Post #13
Field Training
This is the first major away from home encampment. The details of field training are always fluctuating. When I went it was a 28 day program at Maxwell AFB, MS and Camp Shelby, AL. It was intense. There were a lot of things to memorize, ways to do things, tests of physical fitness, mental and spiritual and social. You are tested about being a leader in stressful situations. You are “deployed” temporarily and go over basic things like first aid, or camp organization, convoy procedures, fighting in a fire team or certain formations. It was an experience unlike any other and it was really trying.
The best was to get ready for this is to practice, study, and mentally prepare. You need to be in a mindset that you will be ranked amongst your peers, but they are also your team and you won’t make it through it without then. Practice the things that the upperclassmen will teach you and know them as good as any other class that you take. STAY FOCUSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have to get through this before you can even apply to be a pilot which will happen the January (typically) after Field Training. You can do it, don’t lose focus or get distracted by college life.
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