Easy Day....

Well, easy in relative terms for the Marine Corps.  The day started with a 3 hour break due to a dedication ceremony practice for a new barracks on base.  Some of our company is in the ceremony so training stopped until they were finished.Then we had about 4 hours of class on the 5 paragraph order (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_paragraph_order) and I accumulated about 8 pages of notes on the subject. Basically this is the format in which we write our operations plans and pretty much the rest of the time we are here, we will be refining our skills at writing these orders.  At around 1500,  we boarded buses and headed to the Marine Corps Memorial in Washington D.C. to watch the Marine Corps Band and Silent Drill team perform the sunset parade.  It is now 2140 and I am waiting to secure for the day, so I can go home a relax after a "LONG" days work....