Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Wednesday 02MAY07 #3





These were the vehicles we used for the convoy course. We had to travel down roads and take over a town. It was fun, but with lots of true to life situations that our group took control and accomplished with little errors. We ended up with noone getting hurt or killed, but took out several of the bad guys and took captives from the town scene. We may never use this information that is given to us, but if we do end up in a situation it good to know what to do. Things are going good for me here. Only a couple more days left. We leave McCrady Training Center for Ft. Bragg on Saturday morning by bus at 8 am. Hope to know more at Ft. Bragg, but not sure how much will be able to release to you all. Most of my training and travel from Ft. Bragg will be at the top secret level, so do not ask for more than what I release to you all. Thanks for checking out my life here and hope you enjoy the photos.

Wednesday 02MAY07 #2





Some more shots of the convoy training and getting ready to do the land navigation course. It was 93 F today so it got very hot today.

Wednesday 02MAY07





Getting ready for the daily training. It all starts on the grinder and then goes from there to the different ranges or classrooms for our instructions. When on the ranges we have hands on experiences. We have been hit with lots of information in the little time we have been here. They are getting ready to extend this training into a 3 week course instead of the 2 week. Everytime you get called up you have to go through this training center even if you have had the training before. The reason for that is the training is changed as things change over seas.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Tuesday 01MAY07 #2



Nice hot day of training, but we all made it through ok. I am ready to secure the area.

Tuesday, 01MAY07





Today we went marching with a tatical march to our training site. There we learned several things about culture, IED's, convoys and then urban assault. The top photo is still from Monday's training.

Monday 30APR07

Today we had some map reading training, radio operations training, and hand to hand combat maneuvering. Everything was at a basic form to give us a general idea of what to do if we come across that type of situation where it would be needed.

Tuesday 01MAY07





Here are a few scenes from Monday's training. Most of them were inbetween training sessions or during our 10 minute break times.