Sorry for the delayed post, we spent most of this weekend catching up on sleep and letting our bodies rest.
Todd and I spent our four day weekend taking it easy. We went to Sea World one day because it's free to armed service personnel, but mostly hid out in our respective rooms trying to forget the 11 days of grueling work we had just experienced. This past Tuesday saw us off on another four days of field training exercise; this time around it was strictly a medical field training. Tuesday was a really challenging day for the entire battallion as it was hard to readjust to the field life after four days of glorious gluttony and laziness. It took awhile for everyone to get back into the swing of things, but once we were all on the same page, everything went smoothly. We spent each day at different levels of combat hospitals- on our Level 1 day we set up a medical "clinic" out in the wilderness that simulated the BAS (Battalion Aid Station) of war. Next was the Level 2 hospital located in the FOB where soldiers are then taken to be further stabilized until they are either flown out or can return to combat. The third level is a CSH (Combat Support Hospital) which is an intricate (and I do mean intricate) set-up of tents that include dental rooms, operating rooms, ICU's, x-ray rooms, etc...Patients from there are usually transferred to a Level 4 (Landstuhl- yay!) and then onto Level 5 hospitals (Walter Reed or here in San Antonio).
Did I mention during this week we got to sleep in until 0500? It was GLORIOUS!!!
One whole day we got to role play a day on the FOB. Per Todd's advice, who'd done it the day before our platoon did, we chose to be QRF (quick reaction force). The QRF sits around all day running to each tower when they need back-up while under fire. They even had Iraqi music playing over the loudspeakers all day to make it more realistic and bombs going off all around us. My ears always rang for awhile afterwards :( Of course, cadre had us running all around, but luckily I was never "killed."
We got back Friday afternoon and had a BBQ outside our dorms. It was good to finally get some good food and listen to music after all we had been through. This week we take our mid-term exams. It's hard to believe we're more than half-way through and we'll be living in Germany within 6 weeks. Time flies when you're having fun.....
I only have a few pictures to put up right now, hopefully I'll have many more within the next few days so keep checking.
Until then,
xoxoxo
Todd and I spent our four day weekend taking it easy. We went to Sea World one day because it's free to armed service personnel, but mostly hid out in our respective rooms trying to forget the 11 days of grueling work we had just experienced. This past Tuesday saw us off on another four days of field training exercise; this time around it was strictly a medical field training. Tuesday was a really challenging day for the entire battallion as it was hard to readjust to the field life after four days of glorious gluttony and laziness. It took awhile for everyone to get back into the swing of things, but once we were all on the same page, everything went smoothly. We spent each day at different levels of combat hospitals- on our Level 1 day we set up a medical "clinic" out in the wilderness that simulated the BAS (Battalion Aid Station) of war. Next was the Level 2 hospital located in the FOB where soldiers are then taken to be further stabilized until they are either flown out or can return to combat. The third level is a CSH (Combat Support Hospital) which is an intricate (and I do mean intricate) set-up of tents that include dental rooms, operating rooms, ICU's, x-ray rooms, etc...Patients from there are usually transferred to a Level 4 (Landstuhl- yay!) and then onto Level 5 hospitals (Walter Reed or here in San Antonio).
Did I mention during this week we got to sleep in until 0500? It was GLORIOUS!!!
One whole day we got to role play a day on the FOB. Per Todd's advice, who'd done it the day before our platoon did, we chose to be QRF (quick reaction force). The QRF sits around all day running to each tower when they need back-up while under fire. They even had Iraqi music playing over the loudspeakers all day to make it more realistic and bombs going off all around us. My ears always rang for awhile afterwards :( Of course, cadre had us running all around, but luckily I was never "killed."
We got back Friday afternoon and had a BBQ outside our dorms. It was good to finally get some good food and listen to music after all we had been through. This week we take our mid-term exams. It's hard to believe we're more than half-way through and we'll be living in Germany within 6 weeks. Time flies when you're having fun.....
I only have a few pictures to put up right now, hopefully I'll have many more within the next few days so keep checking.
Until then,
xoxoxo
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