07SEP09

Week 04

Foxtrot 182 has made it to week 04! We finished up week 03 yesterday with divine hours in the morning. Most of us got out racks squared away, cleaned up our uniforms, wrote letters to loved ones, and some of us attended chapel services. The few short hours were a welcome break and an enjoyable down time. In the evening, Foxtrot marched with the other companies here at Cape May in the last Sunset Parade of the season.

This morning started off with a refreshing run. We cleaned our squad bays thoroughly, hoping to pass our inspection with high marks. Half of us in Foxtrot  182 shot at the range today, and the other half will shoot tomorrow. We are enjoying the training we are receiving in marksmanship, even if it is just a little taste.

Week 04 is shaping up to be an especially busy week, full of test, midterms and physical fitness tests. We are also having our class in Rates (Coast Guard Jobs) and learning about filling out our "Dream Sheets" (where we hope to be stationed after graduation).

As for Foxtrot's progress in teamwork- well, it's coming along slowly. Learning to put others before ourselves and work with people with different ideas is not easy, but truly necessary. We're not Going to quit. On a lighter note- to close the night off with- we are literally being eaten alive by the bugs here! The bug spray we have works to a degree; but at night when we hit the rack, we realize just how hard those little things work.

09SEP09

Week 04

Today was Foxtrot 182's physical fitness test day. We completed pushups, sit ups, sit and reach, and a mile and a half run. Many of us passed and are now able to breathe a sigh of relief.

In the class room today, we went over enlisted ratings (the different jobs in the Coast Guard). Tomorrow we will fill out our "Dream Sheets". Time will tell where we end up getting stationed after boot camp!

Tonight we had mail call. How amazing it was to receive letters from home. Keep them coming!

The days are long here at Cape May, but the weeks do fly by as our protestant chaplain told us at the beginning of boot camp. We are already half way through week 04. Slowly we'll make it to our goal- graduation. We are still lacking in teamwork, not meeting time objectives and not sounding off. We need to come together. Hopefully this reality is sinking into everybody's minds so we can get down to business. We have frustrating moments but everything we go through each day is for a reason. So with that in mind we push on through week 04. Let us not be quitters Foxtrot 182!

11SEP09

Week 04

Foxtrot 182 had a busy day consisting of our midterm exams, blood drive and cleaning details. We also remember that today is the eight year anniversary of the terrorist attack on our country when United States planes were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. We are training here at Cape May to fight for our country's freedom and to protect her citizens from such attacks.

This morning the weather was blustery and how the rain poured! Laundry detail nearly got swept away as they pushed the carts of dirty clothes over to the laundry building. It is really hard to believe Foxtrot is coming to the close of week 04. Only four to go! However, many of us would have hoped the we would have come together as a fully functioning team. We are not giving up though, we will become a team. One thing from yesterday, that has us all excited, nervous, worried, eager, and feeling a whole lot of other things, is that we filled in our "Dream Sheets". Hopefully next week we'll find out where we will be stationed.

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