Hey guys, here on my second libbo. I'm sitting here at a Holiday Inn Express near Potomac Mills finally relaxing after another hard week. First off I will say that it has been damn cold. We were lucky that it warmed up for the combat course. The water was still 41 degrees and there was one hypothermia case. The glove inserts that they give you here suck. They rip and fall apart and your hands still freeze. For me the roughest days were the first few days after you've been picked up and you're still doing the admin crap like picking up your uniforms and eating those box lunches. Our platoon has SSgt Wright and Falcon, Gunnery Sgt Jerrin, and Cpt Lizarraga as our staff so were pretty hard core (if you know SSgt Wright you'll know what I mean). I've already got a lot of funny quotes but I'll probably save them for later. Our platoon has already had 2 NPQs and 4 DORs. What with all the shuffle our platoon is down to 41 as of now. Advice for all of you going is "discipline", if your at the POA you don't look around, if your supposed to be quiet shut your suck. I say this because the most important thing here I think is to make sure you keep from getting essays. A 300 word essay usually takes me around 50 mikes. If they start adding up on you you'll lose a lot of sleep, then you'll fall asleep in class, get in trouble, more essays. Main advice don't come in the winter. Quigley would have been cake if there weren't chunks of ice floating in it, although the 4 mile double time in my war gear and ALICE pack was rough. Especially going up Radar Hill. As far as other physical stuff it hasn't been too hard. Were doing 4 mile squad runs around a 8 min pace. Not too bad except going up Danang. Fell back on Danang the first time I ran it. Had the Jr Fartlek today though and I moto'ed up it in style. The trick is to look at the ground and you almost don't realize your going up a big ass hill. THis next week we have pugil sticks, night compass test, and land nav test. Libbo is a must to keep yourself sane. My pullups have dropped off so much. Was doing 18 on preship, got 16 on the initial PFT at OCS (your arms get tired from lugging your bags and gear around all the time), and now in the almost 5th week I'm down to somewhere around 13. I havn't lost any weight quite yet altough I've lost some muscle mass in my arms. If I could get some goo rest my strenght would shoot through the roof. If you've got any Q's go ahead and ask em I'll check back next week.
"Boy you must be in the desert smoking pejote"
"[smacking his lips] Its Miller time"
SSgt Wright.
