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12:55 PM -- That's all Folks! --

Was also cool last night, driving in the gate I got my first actual salute from the gate guards. They gave us our Lt ID cards a day early, but I wasn't about to let him know I didn't deserve it. Anyway sayonara for now, I will update once I am rolling into Brooks for the physical. If I find some webspace I may get some more pictures up as well at some point. Later.

 
11:42 AM -- 1 Day, 23 hours, 15 minutes, 37 seconds.... --

The drill for when my family gets here is going to be pretty simple, they are showing up on Thursday and I get to show them all around campus and eat with them in the chow hall (we'll save the stolen MRE's for later.) Then it's lights out and Friday morning it's 2lt time. It should go pretty smoothly as long as mom doesn't get dehydrated from crying too much. I'll let her borrow my canteen I guess. Anyway next entry will be back home on leave or right before I head out for my Brooks physical. It's been real.

 
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9:12 AM -- Un-Fun Run --

Washed my BDU's this weekend, or took them to the cleaner rather. That is significant for a few reasons. For one, the other day at commander's call the lower class was joking about how one of their OT's had JUST washed his BDU's after 3 weeks! Gross!!! But it made me realize that maybe where I was at, the 10 week point without a wash, was pushing it a little bit. I also didn't really have a choice since they were soaked with sweat from the Obstacle Course and MOE. I got them back yesterday and I think they are about 10 pounds lighter with all the dirt out of em. I also got one of my blues shirts washed and it's amazing the difference. I know most people realize earlier in life that washed clothes look nicer, but better late than never.

So anyway gearing up for the weekend, found out today I have to take the AFOQT
(Air Force Officer Qualification Test) test all over again tomorrow, I did pretty well on the first one but can't say I'm too pumped up to take it all over again. Anyone reading this who's taken it knows it's about as fun as sticking the number 2 pencil directly in your eyeball. But I digress, I need to look past it and see the weekend and the next week containing days like "Last Tuesday ever at OTS" and "Last Wednesday ever at OTS"...should be fun. Adios.

Oh and as directed by my head writer, Lucky, I will put a picture of my dirty blues shirt on the web tomorrow.

 
9:46 AM

Had a flash of brilliance at PC the other morning. We do our stretches every morning before and after the workout and they are all sitting down except one, the calf stretch. I hated standing up for just that one stretch so I invented the sitting calf stretch! It's sweet and gives me a few more minutes of sleep in the morning. Half my squadron has followed suit and I predict it will sweep through the wing like Pog's.

Our flight member that got recycled got thrown back into our lower class the other day. She has to watch us graduate which I can't even imagine doing. Not only does she have to do that but she has to do every parade practice, watch us do PC, everything. We also lost another guy in the squadron today who failed his make up PFT. We all knew he would since he has struggled the entire time here at OTS. He didn't even come close, and we are all kind of baffled why he wasted 10 weeks of his life when it was 100% certain he would not pass this test. Anyway, he's gone.

Hope you guys liked the pictures, I am going to figure out a way this weekend to put a link to them on the main page so you don't have to hunt through all the entries to find em. I'll also throw up the ones with the fighters in em (I forgot last week). Anyway 6.5 days and a wake-up left!

 
4:05 PM -- Another Picture update! --

Picture update #2

Enjoy.

 
9:21 AM -- Mobilized! --

It was great we got here early as well since we were able to go to all of the other tents and steal their fans and cushy chairs. Chalk Bravo Tent 5 is definitely the coolest as of right now. Also got to eat my first MRE (Meal Ready to Eat). These are the updated versions of the C-rations my dad was used to and are pretty decent. They actually have a way to heat your food using just water through some chemical reaction, so you even get a hot meal with no flame or anything. I had ravioli with meat sauce and life was good. Finally we all got to go up in a c-130 and cruise around a little bit. They didn't yank and bank too much but it was cool and officially my first ever flight in a 130 so kind of historical.

Stayed up late playing spades (I lost) and then went to bed around 2200 since I had to get up for this shift at 0430. Couldn't sleep half the night though since I was too cold, go figure out in a tent in Alabama and i'm too cold. Anyway, all in all pretty good first day. We have exercises this afternoon (project x style leadership problems) and then who knows what tonight. My leadership test is over already though so I'm good to go. All I had to do was teach our class how to use the compass and to get a pace count. I did pretty well and got another high sat. That will actually be my last grade even though it doesn't really count. But it means I got all high sats on stuff so I am pretty proud of that. Anyway I'm taking a lot of pictures so I will get them up this weekend hopefully, after our golf tournament (I'll explain later!) From the field, out.

 
7:50 AM -- Off to MOE --

Got to the hotel this weekend and realized all the pictures on my computer were old ones so hopefully I will get you all new ones this weekend. later.

 
12:21 PM -- That's all folks! --

LRC was a blast earlier this week. Can't really describe what I did other than we were 20 feet in the air swinging like Tarzan. I had pretty good control of the team and it earned me a high sat rating. Also got my advocacy brief grades back. At first I had a 17 which is a sat and I thought was bogus since I felt I did pretty well. So after reviewing the tapes (FTO checked everyone's twice) mine got bumped up 2 points to a high sat. Only problem is we have to choose one person to go to the squadron brief off (which leads to the wing brief) and I have a bad feeling it's me since he used my tape in class as an example of a good brief. Maybe I will through the squadron brief....("Who's ready to laugh!") Anyway also had our final CWT today. I got a 94% which I am a little annoyed at since I think two of the questions I got wrong were bogus! (Yeah I'm that dork I used to get angry at who complains about a high grade) So I wrote a critique of the questions with some pretty valid points so maybe they will drop em. So anyway, long story short, unless I kill someone in the next 3 weeks, I am getting my gold bars!

Only sour note is that two people in my flight did poorly enough on all 3 tests that they have to take comprehensive tests on the sections they missed. This is serious business as if they get below 80 on the comprehensive (It's based on all 3 tests!) they are either recycled into our lower class or kicked out altogether. Which is not good. We are going to help them study this weekend and hopefully they will get through it so we can graduate the whole flight in a couple weeks.

Brings me to this weekend, I hopefully will get to go to the hotel and get some pictures uploaded (and play the hell out of star wars galaxies). However our FTO may do what he did last weekend and deny our privileges since two can't go. Funny because they taught us it is improper to punish us all due to the actions of an individual or individuals. Anyway rant off.

SO...everything done, just have mobility next week. it's a fake exercise where we live in tents (Air conditioned of course, this is the air force...) and run around in the woods. Should be fun. After that...damn I'm out of here pretty much! So pictures this weekend if I get to a hotel, otherwise look forward to another angry rant! out.

 
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