Warrior Ohana Day

Last Friday, I got a chance to participate in Warrior Ohana Day.  It was a chance to participate in activities that Eric has to do in the Army.  I was on a team with other wives from Eric's unit.  We started out with a trip through a convoy simulator.  We got to act like we were in a Humvee and got to shoot at enemy targets.  Then we moved on to an M-16 simulator where I had 4 confirmed kills.  I also got to take apart an M-9 and M-16.  Our team was the second fastest at taking apart and putting back together our weapons in the groups that we were with at the time.

The next part of the day was one station from the Leader Reaction Course.  This was an obstacle that we had to complete as a team.  Fortunately, I had done many of these in the Marines, and we ended up completing ours two minutes faster than the team before us.

(In all of these pictures, I'm in the grey baseball cap)

Here's our team at the beginning of the station.  We had to get the two ammo boxes (on the right side of the picture) and our entire team to the other side of the area without touching the ground.  

Here we are after we completed the station.  We were not told until afterwards that there were gloves for us to use and those pipes were hot after sitting in the sun all morning.

The next portion of the day was a modified Army Physical Fitness Test.  I say modified because we only had to do 30 seconds of push-ups and 30 seconds of sit-ups.  Also, it didn't matter if we did the push-ups on our knees or not, so of course we all did them on our knees.

After the APFT, we headed out on the two mile road march.  That was fun, and we actually ran a good part of it.  Once we finished that, we got to do the obstacle course, which was our last activity.  There were six stages to the obstacle course.  We started with the high wall, where we had to get all of our team up and over a 10 ft. wall.  Next was the weaver, where you're supposed to weave over and under 4 x 4's that are mounted at increasing heights and then they decrease again.  For this day, we just had to go over them, so it was a lot easier.  We then headed to the high step, which is shown in the picture below.  You weren't allowed to use your hands to get over the beams.

After the high step, we conquered the balance beam and cargo net.  The last obstacle was the low crawl.  The soldiers had intentionally wet down the low crawl and as a result, it was one giant mud puddle.  For some reason, they thought that their wives would enjoy getting muddy.

We didn't learn until afterward that it was actually the direct fault of two of the husbands from our team.  They were the ones that had come up with the idea of adding the water.  So, here is a picture of us after crawling in the mud.

The best part of the day?  Eric watched Marcus the whole time so that I could just enjoy myself.  This picture was the first time that I got to see Marcus that day.

I think he thought I was dirty, he didn't have a very loving look on his face.

We ended up winning the sportsmanship award for the day.  Here is a collage made from some more pictures from the event.