Ft. Stewart GA

This is the first hello from ft. stewart GA. The first step I got off the plane it brought back memories of basic training. We got off the plane about midnight and the muggyness in the air sank right it. It felt like north carolina. from about the first day we got here it has been go, go, go. We havent had too much time to ourselves, a lot of traing. One of the reasons why i havent been updated this blog.

We have been here for about two weeks now, the first week consisted of uniforms being issued and also our weapons. We got our vehicles dispatched to us and been going to ranges firing out M4's and 50 cal's.

This last week was a full week of intense training. We got put into firing teams wich consists of three soilders. One driver, one truck comander, and a gunner(which was me). We had a pretty big lane and we rolled aroung in the humvee's taking out targets during the day and night. It was alot of fun the first day, we scored 788 points out of 900. the second day I couldnt hit the broad side of a barn. It sucked, my platoon sgt. was me truck comander and he lade it on me on how i was screwing up, stressed me out just a bit.

so we had to go back on the third day and re-qualify. we needed to get 280 pts to pass, which ment that i had to hit all the targets. it was a good thing i did or my platoon sgt. would have kicked my ass. Then we went to convoy live fire. it consisted of 5 trucks, we had day and night missions, and we engaged targets.

this traing took about six days and we just got back yesterday. we averaged about four hours of sleep during the week. so it is nice to be back to catch up on sleep.

hope you all enjoy the little video i put together and thank you for all your prayers and support. May God bless you all and until next time