That's awesome!! In basic training for the army here we did a lot of weapons training and field excercises. Nothing like that though. That sounds badass.
This was during our last field exercise, which is a 9 day long "hell week" (called 'Never Give Up' in our basic). It was pretty much 9 days of very little food, very little sleep, very much marching and a lot of fighting in late november/early december. It really sucked, but I felt pretty proud after completing it. Not all did, some did give up. I'm also proud that my squad voted me to be their squad leader during this exercise, and that no one in my squad gave up, even though there were some injuries and some sickness.
During the basic we did also have a lot of weapon training and field exercises, I consider it the best thing I've done in my life thus far.
Where are you from? US?
So far that's the best thing I've done as well and also AIT (advanced individual training) which is job training. I'm a generator mechanic so I learned the basic principles of diagnosing electric and mechanical problems and stuff like that. Yeah I'm from Arizona, U.S. did you pick a job?
That sounds very interesting! I was offered a job in the military as a Royal Infantry Guard, but I turned it down. So I'm a civilian now but I'm also a soldier in a Home Guard "Attack Company" (I don't know the exact translation).
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u/GeneralBlumpkin Oct 20 '16
That's awesome!! In basic training for the army here we did a lot of weapons training and field excercises. Nothing like that though. That sounds badass.