Day 67: We started the day with Dress Outs...The losers had to battle the weather and head out for a few laps around the drill grounds. The drill required us to get dressed as fast as possible and then head to the opposite baseline. Bat. A won all three attempts. We did have a two minute timed drill and we all passed.
We then took our 25 question Hazmat Exam. Once again, my study guide proved helpful, and I got another 100.
The rest of the day was spent in the classroom having instruction on Extrication...well kinda of. All we really covered was Extrication History...oh and we read one chapter in our extrication book...and then had a quiz. Things were back to normal, 10 minute breaks, and hour lunch and then our favorite....PT...
A very strange PT....One of our fellow cadets had to run, while the rest of us did our leg lifts. We all then did our regular sets...but very quickly. I'll be honest, it was a little tough. We finished up stretching while that same cadet did his leg lifts. We all went around and timed his leg lifts.
We were sent home tired, sweaty, and ready for the weekend...but it was only Monday..
Day 68: Another day, and another day of Extrication. Today we had a guest speaker from the LifeForce. They are the local Emergency Airlift agency. Our goal was to learn how to prepare a Landing Zone for the helicopters. After he did his presentation (which was done very well) we had a few lecture slides. At 11:30 we were excused for an hour and half lunch. Most of us headed to Ci Ci's pizza.
After lunch, half of the class headed over to Erlanger to look at the Helicopter hanger. The rest of us waited for them to get back. Because LifeForce had to make a call, neither group got to see the hanger. Our group didn't even get to leave the training center.
The rest of the day we discussed stabilization and the use of cribbing. We were then excused for PT.
It was a Ralph day and we had two exercises:
1: Complete 1 squat thrust with a jump, pick up a 2 1/2 inch hose and run it full court and back. Then complete 2 squat thrusts with a jump and run the hose full court...complete this pattern up to 10.
2: Make waves with a 1 3/4 inch hose by pulling it up and down 200 times in 4 sets of 50.
Not a bad work out, but a workout indeed.
Tomorrow? More extrication and the usual dress outs...
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