Training at Ft Benning

UPDATE ON TRAINING AT FT BENNING

Im about half way done with the first part of my long 6 month training. Things have been pretty good I have been doing a lot of PT (physical training) both at the butt crack of dawn then in the evening when I am done with training for the day. There really is nothing for me to do so I figure why not.

The weather has been ok here but in the morning it is about 27 degrees. This week has been ok during the day it was about 65 degrees.

These past weeks I have also learning about all kinds of weapons. Some of which I had never seen. For me I will probably never have to man any of these weapons, but it is nice to know this stuff as an Infantry officer. Some of the weapons that I learned and got to shoot were ......

1. M4 rifle

The M4 is the new rifle that the military uses to replace M-16. In this picture I have 2 weapons the one on the bottom has a m203 Grenade launcher.

2. M203 Grenade launcher

3. MK 19

4. 50 caliber machingun

There were more weapons that I fired but I could not get a picture of the 240B which is a big machingun.

The final thing that we did this week was the Army combatives. The good thing about this was because I had already gone through the course I did not have to go through it again. I was able to teach other soldiers. So that was a nice break.

All is going well I miss my family but I get to see them in 4 days.

FT BENNING GA

OK OK I KNOW I have not been the best person to keep up with this stuff. There is a lot of things that we have done and I will get to those when I get a chance. I have to teach Christina how to input the pictures and do all of this while I am gone.

FT BENNING GA

Anyways as some of you know I am away from my wonderful wife for the next 6 months. I am here at the home of the infantry FT Benning GA. I have been here for five days and it has not been that bad. The only thing I can say is that this week is nothing but briefings and class room stuff which is a bore. Next week we will go out in the field and do what I love most and that is fire my weapon. There are a lot of things that I am going to be doing while here and although it has been about 5 years since I have been at an Army school I think that I am adapting pretty well.

Let me start from the beginning. I flew very early Sunday morning 02NOV and arrived late Sunday afternoon. When I got here The airline decided that it would best to leave on of my bags behind in Atlanta. I have yet to see that bag with a lot of my essentials. Hopefully I will get it today I found were it is located at. Then since I got here we have been getting up earlier and earlier....it went from 530 to 500 to 420 but today it was more like 545. So I have been really tired these last few days. I have been meeting a lot of new people from all over the us...some starting their careers some have been in for as long as I have if not more. It is weird to think that I have been in the Army for 10 years now. Some of the LT's here look at me and say man when did you get in when you were born.

Now that we are pretty much caught up. Today has been an ok day so far. We got some of the medical stuff done and tomorrow is shot day and because I could not find my shot records guess what....I get them all again...That is about 5 shots oh and by the way it is all at once. The Army is like that. The rest of the day will be more classroom stuff along with my field gear issued to me.

Once I find the other bag which has my camera in it I will post some pictures to show everyone how fun it is to be in the Army.

Anyways all is good here and hope the same for others.