Week 3 complete

The days go by slowly but the weeks go by quickly.

Our week was finalized with two tasks. Friday we had to conduct a raid on a house. I fought, fought, and fought for my sqd (since I was sqd leader this week) to be the support by fire squad. I saw the initial plan and thought that there was no way that we should even be given the chance to go into the house. I knew that we would have all been killed. After some suggestions and finalizations with the PL for the mission, she finally allowed me to move two of my sqd members closer to me. They were now out of the way of the fratricide problem. Plus, I had better command and control of them.

Saturday, my company had night to day land navigation. We started at one end of the course and ended at the other end. No matter what, we were forced to walk the entire course. The course wasn't so much fun. Finding the points was easy. We could literaly, stand on top of a hill and see our points. The problem was the rocky terrain. I don't know how many times I fell in the dark. My nearest point from the start was 700m away. We were told to not use our red lense flashlight when walking. At about 450m at the azimuth of my point, I ran straight into a sticker thicket. I fought my way through, completed my count, and found my point. I found 4 points in the dark. It was starting to daybreak at my fourth point so I glanced down at my leg and noticed blood went through my ACU's. My shin also had a fight with a bouldler, the boulder won. My leg has two huge bruises where I had slammed into the boulder. I could see my 5th point from my 4th point so I cruised over there. When I was punching my paper, a girl from another platoon saw my paper and said outloud to herself, I'm only on my first point. I continued on and found my other three points. I found 6 for 8 successfully in three hours, 5 for 8 was passing. I know exactly which ones I didn't get correctly. The slopely terrain and changes of elevation made my estimation of distance off. Oh well, I'm not concerned. I'm a hell of a land navigator. I was the 5th one in from my platoon. Two others from my sqd just made it in right before me. We have 41 in my platoon, 10 failed - 4 from my sqaud.

My company returned from the land nav course and was released by 1130. Scott's company returned but was held up by Cadre until nearly 2300. I tried to remain awake until he was released and I failed miserably. I fell asleep watching the Texas Tech and OU game. I woke up to him knocking on the hotel door.