It amazes me that they actually give people live ammunition after making them endure a month and a half of their training. I really wish I could break it down for you in greater detail but there is just so much to cover that I'm not entirely sure I could do it justice in the short amount of time that I have to write this today. I guess I'll just try to touch on the key points.
First and foremost I hate the fact that we literally spend the entire day sitting around and whatever training location we happen to be at for 20-30 minutes of training. The most prominent one that stands out in my mind was our Gunnery training. They had us convoy out into the middle of nowhere on base and stay in what appeared to be a refugee camp for 2 days to drive a course with our heavy weapons mounted for a grand total of 1.5 training hours. I really wish I was exaggerating here but I counted.
Secondly these "instructors" have really told us some StUpId things. Two days ago we were at a location on post and they were giving us a safety briefing. Part of the safety briefing consisted of what to do in case of a tornado. That's fair, let's see what they have to say. These morons actually pointed to a 4 foot steel cylinder set into the ground and told us to take cover in there if a tornado hits. Haha, right. You guys go into that vacuum wind tunnel and I'm going to go ahead and lay face down in that ditch over there and take my chances.
We've been scheduled classes that end at midnight one night and another class that starts at 4:30 the next morning. We've been double-booked for training. We've showed up for training and they didn't have the key to the building we were supposed to be in so we had to wait for an hour and a half before we could even get in. At one point we were banned from playing organized sports because people were getting hurt, yet they had no problem putting us in a Hum-V rollover sim and having that beat the hell out of us.
My favorite so far was when we got told the gunner has to get confirmation and permission to return fire from the truck commander (the person who sits shotgun in the hum-v, usually a senior NCO or officer), even if we are getting hit from the 6 o-clock and it is humanly impossible for the TC to see where we are taking fire from. Screw this training, if we are getting hit my gunner sure as hell better be sending lead down range. I know we're there to win hearts and minds but if we're being shot put two in the heart and one in the mind. End of story.
I really wish I could give you an up-side to the training that we're getting here but I'm getting a headache just trying to think of something positive. I get to go home on leave 3 weeks from today and thank God for it. This really isn't my usual bitching either. This has surpassed stupid and gone full-blown retard and you never go full retard.
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I get the Tropic Thunder reference, just wonder why you used it? I could never understand why anyone would want to use words that dehumanize and demean people with special needs. I mean, they are human beings with feelings and they get when you are mocking them. Just because Ben Stiller wrote it doesn't make it right.
ReplyDeleteLook what happened at the Corpus Christi school. A bunch of people thinking it's okay to treat people with special needs like they were subhuman.