Once at the airport I hauled all of my bags to the ticketing desk and of course I found myself in line behind someone with a large bag who kept insisting that it could be carried on... about 20 minutes later I had my tickets in hand and made the whole trip without further incident. :)
When I arrived in Columbia, SC, I was under the impression that I had to wait and talk to the military liaison. Instead there was a large group of soldiers enrolled in Recruiter school who seemed to know what they were doing so I tagged along with them. We arrived at the Ft. Jackson welcome center and I was told that IRR Recalls needed to go to Camp McCready, and not to worry, there was another soldier on his way there. So with one more cab ride I was where I needed to be.
The first 3 days Our group of 20 IRR recalls and Retiree Volunteers in processed through Medical, Dental, Finance, and everything else we needed. The general consensus is the three days could be run a little smarter so there wouldn't be as much sitting around. Female Soldiers are not able to process much of anything until their pregnancy test comes back. Then we rush around trying to catch up. A few of us had to wait until Tuesday to get immunizations, including the TB test, so now we had to wait until Thursday to get that read. So I missed our first soldier class, Heavy Weapons. Luckily, there were only 5 soldiers who were able to o to the class, so the civilian instructor did not issue gear, Helmet, flak vest, canteens... etc...
On Friday we refreshed on Land Navigation, and were briefly instructed on Middle Eastern Cultural Awareness. On Monday we will go over weapons familiarity, and fire our weapons at the range on Tuesday. Hopefully I should be out of here on Friday or Saturday, and on my way to be trained at Ft. Belvoir, Virgina, or on to the Unit in Camp Shelby, Vicksburg, MS to be trained by the unit. The Topo Unit has already been trained by a guy I was in AIT with, who is also processing here with me now. Small World!
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Katie! holy crap I am glad you missed the "heavy weapons" class...if that were me, I probably would have shot some innocent civilian passing by trying to get a grip on those "heavy weapons"...we miss you at work. Mary asked if anyone heard from you and John got on your blog a couple of days ago but you hadn't updated it-I am so excited to tell them that you have! Yahoo! We miss you and be safe!
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