Army Basic Training 21 – Ft. Jackson – 2001

Bayonet assault course and pugil stick today.  Pugil sticks are like the huge q-tip looking sticks, almost wooden.  It was harder than I thought.  Some guys fought girls, and one girl knocked one guy out.  One guy had to go to the hospital cuz he got concussion.  But he’s fine now.  The bayonet assault course was really cool though.  We ran about a 900 meter course, doing bayonet exercises we were told or rather taught to do, and there were really cool sound effects, too, bombs and bullets going off all around us.  It pumped us up, like we were in war, like one of our friends needed help, and there were enemies on the way we needed to stab cuz we ran out of ammo.  If anything, bayonet assault course was by far the best experience of basic training, except the 3 mile 50 pound ruck sack march killed us.  We came back, got our heads shaved for 4.50 like usual, and went to the PX to buy things we need.

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