Basic Training Journal: Monday, September 15th

This morning we had a 3 mile road march to the individual tactics training course. After breakfast we practiced movements by battle buddy team. The guy on the left would say "Cover me while I move" and the guy on the right says "I've got you covered". At that time the left guy gets up and moves up to another sandbag or other place of cover and gets in position to cover the guy on the right when he moves.

We also had to climb over a small wall and do lots of high crawl and low crawl in the sand. You're going to get quite a bit of sand all over. We had to go under barbed wire too. After lunch we did pretty much the same thing but the course was uphill and we used blanks to fire while you cover your battle buddy. It was pretty fun. That's pretty much all we did at the course. We got trans back to the barracks and we cleaned our weapons before dinner.