scoutpilot
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Most excited: The opportunity to do brutal stuff like low crawl through barbed wire, shoot weapons such as an AT-4 , gas chamber, and grenades. Excited about the opportunity to meet my new classmates and get to forge new bonds and friendships among a large and diverse group of people (I've gone to the same small school with a class size of about 100 since 1st grade ). And most of all, I'm excited about the opportunity to be apart of our nation's military. I think it will be a sweet moment when I get to see my acu's with my name next to US Army. I get pumped just thinking about it.
Most nervous: Physically, I am worried most about ruck marches. My runs are going great (although this last week of not working out might have some negative repurcussions ), but I have done some practice rucking at the required pace and even short ones have seemed tough. The concept of making 15 miles is the most daunting part of beast to me right now. Also my pushups could be better than they are now, although I have done many practice apfts and I'm not worried at all about failing I just think I would be able to do much better with just a little more work. Also, I think just as I am excited to be moving on to an awesome new phase of my life, I think that there is definitely uncertainty about it, which is for sure induces nervousness.
Rucking is an art form. You will learn to vary your gait and walk with different muscles over the course of a long march to give other muscles a rest. It's something you just get used to to doing. You'll swing your legs from the hips sometimes, take long strides and other times, etc. Mostly, it just takes practice. Put the ruck on an go. And go. And go. Eventually, you learn to turn your brain off for the most part and just keep on moving. You'll get there.
Hopefully you'll get to fire a live AT-4 round and not the sub-caliber. I can't remember, myself. We shoot the Carl G and it's pretty similar. If you do fire it, don't anticipate a recoil or you'll fire a worm-burner.