20090111 1632 Almost over to begin.

Life
I completed Labs on Thursday. I have Clinicals the next two weeks. I learn where I'll be tomorrow. I hope the ER or OR. Almost done. I will be in California before I know it. I have no idea what to expect over in Camp Pendleton. I will just to do my job as best as I can. I was watching Generation Kill. I'm starting to realize what I signed up for. I really enjoy the corpsman in that show. It makes me pumped to be good at my job.
I got a week off of EPO duty when my class completed Test 12. I swam everyday! It made me so happy to swim. I love swimming. It continues to challenge every time I'm in the pool.

2009 is almost done. 2010 will be a tough year.
I can make more solid goals now because I have a steady job.

20090920 It Has Begun

on 20090918 I passed the Dive Mo PST
12:12 CCS 500 yd swim
70 push ups in 2 min
65 situps in 2 min
10 pull ups
11 min run in boots and camo pants.

I swam Sat,Mon,Tue,Wed,and Thursday to knock 30 seconds off my time. 40 days ago I couldn't swim a lap without stopping and I didn't know Combat Side Stroke. It's crazy to think how far I've come when it comes to swimming.
I celebrated with a few shipamates that didn't have duty this weekend. 1st drink in about 2 years. Guinness, blue moon, splitz?, PBR, and I couldn't finish the fatire. I didn't want to throw up. It was good times.
A friend of mine wrote to me and said to occasionally look at your accomplishments or else you won't appreciate what you have. I don't remember the exact saying. She in fact quoted someone else.
Well now I have to keep screening every few weeks and when I graduate a get a letter a recommendation (PAGE 13) to try out at FMTB Pendelton.

Now I have to get my PST Time down and get my grades higher.

11 Sep 2009 2000

How's my life.
I got an 80% on Test 5. Unacceptable for an EPO.
I will shoot for the moon in Test 6.
I took the Dive Mo PST AGAIN!
12:45 Swim I rocked the Combat Side Stroke the entire way.
67 Push Ups
71 Sit Ups
10 Pull Ups
10:59 1.5 Mile In Boot and Camies

I'm wallowing in my failure.
The instructors running the screening kept giving me props though.
I'm gaining their respect.
Failure still hurts.
If I drank I would be drinking my failure away.
I took a shower. "unclean unclean" like the Simpsons.
A good portion of my class went the first time.
I was the only one who came back the 2nd time.
I'm pretty proud to walk alone on this path.
I wanted Recon before I went to Boot Camp.
It's so close. It hurts.

when I succeed I bet the feeling will be unparalleled.
I can only imagine and continue to work harder.

Caro, I bet you could dominate this PST with you workout ethic.

How's life outside of me?
Crazy September 11th. 8 years since the twin towers were hit.

HM3 Layton was killed a couple of days ago in Afghanistan.
My EPO Coordinator said it was his former student.
He graduated last June.
HM3 Layton was from Modesto. He was 22.
It is just crazy to think about the life corpsman will go into.

20090814

Just getting the hang of things right now.
So far so good.
School started. Test 1 93% Not bad. Not good.
Must study harder.
I taught myself combat side stroke with youtube.
AHH youtube.

I wonder what if youtube could really change the world with information?
Just a side thought.

I've got 14 weeks here at Great Lakes. Then maybe North Carolina.
A school feels like my freshman year of college except I like my classmates.
I've been spending my free time swimming. I suck at swimming.
I figure if I want it bad enough. I'll get recon.
and I do want it bad enough.

Essentially my life has come back to normal with a few minor changes.
Such as
unlimited access to the internet because I refuse to buy wireless wifi for my laptop
I miss my friends its okay though I know they will be there when I get back
being on locked down i.e. phase I liberty

Corps school is good. I'm happy I'm here. I waited like 4 months to get here. 2 months in DEP and 2 long months in Boot. There are some cons to being here like NOT GRAPPLING. anyway I can concentrate training for the recon pst.

Thats it
Telling my piece for an uneventful Friday evening

200907024 Navy Boot Camp Over!!

A funny memory. You say. More like something I'd never want to repeat. I met a few friends. But they will soon be forgotten or not. It is a small world. But hey it's over. Time for Corps school. Which seems like a college with restrictions. Urgh!! I haven't grappled in more than two months. I feel like fighting someone.
That's the worst part about boot. I wanted to fight all the time or every time I was frustrated with my division which is very often. Laughs were few and far between. I guess I took it more serious than others because I was part of Division staff. I did need a balance of work and play, but I know that my division played a lot more when we needed to work.
Well its over. I just hope life will be better now and I will be around motivated individuals. please...

Rocking the Birth Control Glasses.


The ladies in my life.

20090523 I hiked Mt. Diablo

I hiked Mt. Diablo with my younger sister, Megan, and my two cousins Moses and Jonas.
Mt. Diablo was over 3800 ft high. I can't believe we did that. We started at like 1000 and got there about 1300. Jeez. When we got there. Most of the tourists drove up. WEAK. Who cares about them anyway. My shirt was soaked with sweat by the time I got up there. After some rest it dried up from being in the sun. Amazing. It was overcast in the bay area today but we managed to hike above the clouds. It was awesome. My cousin, Jonas, whose asthmatic was having a hard time at first, but felt better as we got up there. He said jokingly if I could do this I could do Everest!
6 mile hike up to 3800 feet took about 3 hours. 6 mile hike down took about 2 hours.
We went to Rockridge and destroyed a Zachary's Deep Dish Pizza.



I got home and I got some tapes in the mail. Awesomely funny.

20090519 2215 I need to get on my list.

So I leave in a week. I need to get on my list. I'm so excited, anxious and scared. I also need to see a few people before I leave. I don't have many friends. I do have a few important ones though.

I took this from Military.com under Navy SEAL fitness Test

One of the best workouts to assist increasing your scores in the PT and run is the following:

- 100 pull-ups in as few sets as possible Run 1/4 mile in 90 seconds in between sets of pull-ups

- 200 pushups in as few sets as possible Run 1/4 mile in 90 seconds in between sets of push-ups

- 300 sit-ups in as few sets as possible Run 1/4 mile in 90 seconds in between sets of sit-ups

This is a tough workout that can take 30-60 minutes to complete - if you can complete it.

I couldn't do it all. Saturday I did Pull ups and Push ups with 1/4 miles. Today I did Sit ups and Push ups with 1/4 miles. I think I only ran 2 min 1/4 miles too.

I really got to memorize these 11 sentry orders. I'm using flash cards now. The sooner these 9 weeks go the sooner I can learn some kick ass medicine.

6 days left. man.
Scary