I spent the last few days in Grafenwoeher doing required trainings for deployment. I was briefed on the law, a thorough history of Afghanistan, IEDs, first aid, and rollovers. My favorite part was the history of Afghanistan. It took two hours but I actually payed attention to the whole thing. It was super interesting and the instructor made it fun. My law school instructors could've learned a thing or two from him.
My first aid instructor saw immediately that I could not handle seeing pictures of medical stuff. He would tell me to cover my eyes before showing the class really gross pictures. He thought it was hilarious that I couldn't handle the pictures. He is probably wondering why such a wuss would sign up for Afghanistan.
The civilians in the training all stayed off base while the soldiers in the training were housed on base. The line to get onto the base took forever and all the civilians were late. The soldiers looked less then amused with us when we showed up for formation that morning. The soldier in charge of the trainings yelled the cliched response to all the civilians, "Formations are at 0745, not 0746, not 0747. 0745..." Next time I have a formation I'll make sure to leave earlier!
The big part of the training was the roll over drill. We were put into a simulator of an army truck and they flipped it over and we had to get out. I felt like a bad ass when it was over and then someone in the air force told us that they have a plane simulator that does the same thing except it lands in the water and they have to get out. Way to kill my adrenaline rush!!
After the rollover drill we headed home. I forgot how much I love driving on the autobahn!
