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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Busy busy

Well it's been quite awhile since the last post, 2 months or so. In that time I've started my follow on training at School of Infantry located at Camp Pendleton, California.
So here follows a brief story, during boot camp I denied 1 week of recruiter's assistance, and went straight to SOI.
When I got there I found out that the only Company picking up was for non-Infantry Marines known as MCT (Marine Combat Training) where they learn basic combat skills before going to their job school.
ITB (Infantry Traing Battalion) it turns out only picks up every other week and I fell in between weeks.
So I got put in SAC (Student Administration Company) which is for Marines who are missing things like medical/dental records, military glasses, military I.D. and any other random things, it's also for Marines who have completed MCT and are waiting for an opening in their job school, or goofballs like me and some recon Parris Islanders (from the east coast boot camp) who get there at the wrong time.
While you're there all you have to do is either get into trouble or go on working partys all day, I spent 3 weeks there before getting picked up with Bravo Company where I'm at currently.
We spent the first 5 weeks learning basic infantry skills (much like MCT) which is everything from combat marksmanship with the M16A4, Hand Grenades, the M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon), M240B (Medium Machine Gun), AT4 (Rocket Launcher) M203 (Grenade Launcher), and about a million classes on everything from Offensive Fundamentals, to Vehicle Operations and Radio Fundamentals.
And that is a very brief overview of most of the last 2 months, hopefully more to follow later?!?!?