11.09.98

Title says it -- very odd.  MSE PT (Muscle Strengthening & Endurnace) in the morning was all killer abs & pushup workout.  Field trip to the old Fort Sill original base complex -- saw (walked in) Geranamo's Cell, old stables, quartermasters area/Apache POW Blacksmithy -- also various modern artillery pieces -- howitzers & mini packed rocket launchers -- neato...

Learned how to don our M40 gas masks today.  Tomorrow is the 1st of 3 required road marches -- this one 5K...easy.  But it started raining and lightening hardcore just about an hour ago -- so wondering...

Still have this cold -- coughing up less pheglm, but coughing hurts me more & voice is hurting too...Ben gay on my chest to warm it...FG in 25 in.  2130-2230.  Wake up at 0315 -> joy...

It's an entire sucuture, the military.  We haven't been submergd into a class or set of instruction, but a wayof life.  Everything we've done, seen, or hear has been a departure from our civilian lives...call it an anthropologic study perhaps, anotehr reason for being here.  Always was quite taken w/ that subject at LMC...