

Letter Set #13
9-OCT: Got their Class As/Bs today. They also got their berets. He said he didnapos;t look the way he looked in it with his eye protection or his BCGs on. Heapos;s hoping theyapos;ll let him wear his civilian glasses or his contacts for graduation. They are to have a 6 mile foot/field march that starts out their 3-day FTX. Itapos;s supposed to rain, but everyone is hoping it wonapos;t. Monday after that will be the PT test. The PT test and Victory Forge (7 day FTX) are the only two (big) things left before graduation. Heapos;s excited about graduation. One of the females in his platoon will most likely be in his AIT at Fort Leonard Wood because she is also an 88M.
10-OCT: Second night of the 3 day FTX. Learned about IED detection and reacting to enemy fire. He said the reacting to enemy fire part was fun.
11-OCT: The 3 day was ok. They learned about IEDs, reacting to enemy fire, how to enter and dismount a 5-ton, practicing throwing grenades, searching vehicles and people, and entering and cleaning a room. Overall, it was ok.Once again, he writes, the reacting to enemy fire was fun. LOL This coming week he says will be busy as hell. Theyapos;re doing Victory forge and they heard their PT was changed from Monday to Thursday. He says he may not have a lot of time to rite in the next two weeks and he may not get mail as often since everything will be crazy busy.
Letter Set #14
13-OCT: It was a long day. They did a dry and blank fire run of a fire team movement for practice for the next dayapos;s live fire run. His team was ok, but everyone needs more work.The biggest issue seems to be that each DS seems to train the method differently, so then later when they are with another DS, theyapos;re yelled at for doing the "wrong thing" even though this is how they were trained. His battle buddy, SPC White, may have to restart from week 3 of BCT. PVT Gydesen, another platoon member, fractured his hip during the 3-day doing sniper pushups, so it looks like he will have to leave for 4-6 months, then come back and restart. It sucked that this happened 17 days before graduation.
14-OCT: They did a live fire version of the fire team movements with 5 man teams. They ere told they did well and that my beloved was an aggressive team leader. YAY He said it was really freaking fun and he had an adrenaline high for like an hour afterward. Basically, hat they had to do was go down to an area where they had to cross two roads. Then they were "attacked" by a line of enemy fire (popup targets and gun sounds). They had to neutralize that line and drive through it. About 100 meters out they were hit with more enemy fire. This time it was from a bunker with a 50cal and small arms fire (popup targets outside the bunker and a real 50cal inside the bunker firing blanks -- remotely controlled since they were firing live rounds). He had to organize his team to neutralize all fire from within and without the bunker and have two team members advance their line to clear the bunker. This meant, while they were putting rounds down range, they had two from his team flank left and A-line themselves with the bunker. Then he had his M203 gunner fire two smoke grenades into the bunker. Whe he got the signal from his bunker busters that they were set, he had his line lift fire (that means stop for those not quite keeping up on the jargon). The bunker busters got up to the bunker and tossed a frag grenade ("firecracker" training grenade) into the bunker. Once the grenade went off, the bunker busters made sure the bunker was clear. Once that was done, he had his line pick up and drive through the bunker area and meet up with the bunker busters. So, that was that. He said, of course there was more to it, but he didnapos;t feel like writing it all out. He said it was fun. He says that tomorrow will be grenade throwing...first training "firecracker" grenades, then live (but less powerful) grenades. Thereapos;s a rumour that their 7-day might be cut down to a 5-day.
15-OCT: This letter was mostly answers back to my letter. He is asking me to purchase an inexpensive (but not cheap) laptop for him to take to AIT with him and to bring it down to family day. Originally he was going to have me bring down his laptop, but he doesnapos;t want anything to happen to that one since it has important data on it (mainly, business stuff...that would really suck come tax time if we didnapos;t have it).
Letter Set #15
15-OCT: Today as grenades. With the exception of all the waiting, he said it was ok. The actual throwing of the 4 grenades (2 practice, 2 live) went really quick and was over faster than he could appreciate the coolness of it. SPC White was transfered to a new company today...so he does have to restart from week 3 with another company. Heapos;s a little bummed that he was unable to get contact information before he got transferred, but it happened when they were off doing the grenades. In total, there were 3 soldiers who had to restart, so when they got back from the grenades, they found their bunks stripped and lockers empty. Good news, my honey was able to score the bottom bunk. He has a new battle buddy assignment now, SPC Irizarry.
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