After graduation I had a week at home before flying back to West Point to start 4 weeks of Cadet Field Training (CFT). Early Sunday morning, we loaded ourselves and all of our stuff onto huge trucks and moved a couple of miles away from the main campus to Camp Buckner. At Buckner, we live in Squad Bays, long buildings with lines of bunk beds and wall lockers.
The next day we started three days of rifle shooting, bivouacking (military for camping) at the ranges over night.
We had an evening and night back at Buckner before leaving for two days of Land Navigation. We spend a day getting used to the terrain before waking up at 2 the next morning to find 6 little markers scattered around 9 square kilometers in 6 hours.
We had another quick night at Buckner before spending two days doing all things Field Artillery. We got to shoot massive cannons and mortars, plan fire support missions, and call in artillery fire on using radios. It was a very fun couple of days and has made me seriously consider becoming a Field Artillery Officer.
Sorry I don’t have very many pictures right now. Other people have the pictures from this stuff so I’ll have to share them later.