The Adventures of Polar Bear and Barbie: Adventure #201

Alright. Commissioned Officer Training. Or COT from now on. Time for pictures. Here is my dorm room.

My very first MRE. Yum. I am so excited because I haven't had the pleasure of dining on this excellent food in a bag yet.

Romeo Flight chowing down on MREs before Project X. Please note facial expressions. And yes. The clock in the background is at 05:00. Nothing like MREs for breakfast.

This lovely lady was my roommate. Captain Stephens. Showing off her sorority pose in her ABUs.

Post Project X. Captain Struthers was the only one to fall into murky bacteria infested water.

This picture is obviously staged, however this scene was a common occurrence. This is what happens when our day started at 04:30 and would last sixteen or more hours. We called this auditorium "The Coma Dome."

Here is Romeo Flight practicing our drill skills late in the evening. We had our pennant test at the end of the week and if we passed we could march to and from buildings by ourselves.

Yay! We passed our pennant test, barely. Here are our proud drill leaders, Lieutenants Sensing and Richardson.

The majority of our time was spent studying.

Which is how we earned Academic flight two weeks in a row. Along with Flight of the Week in the Griffin Squadron.

One morning we took buses to an open field for WELPS. Which was simply a team building exercise. In each exercise we were given a scenario, for example your helicopter has been shot down and you have to reach this area for evacuation. In order to reach the evacuation point we had to answer a multiple choice question and each answer had a different baring and pace number to find the next question. Lieutenant Seigfreid makes such a good assistant.