We started with the wall, where you have to get your entire team over an 8 or so foot wall. There were several walls though that grew to what I estimate to be 10 ft. at the end. Then we went on to a ladder type obstacle that was approximately 30 ft. high. It's basically 2 phone poles 15 ft. apart with 4x4 rungs in between. You climb straight up, swing over, and climb down.
If you fall, hope you hit the pole vault mats at the bottom because that is all there is. The last intimidating obstacle we went on was the "tough one." You climb a 15 ft. cargo net onto a walkway that looks like a framed attic open underneath. After the walkway, you climb a triangular ladder another 15 ft. before swinging over to a cargo net to climb down.
After we finished, DS had one last thing in store. The belly crawl obstacle had a nice size puddle at the start and she apparently thought we were too clean. So one by one we crawled through and if you weren't dirty enough at the end, she made you go again. It was great. She even did it herself after we finished as the platoon chanted "Lead from the Front." In my opinion, it is that kind of attitude that helps make her a great DS.
I cannot get away from thinking about graduation. One female joined our company in first platoon today--restarting with us when her company just graduated. She had failed PT. Then we were told today that we will be fitted for our ASU (that's the dressy blue uniform) this coming week!
Things are going great. I just need to keep my focus.
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