Date: November 14th 2007
Progress: 36 % (233/362 days left)
Rank: Officer Student
Situated at: 2nd Company, Infantry reserve officer training course, Reserve Officer School
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Long time no updates - about time to fix that. The reserve officer training course
has proggressed better than I had anticipated. My position as the general secretary
has offered me plenty of perks, which I've used to the maximum. No more cleaning,
locker checks, bed sheet checks (it's even dumber than it sounds), holiday checks,
no more stupid and meaningless tasks from 8 PM to 10 PM etc. The acronym "VMP" or
RFOS = "relieved from other service" has become very familiar to me.
Of course there's plenty of paper work and I spend most of my free time staring at
the government-provided monitor, filling excel-forms or typing official documents.
But again, the perks are obvious, I'm sitting behind my mahogany desk right now and
spending some of my spare time to let you guys know how I'm doing. Unlike in normal
Army service, I can do whatever I want once my tasks are done. It works like in real
life, it's almost amazing.
The people here are incredible. It's really the "cream of the nation", so to speak.
I've made plenty of new friends here and I've met really great personalities and
professionals from many, many areas and branches of all kinds imaginable. To mention
one group in particular, I must say that one of the most talented musicians I've ever
met are situated here with me. The amount of talent is almost visible in the air.
The motivation and working speed is amazing accordingly.
Leadership's tough, but I've managed to score well in my theoretical exams. Some of
the exams took more, some took less studying, but I've been getting so called "A's"
pretty much all the way. Marksmanship and sports were a bit trickier since the best
shooters and fastest runners are here as well. Marksmanship was OK, but I've got no
chance against these damn athletes. It was actually normal rather than special that
officer students ran over 3000 meters in Cooper's test. A handful ran over 3300!
My endless babbling probably gives most of you AD/HD-freaks a headache, so here's some
fine photography to enlighten your day. Finally. I've promised to show you photos in
every single diary entry, but this is the second time I'm actually posting any.
Enjoy.
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