Training Continues

The past few days has been consumed with more classes and training. Today we went to a Land Navigation course where we split up into teams of two or three. We were given a compass, map and some coordinates to points which we had to find while out on foot. Finding the different points wasn’t the hard part; it was getting to the points through some heavy vegetation and swampy areas in the extreme heat. At one point I fell into a swamp and sunk to waist deep. It was very difficult to get back out, the more I tried to pull myself out, the more it sucked me in. I eventually got free but my uniform needed a wash and I needed a shower. After I was out, my teammates thought that we should have gotten a picture of me stuck in the swamp. Although I had my camera on me, my mind was on other things. We finished the course with time to spare.