There's really not much to write about today. The past two days have all been cleaning, cleaning, and more cleaning. We are cleaning every piece of gear we were issued and have to turn in. It has to be even more clean than when we received it in a lot of cases. Take for instance the kevlars (helmets), there cannot even be fuzz in the velcro that holds the pads. Or take for instance the ponchos or wet weather gear, you have to get out every stain.
This may not sound like much for a few items, but our Drill Sergeants have a method where they assign a small team (3-8 people) per equipment type to clean all of that gear for the platoon. So I and two others had to clean every duffel bag and laundry bag issued to the platoon. Others had it worse though since we could at least put ours through the laundry machines.
In between cleaning, we have also been assembling our ASUs for inspection and graduation. Shaping the beret has become an art form in the bay. It was amazing to see how much work actually goes into preparing the uniform and the beret. I new it was work, but I had no idea really.
We did finally get phone calls tonight and we turned in our platoon issue gear, so we are getting constant glimpses of the finish line.
Everything would be perfect except for on missing component, SLEEP! Sure, I fell asleep a couple of times sitting in the laundry room, but no one here has gotten any real sleep in the past two days. Hopefully though we can finish cleaning by tomorrow and be done with this.
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