This final week of training at FT Jackson (Camp McCrady) was the culmination of everything we had been taught. Unfortunately, by this time though, everyone is just ready to get out of there. We continued to work on Convoy operations and shoot the M4's (at least on the computer simulator). The final day was the actual convoy operations that we did twice. The goal was to lead your convoy from start to finish and find all IED's and not take any KIA's. I was the commander for the first attempt and we found 4 IED's (however there were actually only 2) and took no KIA's. Success, however it only took about 20 minutes and we got up at 4:45AM and got back to base at 5:30PM - Not exactly efficient use of time. We then got to clean our weapons and turn in the ones we were not taking - I'm only taking one, so I had to turn in my rifle, which I was happy about. Why, you ask? Try carrying it around 24/7 for three weeks and you will know the answer.
Four of my new friends and I took in a movie (Hangover 2) and got a steak (Ruth's Chris) the final night and it was a good way to end the training. Now off to bed and early morning to fly out to Kuwait. Camp McCrady wasn't that bad and the training and Instructors were top notch, but it really seems they could have done it in 10 days instead of 20. Oh well, hope never to have to worry about it again.
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