Kurt Jones - Army Strong Stories

long time and a lot has gone bye

Kurt Jones — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:44:00 GMT

By: Kurt Jones
Well its been a long time since i wrote on hear but i finally have found some time to do it. well where do i beguine. First thing is i got promoted to PV2 and am on my way to getting my PFC rank. we been going out to the field a lot and its defiantly a lot of work. we been shooting most of the time out there whether it is at the gunnery tables or CQM. I even finally got to qualified with my M4 the first time i got to do that since basic. not a lot els is really going on when we are in our...read more

saturday CQ

Kurt Jones — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:18:44 GMT

By: Kurt Jones
Well I got to say the worst thing you can hear when it comes to pulling a 24 hour CQ is you pulling it Saturday. I woke up at 0945 and reported to the CQ desk and got ready to do nothing. I went out and picked up some trash on the ground and then went to chow. There realy is nothing worst than just sitting there all day watching your frends go out and have fun. Plus unlike CQ on the week days you don't get the next day off because you already had it off.as I.sat at the desk I would just check on...read more

I Joined to Serve America

Kurt Jones — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:49:00 GMT

By: Kurt Jones
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lots of class time

Kurt Jones — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:46:00 GMT

By: Kurt Jones
Well the past two weeks now have been kinda interesting. I have had a few classes I have had to go to. One of them was coIST training which was very interesting but going to the class was kinda boring. That's the only problem I have with it I just get bord easily and sitting in a class all day isn't good. I did that for about a week then i got a little brake from it until Wednesday when I got told to go to CLS class. I never thot I would have to do that agin since basic. Well all of...read more

back to the field

Kurt Jones — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:36:00 GMT

By: Kurt Jones
Well for the first time since iv been hear at Fort Drum I went out to the field with the rest of my company.it was a pretty good time we shot our M4s doing up down drills. I was real happy to go out to the range with my platoon I have had so many things to do to inproses that I never had a chance to go out there and get some training done. We woke up a little earlier than usual and got our humvees set up. We then drove to the range got out and instantly started to train. After we got done...read more

out of osut and with my unit

Kurt Jones — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:35:00 GMT

By: Kurt Jones
Well I have been out of osut for two weeks now and I'm with my unit hear at Fort Drum, New York. I was a little nervuse coming hear at first because I'm the new guy of the company but by day two I got used to everyone and was no longer nervuse about being hear. I like it hear a lot we pt at 7:00 then we meet back up at 9:00 then we work till 17:00. They got me in a hevy weapons unit so I am going to work a lot with the M240B machingun and MK19 and a lot of other big weapons. I got...read more