So this week we had exam 3. Having to retake exam 2 was rough because I had to study for that all week and not prepare at all for exam 3. After passing the second exam, I felt pretty good and got right to studying for exam 3 for two days. I must say that last week was the most stressful week of my life. I can't even describe it to you because you wouldn't understand. But I did prevail over the exam. Which is a great feeling. I came into exam 3 pretty terrified, since I no longer have a retake to fall back on. Luckily I got out of it with an 83%. Passing two exams of this caliber, within 2 days of each other felt really good. We also had our Basic Tactics (SWAT) exam on the Monday before exam 3, which I did really well on so I actually passed 3 exams in 3 days.
This week was really long. We had the two exams on Monday and Tuesday, then we started basically a two day hell. We did 29 hours of Combat training in two days. Started with weapon retention and take-downs on Tuesday. How to frisk people and how to assess threats was also on Tuesday. Wednesday was the longest day, going till 10:30pm and starting at 7:45am. We did ground defense, judo, punching, kicking, gun retention, knife defense and assessment, basically everything with how to take a weapon from someone or how to dominate someone. I have never sweat so much in my life. We have a mat room which is about a 1/3 the size of a basketball court, with 8 foot ceilings and they won't open a door or anything for air movement. We raised the thermostat from 65 to 82 yesterday. 25 people doing all the stuff we had to do there was no way we wouldn't sweat. Also we were only allowed to take a sip of water every two hours, so we are all dehydrated now haha. We got to use partners and hit them while they held a pad to their chest. I quickly chose our class Sargent as my partner. He is an ex-marine and he is the one who pranked me by poking a hole in the top of my energy drink so that when I went to take a sip, it spilled on me. I told people I'd get him back. So for two days, I got to just rock his world with punches, heel palms strikes, kicks, hammers, or anything else I wanted to use on him. He kept having to put the bag down and take a break. I was destroying him. Best stress reliever in the world in my mind. My favorite exercise was high knee kicks to the chest. He held the bag to his chest, bent over, while I was told to grab the neck and arm and throw knees to the chest all the way down the room and back. He weighs 195 and every time I threw a knee, he came off the ground. I got to do this for an entire lap of the room. It felt so good. It was sad though that no one else wanted to be my partner for the exercises bahahahaha.
Today some people got together for some Chinese. Sargent showed up and said he has never been so sore. haha. Payback is nice. I'm nice to him now, he just knows not to mess with me.
Since we did so much the last two days they gave us today off. So tomorrow all I have to do is some firearms lecture and then I'm free for my 3 day weekend. I can't wait to relax to the max all weekend. Maybe do some hiking or something. I can't believe February is almost over. Although it's been a long month, it feels like a big week or something.
I'm hoping my body holds together long enough to make it though the rest of the time. My ankle still really bothers me, and I hyper extended my knee while doing Mule Kicks on Wednesday. Although I'm in decent shape, it doesn't make me invincible. I don't know how some people are still here, physically. Oh, well.
The next weeks are pretty firearm heavy and some driving will start soon. So some more fun to come!!
Still surviving,
Zach
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