BCT Day 4 (28th)

First off, here are a few pictures of Nathan from Sunday:

Eating a meal at Mitchell hall (sorry this one is a little blurry!)
Studying his handbook while waiting for some big briefing. Nathan is on the very right edge, just above the two basics with glowing belts. These handbooks include all sorts of trivia, quotes, facts, etc. that the basics need to be memorizing!

Yesterday, according to WebGuy, "The afternoon was similar to the morning where the basics particpated in the activities I described last night. On the whole, this is pretty low stress. They go in to a classroom or squadron assembly room, get a briefing from a cadre, faculty member, graduate, then they move to the next briefing." The briefings were about things such as "Rank and Chain of Command" and "Air Force History and Organization." Here is the schedule WebGuy posted for Monday, to give you an idea of what a day at BCT is like....

0430 Reveille
0445 - 0600 PT
0600 - 0700 Hygiene
0700 - 0800 Breakfast
0800 - 1200 Morning Activities
1200 - 1330 Lunch Formation and Meal
1330 - 1730 Afternoon Activities
1730 - 1830 Dinner
1830 - 1900 Transit
1900 - 2100 Surveys and Briefings
2100 - 2200 Hygiene
2200 TAPS

This is in military time, of course :) So the 2200 at the end is 10:00 pm in civilian time.

And here are the pictures we found of Nathan from yesterday:

Having to walk single file across campus to get to one of their briefings...I can't imagine how long that takes with over 1000 basics! Nathan is the third one in the above picture.

And here he is a little closer up. My mom reminded me of the word I was trying to think of yesterday: military bearing. Nathan always looks solemn in these pictures because he doesn't break his bearing when he is marching.