This past weekend, Bravo Company (Marine Corps) of Naval Battalion got to go to Camp Edwards for our Spring FEX, and let me just say it was quite the experience. I learned a lot, and a lot of new stuff also! I can clearly say that I wasn't that prepared to for some of the events, but now I know what I have to improve on. Our FEX consisted of a very long bus ride near the Cape, followed by sleeping in huts for two nights. On Saturday we did LRC's (leadership reaction courses), Squad tactics, day/night land navigation, and the confidence course. I personally think the confidence course made the whole FEX, the fact that I never did any of that stuff before was pretty cool. I learned a few things about myself, like I have to jump to get over certain obstacles because I'm short, if I have to climb the entire staircase to heaven I'll have to jump to climb up the ladder, and to build up some decent arm muscles. Some of those obstacles were like....wow, my arm fatigue is kicking in, but I bet with some decent training I can do it.
Some things I wish they had at Norwich is a functional confidence course so cadets can practice on it and some decent LRC's. Overall the FEX was great, I think it's because I made a lot of mistakes but learned how to do stuff, like plot points and find asmuths on a compass and map. I never really understood it in class, but I sure got the hang of it in the field.
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