16 August 2011
Day 59
Wake up at 0530 today and conducted personal hygiene in the dark. Oh well if I missed a few spots because everyone else will too! Duty squad started at 0615 refilling each platoon's necessary items: ice, MREs, etc. 0800 was chow for the whole company. Most of the day the company conducted battle drills: react to contact, react to ambush, bounding drills, etc. In addition, duty squad assembled four mini houses for the platoons to practice clearing. Also, we built three, four feet deep bunkers for protection at the TOC.
All through the night the drill sergeants and their platoon's conducted controlled "attacks" on other platoons using blanks and smoke bombs. We (duty squad) could hear everything over the radios at the TOC, which was really cool. I have TOC watch at 0400-0500, so not much sleep for me tonight!
Matthew
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