15 more days. I didn't go on
sick call. I made the 2-mile
run at PT but my leg tightened
up severely and my knee is fucked.
Leg loosened up during day. I hope
it holds for PT diagnostic
test tomorrow. Relatively
easy day. Details for all.
Picked up trash and mowed grass.
Later we were threatened--
clean all including lockers--or dog (?).
To sleep by 10:00. Will be
up to later than 3:30 a.m.
Letter from [fiance] today.
Good to hear from her. I wish
I could call her.
I do recall that PT run. Man, did it hurt. My leg loosened up as we ran but after my muscles just locked up. when we had to run after that for short distances, I limped at a run. Which is probably what was screwing up my knee. Before we had the real PT test, we'd have a practice one so the drill sergeants would have one last chance to see if they needed to motivate somebody.
The chores weren't that rough. It was like socialism in action. That was my experience with duty days while in the military. A sergeant would be given the job of getting certain tasks done. If we did it relatively quickly, the sergeant would have time off that he didn't need to use to supervise us. So we'd then be dumped somewhere to wait until our allocated time to do the tasks was over.
OK, for whatever reason our drill sergeants saw the need to threaten us to work harder on cleaning up. I'm not sure why. And for the first time, I'm unsure of a word in my journal. The context makes it seem like I said "dog" as in they'd dog us--drop us and work us silly, in other words. But the form I wrote doesn't work grammatically. But no other likely three-letter word makes sense. The only other word that might work is "day" but that makes no sense.
I will say that although I was very happy to have contact with my fiance--I was madly in love, after all--I sometimes wonder if I didn't write this stuff because I assumed she'd read my journal. I know I left out things in case the drill sergeants read it and counted on my memory to fill in the blanks. Keeping the peace at home would not be out of bounds by mentioning her frequently. Funny enough, she never did want to read it.
