June 9th-11th

Disclaimers! I only post non-mushy personal things on the blog to read, so if it is jumping around like crazy... that is why. Plus he's a man. :)

Also the grammar and lack of punctuation are true to his letters. His grammar snob wife would never allow this.  Enjoy!

How are you guys? We did the rappel tower yesterday. It was a lot of fun. It wasn't too bad, it was only 40 feet high. We have three days of basic medical training this week and then on Friday we are getting our weapons issued and going to the gas chamber. Today we practiced carrying soldiers out of a combat zone under fire and did a competition with 2nd platoon (we are 1st platoon) where we had to run down, put a tourniquet on a casualty, use a buddy drag through sand and then carry them fireman style and run to the finish line. We won! Other than that our platoon is really struggling. We are behind in everything and everyone makes fun of our platoon because we are always messing up. We had a meeting with ten of our platoon last night to try and fix things so hopefully today it starts getting better. There is just a lot of people always talking and looking around in formation.

Tomorrow we are doing our first march now for two miles in full combat gear. It should be pretty easy. I'm starting to get sores and break out all over my legs because it's so hot and I am literally drenched every single day all day long. ALL. DAY. LONG. Sorry my letters are few and far between, my free time is very short because we have been staying extra time to talk as a platoon to fix things or we have to stay extra and get smoked. Today one of our platoon was smoked in front of everyone for probably 15-20 minutes because they never stop talking and refuse to listen when people talk to them.

Today is the 11th now, we are almost done with half of June! Our 4k march today was pretty easy. I enjoy marching. Oh and yes cadences means we march to songs or whatever you want to call it.... I can't wait until we get out of red phase. We get to do a lot more in those like field missions and fire our weapons and learn more cadences and stuff.

*PS Adam says he is called A-Dog because there is another Christensen in his platoon that is spelled the same.