the army medical streacher
2nd day of boot camp the army stretcher hell
at various times between 5 and 5.30am our phone alarms are all going off 6 blearey eyed women myself included stagger down stairs to roll call
we are not allowed to stand still or have our hand on our hips we have to keep moving untill Staff A comes out to shout at us and do roll call
Two laidies are not there they arrive 5 mins late So we are all punnished in our groups we have to run carrying a green army medical streacher with three tyres on it up the hill to the sub station ( 2miles away) its hell there are tears and lots of swearing at the girls who are late but we do it in 25 mins which according to staff A we were lucky it was not a dying person on the streacher as he could have walked it quicker than being carried by our group
the green stretcher is our personal hell they leave then out to torture us into submission
So after streacher hell and roll coll its more exericise in the field running sprinting and streaching then its time for breakfast
we have a choice or porridge made with water or granola I chose the granola even though i have never ate it before and have no idea what it is its just looks better than porridge made with water
9AM Its exercise in the field we are doing battle pt so we are told this means in our groups we have to move a make shift cannon ( jerry cans filled with water 3 tyres a log and two smaller water cans 200 yards and reset it only thing is that we can only take one piece at a time so it lots of trips back and forth as a team carry jerry cans and the rest of the the bloody so called tank to set it up as a tank again
We do this for 1.5 hours then its boxercise for an hour this i enjoy as i imagine that im hitting staff A B & C and any other male that i can think of
Then its snack time for 30 mins we rush back eagerly to the dinning room to get given half an apple and two walnuts – how nice we are starving totally but after snack its back out for more running up the hills and the run walk run walk run walk the morning just melts into more running and walking
Its only the 2nd day and already 3 women have gone home either down to blisters and sheer exhaustion (lucky cows )
12 MIDDAY its lunch and we are starving and we are given chicken and some rice again very small portions
1 PM After lunch there more exercise running more battle pt yuck and more running ( i feel like Forrest Gump sadly life is not like a box of chocolate – cos i know what the fuck i am doing for the rest of the week runing running and running )
3PM its snack time we are given a handfull of seeds yes a handfull of hot rather tasty pumpkin seeds we are starving and they are gone within seconds
3.30PM its 2 hours of boxercise and streching exercise
We can have a ice bath now if we want ( i decline )
6PM its dinner time soup and meatballs
7 PM It our two hour evening walk up a what i call the silly cows goat trail cos only goats and silly cows like us would walk up it the staff make light work of it but we are dying and hurting and cussing but we are also bonding over blisters consitpation and sore muscles
9.30 pm in bed dying aching all over in places that i didnt even know could hurt my only solace is that we all feel the same
tired misrable and hungry to tired to even have a shower just fall into bed totally exhausted and knackered and dreading the rest of the week
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