13th Training April 9, 2014

For this training it made me quite nervous because we have a physical training assessment test which means we have to pass our push up, sit up and the 2 mile run. When I got to the office there was actually a big number of my fellow future soldiers that were already there and they were stretching to get ready for our PT test, so I joined in to stretch while we were waiting to Sergeant Granados. When he got to the office he told us that we were going to the near by park again where we will be doing our PT test. We lined up in a formation outside the office and wait for him near the van, then we were off to the park. When we got to the park he told us to be in a big circle around him, where he told us what we were going to do. As much as he wanted us to do all the PT test we only had time for the push up and sit up because we sort of started late for our training that day. Within the circle we had to pick a partner to do the PT test for the push up and the sit up. I was with another female future soldier as my partner. From there Sergeant Granados showed us how to do the push and sit up properly in the military kind of way. After that we lined up to get ready for the test. I was first to do my push up before my partner, this consist of doing as many push up you can do in 2 minutes, which was the same for the sit ups as well. For the push up I was quite confident that I would do great because I can managed to do a decent amount of push ups. But for my sit ups it wasn't good because I barely got to the range I should be in based on my age and weight. But Sergeant Granados told me to keep practicing and to keep doing good on my push ups. After the test we had 5 minutes to rest and to stretch. Then Sergeant told us that we were going to do some kind of running workout since we did not have time to do the actual 2 mile run. With this run it made me feel so exhausted especially because it was so hot in the place that we did our PT test. We had a run-jog session based on his timing. When he noticed us getting tired he told us that we were done, then we went back to the office after that.

Time logged for this session: 2 hrs.

Total time logged: 25 hrs. 

12th Training April 2, 2014

Since Sergeant Granados was on a leave we had other recruiters lead us trough the training. We were suppose to have Physical Training Test but all the recruiters had an important meeting to talk about to where we switch our training talking about Resiliency, SHARP program, I AM program. We had the same training we had couple weeks ago which are power points that talks about how prevent being sexually harassed with fellow troops and to know what to do if a soldiers or future soldier is going through these stages. Throughout the power point slides the recruiters asked us different examples to goes with the scenarios that we have to know about the different programs. It took us more than hour to get through all the slides then after we had to say our Soldier's Creed out loud since we have to memorize and recite this with our heart and to always remember to live by the words with the Soldier's Creed We were to say the Soldier's Creed all together, loudly and proudly. Since not all of us still did not know it we were to keep on saying it over and over until the recruiters were satisfied on what they have heard. And when they were finally satisfied we had the permission to go home.




Time logged for this session: 2 hrs.
Total time logged: 23 hrs.