Wednesday, March 18, 2009

I'm going to Air Assault!!!! (finally)

After a year of begging, badgering, and fellating my ROTC cadre, I have finally secured a spot at Air Assault School! Air Assault is a 10-day course that basically teaches you to tie big things to helicopters, including, climatically, yourself (see below).
Apparently, learning to strap things together isn't all that hard, so the training cadre fill the rest of the course with painful physical training (what Army folk call "getting smoked"). The last event is a 12 mile (!) ruck march... that was the purpose of the suffering depicted in my post about rucking.

A cadet who already completed the course advised me that it's easy enough if "you can run and you're at all smart."

Well, I can run.


P.S. I am excited about this like an extra in a Grease musical number. Summer days, in sweaty ACUs, but oh, those summer nights!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Don't procrastinate, or fly, when you're sick!

Embrace the Sick



I haven't posted/drawn in a while because I have, indeed, been sick. It turns out prolonged periods of lying on the ground in cold rain (and, later, snow) will do that to you!