10 Oct
We had divine hours today. After afternoon chow we went on a 03 mile company run off base. It was fun singing cadence and seeing all the people watch us jog together. The run was easier than the first time. After the run chief Johnson showed us some good websites that we can use to look up any information we need to know about the coast guard. We practiced a little close order drill and did uniform maintenance for the rest of the night.
11 Oct
We did CPR and first aid drills pretty much all day today. We learned how to dress open wounds, bone fractures, electrical shock victims, and victims of cardiac arrest. They even provided rubber intestines and a fake chopped off hand for us to pretend to dress. We also practiced with splints and doing CPR with manikins in the gym. A fun part was when we learned the two safety drags to use when rescuing someone. One of them is when you tie the victim's hands together and put their arms around your neck (while they are on their back) and then you sort of bear crawl as fast as you can to drag them to safety. The other one was to drag the victim by their shirt, holding the head with your forearms. It looked so funny watching everyone do these drags. We had our week seven weigh in today. Almost everyone made weight and a ton of us were surprised by how much weight in muscle we gained! We have ten days left and everyone is counting down now. Drill was ok tonight. Except one of our shipmates got their scalp scraped by the bayonet stud when we were practicing throwing the pieces to each other! She was bleeding a little but she's fine now. It was a small cut. That’s all that happened for today.
12 Oct
Zulu had another great day today. First we had seamanship class and learned how to moor lines. Then we took the final and we all averaged a 92% so we got the seamanship pennant! We also had a contest to see who is the best seaman. It was a mix between tying knots the fastest, mooring lines, and labeling two charts with different types of lines on them the fastest. When we got through with that, we had our tropical blue long uniform inspection and our close order drill test. We did awesome on both. We passed the uniform inspection (which is either pass or fail) and we got a ten on the close order drill test! Then we had drill practice and apparently the rest of Zulu completely trashed alpha's squad bay while they watched! I have no idea why they did but the drill team was pretty upset that they missed out on all the fun! We still have to earn our off base liberty with general knowledge tests so that’s what we're working on now.
13 Oct
Today the active duty people who were stationed at small boat stations or patrol boats got to go off base to the live range and get marksmanship qualified. It was at the police academy. Only a few of us qualified since we weren't used to shooting a real gun. But two of the females shot at sharpshooter level! Nobody got expert. We had our squad bay inspection today too and we got a 52! The highest score is 55 so we did awesome! We were so worried about it.
14 Oct
Today Zulu had a class on the work-life program and a class on sexually transmitted diseases. That one was awkward but hilarious at the same time. The rest of the day we did administrative things and made phone calls to our units to get ready for out report dates. Zulu is pretty much ready to graduate. Our final is tomorrow and we have seven days left! We can't wait!
15 Oct
Today we took the final. Everyone passed except two people but they'll retake it tomorrow and hopefully pass. We also turned our pieces in and the females got to talk with Senior Chief Martinowski and ask her a bunch of questions. We got to see another side of her which was really cool since everyone on the regiment is scared to death of her. Then we ran the confidence course again and everyone did way better than last time! Tomorrow we have our off base liberty! Everyone is so excited! Hopefully nobody does anything stupid and gets reverted all the way back to week one. We'll see what happens.
16 Oct
Wow. Today was the best day ever! It was so nice to get out on the town and just relax with our shipmates. First everyone went to Wal-Mart to get the 20 dollar prepaid phones and then we all went to Starbucks to charge them, call up our families and sip on a bunch of pumpkin spice lattes. Our group pretty much chilled for a couple hours there and then went to downtown Cape May to walk around the shops and check out the good places to eat. We ended up having pizza on the beach at Blue Moon, ice cream at Uncle Charlie's, and dinner at Carney's. We talked on our phones the whole time and the day went by way too fast!
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