Meg here, another letter from Micah. It's shorter this time, but he explains why:
Well I only got a few minutes to write this. I just got off watch and so I've got a little time before I got to go to remedial swim. So anyways, good news, KILO COMPANY EARNED OUR COLORS!!! Sunday afternoon we were presented our colors. Totally rocks. At this moment, KILO 173 is the only company in the regiment that has their colors. Supposedly, that means we're the best company here! If you want to see what our colors look like, look up Nautical flags and look for KILO, it will be yellow and blue. Rock on. Anyways, I'm running out of time. I'll talk to you later.
Micah
If you would like to see his company's colors, the link is below.
KILO Company Colors
Friday, February 10, 2006
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Hi everyone, Meg here. Once again, it's a letter from Micah. It's actually quite a bit longer this time, surprisingly. So.. here it is!
26 Jan 06
The time is actually passing rather quickly. A lot has happened in the last few days. On Sunday night, our Company, KILO, and our sister company, LIMA, started standing watches. We used to get 8 hours of straight sleep for teh first 2 weeks, but from the 3rd week on, we have to stand watch 6 days a week. The watches are an hour long, but we are woken up 1 hour before and have to be at the post a 1/2 hour before our watch. So we end up losing 2 hours of sleep.
Then, for those of us that failed the swin test, we are woken up at 0430 for remedial swim. So I have only been getting 4 1/2 hours of sleep. Needless to say, I'm tired. (Btw, swim started monday morning.) Anyways, enough of that except to say that there are a few good things about remedial swim:
ONE: I don't get woken up by bright lights and a CC yelling his head off.
TWO: I don't get the morning IT sessions, which is what happens if the company was all jacked up the night before and the CCs are in a bad mood.. which is more often than not.
THREE: I can send letters any day I want, while the rest of the company has to wait to send letters on Sunday. The mail drop box is behind the barracks, so on the way to swim at 0500, I run about 50 feet out of the way and drop the in. (Big no-no) Luckily, all the CCs are asleep at 0500, and the only other people up are the other recruits heading to swim, and they wouldn't bust me even if they did happen to see me. So yeah, waking up early for swim ain't all that bad.
Anyways, the present. I'm right now sitting on the hospital ward bed, in one of the hospital PJs and robe. First time I've ever had to stay overnight in a hospital. With me is Anthony Shettle, who is also from KILO, and Thomas, who is from INDIA company. He'll be leaving this place next Friday. He's done his 7 weeks and now he's getting out.. lucky dog!
Why am I here, being treated like a king, getting hours of sleep? Oh yeah, I jsut got my 4 wisdom teeth pulled. As did the other guys. Then I'll be on green belt for the next 2-3 days. No up-down-out-in, rowers, squats, or piece its!!! I'm so happy!
~Micah~
26 Jan 06
The time is actually passing rather quickly. A lot has happened in the last few days. On Sunday night, our Company, KILO, and our sister company, LIMA, started standing watches. We used to get 8 hours of straight sleep for teh first 2 weeks, but from the 3rd week on, we have to stand watch 6 days a week. The watches are an hour long, but we are woken up 1 hour before and have to be at the post a 1/2 hour before our watch. So we end up losing 2 hours of sleep.
Then, for those of us that failed the swin test, we are woken up at 0430 for remedial swim. So I have only been getting 4 1/2 hours of sleep. Needless to say, I'm tired. (Btw, swim started monday morning.) Anyways, enough of that except to say that there are a few good things about remedial swim:
ONE: I don't get woken up by bright lights and a CC yelling his head off.
TWO: I don't get the morning IT sessions, which is what happens if the company was all jacked up the night before and the CCs are in a bad mood.. which is more often than not.
THREE: I can send letters any day I want, while the rest of the company has to wait to send letters on Sunday. The mail drop box is behind the barracks, so on the way to swim at 0500, I run about 50 feet out of the way and drop the in. (Big no-no) Luckily, all the CCs are asleep at 0500, and the only other people up are the other recruits heading to swim, and they wouldn't bust me even if they did happen to see me. So yeah, waking up early for swim ain't all that bad.
Anyways, the present. I'm right now sitting on the hospital ward bed, in one of the hospital PJs and robe. First time I've ever had to stay overnight in a hospital. With me is Anthony Shettle, who is also from KILO, and Thomas, who is from INDIA company. He'll be leaving this place next Friday. He's done his 7 weeks and now he's getting out.. lucky dog!
Why am I here, being treated like a king, getting hours of sleep? Oh yeah, I jsut got my 4 wisdom teeth pulled. As did the other guys. Then I'll be on green belt for the next 2-3 days. No up-down-out-in, rowers, squats, or piece its!!! I'm so happy!
~Micah~
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