deuce8301's Journal

Oct 2007
11:51 AM PST

So, this is my first entry. Truly, this is my first time ever writing or typing anything about my day. Which is wierd in a sense but I never really thought that it could be interesting until now. When I was just browsing around and thought to myself, hmmmm, maybe I should write something and put it up in a public blog or something so someone can here the daily life of a Marine Sergeant who is instructing at the School Of Infantry on Camp Pendleton in sunny southern California.

It October 30, 2007 and the fires are finally out and the smoke has finally lifted. Along with the smoke going away so did my headaches and soar throat. I have been with my students pretty much everyday for the last 10 days feeding, bedding and training them for combat. I woke up at 0600 this morning took a shower, got dressed, cleaned up my room which consist of straightening up and making my bed. You know, those things your mother taught you to do when you were just a weeeeeee little tike.I put on my "flight" suit and headed down toward the ramp(where we keep the vehicles). When I finally arrived to work at 0700 I gave my vehicle keys to my young Marines to unlock my vehicle and start prepping. So, one of them checks the oil and comes running to me to tell me that it is low. I go check it and its right at the full mark and he swears that it was low. It was pretty funny to see him go from crew member to crew memeber asking if they saw it and ofcourse none of them did.

Once we were all prepped we left and headed out to the training areas and started driving threw the hills. I'm on my 11th class and this crew I have now is the best crew I've ever had. However, there is always 1. Sadly this one happens to be a Sergeant who is going threw my school and is the biggest idiot I've ever met. He is supposed ot lead in combat. I'm not going to let it happen. He isn't capable of leading a fly into a pile of $h#tif you catch my drift. Or should I say his. Anywho, they each got 1 hour of drive time in for the day portion and when we put the thermal site in they each get 30 minutes. This Sergeant doesn't understand what go left or right meens nor speed up or slow down. He brake checks me at the rapid rate and one day is going to roll me off of a cliff. We traverse some rough terrain and he just doesn't have a clue.

After standing in the turret for roughly 8 hours today without missing a beat and dilling with my pet rock my 18 and 19 year old Marines cheered me up. They were packing the dummy man(fake person) back into the Lagistics vehicle and I told them to pack in such way that we could fit everything in it. When I go look back there they had propped this fake person up and put goggles on his head, crossed its legs and put a MRE in its lap. Was hilarious. That pretty much concluded the day but its 2100 now and I just got off of work. Easy day.

Tags: My day. Sgt D

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