Week 2

Week 2

11-8

We woke up at 4 and got ready for the gibbush. We needed to bring our whole kitbag. We ate shtach (field) food in the parking lot for breakfast. We have 4 buses full of people from this base doing the gibbush. We took the bus to the base in Tel Hashomer. The same base where all the army testing was done in the beginning

 This base happens to be huge. We ran a 2k run on sand, up and down hill too determine what group we will be in tomorrow. I got the run in around 9:05 I think. The Ethiopians are always in front doing it in 6 or 7 minutes. We got to have dinner and go to sleep early around 9pm we were all sleeping. I had the extremely hot US army issues sleeping bag and my sound poof headphones. We were all in tents and of course my tent happened to be the one with no lights.

11/9

They told us we can't leave our beds until 3:10am and we have to be ready and dressed at 3:15am, and then gave us only 5 minutes. We drank 2 canteens of water (3 Liters) which is actually pretty hard and had an apple.

We were separated into our groups of around 20 people. I happened to be in a group with a few guys I already know. We were all given tags with a number on them. So we started off the guibbush with sprinting. 20 seconds to go around the bag and back. They give you these impossible times to do things just so you push harder. We did sprints for 30 minutes straight in order to drain all the energy out of us.  

After that we had to crawl under some wire, back and forth for a while, we are all dripping sweat and cold at the same time since its early AM. We did crawling for around 20 minutes. Now we took the stretcher and put 7 sandbags on it to make it a total of 160 pounds I think. We did more sprints first.4 people back take the stretcher  and go on another lap.

They like to see who is going to push more. That was for another 30 minutes. We then did an exercise that we had to keep our legs in the air while lying down. This wasn't hard for me. We had to then talk about something for 30 seconds not anything that has to do with yourself or politics. Just saying something random will do.

We were then placed in formation and were told to close our eyes. The commanders moved us around and said to find our place without opening your eyes and not saying names or numbers. The last thing was a march with the 2 stretchers. We walked, ran, walked, ran, until the end.

We got outside the gates and were told us its over. It wasn't even hard and I barley tried since I didn't want to be in this unit anyway. We got to shower after and wash all the dirt and sand off of us and changed into whatever we wanted.

We had lunch finally at 12 we were all so hungry. Later on we went back to the base and slept on the ride there. Back at the base we learned more about how to use our M16 since we are going shooting tomorrow. We have to sleep with this gun this week its not that bad, it puts an incline on the mattress like those beds you see on tv ,same thing. We have an hour break now then we are going to sleep.