FTX 2, Week 2 in the field

This week we did lots of waiting. The highlights are we stated with CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear). We learned to put on our JS List in under 8 minutes which includes pants, jacket, boots, mask, and gloves. They say we will be protected by what ever we may come into contact with; I guess I have to trust them. We than entered the gas chamber. We started with our masks on and it wasn’t bad, I could spend all day. Than they made us take our mask off and say our SSN and it was ok but don’t need to do it again. Came walking out and had tears, snot, and drooling along with my face burning but it all went away in a couple minutes. So if they say I have to do it again, I know I will survive.
We learned to clear a building using a four man team. I was rear support-no was going to enter the room! This was the best day, we got to shot blanks and shot them at each other so we had a blast. Lots of officers running around shooting each other, you can only imagine!
We were to run a convoy mission but the day we were scheduled there was a REAL fire that caused us to wait until the next day. Because of the fire we were than unable to shot blanks and have stimulated gun fire in the field so it took ALL the fun out of it. We were sitting in our convoys with our weapons pointed out the windows with no ammo and no magazines even in our weapons. Our instructors would inform us if there was suppose to be people shooting at us and we had to say “bang, bang”. It was so disappointing but it’s done, hopefully next week we can go back to blanks.
We had to test out on a bunch of other simple things and than spent Friday afternoon sitting around for 4 hours waiting for our buses to come get us. It was tiring so I took a nap!!
We only have one week left in the field and its only 4 days. It’s kind of sad that it’s almost over. I have thoroughly enjoyed this, it gives me an idea of what my patients are doing on a daily basis because you don’t want me running convoys and clearing buildings!!
Talk to you all next week and will post pics.
Take care!!!