Week 1

We just finished our first week of UPT!! Pretty exciting stuff, the first day 5 guys showed up late for a welcome brief from the Commander, ya that was a bad idea that earned us all the opportunity to were blues instead of flight suits all week, and be on "formal release" a program that takes away all free/extra time in the schedule. We had to go back to a classroom and just sit around until our Flight Commander felt like letting us go. Formal Release is usually reserved for when you start flying, to really annoy you, but we're that special.

Everything else about the week was awesome!!! It was all physiology stuff: how the body handles flying and all the environmental factors that play into flying. This involved spinning around in a chair and watching the crazy tricks your mind can play on you, as well as the altitude chamber in which they simulate high atmosphere and let you breath the thin air until you get really loopy. We learned some life support stuff, by far the coolest: watching the sunrise from a field as we took turns being pulled around behind a truck to simulate parachuting. They have you parasail about 300ft up and practice sailing back down. Being a redneck I already know how to fall out of a tree, so it was hard to break old habits and learn their way to fall, they played back the video of me hitting the ground and I did some kind of weird flip. We also learned the proper way to egress the aircraft, whether on the ground or in the air.
We had our first test, probably the easiest test we’ll have, and being the retard I am I missed 2, I seriously should’ve made a 100. I’m going to half to learn to except myself jacking up and move on. Hopefully I’ll learn from this, but there is so much information I don’t really know where to focus my time.