Here I am at Basic Officer Leadership Course, Day 5. So far it has been pretty much inprocessing. That is when they gather up a bunch of people and have them wait in lines alot. See some pictures of lines here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trueblue28
I was so excited that I passed my 2 mile run right after getting here albeit being somewhat dormat for the past couple of months. I didn't pass my pushups for the second time since I have been in the Army. That's fine, I will get them next time. We get to work out every morning. Here lately we have been getting up around 0330, but I am hoping that is going to change soon to like 0530.
The food hasn't been bad here at all, but it took some getting used to the water. It is a little less filtered than I am used to in good ol' Kansas.
For the last couple of days I have been getting to know the people in my platoon. I have never seen so many Lieutenants in one place at one time! Everyone is very cool here so far, but all of the personalities and personality conflicts haven't come out yet. Being my observant self, I am noticing where those might possibly be.
I went out and got myself some ACUs. Those are the new Army standard issue uniforms. I have been waiting to come to training and get some of these. They are pretty nice. They feel much more comfortable than BDUs.
Ruck March
This morning we did a five mile ruck march. It was long and a good march, but I am not sure how my feet feel about me right now. Basically for those of you who might be unaware, you put about 35 pounds on your back (in a ruck sack), wear a helmet, and carry a weapon with you while you walk in line for a few miles. With all training events, you are required to have an After Action Review to see how everything went. This is where everything lines up with Agile development (or where Software people got it from). In an AAR, you talk about what was supposed to happen, what really happened, then what went well and where you can improve. In Agile during a retrospective, you talk about what happened vs. the iteration that just happened, then you do a Start, Stop and Continue.