Well, I made it. The first week of CHBOLC is done and in the books and I am still up and mobile. I made the height/weight requirements, that's always good.
It is safe to say that SC is trying to kill me. It does not matter where you go or what you are doing, chances are if you are doing it in SC you are sweating your rear off. I have never spent this much sweat in my life. Now, don't get me wrong, I have sweated in AZ plenty, but out here you stick you head out the window and you are drippin'. But, in comparison this heat is nothing like that of the Valley. Out in AZ your sweat evaporates so you really don't know you are sweating.
We have not really done to much "Army" stuff yet, as many of the candidates are non-prior service. So we have been doing standard, "catch-up" stuff. Things such as, basic marching, basic orders things such as that. However, next week our Cadre leaders will step back and turn our class over to actual DI "drill instructors". We are in a world of hurt. There are still some cadets who are having trouble getting into ranks on time and that = a lot of push-ups for everyone else. Buhhh!!!!
I really missed the family. It is so hard to be here mentally and physically when everything I love and hold dear is back home. I get to see the kids on the internet and talk to Andrea like 10 minutes a day. That is just not good. I miss them all soooo much. You know God called me to come here and I see the need for me here. I am just trying to reach some sort of balance between being here and being there. I am struggling right now just trying to concentrate at the task at hand. Everything seems to remind me that I am not whole here. But that is when I will need God the most. He called me here so, I am turning it over to Him to get me thru.
In Christ
ChapErik.
Just on a side, when they say SC averages 15 inches of rain a months between Jun and Jul, they are not lying. I have been here 6 days and it has rained 5 of those days.
