Hello again guys, how have you been? Any new GTA videos you'd like to shout out? Anything I should know regarding GTA V stunting?
Last three weeks haven't been exactly the easiest. Weeks 40 and 41 I was camping from Tuesday to Thursday both weeks. The camps were one of those where you have an ongoing state of war for straight 48 hours including the evening and night, meaning that you gotta keep the fighting gear on all the time. We put the "moving readiness state" into practice and kept training it every morning around 5.30 AM, so instead of a usual wake-up call we had to be ready to move into next location within a given time. Basically in 15 minutes you need to wake up and put your sleeping mattress and the sleeping bag together, throw the pipe of the stove out of the hole from the top of the tent (take a look at the picture I'll include) and put the stove together by placing the barrel pieces inside the actual stove, then dissolve the tent by first taking the eight stakes from the ground and then the eight poles that keep the tent up, then the center pole that keeps the center of the tent above the sides and then fold the actual tent and the groundsheet that is left in the ground after taking everything else out. Then you put your backpack on and the squad carries all the tent material to the equipment truck that is located somewhere around 100-300 meters from the tents of a platoon. There you count the stuff and then place it to the truck and then each men goes to their MT-LB and the platoon is ready to move. Each platoon (for example Alpha) has four squads which means there are four tents and logically you would think that the equipment truck is located so that everyone has approximately the same distance to carry the stuff but it wasn't like that at all, our squad had the most distance to go pretty much every morning which sucked a lot. My job every morning so far has been carrying the stove which is pretty easy to be honest. It's a lot to do for 15 minutes but the Alpha has been pretty successful with it, the times from the call to every squad sitting in their MT-LB have been varying from 10 to 20 minutes.
During the first three day camp (week 40), Tuesday October 1st I got a call from my dad that my grandmother had passed away during that day. I was guarding my squad as they set up the tent which is basically sitting tight 100 meters away from the tent location and I took my phone first time that day to see a "Call when you can" message from my mother which is something she never sends and I could guess what had happened before I even called my mother. To be honest I don't know why I didn't abort the camp as you can do that in such case but I kept going and by now I don't even remember what the fuck we did during those three days, camping sucks hard but after the bad news I kinda went to that level where it sucks so much that you stop giving a shit and go to that empty state like a human standby mode or something... I guess you know what I'm talking about.
Week 41 I was still pretty much rapt into my thoughts but the three day camp was alright at times, we had the simulation vests on and went to a war in a company scale, got a few good takes against guys from the Tank Company and had some fun for an hour or two out of the 48 hour camp. Should have written about these camps last weekend since I don't remember much of them anymore, I remember being in a group of two squads of Alpha that took a twist to the side of our enemy and surprised them and killed them all and then noticing that a few of them were old room mates of mine from the rookie season. We all had big smiles on our faces and they gave me some more training bullets of theirs as we continued the battle and they had to take their headpieces off for a sign of being death thus not needing the bullets anymore for a while.
Last Saturday we had the funeral of my grandmother. I was carrying the coffin with my older brother, father and his brother and my two cousins.
This week we had a four day week at the barracks, from Monday to Thursday we were training to go battle in a constructed area and Friday was a holiday meaning that we left Thursday for a three day weekend. The week was pretty cool, it's basically the SWAT stuff that you see at movies.
Taking over a house and wiping out the enemy from it and such... A relaxing week. Not camping equals relaxation in an Armour Jaeger Company.
I'll include pictures of the tent... Oh, forgot to mention that the tents were knee high. Take a look at the picture in case you didn't get the explanation of how it's taken apart, you'll see pretty much every part of it there. Damn it I need to go in a minute, I guess the rest of the pictures need no explanations, just some random camping pictures and a few from the barracks.
Take care my friends! Feel free to ask anything. 61 days left in the service, exactly in two months I'll be getting home! See you soon, brb I'll be camping next week from Monday to Friday...
