Friday, September 30, 2016

First 'real" Tyler Update

We got our first, in Tyler's words, decent letter from him Monday! :) It was actually out third letter from him but it sounds like he's been so busy that he hasn't had time to write much.
Here are some more details about what is going on at OCS: 
The stress is manufactured and the situations are challenging. 
Training is intense. 
He feels he's definitely getting stronger physically but that's not the hard part for him. 
The room he shares is called a hatch and his roommate is his hatch mate. His hatch mate is a good guy and so are the guys in the adjacent hatch. 
The exercises are a bit stressful as there's an element of planned confusion that makes it hard to absorb the information given and execute the commands given. 
They eat three times a day but right now they are not allowed to talk during meals.
He says that to most people the activities that they are doing seem to be pretty trivial but that the military turns trivial things into rocket science for training purposes so you can pay better attention to detail, deal with stress, make quick decisions and things like that. 
On the mailing address for Tyler there is an I/C before his name which apparently stands for indoctrination candidate. 

More details as we get them!

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