Hollywood’s Evening (or Morning depending on when you read it) Report: BMT! Two years later and I still have dreams where I wake up laughing. Still go on base to parade on my week off from the rig. Still talk to new instructors, still evaluate instructors. Still pray that one day…ONE DAY it will swing back to the 2001 time of instructors who are doing the job the right way and not worried to “Push” for fear of being too hard or mean. But TRAIN! 0400 non duties, laughing over coffee in the morning meeting, making bets with your teamie that the loser at the end buys dinner, hiding flights in classrooms, sitting at the snake pit and saying “Trainee by the salad bar come here!” and then the instructor for that trainee saying, “Dang it! Why did you have to call THAT one?” Sending your trainee who couldn’t march across the pad to another instructor to tell them: “Sir/Ma’am trainee led foot reports as ordered. Sgt Rogers told me to let you know he is going to PCS me to your flight because I have no rhythm and can’t hear the drum beat in my head.” Hitting dorm guards (EC’s) for other instructors in the squadron so they would be able to pass STAN team when they come. Sneaking your flight downstairs to step and saying FORWARD HARCH loud enough for your teamie to hear you and laugh because now they are behind you. Working until 2100 and it feels like you have only been there six hours. Meeting at the bowling alley on Thursday’s to laugh about the silly things your trainees did that week and then just taking the Eclub over on Friday’s! (It use to be Tiffany’s outside the gate until that one day….LMBO) There were two parts to BMT that I just absolutely LOVED! 1. Pickup night through the end of the first week. I had a couple of different pickup night tacktics that I used that would make their eyes open up wide! I would either step on the bus to read names. Walk out of the tunnel in the dark night once they were lined up on the dots. Stand under just one light with my head slightly down so they couldn’t see my eyes. Sit in my car and come up from behind them. Hell one night I sat in the back of the bus from the reception center and just listened to those up front who didn’t know I was on the bus talk crap about how, “Man, I wish a MF would tell me something! They don’t know me!” (they are the ones who would cry first) And number 2. 8th week Pre departure briefing. Another chance to see those eyes open wide when they got to see my Hollywood side and I was just me. Just talking to them, answering all the questions about what is to come in their career, tell them some of my many stories, places I have been, friends I had made, boss’s I had (good and bad), how to set themselves above their peers. Just straight up mentor them. Those briefing are suppose to be an hour but mine were always about an hour and a half or whenever their instructors would come in and cut me off because they had to step. I leave you tonight (or this morning) with this: Oh yea, I use to press/stress my flights for the first three weeks. Was slightly over 100 trainees that went to 4D over my time on the streets. Would torment other flights in the squadron, so they would all hate to see me coming. But to mentor someone to put them on a path/career sure was a GREAT feeling! So the rumor mill says that soon they will be looking for retired MTI’s to mentor 8th week of training Airmen in BMT. Lord knows how much I want this to be true and how much I want to be able to get a job like that! So if you want to start praying for this…..I sure would not be mad at you! And if it is true, this is as close to what I love so much as I could possibly get. If you have dreams you need to start following them, never wait until it’s too late. I know I am going to be shaking trees (and people) to get one of those spots if it is true. Don’t worry, you will hear me scream no matter where you are if I do! And last….Shout out to Dorm Chief now Lt Carpenter! She just completed OTS and I am very proud of her! She is number 22 to cross over and I have 3 that have been accepted and waiting on dates and about another 6 on their last one or two classes to submit their package. Proud of all of you! I salute you all! MUCH LOVE PEOPLE! NOW DANCE!
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 01:40:54 +0000
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