Rainy Day

A cold front is moving through again and the rain has been falling since 7am this morning. We had classroom instruction today on Personnel Recovery, Land Navigation, and Army Communications. In Personnel Recovery, we learned how to prepare ourselves emotionally and with proper equipment to escape and survive being captured outside our bases while on patrol. Land Navigation class consisted of learning the parts of the map, determining azimuth, distance, and using a compass to get from point A to point B. In order to make up for the lost training yesterday, 45 of us went to the computer simulated firing range to fire the M16. The gun is a replica and simulates the sound of a real shot. The only difference is we are shooting laser at a screen simulating pop up targets at 50/100/150/200/250/300 meters.

It will still be raining tomorrow, but we must stay on schedule. All 4 platoons ~125 people will all go to the range, zero their weapons, and shoot pop-up targets to qualify for this deployment. We will have 40 shots from various positions and must knock down at least 23 targets to qualify. I shot 26/40 tonite on the range...hopefully it translates to doing well on the course of fire tomorrow.