Alrighty then.  Well Im done with indoc and headed up to Washington next week.  Final count...5 of the original 20 made it through training.  I just got back from the field yesterday and that was the toughest part for me.  In total I got 5 hrs of sleep in 4 days.  It was an experience.  

     The first day out in the field we drove down 4 hours south to the desert.  We were dropped off and immediately started hiking to out destination.  We were each given a topo map and told where we needed to go so we had to navigate our way there.  The navigation is alot of fun.  Anywho after 4 hours of hiking we finally made it to our camp site where we set up our tents.  The goal of the field portion of training is to simulate being a survivor.  We make tents out of parachutes, eat rabbit, get little to no sleep, drink nasty water, and just be busy all the time.  The first night was the roughest for me.  It was 100+ degrees on our hike and I drank 11 quarts  of water and I was still dehydrated.  I got to camp and could barely stand up.  After a couple hours ofs replenishing my fluids I was feeling alot better.  After, the first day we kept the same pace the entire time.  We were always to something.  The instructors would give us team projects.  The second night we all had to dig a giant hole in the ground.  The hole was 3 feet deep and 8 foot square.  It took 6 of us 7 hrs to dig that whole.  It was big enough to bury and elephant!  We were pretty proud of it.  The third day we did alittle solo navigation then went on to our last night by ourselves.  We were evaluated on all of the things we learned in the last 8 days.  Our memory work, how to build a tent, our sewing, among other things.  Many of the things we learned we not skills we need to know but the instructors want to make sure that we can follow instructions and that they can trust us to finish a task no matter how stupid it may seem.  I had to keep reminding myself of that when I was up sewing at 4 in the morning.  However, after all that the feeling of graduating is so worth it.  I leave for Washington sometime next week, I will find out when I get my orders on monday.  Thanks for your thoughts and your prayers.  I will continue to update as I get up to Washington.  I posted a picture of me in my new SERE shirt.  Yeah Im wearing that with pride today.  Anyways, gots to go.  Hope everyone is doin well back at home.