Narmy Strong!

We left NIACT and South Carolina behind today and arrived at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Virginia.  The last couple days at NIACT we actually pretty cool.  We'd finally grown pretty accustomed to wearing the body armor and we were very fortunate to only have one day of weather in the upper 80s.  Our drill sergeants repeatedly told us on those last two days that we were the best group they'd seen go through NIACT because we all got along and did what we were supposed to without complaint.  I assure you, we complained about things among ourselves (a complaining sailor is a happy sailor) but nothing important enough for others to hear.

Those last few days we practiced quick reaction shooting, went through another simulator with a shoot or no shoot scenario, ran through an obstacle course where we fired both the M4 and M9 from multiple positions, and learned and practiced a room clearing technique.  Our last day we rode HMMWVs (Humvees) and MRAPs through a humanitarian mission convoy scenario where we had to put some of our previous training into practice.  This training has nothing to do with anything that I expect to be doing in Djibouti and I don't really think I should have had to go through it, but I'm glad to have done it.