My Experience

This blog describes my experiences as a Cadet in the AFROTC.

Friday, November 12, 2004

Over Half Over

This week has been pretty crazy. Tuesday we had pt, but for some reason it wasn't like it has been, I thought they were going to work us out hard. We started running the stairs and before I knew it we were doing marching. They barely worked us at all. FTP was cancelled Wednesday and Thursday so, it hasn't been that bad. But still I have been doing a lot of things. Tuesday night we had flight meeting where be Basicaly discussed what were going to do on Saturday, ill talk about that later. That was about it, but one cool thing that happened is that I learned how to polish my boots. For some reason I my boots have been just not good, I've tried to polish them and I've done it a lot, but nothing I was doing seemed like it was enough. They never got too shiny. Well, Cadet Wallace is in my flight and I asked her what was up. She showed me a technique and in like 10 mins one of my boots looked about a million times better. So Wednesday night I spent making them booth look good and I'm really happy I got that taken care of.
Thursdays are the days I have classes and everything, well this day was veterans day and so we had to wear our service dress uniforms. After classes we went to some flag thing, I don't know what they called it. The army and us had to line up while they read a bunch of names of veterans that went to BYU. Well, we had to line up in formation, there were about 100 hundred of us and we were all standing at parade rest while they read the names, were not supposed to move or anything. Well, I was standing there minding my own business and out of the corner of my eye a Cadet just fell forward and he was down. He passed out cause he locked his knees or something, everyone else just stood there and two other cadets helped out the guy. Its one of those things that's kind of funny, but your not sure if you should think it's funny. Poor guy.
Thursday night we had Choir practice and that's going good, were singing at dining out next Friday on the 19th. After that we had our Arnold Air Society Candidate meeting, that went pretty good, but I still think there is not enough order in our classes. We had to pass off warrior knowledge and that went okay, but the members of the society do all sorts of things to make fun of us and humiliate us, its fun, and funny. I was trying to report in to the offices to pass of something and the cadet said "Enter!" I walked in and came up to him and he wasn't the guy I wanted to see, so I saluted him and said "sir, Cadet Hall Reports to make a statement." Cadet Mayer said back "what's your statement?". I stood there and realized he wasn't the guy I wanted to see and I didn't know why I was talking to him. I replied "sir, I don't know what knowledge your passing off, and I don't know why I'm here" he busted up laughing and signed my sword ( we have to get all the members signatures in order to be in the society, we have plastic ninja swords that we have them sign because the AAS used to be the "air pirates" but now they're the Ninjas or something, it makes no sense) it was lots of fun. I am learning a lot, good times

ok, so this Saturday were doing some kind of "deployment" thing. I have to be at the DET at 0330 and they're going to yell at us and make us do all sorts of stuff for hours, lets hope it's fun..


1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

like tumbler and tipsy days hopefully we will remain in high spirits. well, good day

4:16 PM  

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