on yesterday and today's training........

(that subtitle is outinTallly style, if you're out there bud)

anyway, about yesterday, long day.

on base by 7am and bussed to medical on base. receive questioning and then blood drawn for dna profile, then eye test, and dental, next more questioning, and given 6 month supply of anti malaria meds to take daily, then given a small pox immunization in one arm, and anthrax immunization in the other, and then sent downtown to a clinic for physical, measles/mumps/polio shot, flumist shot, Hep a/b shot, and then a shot for the TB test. also they drew more blood again for a blood type test.

today went LONG, to begin with my alarm didn't go off so I wasn't downstairs at 5:30 to leave, so a co worker was knocking on my door at 5:44 . dam it all! so i grabbed my clothes and a box of cereal and bottle of juice and ran out to the van... but the day got better.
a long day of what they called "death by powerpoint". but I found all the training very interesting all day. serious. classes and presentations included;
unidentified explosive devices..what to do, how not to approach or touch etc...
IUD's , anything can be an iud, and what to look for and land mine signs etc...
sexual assault, no means no etc....
mistreatment of prisoners..... etc all about army values and how the people who mistreated at abu grade are criminals and why....
I can now give immediate first aid to a head injury, open chest wound, and abdominal wounds including if something is hanging out. also learned about bandaging a wound, the head, and applying a tournequet and marking the victim with a T and the time it was applied.

long day, a bit more tomorrow, getting my TB test read, and getting our final checkout.