On Training and Learning and Dichotomies.

So I've been training for just over a year at this point. While a year of college, or high school is not a tremendous amount of time, when it's a 24/7 sort of a thing(or has the potential to be such) and you're learning the same stuff all day every day it's a lot more significant chunk of time. So what I'm saying is that- I've been here for a while. I started this blog before I even left Utah, and now a year has gone by and all I've had to say is 'bring a knife everywhere'. So I've probably learned a lot more than that, you're thinking. Well the truth of the matter is that I have. But there's learning skills and information about my job and then there's learning truths about life. Like 42 versus 5-25 and 550/800/3600. That was probably a bad comparison, but any chance to reference Douglas Adams shouldn't be passed up. I suppose that the point of this post is to say- 'yes, this blog still exists in my mind- I'm just hesitant to declare some life lessons until I've left the artificial environment of Training and Doctrine Command.' So there you go. That's that.

Rules

The first rule of being an Infantryman is:
Never leave home without at least one knife