So when i last left you off i was supposed to be going to seoul and blah blah blah Sory in advance i didn't bring my camera connector to my computer so i can't upload pictures my bad.
But anyway on thursday the brigade(brigade: 3,ooo-5,000 soldiers) commander had this gigantic powerpoint presentation in a gym and made all the officers come. So he basically showed us a bunch of slides of how many soldiers have been getting into toruble (assaults, underage drinking etc.) and that we need to educate them. He told us not to mess with the juices and how many of the Koreans and third party nationals try to hustle US soldiers and stuff. He also said that now the brigade was going to have a curfew at 1am to 5 pm, and that we needed passes to go to Seoul. So everyone wasn't happy and eventually we found out on friday that he jumped the gun because he didn't clear it with his higher ups so the new rules don't take into affect for a while. But this shouldn't be a problem for my escapades to seoul anyway because the company commander can sign for the passes and hes cool.
Ok anyway i did that and then on friday we had a ruck march. It was pretty easy we only needed like 30 pounds of weight and we didn't even do it very long because it took us a while to draw weapons. When you ruck you need to have your load bearing equipment, your helmet, rucksack, reflective belt, gloves and a weapon. Plenty of people were dropping out but i mean idk i thought it was pretty easy because at LDAC i had a ruck that was like 80 to 90 pounds so this was like a cake walk. The only thing is is i had shin splits and it hurt but they'll veventually go away because i won't be rucking with 80 to 90 pounds like i did at LDAC. So ya.
Then on friday we went to the call for fire trainer. I am in an infantry unit but with the field artillery officer and therefore all the guys that our under my sponsor are forward observers. They call the big artillery guns and coordinate fires against enemy. So there privates and specialists and lower enlisted and tahts basically the biggest part of their job. So i went with them to the call for fire trainer which is like a giant screen and shows terrain that is the same as the one on a map they give you. And then a tank comes on the screen and you try to figure out what the grid coordinates the tanks on. Then you call in fires and see where it is on teh screen and then you adjust the rouds so it gets closer to the tank until its blown up. A generic (i found it on the internet) example of a call for fire trainer looks like.
Its hard to explain sorry. Basically you the scenery on your map is on a screen and you use mountains and roads to figure out what grid coordinates an enemy is on. Anyway i never did it before and it was pretty easy for me. It was fun but some of the joes had difficulty with it and because i did better then them (Sgts exact words were "how did you let a cadet do your job better than you") and they all had to do push ups. So that was cool.Also on friday we finally got the housing issues squared away. Apparently there was no mix up but the housing guy did not read the second page of an e mail that authorized me to be in housing and stuff. Hahah bureaucracy. So i got to move out of the barracks and into my own room. My rooms pretty ncie i got a microwave and fridge a full size bed, and my own bathroom. Pretty nice. I mean the past month and a half, ive lived in the barracks with like 40 dudes, on the ground, on the gorund with a poncho tent, tents and more tents, an in processing center that was like a barracks and accomodated like 60 people per room, a room for two and my place now is the nicest of all those places. So its nice to get situated. Also its near all the other cadets so its easy to coordinate going places and crap.
Ok so friday night i went out with all of the officers who were mostly lieutenants. Man they kept feeding me and feeding me alcohol it was crazy. But you know i held my liquor to their surprise. We drank cass beer (which is a korean one), miller (which is imported here), and lots of sogu mied drinks and tequila for some reason. Yea idk how i was holding my own but i did. It was fun we went to a bunch of bars and stuff. The bars were in the ville which is the area outside of the base. It was cool but i have no plans of going out at night over there again. They have the infamous juicy girls that try and flirt with you and you buy more drinks so the bar gets money. I wasn't playing that but some of the officers were so i just bounced and went home because thats just stupid. But it was alright. Also MPs(military police) are everywhere over there making sure service members aren't being rowdy and aren't passed out in corners and what not. For the most part the people who go to those bars and clubs are service members.
So saturday i woke up at like 12 and was surprisingly not hungover. I got a hair cut for 11 bucks. But they don't just give you a hair cut. They do eyebrows, shampoo your hair, wash your face, and give you a massage. It was pretty nice. Also i got another phone because i lost my phone moving form the barracks to the new housing place i got. For teh most part the whole day i was tryna coordinate with some friends from LDAC to go to seoul but those plans fell through because one of them lost their phones. SO saturday i just watched horrible bosses on my computer and hung out with some of the other cadets.
Then today me and two other cadets went down to seoul to shop. It takes an hour and a half to get there but its a comfortable ride on the train. We went to all teh shops and tried to avoid the real shops like nike or addidas because those are expensive. We just hit all of the mom and pop type shops and tried to get deals. Even if there were good deals we still haggled because it was fun and we probably saved a lot of won doing that. I got a bunch of stuff. It was a shoppers paradise for sure. Crazy steals and stuff. I spent a lot of won but if i got the stuff i got here in teh US it probably woulda have cost double or triple what i got it in Seoul. I plan on going next weekend to get some other deals. Also apprently you can get custom made leather shoes for like 50 bucks which is crazy so i think i need to try and grab some.
So right now next week at work we are doing land navigation and and squad training exercises. So it should be fun. Next weekend i think me and some cadets are going to go to seoul and go to some concerts and club hope or something. Im pretty excited because i think now were getting into the swing of things so this next week and weekend should be really fun
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