Still on Pass

Well, here I am sitting at a hotel relaxing. I'll try and do a summary of the past month that I spent at Ft. McCoy.

We started the training off by doing another SRP. Surprisingly, it went very quickly. The SRP I did at Ft. Lewis took forever; almost three days and everyone was angry. The Ft. McCoy one took about half a day and was much more organized. We then started training that was pretty much the same as Sante Fe. There was a few days of convoy ops, about an hour of MOUT training, and a day of detainee ops. Most of it was a waste of time. I really couldn't believe that this was our Mob training. We had better training in Sante Fe.

Most of the instructors just wanted us to get through the training, we were just an obstacle to their weekend. Not saying all of them were, but there was many.

About a week into the Mob, they sent us to a COL, which is contigency operatign location. I guess they don't call them a FOB anymore. So we ended up staying in a tent for like 19 days.

Why are they going to make us even more unconfortable before we leave for Afghanistan? At least they had showers, but chow was horrible. We could have just stayed on the barracks at Ft. McCoy, and been shuttled to our training locations.