ok so i'm really far behind on these again. sorry! November the 7th i went to camp shelby for the week end. we had a FTX (field training exercise). It was rough, it really made me wonder why in the hell i joined the ROTC. however, everyone told me that my first FTX would be the worst one, each one would get a little better.
it started out with all 32 of us getting off the bus in the middle of no where. after a couple of breifings, they sent us out into the woods for 5 hours to find certain points that we were assigned. each point was just like a regular road signs but had orange things hanging from them called 'clackers'. when you found a point, the one you thought was right, you had to use the clackers to punch holes in your paper. each clackers had a different number or sequence of holes. so they could tell if you found the right point or not.
after 5 hours of doing that, i got the most awful blisters on my feet. i found 5 of my 8 points and sat down for the rest of the time. when everybody finally came back to the rally point we all went to eat at the chow hall which was really good. after we ate they sent us back into the woods again, for night land navigation. since i couldn't hardly walk that put me at a check point. the check point i was at was so far away from the other check points that my walkee talkee didn't work. so if i had an emergency i was screwed. o and by the way it was really really cold. CDT Roy built me a fire when him and his partner came through the check point.
at about 11 o'clock at night, they decided to come and get me and bring me back to the rally point so we could go to sleep. we all finally went to sleep around 12 a.m and being woke up by another cadet at 4:30 a.m. and he was screaming get your stinking ruck sacks on and lets go
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