 So now that we're going into week four with Division two to nine and the division as a whole is just starting to work together a lot better. The standard is set and they have to do what they can do to reach the standard and that's helping bring them together as a team. They say that basic training doesn't get better, you get better. I think that's definitely true. When we first pick the division up we can barely get them to stand still and just left the right face. But now coming to week four training they've been marching everywhere, every single day together since the first day we got them. Our progression it's been really cool seeing it and just looking back on our P-Day days and the first day that we tried to start marching and how horrible it looked. And it's kind of like the progression just happened right before our eyes. The transition is night and day. Every time Cadence comes on I'm always in the back screaming and you can hear my voice all the way in the front. The division has come a long way physically but they still have a long way to go. Here at Recruit Training Command we have physical fitness training six days a week. So about three days a week we do some in-house physical fitness activities. Which are a lot of additional jumping jacks, running climbs, different exercises that we can do right here in a small space to get the recruits in better shape. And then four days a week we go over to Freedom Hall where they get to run. So it's all a building block to get them up to the standard that the Navy wants them to be at prior to leaving Recruit Training Command. Yeah I've seen my waistline go down which is awesome. Fitness is going well you know it also helps that we've been put on our faces every day. So I try to think about that when we have to do our little flow kicks and to encounter core builders. So it has certainly improved PZ for sure. From my perspective I do think we are good friends chief. In a professional standpoint yes chief. Professional. Explain to me what professionalism is when you're going out of your way to talk to each other. You're talking to each other in inappropriate places. You're talking to each other when you should not be. So you tell me about professionalism. You better fix your military band right now. I'm sorry chief. Shut up! Alright chief. Here's the point. Conversations. Send me a hand. Good friends. Not in my boot camp. Everything that you guys are doing is against good order and discipline. I'm going to ensure that whatever relationship you're trying to have here in Brooklyn. Whether it's just good friends, social buddies or whatever you're working. I'm going to make sure that it doesn't happen here. Do the workout correctly. Get off the bed! One, two, three. One, two, three. Marlin Spike is a huge team evolution. Get up here! Move, move, move! So if a division feels that they operate as a team, they get to Marlin Spike and they find out exactly what real team work is. Learning how to tie a knot and cast off the line and actually tie down the ship I felt like was more practical. Everybody has to be able to get the ship underway. So when it comes down to line handling, when it comes down to that Marlin Spike evolution, they got to work together. Life before Marlin Spike and life after Marlin Spike was night and day. Let's go! We got this! Let's go! So that was really hard but I felt like it made us, it forced us to work together. Every single sailor is a firefighter. Damage control training is extremely important. Everybody has to know it. If they don't have the proper training, then you lose the ship and that's one of the damage control techniques you do not give up the ship. You don't really think about all the things that can happen while you're in the middle of the ocean. You know, your ship going down or being attacked and really all you have is each other and the skills that you learn. Yes, I am. I'm really confident that something was wrong. For example, the conference chamber. This will be the best work day in boot camp. Who y'all? Who y'all? I want everybody to repeat after me. Embrace the suck. Embrace the suck. You would think, okay, so it's this mass that's really going to cover me and keep me alive. It's called confidence chamber for a reason. It gives you the confidence on the equipment of the Navy. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. I think on a scale of one to ten, I would have given it like a five. It burns? Oh, it still burns. Like right under my nose, it burns. But I think we sliced it a little bit more than we needed to. I just cried a lot. My eyes were watering, they're still watering. I really didn't call for it. It wasn't that bad as it said it was. You know what? Y'all got confidence in that gear? Yeah! That's what I'm talking about. Y'all see this? That means it's a good day. Good day to be in the Navy. Who y'all Navy? I do believe that they're doing a lot better job getting these recruits a basic knowledge of what they're going to be expected to do once they get out to the fleet. I know when I came to Bootcamp nine years ago, we had a three or four day course on firefighting and then two days on line handling. And now the recruits are getting it every single week once they hit week four until the week they graduate. And I think that will help prepare sailors for the fleet a lot better. One of the primary things that we all do as instructors is we give these recruits the experience, the real life experience. First of all, handling this weapon in an environment that's close to reality. It's not quiet. It's not passive. It's going to take a few years to survive in an environment like this. So that's pretty much what we do. Get a good breath of strength. Point at the target like you mean it. Prepare for the weapon spirit. I didn't miss my target, which was great. So I think I did alright. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed shooting weapons. Since the P-Days to now, they're completely different recruits. Every time we walk past Pearl Harbor, which is where P-Days was, we kind of see through the window the people and their PT and their sweat seats and we're like, man, that was us only a few weeks ago. And that was us looking out the window at some of our senior divs and we're like, man, I wish I was there and they're marching and they have on their uniforms and their flags and that's so cool and we just got here three days ago. They understand that they have to work together as a team. They understand that no one can make it through boot camp completely by themselves. That's the biggest thing and the thing that makes you the most proud as an RDC is when you see them work together as a team, understand each other's weaknesses and really just come together.