As if the med school acronyms weren't enough, I now get to deal with all the military ones. There might even be more military acronyms than med school ones.
So obviously I've been slacking the med school blogging...suffice it to say that I finished first year and I was very happy with my grades and wahoo wahoo finally done.
Anyway.
On Sunday I'll be heading to Montgomery, Alabama, to Maxwell Air Force Base to go through 4 weeks of Commissioned Officer Training. Did I mention that it's going to be 100000 degrees and 99% humidity like the entire time? This is made worse only by the fact that I will be wearing long pants, combat boots, and a long-sleeved "blouse" ( = camo jacket) the entire time.
COT a lot of classroom stuff, where they teach us about the Air Force, a lot of leadership training, working in teams, problem solving, obstacle courses, sort of stuff, learning how to march and parade, and some PT (physical training).
If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of this page http://www.afoats.af.mil/OTS/COT-RCOT/admin_items.asp
then you can see what a typical day's schedule looks like.
I'm going to try to blog through the whole thing, but as you can see we are up rather early in the morning and not so early to sleep as to make up for the 4:30 wakeup time. So I'll do my best but no guarantees.
I'm excited to finally start this Air Force journey and finally go and get a clue what on earth I'm doing!
I've already connected with several people who will be in my class, and it looks like it's going to be a fun group!
So right now I have printed out a million copies of all the paperwork an documentation I'll need, bought and had altered (about $200 worth of alterations...that's how short I am!) lots of uniform, obsessively read blogs and official documents about COT and the AF, memorized some random creeds/songs/lists of words, so hopefully I'm as ready as I can be. No matter what I do It'll be a culture-shock experience I'm sure. But I'm ready!
