Monday is Upper Strikes in the MCMAP program. Sound easy put punching for hours at a time with DIs all over you is not exactly the funnest of times. The key is to just keep going even when you are tired. If you pause for even a moment a DI will see you and suddenly you will be doing some REALLY stupid stuff.
Tuesday is Pugil Sticks. This is one of those event during boot that most everybody loves. All the aggression and anger you have been building for the last two weeks gets to be used on another person. AWESOME! There are very few rules. You wait for a whistle you run into the center and you try and land a killing blow on your opponent.
Wednesday and Saturday you do the circuit course. This is just a bunch of different exercises that you have to do. It is known simply as "bases" to recruits. There are a bunch of stages that you do for 2 or 3 minutes a piece. Each base is a pretty easy Exercise but put together this makes for a pretty tiring workout.
Thursday is the O (obstacle) course. This can be a lot of fun. Now it is a pretty simple set of obstacles to Marines because we do it a LOT of times in boot and then a couple in Combat Training but let me give you an example on how difficult it can apparently be. Buckley in Colorado has an O course but it is "Closed by order of the Base commander" Apparently 2 different high ranking Air Force officers, a Lieutenant Colonel and a Full bird Colonel, were seriously injured. On e broke his back and the other died from breaking his neck. This is a huge loss of value but seriously... HOW? you are never more than 10 feet off the ground except during the rope climb. Anyway Marine O courses are now closed on ANY and EVERY Air Force installation.
Friday is Counter to Strikes in MCMAP. You learn to block and kill the enemy with his momentum. Once again this isn't difficult until you figure in the boot camp equation. Anything Easy + lots of reps + Drill Instructors = Really stinking hard!
Just a note. All of the pictures are of Marines not Recruits. Recruits wouldn't be standing around just watching. They would be running in place waiting for their turn or "spitting knowledge"(reciting learned info) or getting ITed by a DI. All very high intensity.
Please send Jared letters. He will probably be punished for the holidays instead of getting a break. July 4th was one of the hardest days for me during Boot. Your Kill Hat(junior DI) will probably get stuck with you on the holiday and he will probably "play games" all day because he can't be with his family. Holidays are nasty business in Boot
4 comments:
Where do you find the pictures John? They add such character to these posts.
Thanks for the update. It's nice to know what Jared is doing and how hard it is. I like the ...."Really stinking hard!" part. Anything would be hard with someone yelling at you the whole time and doing it over and over again. It all sounds interesting - something I would never consider trying.
Keep going strong Jared!
every picture I have found comes straight from google imagines.
Type Marine Recruit and you will be amazed what comes up!
I am still weekly amazed by what you two brothers are going/have gone through. I agree with Cami that the photos really add something to the blogs. Thanks John.
Keep going strong Jared!
I thought I had come up with something different to tell Jared, but now that I just read Cami's it's the same... revised version!
Keep your head up Jared!
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