Michael Dunn's Blog

Last couple days have been pretty fun.  Yesterday we had convoy live fire.  That’s where we got broken up into groups of three, get in a hummer, go flying through the woods down a narrow road, jump out of the hummer, engage targets with your M16, get attacked by a simulated artillery strike, jump back in the hummers and drive back to the “base”.  It was a blast.  It was my first time inside a military hummer.  Those things are beasts.  We were flying down these narrow dirt roads hitting pot holes, power sliding in the rocks, going through mud, the whole experience.  We traveled in a convoy of about 8 other hummers so when you jumped out to fire there are over 20 other rifles going off.  It was a pretty realistic simulation of responding to an attack.  I loved it.  Today we did combatives.  It was fun but all pretty basic.  Most of the stuff I already knew from when I did BJJ in high school.  I got to roll with a few guys and didn’t get submitted the whole time.  Actually, I was never really in danger at all the whole time so I guess I retained some stuff from all that training in high school.  It actually made me want to start doing it again when I get back home.  That really sums up the last couple of days.  Tomorrow and Sunday we will be getting ready for FTX which is all next week.  That’s where we go out to the field, sleep outside, get tested and run exercises on all the stuff we have learned, and all that good stuff.  It’s supposed to be quite the challenge.  I’m ready to go and get it over with.  I found out tonight that I am going to be a team leader during the FTX.  That should be interesting.  It might be a while until ya’ll hear from me again.  I’m sure I will have a lot to say when I get back next week.  Write again then.  Later guys.