This morning started out with our first AGR run. We jogged 1.5 miles to Doughboy Stadium, ran sprints at the stadium, jogged back to the Battalion area, and did 100 meters of lunges to finish out the workout. Since my 2-mile run time was only around 16:00, I was placed in Delta group. There are some really fast runners at OCS. One guy in my platoon runs an 11-12:00 2-mile. I am nowhere near that pace. It must be nice not having to stress out about the PT portion of OCS. So far, that’s all that has really been on my mind. I am very worried about being able to keep up on the runs and marches. I’ve heard that if you fall out of a run or march, you get recycled to the next class. It would suck way too much to make it almost all the way to the end and then get recycled!
During the day today, we had a class about Call for Fire. After a while, it seems almost impossible to stay awake. The instructor went really fast, and the class got over early. The night concluded with ruck-sack packing, study barracks, and personal time. Our 5-mile ruck march is tomorrow, and supposedly going to be a 17:30 pace, which is roughly 3-4 mph. The rucks are supposed to weigh around 25-33% of our body weight. My ruck is roughly 40lbs. I wanted to make sure my ruck would be heavy enough in case the cadre do PCC/PCI spot checks tomorrow. Tomorrow we also have classes in reading and military intelligence. Hopefully I can get some good sleep tonight so I can stay awake in class. At least our A/C is finally working so I won’t be sweating through the whole night!
