Air Guard Update

Over the past few months I have been going on the first weekend of the month to the Channel Islands ANG Base for drill. The first month was kinda boring. I had to do all of my in-processing stuff. However, we get to watch some football on sundays haha. The second month that I went, we went to Los Alamitos Army Base in Orange County. That was a fun day. On saturday while we were at the base, we went into there shooting simulator. It's basically a fullsize video game. However, the guns we were shooting were the actual guns. Not real bullets but hooked up to air. I was able to shoot the M16 and M4. It was pretty intense to see what our ground troops go through on an everyday basis. That simulator was very realistic and is one way our troops train before they are sent to war. On Sunday of drill we went to the Navy Base, PT Mugu. There, we did our PT (physical training). We had to do as many pushups and situps as we could in a minute. I didnt do to bad. Got 40's on both but my goal is to get 60 on each before BMT (Basic Military Training). Then we had to run the mile and a half. We were told a good time is anything under 13 minutes and I ran it in 12 min 39 sec. Not to bad for not running in a really long time.

I have changed what job I am going to be doing. I am now going to be a crew chief on the C130. Basically, I will know a little bit of everything on the aircraft and will be in charge of the avionics specialist and loadmasters etc....I will also be flying in the aircraft whenever it is in the air. It's a good way for me to be a brown noser with the pilots. :) Also, I get my name painted on the side of the aircraft! It doesnt get much better than that haha.