Well, we’re now into “Reverse Cycle” training schedule, which means our Duty Day is now 03:00-13:00 in order to adjust to the Texas summer heat. Hasn’t been much in the way of summer heat, these past few days, but instead we’ve gotten a lot of summer rain. It’s done a lot to separate the Men from the Boys in the company… funny how most of the prior-service former Grunts don’t really complain about it much.
The only annoying thing about this reverse-cycle stuff is that we’re living on MREs during this time, since we’re not on schedule with the messhall anymore. To explain why this is annoying, understand that most of the contents of an MRE are condensed, freeze-dried, or otherwise reduced in size/weight, and that they’re heavy on the Fat Content in order to pack as many calories into as small a space as possible.
Which means, if you aren’t drinking enough water with them, they’ll stop up your gut like a cork; uncomfortable, to say the least. I’ve at-least got enough experience with them to know how to avoid most of that problem.
Still haven’t gotten notice about where I’m to be stationed at.
