Week 02

India-182 Company Motto: Through discipline and motivation is born teamwork. This week we have learned how true our motto is-and the price when discipline fails. Discipline is a word with more than one meaning. Sometimes discipline is used to mean punishment but the real meaning of the word can best be described by right attitude. We are trying to maintain positive attitudes while enduring stress and incentive training. Our CC’s are not asking the impossible-they ask us to do what we are told, how we are told, when we are told to do it. Attention to detail is pivotal. It may not seem important now but one detail can mean a life saved or not. There are moments we fail our CC’s expectations and we are punished for it. However, we are becoming stronger for it.

Classes are given daily and the information given is the equivalent of having a fire hose pointed at you and turning on the valve. Rates and ranks is our most challenging class. There are those who could not grasp the information. We all suffer for it; however, we all learned the lessons and helped our shipmates.

We are shipmates, a team; the only family we have is each other for the next six weeks. The strength and weakness have begun to show and we work together to strengthen weakness and sharpen strengths. Many of us have jobs to help run the machine: squad leaders, yeoman, laundry crew. We each have our role for the success of this company.

We eat, sleep, and march together. There is no “I”, no individual, there is just India-182. I would be lying if I said we do not question our decision to be here. Still, we remain and persevere.

We have learned more techniques for marching and have been issued our pieces. Some of the pieces were used in WWII. It’s an honor to train with them and a pain to carry them. They are yet another tool to train and to polish. With time our movements will be sharper and our arms will be stronger.

The team has highs and lows in morale and home is just a memory away. There are moments of weakness but we rally around again and make it through another day.

Every morning and night we say

Article VI:

I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.

We are India-182!

We ARE India-182, the only India-182 that will train and graduate from Training Center Cape May and we will succeed. For ourselves, our team, our CC’s, our families, and for the uniform we are all proud to wear.

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