12.07.98

EOCT & D & C w/ weapons.  Smoked this morning at 0438 due to ppl still asleep & bunks not all made yet..."Thank you DS Bryant, for conditioning my mind, my body, and my soul"...

A slurped down short order dinner to make the bus ride to the 7th annual Post Army Band Christmas Concert.  A really nice version of "Festive Overture:, preceeded by getting in touble (?) [Article 15?] for being one of many to hit the concession stand b4 being relieved to do so...Cherry Coke, M&M's, KitKat & popcorn...yumm.  BCT is so unlike what I imagined -- way too cuch...This PLT has 0 discipline -- or at least 4-5 ppl here none.  Tonight was another wasted 30 min of our only personal time for a meeting/mass argument about disciplinary FG & CQ due to talking in formation/ignoring orders...

Damn, Carp (Carpenter) just let down the bomb--CQ 0330 -0430...Oh well, like to know how a "C" & a "V" got together but at least we did -- catch up on shit...

But back to the concert hastily announced b4 chow...Mambo version of "RUdolph the Red Nosed Reigndeer" w/ classic german accent comments.  Jazz rendition of "Good King Wesc." & cool version of 12 days:

a BC in a HMMV
2 aiming circles
3 Breach Blocks
4 gun platoon
5 TOTs
6 Chiefs -a- checking
7 gv/llds a lasing
8 guns -a- booming
9 different load plans
10 moving targets
11 lost lieutenants
12 gunners gunning

Cook gave me a book to read, The Notebook seems a journal like memoirs fiction...Haven't read more than 1 1/2 pages...don't know how it is thus, but Cook raved about it, his Air Force soon to be gf gave it to him.  Supposedly I'll meet her over break, she only lives in Livermore...

US weapons tomorrow, M60, M203, AT4, a few select ppl get to fire live rounds, probably the BRM experts.  Angerhauser starts day 1 of 3 live BRM firing with Charlie Battery.