Brigade Run
In honor of the Army's birthday, our brigade performed a brigade run. Basically we got into 3 columns in our subordinate units, and all 4,000 or so of us ran. Slowly.
Now you may be wondering, "Wow 4000 soldiers sounds like a logistical nightmare." And you'd be right. My unit had a formation at 0615 and we didn't start running until 0800. Yes, it took an hour and 45 minutes to start running on a 40 minute run. To be fair, there was a speech and the band played some music, and they cut some birthday cake for the Army. Cake that maybe the handful people who work at Brigade HQ might get a chance to eat.
Someone also thought it would be a good idea to spray a firehose onto our run trail and make the entire brigade run through it. I really hope my only pair of running shoes will dry out before PT tomorrow.
At least I got the rest of the morning off.
Now you may be wondering, "Wow 4000 soldiers sounds like a logistical nightmare." And you'd be right. My unit had a formation at 0615 and we didn't start running until 0800. Yes, it took an hour and 45 minutes to start running on a 40 minute run. To be fair, there was a speech and the band played some music, and they cut some birthday cake for the Army. Cake that maybe the handful people who work at Brigade HQ might get a chance to eat.
Someone also thought it would be a good idea to spray a firehose onto our run trail and make the entire brigade run through it. I really hope my only pair of running shoes will dry out before PT tomorrow.
At least I got the rest of the morning off.
Our brigade runs always started at normal PT time, but we'd have a battalion formation 30 minutes prior and a company formation 30 minutes prior to that. So in all, we'd end up coming in around 5 in the morning to start the run right after the flag went off at 0630.
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December 28, 2011 7:57 PM