One month left!!
Week 18 was a pretty good week for Troop 35. Any week where we don't have anyone getting hurt or sent home is always a good week.
We started off this week with pistol qualifications. This had some people in the troop nervous, not me so much I knew that I had been shooting consistently over the qualification score for some time now. But you never know, on test day all you need to do is have an off day and you can fail. I am happy to report though that I did pass the qualification and I got crossed pistols to put on my red serge. I shot 226/250. The requirement for crossed pistols is 225 so I just barely squeaked by. We had around half the class get their crossed pistols with one cadet shooting perfect and getting a crown on top of his crossed pistols. We had a couple of cadets not get the qualification score so they will have learning assistance and will have to requalify next week.
We started our last file this week. We had our drug scenarios, so I got to be an actor again which is always fun.
This week also was the first week that we are to be wearing our high brown boots. It is a good and bad thing to wear these boots. The good thing is that you look cool in them and they make a nice little jingle when you walk in them, the bad thing is they take a lot longer to take off and put on then your regular boots. And for myself I had a real tough time with my boots. The polish I put on to them was flaking off all over the place and my boots did not look very good at all. So this weekend I will be stripping them down to the leather and starting over again. There goes about 10 hours of work down the drain! But from what I hear from the drill staff is that it will make the boots look a lot better and will not take as long to polish them the second time around. So now we have to wear our high browns for four out of five days a week until we graduate.
We also had this week our final 1.5 mile run. I ran it in my best time since I have been at Depot. I ran it in 10:05, the last time I ran it my time was something like 11:19 or something. So I took a lot of time off of my last run and I am now under the benchmark time of 10:45. All we have left now in fitness is one more 3 mile run and some max testing.
I was wrong in last weeks update in that our PDT test #3 was not this week but is coming up next week. I am a bit nervous about this test since the troop that we used to share our dorm with had half their class fail the test the first time. So I am going to be practicing my handcuffing and take downs before Tuesday.
On a bad note I received my fourth bozo this week. I was standing in the bad row like I always do when the drill corporals were talking to the cadet in front of me. They were both giving him a hard time about his wrinkled shirt, I found it quite funny and was watching what was going on instead of looking straight ahead I was watching one of the corporals. When he looked back at me I looked straight ahead and I knew I was dead. Both of them then swarmed on me and bozoed me for a wrinkled shirt even though I had just put the shirt on and it came from the dry cleaners. So, I learned my lesson not to eyeball the corporals. I just hope I don't get two more bozos because that will give me six and I will have to write a 2000 word essay and get a U. I don't ever want to get another U so I will have to make sure I am flawless for the next 4 weeks.
Still no news on where I am going. Us two cadets that are going to Manitoba are the only ones who do not know where we are being posted. When I do find out it will be the first thing on my update.
So for next week we have the last PDT test and maybe some tactical training. Oh the end is close only 4 weeks left!!