Basic Training Journal: Tuesday, August 26th

We marched directly to the obstacle course today after waking up. It was pretty short...you did some crawling under barbed wire, climbed up a rope, did monkey bars, climbed over a wall, stuff like that. It wasn't difficult at all. We went back to the DFAC for breakfast, then we had a class on the Army values again. After lunch it was off to the bayonet course.

For the bayonet course we had to climb over a wall, step over obstacles, perry targets, stab dummies, crawl over a hill, stuff like that. You can actually get a badge for the bayonet course like the grenade and BRM badges, but our company didn't time us so no one got a bayonet medal.

The bayonet course was pretty short, but it was in the 90s that day which made it much worse to be running around in that heat. After the bayonet course we marched back to the barracks and ate dinner after changing into PTs. You get your BDUs dirty during both courses we did today....and you get sand all over.