Steve Bunting

So very quickly I come in and it's, you're doing everything.

You're running sick call in the morning.

You're working out at lunch.

You're working out prior to lunch.

We had this kind of recon indoctrination program that we had to do.

So we're running, we're ruck running, we're hitting the hills, we're carrying logs, we're doing all that stuff and we're having to run sick call.

So we're learning the basics of medicine, learn how to give immunizations, draw blood, remove moles, like removing grown toenails, like the basics of like, of being a Navy corpsman.

you're learning those skills and you're just looking at that calendar waiting for your date and they'll tell you hey your brc dates this date and you're just trying to survive to make it while you're having to do psts every week to make sure you're still in shape and then once you once you leave there you head off to the pipeline how was how was uh brc for you

Yeah, it was, I mean, it was pretty tough.

It was tough.

I was in very good cardio shape, which is good for me.

And by this point, I'd swam a lot, right?

I'd gotten a lot, got really good at the combat side stroke, which I never even knew was a thing before this, but got really good at it, became very proficient in the water.

And I felt very comfortable.

It was just still, it was a kick in the ass.

Yep, showing up and just getting your legs run off and carrying a heavy ruck and trying to figure out some of the things that with a corpsman, you're a little bit behind the power curve because you don't get some of those basic infantry skills.

Where the Marines went through ITC, or sorry, they went to their infantry training.

And so they kind of already know some of the basics.

And as a corpsman, you have a lot to overcome.

You have to learn the basics of patrolling.