Pain

Yesterday, Tuesday, we had PT like normal. I guess it wasn't that normal because as I am typing this I'm in a lot of pain. We did lunges, and lots of them, then we did some bunny hop thing and then we did ladders, and we ran the stairs. After I got home from all of it I was still feeling okay so I went running some more, I went about 3 miles and came home, I was sore, but felt okay. This morning we had to run 2 miles(in cadence) and that put me over the top, now I'm really sore, like very very sore, I've even taken some tylenol for the pain and it doesn't seem to do much. Yeah I'm really sore. It hurts a lot to walk and stairs are a difficult obstacle. It'll all be over soon. I hope.
that's my story about the last two days um, well, we had a flight meeting last night where we learned some more marching moves. One was column of files, from the right, forward harch, and there are variations on the commands based on direction and stuff. We also learned counter harch, it was pretty goofy at first, but we got it. We had to do those moves this morning in FTP.

1-2-3-4 I love the Air Force!

Wednesday, we had FTP, we had to wear BDUs and we did marching, it was pretty fun and normal, it's still hard to march a flight around correctly, for me. But it's getting better. Yesterday, Thursday, we had pt in the morning, it was pretty fun, we did a lot of pushups and then we learned something called a "body builder"(?), it goes like this. You bend your knees and put your hands on the floor and say "one" then put your legs out like your going to do a push up and say "two" then move your feet away from each other and say "three" then move your feet back together, so you're in the normal push up position, then say "I" go down and do a push up, when your down you say "love" go up and say "the" and jump up to your feet and on your way up say "Air Force". That took a while to explain, but that's what we did, and I think it's the reason why I am sore today. We did a bunch of those and then we marched around some more. We then played a game of "tank" where each flight is given the chance to "kill" the other flight, you have to do it by doing marching and hitting your opponent on the sides or the back, it's hard cause you have to make sure you do all the marching commands right and stay away from the other guys, it was a fun game. That was about it.
after that I went home and did more pushups and then got ready for the day which was far from over
classes went just like normal, we learned more about the air force and history of war. Then at lead lab we did some more marching and learned the command "eyes right" it was cool, and a step more difficult than usual, but I think we got it. After we did that for a while it started to rain so we went in to the Harmon building and had a lecture on safety and first aid, it was cool, but some cadets showed some super graphic pictures of a motorcycle accident, it was disgusting.
Cadet choir practice was cool, we're performing "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" at lead lab next week and that should be pretty cool
Arnold Air Society candidate class was ok too, I was supposed to give a briefing, but the classroom we wanted to use was taken and there wasn't the people there who were supposed to be there, I've thought this for the last few weeks but the president we had wasn't doing a very good job, so, he got fired and we got a new president now, so hopefully things will go smoother than they have and be a little bit more structured and productive. I did end up giving my briefing, I gave it on Bernard F. Fisher he was one crazy guy who won the Medal of Honor.

today is now Friday and I am in short sleeve blues because I volunteered to run a recruiting booth here at UVSC so I was there for a few hours today, it was fun..

Yes, Sir!

Yesterday(Tuesday) was pretty normal for PT, we did alot of push-ups
and then we ran around and then practiced marching. Today, wednesday,
we had to wear BDU'
s and we got worked pretty good, he made us do alot of push-ups,
mostly for stupid reasons, well, stupid as in it was stupid for us to
make the mistakes that we did. we worked with guide-ons and that was
okay, it was pretty normal overal.

--
Morgan Hall

Last Week

Last week was pretty busy, so I didn't take the chance to write in the blog as much as I should have. Anyway, last week was tons of fun in the ROTC. Thursday morning was pretty normal, they worked us out pretty good, actually really good, we did many push-ups and flutter kicks. Then in what seemed like fun, we got to play volley ball. Well, it was fun, until the rule came up that if the ball goes out of bounds then everyone has to yell "Safety!" if its not yelled loud enough then push-ups were the reward, we did a lot of push-ups. We, the 47th flight won the game and that was about it. Later that day was classes and classes, we learned more about world war II and about Air Force stuff. Lead lab was the fun part, sort of. I had spent many hours during the week ironing my stuff and polishing my boots, I looked sharp. Then I had to go to lead lab. We were going to do service projects around BYU campus, I was worried that we would have to get dirty or something, and yeah, I did. We had to weed this dirty dry hill side and dig in the bushes and stuff, it was fun, don't get me wrong. I just didn't like getting my boots dirty because I knew that I had an inspection at the AAS candidate meeting that night. Oh yeah, and another reason that I looked so good is because this was the first time that I had used my cuff stuffers, they are these things that you put on your pants to keep the pants against the boots. Well, it was all trashed. I really didn't get that dirty, I just got dusty, and my polishing job was toast. Well the rest of the day went okay, I had to take a test at UVSC and then that night I had Cadet Choir Practice and the AAS Candidate meeting, since there was going to be an inspection I had to stay in my BDUs. Choir went fine and then the AAS meeting came up, since there was an inspection we had to be put in the right formation, open ranks. For this inspection we had to stand at attention while the Cadet officers went through and inspected us. When your standing at attention you cant move or anything, no blinking, no smiling no nothing. So the officers tried things to make us break our bearing, they played some audio from homestarrunner. com and some of the cadets were laughing, even though they weren't supposed to, I did a pretty good job of keeping a straight face until the end of the audio they were playing, it was just too funny, I lost it for a few seconds and that was about it. The rest of the AAS meeting we had to pass off memorization, all of which I did not know before going. We had to know the Chain of Command and MAJCOMs and the air force song, well, I didn't know any of it. So I tried learning the Air Force song and we had to sing it to them so we could get it passed off, it was pretty funny. And a lot of fun. I got home about 10pm and was grateful to get out of that uniform!

Iron

Wow, I've ironed a ton this week, but that's good, cause im ahead of
the game. I Ironed all the stuff I need for tomorrow at Lead Lab
monday night and my boots are looking better, not good, just better.
Yesterday was pretty standard at PT I had to be the one to administer
the PFD to someone else and so I didnt to much. The cadet I spotted,
Cadet Yates did a good job, he maxed everything but the run, which is
more than I can say.
Today at PT we had to run a bunch and then we had to learn how to
march around with guide-ons, poles with flags on the ends. that was
about it.
Tuesday morning I got a call from Cadet Tate, he's in the 72nd flight
and he is also in my Arnold Air Society canidate class. Well, in the
class they have this big Care Bear and it has something to do with the
whole Arnold Air thing. so, someone is supposed to have this bear with
them at all times. And i had to go get the bear from him and now i
have had it for a day or two. im pretty sick of having it, it's
supposed to be with somebody all the time, and i've had to carry it
with me to all my classes and everything. about 400 people have given
my strange looks and i've had to tell about 100 people the story. but
it's cool, the idea is not to let anyone else, like members of the AAS
take it. So i'm taking good care of it.

--
Morgan Hall

Ropes Course

As usual, I woke up and went to PT this morning about 0530. Today at PT our fight, the 47th, had to do the PFD, Physical Fitness Diagnostic. About 2 months ago is when I started to do push-ups. When I first did them I was toast at about 10 push ups, well, in the PFD today I did 36 which is a lot better than what I started at but still not that great, to max the test I need to do about 60. I'm almost there. The other things that we are tested on is sit-ups and 1.5 mile run and abdominal circumference. I did about 43 sit-ups and ran the 1.5 mile in 10:26(unofficially: I started my watch late so it might be more, but not much) and my waist was 35.5(huge!). That was pretty fun I hope I can do better in the future for the PFT (Physical Fitness Test) . Out of a Required 75 minimum points to pass I got about 81. That was PT. nuttin too fancy.

aerospace studies went pretty normal too. In the as100 class we did a Knowledge bowl, we split the class in half and had a competition about the history of air warfare.

At lead lab today the whole group got split up into 3 parts and some went to the Quarry to rock climb, some went to play laser tag and FTP went to the ropes course that's out by the lake. It was a lot of fun, we had to find a way to get a group of about 10 of us across this course of cables and trees. We couldn't touch the ground and had to help each other get across and to the end of the course, it was pretty cool, we had someone fall and he had to start over with a handicap, a ball in his hand. We eventually got across the whole thing and it was good times. The next activity that we did was up in the trees, we had to climb a pole that was hanging from a tree and then we had to go across this log that was in between two trees and that was the scary-ist part. That was about all we had time to do. Lead Lab was over.

What other stuff has happened? I got my name tape on my BDUs now I feel lots cooler cause I have a name on my jacket, I also got my name tag for my blues uniform. I also got a parking ticket over the weekend and had to report that to the NCOs.

Tonight we have Cadet Choir practice, and I have an Arnold Air Society meeting then I have to go to bed. While in the math class that I just got out of I could barely keep from falling asleep. Huah!

What I did today

Rolled out of bed about 04:55 and took a shower, I have a roommate and his room is right next to the shower I'm always worried about waking him up, and I was this morning. I shaved my head and I got ready. My boots are not polished as they should be, I haven't figured it out yet, but man, the other guy's boots look a lot better than mine do. I wanted to polish them up last night but I spent about an hour ironing my BDU and I had to go to bed. I'll keep working on it.

Once I got to the green things got started and it was fun. One thing we didn't do correctly is call out the commandeers name correctly. See, when wearing PT uniform its okay to say "sir" but in BDUs, you have to say their rank and name. We got it wrong and had to do push-ups, then we went to the gym to practice marching. Marching isn't that easy, its tricky to know which foot to call what command on, and if you don't call it on the right foot, then you know it and the whole flight looks like crap. Luckily, I never had to lead the flight today, I guess I say luckily because I wasn't given the chance to screw something up, but then again, I did miss a chance to practice calling out the commands in a correct manner. Here's a some of the stuff they say "forward Harch", "to the rear, Harch", "right flank, harch", "present harms", "order harms". It's fun.

Last night we had a flight meeting, just where all the kids in the flight have meeting and work on stuff, here we had to practice marching and also how to fold stuff. Cadet Captain Baker divided us up into two groups and had some fold some stuff and the other half go march. It was fun, I can now say that I know, better than I did before this, how to properly fold socks, shirts and towels. It sounds kind of cheesy, but according to Baker, this stuff is important in camp and can really get you a leg up if you know this stuff before going to field training.

Flight Hawlt!

PT today was more rigorous than usual, as soon as Cadet Todd got there
he made us do lots of push ups and flutter kicks, it hurt! We ran
around the track a few times then we did "Chinese thinkers" you
get down in the push up position and rest on you elbows and stay there
as long as you can, while we were doing it some of us had to go
through the whole group and call their names, it was fun, but it kicks
your but to stay in that position, well it kicks mine anyway. After
they worked us then we practiced more on marching and command voice, I
was in command for a few minutes and I made a few mistakes, but it was
alright I found myself imitating Cadet Todd and I thought it was
funny. I wasn't trying to make fun of him, I just thought it was funny
that I was trying to sound like him. But hey, I still love this ROTC
stuff!

--
Morgan Hall

AAS

Another thing that I am doing in the AFROTC is the Arnold Air Society. Last night we had a meeting, this meeting was just after the cadet choir practice that I am also participating in. The AAS is a cool organization that does stuff, like service in the community and helps make better air force officer candidates. So, I'm trying to get in to the organization and its pretty fun. We even went over some warrior knowledge and did some marching and some push-ups, it was great. So my day yesterday was pretty full of stuff, at 0600 I was doing push ups and at 2100 I was doing push-ups. We went outside to do some marching and I said that I could command a flight and march them around. I did something's pretty good, but I did screw up enough to the point that I was fired. I was kind of bummed but hey, I'm still pretty freakin' new at this whole ROTC thing. I plan to learn it all.

I'm really glad that I'm in the ROTC, its tons of fun and I'm glad that I'm in the AAS it'll help me learn a lot of the stuff that I need to know for field Training like marching, memorization and how to be a good flight commander, it's frikin' awesome!