SWFEX

Today is SWFEX (swim-FEX). It is the day where we shoot squad automatic weapons and throw a grenade. We are also doing some night-time combat hunter class with night vision goggles. It is going to be a long day. Combat hunter is the Marine Corps new theology that Marines are 'hunters' and we seek out the bad guy. We use the same techniques as big game hunters to seek out and destroy the enemy. Things like scanning right to left to seek out anomolies from a normal baseline.

The best thing is the SWFEX range can only support 2 platoons at a time so the company is staggering over three days. Today is my day so its an early morning (0400) and very late night (2300). But tomorrow I get to sleep in until 0700 and the day ends at 1530. This is the first time that they've let the company stagger On Deck Time (the time your day starts) because normally if one platoon gets up early and stays late, we all do. I'm very excited for tomorrow. More on SWFEX later.