Navy Junior ROTC

Basic Summary of BTL

Day 1:

We arrive at Camp Natural Bridge. Everything is a mess, all you hear is people yelling all you see is people running around. We are organized into four platoons, I got placed into the 3rd Platoon "Third Herd". We get settled into our barracks and the Sergeants check for any electronics and other items we weren't supposed to have. At night we take shifts walking up and down the long hall of the barracks making sure there are no intruders or animals.

Day 2:

We wake before the sun via Sergeants storming into the barracks and blowing airhorns and megaphones into our ears. We go outside to do morning PT which consists of a lot of stretching, push-ups, curl-ups, etc. and finally a mile run around the huge ass gravel parking lot(spoiler alert I cant run bc asthma+binder= not enough air and I didn't get to take my inhaler beforehand). After that torture we head in the Chow Hall for breakfast. Afterwards we form back up outside and start the long hike through hilly gravel roads to the obstacle course. Because I have such great athletic skill and luck the first obstacle we do I end up hurting myself (It was literally just hold a rope get a running start and lift urself over a giant log, first try my shin went straight into the log and i had a limp and a giant bruise the rest of BLT). After the obstacle course we hike back to camp and because we suck Third Herd got to go to the beach(beach volleyball area near camp with sand). It was a form of punishment in which we got to shove our faces into sand, good stuff. Then we washed up I got send to the EMTs for an ice pack for my bruise and then we had lunch. After that I honestly have no idea what we did probably just a bunch of drill so imma skip to the next day.

Day 3:

In the morning we do the same kind of PT as yesterday after-which Master Sergeant asks if anyone wants to leave. Gonna be honest here I was considering it I mean it was a rough first two days but I stuck with it. We then went and did more obstacle/team building courses(this stuff was honestly fun). After dinner we all hung out and partied celebrating our graduation tomorrow. We each received out Jbars to put on our khaki uniforms for graduation tomorrow(also a raccoon got into the kitchen).

Day 4:

We got up nice and early as usual and enjoyed our morning PT. After breakfast we practiced for our graduation. We later graduated from BLT and went home with our families/on the bus back to school.

THE END

mixed in between all of that general stuff there was a lot of goofing around  just having a good time eating bomb ass food getting questioned by the EMTs why theres a different name on my meds and pissing in the woods (also throwing up from prunes)