So I am in the middle of finishing up some final steps in preparations for drill tomorrow aka battle assembly. Honestly I am nervous about the APFT tomorrow morning because my doctor had me on rest from running for like a month and half while we awaited approval of my MRI that I took a little while back. Since my results came back with no major issues, apart form needing to do some special stretches and exercises regularly, I have been slowly getting back into the habit of running to re-condition my body. I have to admit that it's been difficult this time around because May and June is the busiest time of year for Broward teachers, as were finishing up the school year with a seemingly endless list of things to complete before summer vacation. So no, the APFT won't count against me or anything like that, but it just really bothers my ego that I have been set back so far in my Future Soldier Training. My pushups and situps have plateaued where they were last time--I'm still squeezing out the minimum counts for passing.
Anyway I will remain positive and do my best as after all I am hearing more and more often that a lot of the challenge to being a soldier is getting out of your own head and just giving it your all. Make sense? And besides, I am still a civilian and not a soldier. Speaking of...
Current Enlistment Status:
Here is the news about my reserve enlistment, and my switch-over process to active duty. It has been an excruciatingly slow process that I have been recently informed will take months just for my packet to be reviewed. Furthermore, I was given word from the brigade level that the likelihood of approval without having any training or at least having started basic training is slim-to-none. The Plan:
So the next plan of action is to do a (fill in new acronym that I don't know) that basically allows me to ship off to basic training earlier than my contract stipulates, meanwhile a course of action will be taken to send me to active duty.
All of this was discussed and explained to me by the active duty recruiter two days ago, who told me he'd get back to me on this. There has been no feedback as of yet. I'll see what news I next week...HOPEFULLY next week. More importantly, I hope it's good news!
So that's the update. Otherwise, I'm still schedule to report to back to MEPS as an 88N (Transportation Management Coordinator) on 2010 Aug 4 for basic combat training.
As an aside, I have to get out of the Reserve Army and into Active Duty. I'm at half-time or unemployed next year, while the former is indeed favorable, it still leaves me in very dire financial straits that I won't have time to deal with until I get back from BCT and AIT. I can't hang my livelihood on a gamble.
God I need a miracle!
