Friday, January 9, 2009

Inprocessing (week 1)

Friday! And the end of three days of in-process briefs and administrative check in. To this post-er, it seemed much more streamlined than BOLC II at Ft Sill, OK. even though we need to do one last thing on Saturday morning. Let me state a few of the more poignant events that occurred that the classmates can put their Sustains or Improves to;

Day 1; Company briefs and introductions at the Company classroom/storage cage.

Day 2; Lincoln Hall briefings with representatives from bldg 470 (support services) - lots of paper trading hands. Component break outs for ease of verbiage for active vs. guard officers. CG's mixer at the end of the day.

Day 3; ID cards/DEERS; CIF; Textbooks; ASAP; Mentor brief; Blackboard/computer classroom time.

This, at the moment, will be the format - maybe with a little more narrative on some events later - that this blog will be in. Classmates (and readers) can post comments to these event posts as often as they wish. Feel free to contact me through the blogger.com pathways and I will do my best to reply promptly.

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If you are a student in 2-09 then be sure to post your comments or add your posts when feel led as the course drives on. Classmates; when you comment, please begin your post with either "Sustain" or "Improve" so it can be categorized easily.

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