30NOV09

We have now started week 05 and it should be an eventful week for us. Today we began our first of 02 pugil stick fights. We had fun. When spectating we were given permission to cheer on our shipmates and encourage them. I doing this, our morale raised among the company.

01DEC09

Our orders should start coming in soon. We were told that nobody would receive their orders until we all received our orders. Training is becoming more mental than physical now and for some it is getting tougher. The required knowledge is growing week by week and we are finally learning the meaning of the saying we were all told in the beginning of training, “The days are long but the weeks will fly.”

02DEC09

For most of us in Quebec this week has flown by. Almost all of our orders have come in and Petty Officer Rosas read them out to us. Our company had a diverse spreadsheet of orders. Everything from cutters in Alaska to small boat stations in Florida. We even had a couple of shipmates get stationed right back here in Cape May.

03DEC09

At the beginning of this week we began standing watch at Sexton Hall.  Sexton Hall is where is where all the brand new recruits stay during forming week. We were all amused at how frantic and scared they all looked. It is hard to believe that just 05 weeks ago that was us tripping over each other.

04DEC09

This morning was the day that some of us feared. We all received our yellow fever and smallpox shots. Most of us handled the smallpox shot fine while others failed at hiding their fear.

The company that we share Munro Hall with (November 182) graduated this morning. Watching them all getting ready this morning was exciting and seeing them with their families and friends made us all the more eager for 22DEC09 to come. We are so close but then again so far from graduation.

05DEC09

We have started practicing close order drill and manual of arms more. Next week we have our manual of arms test and we have to pass this to earn our on base liberty. So though we are slowly perfecting everything most of us are eager to get everyone on the same page.

Our teamwork is improving and by watching all the junior companies we have definitely improved. We had a rough start here in recruit training but if we can keep coming together like we have done over the past couple of days then there is no doubt that we can be the best.

06DEC09

Week 05 has come to an end and the company is really starting to come together. We only have a couple more weeks left and everyone is pushing to go out strong and be the best. It is our company’s goal to earn our colors next week and have it fly from our guideon proudly. Petty Officer Garcia let us know that it is all the small things that are holding us back.

07DEC09

As a company we were proud of ourselves and each other that no one took the week 05 dive. We were warned that there are some cases where companies get their orders and aren’t satisfied so they lose all motivation and take the week 05 dive. If anything, this has been one of the best weeks for Quebec 182 so far. So far all of us are attempting to be the best we can and be the best company on the regiment.