I was instructed to practice and have The Soldier's Creed memorized by the next Future Soldier Training day. So I set my camera up and practiced with it recording. 

 

I spent the better portion of Wednesday morning through the afternoon visitin my unit, getting my pay paperwork taken care of, got my schedule for doing drills with my unit, starting April 11. Had the great fortune of learning that I may be able to reclassify to Military Police prior to basic training--which would be SO AWESOME! I'm so hyped and hope that this really works out! Finally, I went to the park and ran three quarters of a mile, and next week I plan to run one complete mile. 

Onward, ever upward. Forward, never backward! 

Go David Strong! HOOAH!!

Yesterday afternoon I shot a video for the second episode of Go David Strong and it took me an hour and a half because of my brain hiccups, loud vehicles passing by and my family interrupting.

I ended doing 106 takes total, just so that I could get at least four good takes of me saying The Soldier's Creed without any cuts. I only got three uninterrupted takes of the entire recitation before I lost good daylight from outside.

Now I am sorting out the good takes from the undesirable one's in Final Cut at the moment. Then once I have a good edit, I'll export it to After Affects to fix some things, color and what not. I'll bring it back into my Final Cut project and add final edits, such as titles, credits, music and sounds.

I'm sharing so that you have an inside peek at my editing process with episodes. I don't, however, do all this for vlogs. I just cut out as many "ums" and awkward pauses without compromising the message. I add titles and then I'm done.

All I can say is wowza! This episode will take a while.

So I was supposed to have a meetup with some other guys and my recruiter for Future Soldier Training (FTS) but he texted me and said that we couldn't meet. So that left me to have to motivate myself to get up and take care of what I know still needs to be done on my own.

I have to boost myself--have that intrinsic motivation to get my butt in gear. My voice teacher used to put it this way, he'd say, "Apply the board of knowledge to the seat of education.". In other words, get my butt moving!!!! Waiting on a teacher to get me going isn't really wise.

So yesterday I didn't go run like I intended even though he canceled our meetup and to make up for it my friend Taneshina and I went for a run this morning. FYI: Taneshina is a west point cadet in incredible shape, with great strength--enough to put me to shame. Like she's pumped!! LOL!

The bottom line is I will be pushing myself to exceed the minimum standards of the initial PT assessment during the first week of BCT.