Yesterday Scott received three bad haircuts and the end product is below. Now we both look like little basic cadets (doolies). The picture was taken before our nightly walk. Every night we try to get together at 9pm to walk around the base (or post, as the Army likes to call it) for some alone time. The last couple of nights have been beautiful and last night we got a great view of two helicopters practicing medical evacuations.
Today was our last day of combatives class. We fought three, three minute rounds and I got beat up. I hyperextended my arm a little bit because I was caught in a straight armbar and didn't want to tap out. I was able to get out of it, but my arm's a little sore. In the below picture we're practicing throws and it was my turn to hit the mat.
We also finished our radio training today. It was pretty dry, but now I can program three different kinds of radios. Tomorrow we're supposed to have most of the day off, so I'm going to get all my gear and weapons in order. It's hard to believe how much stuff we've been issued since starting this process.
We didn't drive around in the humvees with the live BLF today. So we got out early from class and it turned out to be an easy day. We still did combatives in the morning and we learned new chokes. We have two more days of combatives before we're done. Tomorrow I have a communications class which will be interesting with a little luck. I will try to post some more pictures soon.
It's not everyday you get to choke your boss. Today we had a two hour combatives class that started at 0500. It was very similar to the training I had at USAFA, so it was a lot of fun and I was ahead of the power curve. I was partenered with my boss and I got to choke her and put her in an arm bar. One of the guys in our class volunteered to be choked to sleep and it was weird to see him flop around on the floor. At the end of the class we did three, two minute sparing sessions. It was stran ge to do that with guys, but I think I suprised all of them. I even got two of the three to tap out with a choke (my personal favorite).After class we did training on the Blue Force Tracker (BFT). It's a computer system that works off of GPS and displays friendly and enemy forces on the battlefield. We'll be using it when we roll outside the wire. Tomorrow we will roll out in humvees and play with a live system. I will post pictures!Yesterday we were issued weapons and magazines. So my new best friend for the next 11 months is my M-4 and 9MM. I haven't named them yet.Scott is doing well. He went on a five mile road march yesterday and he said it went well. We usually get to see each other a couple times a day, which is nice.
Yesterday we had our first foot movement. Two and a half mile march in 38 minutes with all our gear and helmet on. It was actually pretty fun and I only got a couple small blisters with my three week old boots. When we arrived at our destination, we got to shoot 9MM and M4 simulators. We used real weapons that were hooked to to a big computer game and fired lasers at targets on a big screen. It was a lot of fun and I shot really well with the 9MM. The M4 was very difficult because we had our gear and helmet on and we are not used to shooting with that stuff. 
The 9MM is above and the M4 is below.
