9th Training March 12, 2014

For this training this was the first time that our new instructor will be training us, which is Sergeant Granados. Right when I got there I was told to go upstairs where my other battle buddies were. They were reciting the Soldier's Creed when I got there so I just joined in with them. After about 3 minutes after I got upstairs Sergeant Granados came up and made me sign in and he told us to do some exercises which included the overhead clap, push up and some kind of squat exercises and that we would only stop when he was back. So in total for all the exercises me and my other battle buddies did every exercise more than a 100 times. This literally made my body feel so tired but I managed to take all the pain in and just suck it up. After that we talked about some changes that me and battle buddies want to change with the training that we currently have. Some changes that we said we wanted were more physical workouts, 8 grid map grid reading and more time to actually know each other where it would make us more comfortable to work with each other. We also had the chance to introduce ourselves to our new instructor and also to the other new future soldiers that just got enlisted. This introduction was quite funny because every single one of us each have very diverse personality but it was fun because it made me and my other battle buddies to not take things that serious but at the same time have fun and be happy on what we are all doing. During this training my very first recruiter who I talked to first about the army came upstairs and then he told me that I did good on my push ups because Sergeant Granados was actually watching us during out workout. This became the highlight of the training because I felt like I made them proud and made them think that I can do this. And this also made me be more motivated to do a lot better and keep going until I get to the top of my goals. We probably didn't do too much but we had very interesting things to look up to in our future trainings with Sergeant Granados.



Time logged for this session: 2 hrs
Total time: 17 hrs