End of Week 2

Well, this week has been pretty tough. It started off well. Monday was a good day of drill, bit of PT and a few more lectures on various bits and pieces. Tuesday, at 0800 saw us leaving for our first trip out into the field. The day itself was absolutely fine, we had lessons on shelter building, breaking down our rations, cooking and washing in the field etc. Tuesday evening, things got slightly less fun. Wet and Dry Routine! Basically what happens is, you get all your kit on, including your webbing and Bergen (Very Heavy)! You then walk out into a muddy lake up to your waist, fall backwards, get pushed under by the Sgt and then back up you come. You then walk out, go and build your shelter, get into your dry clothes and then into your sleeping bag. That bits OK. Then, of course, you can't leave your harbour position un-guarded, so you take it in turns to go on Sentry duty. Of course, you can;t wear your dry kit on sentry duty, because if it were to rain, you would then have 2 sets of wet kit and you only carry 2 sets with you! So, at 0300, you get back into your very cold and very wet kit, wander around for an hour on Sentry duty, then back to bed, getting changed again into your dry kit. At 0530, everyone is up, back in their wet kit again, having breakfast, washing shaving etc. Then its time to pack away shelters and form up.

There we are all soaking wet and very cold, but there's no rest then its straight into field PT, which on Wednesday morning consisted of a 3 mile cross country run, broken up with the odd break in order to do sit ups, press ups, squat thrusts and Ab extensions! Fun and games. Then back in formation for a full kit muster (basically showing off all your kit, making sure its all clean and neat and tidy). Then its packing away time and off home. That only took us till Wednesday mid day! I'll talk about the rest of the week tomorrow.

Bugging Out

Nathan