"Lead me, Sergeant, for there is no heart more loyal than that of a true American Soldier."
-Para. 1,Line 2; Soldier's Prayer
-Para. 1,Line 2; Soldier's Prayer
Part I: What Makes The Green Grass Grow?
Pugil training, the most brutal, violent, non-destructive training exercise we'd participated in since we started BCT. Pugil stick fighting is an event where soldiers bout in pairs, one against another with heavy padding, and large sticks with padded rounds on either end, very smilier to Q-tips worthy of Thor's ears. Today however, we wouldn't be using actual pugils, instead ...we'd use something a little more dangerous, something which was what the pugil training was for in the first place-- Bayonet-fitted M16s. We'd attach real life bayonets to our rifles, and parade around, brandishing the rifles in the organized manner of barbaric combat we'd come to know so well as strike-range combat, one of the three engagement ranges.
After being assembled on the drill pad, issued our Bayonets, and instructed on how to fit them to the rifles (simple process... so simple, a caveman can ...oh wait, wrong subject.), we where spread out, and given repeated lessons on the various strike "series" types and moves which we'd stand with our rifles up like Roman warriors, and re-iterate for hours until it was either burned into our brains, or our muscles burned like no other, at least. Me personally, I had no real problem with playing air warrior until my muscles could take no more, because I wanted to make sure I was going to beat whoever it was I was going to be fighting the next day until they couldn't stand, I just wasn't too sure that exact place of events was going to happen. Anyway, I still got my PT out of it, and I got to know the many strike maneuvers which I also knew I'd forget within the next couple of months.
...I just hope Thor doesn't own the next pugil I see. Not really sure why though.
~Ollie (Sayin)
