Hey bro's!

[Reinheart]

Hey bro's! We got 3 days off so here i am. I hope everything's going good for you guys. As most of you know, the army took me and i have selected to join the special forces and become an airborne commando.

My impressions so far are both good and bad. Training is really hard and intense and they make you be tensed up all the time. Walking is not allowed, we have to run, no matter where we have to go or what to do, saying no is not an option, saying you're tired, well you just fucked things up because you will have to do push ups and ab work until robocop gets rusty (as they say, which means that you won't stop unless the officer tells you so).

They wake us up at 6.00 in the morning and we go to bed at 10.30. As soon as we wake up, we have like 10-15 minutes tops to shave, brush our teeth, get dressed and be out all lined up for the morning report and to clean up the camp.

After that we usually run around 5km which is 3 miles and then we do hundreds of push ups (divided in sets of 50 reps) and as many pull ups as we can plus a lot more exercises and other stuff. The morning workout lasts around an hour and a lalf and then we have breakfast at around 8.15.

Until 1.30 which is when we give the noon report, we continue with weapon training and the so called "battle race-ground". We do 2 small marches every month (17.4 miles) and a long one (around 62 miles) every two months fully equiped. We usually do them at night so it's much easier because it's not that hot and we last longer.

The water at the showers is always cold and the food is little and usually bad and we mostly feel tired, hungry and thirsty. Of course we have plenty of free time to do anything we like. It's from 2-5 in the noon and from 8.30 to 10.15 in the night.

I'm going to post some photos the next time. One more thing, the worse part is that they usually wake us up with screams, kicking our beds and with loud whistles. Once they even threw a smoke grenade in the chamber and started shooting (with bang rounds, those that don't have any projectile, they just do the bang) to see how many of us were ready in case something went wrong and the enemy was close or even in the camp.

We also have to make our beds so perfect that there won't be any notable imbalances and so tensed that if they throw a plastic pen it has to bounce on the blanket. Crazy people, crazy stuff.

Physique wise, i have lost around 15 pounds (both fat and water) and my legs are notably smaller. Chest, back, tri's and bi's are still at a good point because of the push ups and the pull ups. Same for the abs.

That's all for now. Pretty big post. Anyways, i miss you all guys!

Be safe and have fun!!! Talk to ya again at the 20th of June. Today was our last day out.

[jasthace]

Don't worry about all that pussy shit
Have you let of any Grenades yet
Rocket launches??

Whats for breakfast

ha ha keep cool bro

ps is this your three month basic training?

[LifeSize]

glad to see you bro, glad you're having fun..

[Reinheart]

Originally Posted by jasthace

Don't worry about all that pussy shit
Have you let of any Grenades yet
Rocket launches??

Whats for breakfast

ha ha keep cool bro

ps is this your three month basic training?

Imagine that we were around 110 men and only 32 passed selection. The rest of the guys went to other units because they couldn't stand the whole thing. Sorry ass pussies. We haven't used any grenades yet or launched any rockets but we practice with our M16's.

For breakfast we have bread, butter, fruit jam or honey and coffe or tea or milk.

The basic training here lasts only 6 weeks bro since the whole army thing lasts one year for the reserve troops.

[Reinheart]

Originally Posted by LifeSize

glad to see you bro, glad you're having fun..

Yeah, same here. It gets even better day by day.

[HDH]

Sounds like your doing pretty good. I'm sure the physical part is easier on you than some of the others.It must suck to watch your weight go down but I'm sure that your cutting up nice. This will always be something you can look back on and be proud of.

HDH

[Reinheart]

Originally Posted by HDH

Sounds like your doing pretty good. I'm sure the physical part is easier on you than some of the others.It must suck to watch your weight go down but I'm sure that your cutting up nice. This will always be something you can look back on and be proud of.

HDH

Indeed. The physical part is a lot easier to me. The only thing that gets me tired after a point is running. I always prefered swimming instead of running because it doesn't aggravate the joints and to be honest, i never really liked doing cardio besides what's necessary for kick boxing.

I'm cutting up nicely but the thing is that our protein intake isn't sufficient for metabolic tissue maintenance. I will manage to take some bcaa's and a good multivitamin with me tonight and maybe zma.

I am already proud to have been accepted and the ladies seem to like it as well!
Agreed with your last sentence!!!

[dennis]

Great job Rein..keep it up bro..make us proud !!!!

[BILLYGRINGO]

Rein....play the game it is all a game geared at making you all see things on the same level, I did 6 years as an airborne ranger here in the states, i saw some action in Panama,Saudi, Kuwait, and Somalia.

Best times i ever had, Once you complete your basic training it will get a bit easier, but could get harder if your going AIRBORNE..

Good luck be safe

[Reinheart]

Day off bro's. I am going to spent the day at the beach because tommorow nasty training begins again. We are about to take our green berets (or however it's spelled) and things are getting a lot harder. Monday to Friday we have to run, nearly at full speed around 8-10km (5-6 miles).

Airborne rainger huh? The elite of the US army, right? How did you manage to get sane out of there bro? Things are going to get a lot harder for us going airborne after the basic training is over. At least we're going to get paid a good amount.