12 August 2011
Day 55
Wake up at 05:00 today with a modified (very light) PT at 06:00. Breakfast chow at 08:00 and trans back to the range at 09:00. Today my platoon (1st Platoon) and 3rd Platoon conducted training on Buddy Team Tactics. The range was set up like this: 100 yards long by 75 yards wide; junk cars, sandbags, various size walls as barriers, and targets to shoot at as well. As 4-man teams, we used tactical moved called individualized movement techniques or IMTs. They include the low crawl, the high crawl, and the 3-5 second rush, which goes "I'm up, he sees me, I'm down." Each two man team communicated with the other two man team to cover them while they moved. So the team moving would use successive bounds, while the other team used suppressive fire. We did the course/range two times: one with blanks and one with live rounds. The one with live rounds really got me going because we were the first team for our platoon and the Captain (Company Commander) was walking along with us. I think our team impressed him, especially since we hit almost all the targets each time.
Great day for training! Not unbearably hot, about mid to upper 90s. I've kind of gotten used to the heat now, especially training with all of the gear on. The key is to drink lots of water.
Final AFPT tomorrow! Hope to get some great rest and score well on it!
Matthew
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