Wow, despite my best efforts I have less chance to update this bad boy as much as I had hoped.  That being said AIT is a hell of a lot more laid back than basic training.  The first half of my classes were over manual gunnery, ie learning how to use a chart and associated tools to create firing solutions for the gun line.  Now we are learning AFATDS, the computer system that allows to transmit and manage all of that information, for all of the gunnery compuatation are made on the quick and reliable manual methods in use since the first world war.

     As far as living conditions go they are similar to basic in that I am still living an open bay, but at the moment with only twenty five or so other guys.  When your major complaints are about your slow internet connection or that lights out means you have to turn off your Xbox is pretty telling.  Our battery is by far the most laid back in the batallion, we get overnight off post passes every weekend, while the others get on post passes or no passes at all.  Really it is all too easy, you get up in the morning, do PT, go to class, come back and have a formation after dinner chow and then we are on our own untill lights out.  If anything it will be even easier when I get to my first duty station.  That and the 40 large headed my way when I get there will make for  pretty comfotable living.

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