ShadowDawn

aRegretfulSerenity
2006-06-19 19:04:26 (UTC)

chair force? HA!

two more days till Hell.
more or less.
i leave for field traning on wednesday, and im really
excited. really nervous too, but mainly excited. not sure
how this is gonna go. its not like the army camps where all
you gotta do is just follow orders. let them boss you
around, and u'll survive just peachy. in the air force
camps, they dont give you orders. they make YOU give
them. they wont tell you how do anything, but if you fuck
up, they'll tear you a new one until you figure it out on
your own. we dont get the luxury of not having to think.

thats for the other branches.

this camp is a leadership aptitude test. they are
evaluating your leadership potenial by putting you into
positions you have absolutely no experience with and throw
situations at you that you wont even recognize. at least the
army got to practice their scenarios in class. they got
nifty little army how-to books about every situation in it.
we havent even heard of ours yet.
but i guess thats the thrill of it. seeing how we'll we
think on our feet without resorting to nifty little books
and scripted plans. so youd think that it would give us more
freedom to solve things in different ways.

WRONG!

just because we dont get manuever hand-books, broken down
barney-style doesn't mean we dont have one single solution
we have to carry out to the T. we just dont know what they
want us to do until we've already fucked it up.

aside from that, we have the typical things: combat
situations, obsticle courses, challenge activities... those
are the things im not worried about at all. i can kick any
girl's ass on an O-course, most guys too. its the putting me
in charge of an entire squadron that im a little worried
about. if an element has about 6-10 airmen, a flight has
three elements, and a squadron has about 3-5 flights, thats
roughly 150 airmen i have to command. thats more than VWIL.
god forbid they put me as group commander. thats the
entirety of FT. and we have up to at least Juliet flight.
and they expect you to know how to do it perfectly...
...without practice.

and to top it off, your being officially evaluated on it.
grades that count for your career. fail the tests, you're
kicked out of ROTC, and can't come back. no commissioning,
no career. in any branch. so, if you dont do it right the
first time, you're fucked.

stress much?

so while ur at home, watching TV, eating steak, chilling
with friends, going to the pool... think of me in
hot-as-hell florida getting my ass kicked by majors and
colonals for every mistake i didnt know i made, and just
thank god your not commissioning air force, where more than
jets go mach speed.

chair force?


i think not.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Field Training address:

Cadet Wood, Leslie, M
AFROTC FTU 2, FLT B
703 Suwannee Rd. ROTC
Tyndall AFB, FL 32403-9998


send me something to motivate me.


catch ya again, july 21





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