Today was a busy day. First we had psycho training, then shooting practice.
Psycho training is an interesting exercise. It is designed to toughen up soldiers a little and give them experience in maintaining a calm mental state in chaotic conditions.
The psychological obstacle course also had various obstacles. We had to crawl under barbed wire, climb over high barriers, climb a wall using a rope, run across planks, crawl on all fours, climb a mountain, etc.
At the same time, they throw a lot of different obstacles at you. They throw explosive packages, burn tires, and use smoke, shoot at you with special blank cartridges that also hurt quite a bit.
They also create psychological obstacles. They scatter rubber parts of the human body, as well as real parts of a pig’s body (head, limbs). Instructors also shout loudly right next to you, trying to disorient you or simply trying to take your weapon away. They yell that you need to go in the other direction, that you are doing something wrong, that you have been abandoned, etc. Or they simply yell something like “I’m scared,” “Mommy, take me home,” etc. 🙂 And here you have to learn to listen only to your commander or comrades.
At the end of the psychological barrier, according to the scenario, we have a 300th and we need to evacuate him, while maintaining a circular defense. According to the scenario, the 300th is not allowed to help, he must be carried completely. And this is quite difficult to do 🙂
The main goal is to maintain psychological stability and not get confused.
But, to be honest, for most people, this psychological strip is just a strip where you physically exhaust yourself, and it is physically quite difficult to get through it.
Few people pay attention to all these psychological things in the form of scattered body parts and various bloodcurdling screams and shrieks.
But perhaps a few percent of it conveys the atmosphere of the battlefield.
Immediately after that, we had more shooting practice. We practiced shooting on the fly, when you need to raise your weapon as quickly as possible and fire a shot.
Then we did the same thing, but we had to fire two shots as quickly as possible. The idea is that if you fire two shots very quickly, the two bullets fly almost to the same point, which is good for piercing enemy armor. We were already being graded on this shooting. Thanks to the fact that I had a relatively high number of hits with double shots and fairly good accuracy, the instructor gave me a B- and said it was to increase my motivation (well, actually, my level is a C).
Then there was shooting at targets that appeared. Motivated, I believed in myself and, surprisingly, got a 4 here too. I had 30 hits, and 28 hits is already a 3 🙂
As last time, the shooting left me with joyful and positive emotions.
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