiers and only 14 are female so 45 males. Atleast here we can all sit together because in my squad I don't think I have any females. Well we were 2nd done tonight and the other 2 platoons (there are 4 in our company) got in about 30-45min later only have like a half hour to shower and clean barracks and toe the line??? (be at attn in uniform at foot of bed)

February 7, 2009

So we got up and stayed outside for over an hour before we got noticed and finally taken to go eat chow. Ate then marched a little and went back to barracks. Told to clean it and meet at formation at 0800 and we waited in formation for 2o min. Let me explain something to you about how messed up our platoon is. Some of our soldiers are in different barracks and so everyone here wants to be in charge or knows whats best. So our formations look like hell as does our whole unit. We are so messed up it is not funny. Now we are in a classroom learning we need to wash and not fratrnize and about church tomorrow. Well time for chow and our first PT...YEE HAW!

Oh I almost forgot one more example of our dumbass platoon. A drill sgt came into our room and we did not say "at ease" and we had to get into pushup position for not calling out and then had to go half way down, that sucked bad!

February 6, 2009

Hard to believe all that happened in one day. Well the bus did now show up to get us till like midnight so we got to jackson and had tons to do. First we got in line and yelled at, told how to salute officer how to tell who is who etc. Of course it is so cold and we are so scared we forgot about half of what was said. Then we went into a big room and handed this groovy book that is about 3 inches thick a little card and some other bogus book. This thick 3 inch book we have to read and know most of it while doing all our stuff then got given orders again and got told to write bunch of BS on them. Then we were marched into a hallway got our PT uniforms which consist of 3 t-shirts, 2 long sleeve shirts, 2 shorts, 1 pants, 1 coat, 1 gloves, and 1 hat. Then we were given like 5 min to change. Then we got brought out to big like gym area and told to dump our bags out and this was or freebe...So we got to turn in all the contraban we had in our bags. People turned in all their stuff that was against the rules. They don't let us have anything. I had to throw out my nail file and razor. Then had to buy them again, oh well. Then got to go eat. Got speggetti remember it is 1:45 am now and we are all tired and cranky, good combo. After we ate we had to stand outside in cold getting our 1 sheet, 1 pillow (lol, yeah right), 1 wool blanket but we had to wait outside for another unit to get theres and it was 30 degrees in sweats and a T-shirt-light jacket. It sucked ass! So we get to our room at 4am and have to be in formation at 5am so kicked off shoes took a half hour nap and it was freezing ass cold and we woke up and put shoes on and went to formation...We stood outside for a little bit then went in for chow like a cafeteria that was fun like no real time to eat and you can't do anything without a battle buddy, not even walk across the cafeteria without them. After that we went to chapel and had to read one book about heat stroke and sitting in out ml6a2's (?) and get quized about the answer when that was done we went over to medical and got our hearing checked again and a TB test then we sat back down. Yet another time we wished we had a DS because we sat there till someone realized we were there then we got marched over to chow got some food they had steak and lobster. We could only have one but I was tired and hungry I really didn't taste it but I am just making sure I drink at least 2 cups of water. After lunch we went to the PX and got all our stuff required like shoe shine kit more towels soap etc after we got done at PX we were told to go to barracks and put our stuff away and wait for them to come get us for dinner. We went there at about 1400 (2pm) and it was really cold in our room. Our heater is broke. We were told we could not sit on our bed or floor and make sure barracks are clean and bathroom is clean. Well at about 1900 (7pm) we went looking for someone to take us to chow and we were all sore from standing for like 6 hours when we found a random SGT who went to chow and it was closed so he had to get kitchen staff to make balona sandwiches that sucked but we were hungry. We had to eat it in like 5 min but that was easy we were starving. Then we went back to barracks showered and wrote some letters and fell asleep. Of course you don't understand how cold our rooms are. We are all wearing all of our clothes and shoes and still freezing our asses off! Finally actually got some sleep till the SGT brought in a few more soldiers in at 023 (12:23am) woke us up. That sucked but they went to sleep quick. We didn't know when we were supossed to be awake and at formation by 0500. No one told us what or when to do what.

February 5, 2009

My damn roomy had phone calls starting around 4am and I was supossed to get some sleep. On the plane to Seattle now. Have a new little baby flyer behind me so here is hoping that will go well...Oh good baby slept, AMEN!
Well flight from Seattle to Dallas was interesting. Sat between guy with BO and lady with 2yr old did pretty good till last half hour then he was ready to get off and cried the rest of the way. Well Dallas airport is big as hell, holy crap and then they changed our gate like 4 times, that sucked. Now on my way to Columbia, YEE HAW!
Landed, smoked last cig and got singled out told to tuck in shirt and take sunglasses off. Asked if sun was shining, Why I am no longer in sun and glasses still on. Where I'm from, Why I joined, etc...I was only one that he talked to... He told me my cute days are over. WOW this will be fun, oh yeah took my cigs away. I ws even the only one who looked straight ahead during parade rest, holy crap do I have somem updating to do...

February 4, 2009

FYI...Sorry these are out of order...Got the letters at separate times and so I'm just going to post everything by date...

Well another groovy day at meps. I reported at 6am its now 7am and I am pretty much done and can't leave until around 2pm so I get to sit here all day, YIPEE!
Interesting day at meps (military entrance processing station) On the way here one guy had to puke, we pull over. What a fun way to start. Another guy got kicked off the floor for flunking piss test. Another guy fell asleep so now he has to stand for the rest of the day. WOOT!
Not much happened last night. Ate dinner, went and watched Mall Cop, which sucked, and got to sleep around 11pm....

February 12, 2009

Went to sick call today and got some cough medicine, sinus medicine, and tylenol. YEE HAW! We did a whole bunch of sitting today. We were with our new unit this afternoon. That was cool! Actually got to talk to a male, we have been separated since we got here. The males tone down the females drama, its cool. We ship out tomorrow, Friday the 13th! How cool is that and our platoon is Diablo this should be interesting and on Valentines Day we get to do victory tower where we repel down a like 50 foot wall. I am so excited! Ok my bangs were also getting long so I trimmed them really short using some toe nail clippers LMAO! I don't care what it looks like because well I don't care no one to impress here lol!

February 11, 2009

Well wake up was at 3:15 this morning for formation and PT test at 0400. Well in order to pass for a female 3 pushups, 17 situps, and 10:30 1 mile run. Well I woke up feeling a little better. Well here goes my scores...
PUSH-UPS = 18 (yeah baby, 18 pushups)
SIT-UPS = 20 (not so proud, but working on it)
RUN = 10:22 (not my best but I passed and we have not been working out at all just standing, sitting, and eating)
AND in case I didn't mention it, we have 5 min to eat so all my table manners are gone LOL
Well exchanged loose ass boots and getting tight ones now I hope they loosen up I really hate my feet. Well we did a whole lot of nothing today sat and waited for the other soldiers to get their shit done I sat at PAB for one and a half hours and I am pretty sure the lady was on AKO chat room the whole time. Oh well we finally get assigned to our unit. I am in a unit with 14 females and 40 males. We are the 3rd platoon "Diablos" the DS (drill sarg) said they were the toughest DS's avaliable. There is a shortness of females so that is why we have so males. Our company has like 200 males and like 50 females in our entire alpha company. Thats right "ALPHA" baby
"ATTACK" that is our unit motto. After that we got sent to do our personal stuff and got to sleep so me and Allen, Heather went to do our laundry got that done but had to sacrifice a shower but oh well I got clean shit. Oh and I have told you that we never have toilet paper so I take napkins from the chow hall and leave them in my pocket so I always have TP.

February 10, 2009

Today we got our ACU's and boots. The lady at boots counter was not very nice and told me that the boots would be fine well now I am getting blisters, ARG! After we got our uniforms we went and got our picture taken for our military ID's and our send home pic. Well let me tell youI am looking sexy NOT! Hat hair, did not have time to shower last night and makeup is not allowed so let me tell you I was looking HOT for those photos. Then we go to process and of course my recruiter did not load my divorce decrees onto the PC so I got to come back in the morn. Oh yeah best part I have a sinus infection and no medicine not even tylenolan dI get to do my PT test in morning and if I fail it I get to stay here and do PT till I can pass and I want to go with this unit so I hope that I pass in morning. Shitty thing is we are going to be up late tonight and have to be ourside to run at 4 am. Still no canteen!

February 9, 2009

Well we woke up and sat and waited to see how many shots everyone needed. Come to find out I had to have 7 shots! Can I tell you how much my arm hurts! OMG!!! Then we went to dental and got our x-rays to it is all they have left to idenify the body is dental, they will know that I died. Oh and lets not forget that after all that fun stuff me and 3 other girls had to go into town (base) and get our medications changed to army issue. We get there and they sent us somewhere else. We go there (the urgent care) and wait for one and a half hours before they sent us home and told us to come back and go to other place tomorrow. So we get a meal ticket and ate at hospital, but we did not get anything good. Only the PEPSI! God do I miss caffiene and smokes and let us not forget we can not even get an asprin without going to sick call when we got back found out that we had to write the soldiers creed 50 times! Well it is like a full page long so that is some serious writing so I got to sleep @ like 11:30 pm after talking to Freedom finally and she sang me her song that she is singing during a solo emsomble, that made me cry wishing I could be there to watch her sing. Still no canteen!

Leaving for MEPS tomorrow

Ok well I am leaving tomorrow afternoon for Spokane and will be reporting for my first day at 6am at MEPS. I will be missing my family and friends but I am very excited to start my next chapter, hell this may even be a new book!!!

My best friend will be updating this blog with letters that I send to let you all know how things are going with my training.

I have been getting the question "Are you nervous?" Well I actually am not nervous I am excited. Right at the moment I feel like I am watching my life on TV (that may have something to do with all the alcohol I have consumed lol) Holy crap is there a lot of stuff to do I feel like I have been on the phone and doing a bunch of address changes forever.

As soon as I get an address I will post it on here. I look forward to hearing from all of you.