Kimm Johnson - Army Strong Stories

The Soldier's Creed, in my own words

Kimm Johnson — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:19:00 GMT

By: Kimm Johnson
Last Friday, my XO told us to memorize the Solider's Creed. When Monday rolled around, I had completely forgot. At PT that Monday morning, our whole battalion was asked to recite it together. Most of us mumbled through it. Since it was extremely obvious that maybe 15% of us actually knew it, one of the MS 4s said that if we didn't know it that we should fall out and do 20 push ups. Most of us fell out. We didn't have to, he probably wouldn't have called us out, but he called...read more

Field Training Exercise

Kimm Johnson — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:44:00 GMT

By: Kimm Johnson
So I have been in ROTC for aboout 6 weeks or so now. I am liking it. The workouts are fun. If you think they are not, that's because you probably played a more interesting sport than crosscountry in highschool. Typically we run up parking garages and do pushups or situps or circuits. I like that. Then sometimes we help out with tailgating before the football games. That isn't fun. One thing that I can't decide if I like or not is Field Training exercise. It was our first one...read more