6th week: End of my basic training

Finally, this is the last week which is most hard regarding to the exercice activities! This week we had have lot of inspections of higher grade people. They've checked if we have learned our stuff well. Happily we've all passed it :-).

I'm looking forward to see what's coming as next because our recruitment as a device mechanic starts. Stay tuned, more information come later on!

5th week: hospital time

Yes, already week number 5. I have to stand another week to pass the basic swiss army apprenticeship. On the monday and tuesday we didn't do a lot of interesting things but shooting, shooting and shooting again. After the military I'm sure I'll never ever touch such a weapon again :-). On the wednesday I had to go to the military doctor because I had some troubles with my feet. "Happily" they decided I have to go to the surgeon to cut away some parts of the toe because I had some blisters (which have grown wild :-( and thus my toe nail was growing to inside). Since wednesday I had have to stay at the hospital and believe me, it was boring like hell: You cannot do something else than laying on the bed the whole day... Today I have to go to the hospital again :-( See you next week!

4th week: Learning about the weapon!

This fourth week was not particular at all. We had to do some exercise, some shooting and some theory about cardiopulmonary resuscitation, other medical things. Besides we had to learn our weapon very well in details. We deconstructed the army weapon and constructed it again. Like they do it here:



This 20 times until everyone was able to do it in a acceptable time. After this procedure, we were bivouacing and did some night trainings like how to walk silence, how to hide things (like yourself) etc.

This entry was a bit short, sorry, but my free time is very very small. See you later!

The 3rd Week: Again shooting and the weekend sentry

Finally I'm back. As I've written I've had have to guard the army place the last weekend and that's why I could not update this blog at that time.

The third week has already begun and they forced us to run the obstacle course. We had to crawl, jump over and climb over some special obstacles and jump down some metres into a fosse and so forth. A lot of (hard) exercise-things.

After this we 've gone shooting again, but this time 300m at a shooting stand close to the army place. We had to eat our food in the army mess tin again.

This week I got the chance to go to the military hospital, finally. I had lot of problems with my feet because of abrasions and blisters. After showing my problem to the doctor he has given me a exclusion for exercises, marches and such things.

I was happy when it was weekend, but I was not that satisfied because they have disposed me to the weekend sentry. We were approx dozens people and we have to guard the army place in 2er groups 4 hours long. The whole weekend, even in the night! When the last group finished, the first group had to guard again until sunday evening again ;). When you have weekend sentry you've got plenty of time. I was able to read 3-4 books, watched 2-3 dvds and just phoned about hours with my girlfriend. Next time I will get my laptop to code the whole weekend ;-).