We were outside in battle gear most of the day. Luckily, the weather held at about 80 degrees and sunny - hot, but not too hot.
The second most interesting class was on defeating IED's. It is encouraging that the military is able to field equipment more quickly than before to react to enemy threats. The pic below shows a tube mounted on the back of a Humvee. This tube emits a frequency jamming signal that can be used to jam terrorist cell phone calls to an IED (Improvised Explosive Device). They have also developed a "Rhino" which is a boom that extends from the front of the vehicle to break the line of any line of sight explosives so they explode in front of the vehicle. The other thing the Rhino has is a heating element that models the signature of the engine in case the trigger has a heat sensor.
We have the 4th "off". Still PT uniform and we are going to have a picnic lunch. On the 5th we head back out to the training site to practice responding to threats and attacks while performing base defense. It promises to be a long, hot day so pray for temperate weather :)
Until next time...
