Today was my Fourth day at Chaplain School. Life has been much better than
expected, and the staff is great.
As I previously mentioned, the first day was not as bad as
we had all anticipated from the letter we were given on Sunday night. Thankfully my attitude has improved
greatly since then as well. We had
no PT on Monday or Tuesday but had our Initial PFA (Physical Fitness Assessment,
this is an unofficial Physical Readiness Test of a 1.5 mile run, 2 minutes of
Pushups, and 2 minutes of curl-ups) on Wednesday. I was pretty nervous because I showed very little physical
discipline between ODS (Last November/December) and now. I have to admit I was praying just not
to get hurt; but in the end I passed all three events with no problems. I passed the Pushups with 14 over the
minimum, I doubled the minimum for the curl-ups, and my 1.5 mile time was
better than my last one at ODS. Now
that we had finished our PFA we started PTing today with a “short” 45-minute
formation run. Tomorrow will be
“Blue Falcon” working our cores in a sort of relay with one person from each
squad at a time running and doing dips and pull-ups.
The first two days of classroom setting were administrative
days with ten hours a piece of death by power point. Luckily though we have Chaplain (Lt Cmdr Moore) as our
class’ main officer, and when he gets in front of us he is very relaxed, and
fun, and jokes a lot. He is very
entertaining and keeps us awake.
The ethics class we have been taking has been very interesting and
engaging. It is being taught by a
retired Captain who really knows his stuff and does a great job of keeping us
engaged, and asking the right questions to really make us think and come to our
own conclusions with many real life examples of ethical dilemmas faced by
members of the military. So far,
training has been very rewarding, and I am really enjoying myself.
-Ryan
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