I have never been placed on any additional duties where I have to work corrective training like I had to tonight. Ironically enough the first time I get to do this shit I set off the fire alarm. Not only that but the fire department shows up within minutes before we can even call and tell them not to come. This also happens within 30 minutes of us getting done for the night. The most amusing part is we set it off by doing what we were suppose to be doing. One of the other guys on extra duty was sweeping directly in front of the front door and it kicked up some dust. Actually a lot of dust. He wasn’t aware that this would set off the alarm. I was upstairs and started running around wondering what idiot accidentally got caught up on a switch and set it off. I found the NCO I was with, who would of been the person that would of done that and he was froze in the middle of the room. It almost looked like he was locked up at the position of attention by a 4 star general. He was completely froze.

After a couple minutes running around to make sure there wasn’t any real fire, the fire trucks showed up. I was under the impression that the alarms don’t call them anymore, but that must apply only to the barracks cause they showed up quick as shit. Maybe 3 or 4 minutes and they have 3 trucks and are completely dressed. It took about 6 guys to investigate the smoke alarm and to understand we were sweeping.

Only 44 more days to go.