Day 3 down

So today is almost done. Had our dental processing first thing this morning. Sat in the chair...talked to the doc...had my papers stamped and left. Moved on to the Behavioral Health section. Spent an hour and a half sitting waiting to speak to the shrink, then took a baseline TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) test. They tested my reaction times, memory, and reasoning skills...which involved sitting in front of a computer screen for an hour clicking on stuff on the screen.

We've had a lot of downtime lately. Lots of movies being watched...naps being taken...books being read. I've spent a lot of my time just walking around the post and thinking.

There are some pretty,shall we say interesting rules around post. One of them is that if you are walking outside after dusk or in inclement weather, you need to be wearing a reflective belt or vest. What surprises me is that overcast skies and very light snow flurries is considered inclement. The logic is that a driver cant see you if you're walking on the sidewalk. Now I can look down the street from my barracks in this type of weather and see the gym at the end of the road...a good 200 meters down. In fact I can see past that to soldiers walking the path from the PX back to the cantonment area (where all the barracks are). Why I would need to wear the belt when theres good enough light that we can shut the overhead lights off in the barracks and still have enough light to see what we're doing. I understand the safety aspect but its rules like this that make us soldiers bitch and moan about things.

Looking forward at our schedule, I may not be able to blog every day once we get into the actual training. I'm trying to set up my blog to accept updates from my phone so that once we get to our next training post, if there's no internet, I'll be able to keep you all updated.