The Task at Hand (POTD)

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Midshipman 2/c Deric McNealy listening to the Marine platoon chain of command pass word at the end of physical training (PT).


As a third year Marine Option student in NROTC, McNealy is only a few weeks away from going to Marine Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS). There he will be screened, trained, and evaluated for his ability to lead as a Marine officer.

McNealy is very focused at the task at hand, successfully completing OCS. In many ways, OCS is like a co-op, internship, job interview, and on the job training all at the same time.

View the rest of the PT set here

Today I…

• Participated in one of last PT sessions of the school year.
  
  
  
  
  • Marine options still have a few military evolutions left like our physical fitness test (PFT) on Friday, our SULE I evolution on Saturday, and our 9-mile hike on Monday.
• Went to the GT residence life staff yearly banquet.
  
  
  
  
  • This banquet recognizes all the hard work of both the student staff (Peer Leaders, Resident Assistants) and the professional staff (Hall Directors, Area Managers, etc)
  • Each staff consists of 12 to 20 PLs/RAs and 1 HD. During one of our recent weekly staff meetings we provided our input for Student Staff Member of the year. Hefty-Fit ‘n’ Strong’s (my area) chose Eli Beeker as SSM of the year.

Eli & Hall Director Victoria Martin

The Hefty-Fit ‘n’ Strong staff after the banquet.

Watch Out for that Wall! (POTD)

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Clemson junior left fielder Jeff Schaus crashes into the wall on a deep hit by Georgia Tech’s Tony Plagman during the Saturday game at “the Rusty C”.

Saturday I…

• Watched GT clinch the series against Clemson in baseball
  
  • Came in after they had run out of the free whiteout T-shirts.This was their design:
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    It was another close one with a handful of lead changes.
    
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  Watched the football team scrimmage at Bobby Dodd Stadium
  
  • I Took down a play-by-play of the whole thing.
  • Later I compiled the information to make a box score. It’s all in my practice report here.
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  Dropped by Tech Beautification Day for a few minutes
  

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  Ate at my favorite restaurant: Papi’s Cuban Grill.
  
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    After eating here fairly often for nearly four years, they FINALLY took my order without having to ask for “the usual”.
    
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  Spent some time at Under The Couch.
  
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    My friends T.K., W.L., and Matt played during “open mic” night.
    

Sunday I…

• Didn’t get to do too much interesting stuff. Sunday is a focus on school day.

Penguin Piñata Birthday Party (POTD)

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The candy in Spencer’s piñata is batted out the penguin.

Today I…

• Spent part of my evening with the people of Hefty-Fit ‘n’ Strong. We:
  
  
  
  • Played kickball at the Burger Bowl.
  • Ate huge burgers at a cookout in our courtyard.
  • Started a game of tug-of-war.
• Went to the Beesball game
  
  
  
  • Georgia Tech v Clemson
  • For the 3rd time this year a Clemson team led by Kyle Parker (Right fielder, Quarterback) lost to Georgia Tech.
  • The game was as exciting as GT/Clemson baseball games always are. We won in the 10th inning with a Chase Burnette homerun. I was standing right behind home plate when he did it.
• Watched Football practice and wrote up a short practice report.

Motivation (POTD)

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MIDN 1/c Pham, soon to be 2LT Pham, demonstrates his motivation during our “pass in review” practice. See the rest of the set here.

Today (Thursday) I…

• Played one of the most fun games of pickup football I’ve ever played
• Rehearsed for the pass in review
  
  
  
  • Pass in review is a military ceremony where a reviewing officer reviews the unit.
  • Our ceremony will incorporate the change of command from one midshipman battalion commander to another.
• Shipped a textbook I sold via Half.com.
• The line at the post office was ridiculous since many people were sending tax related mail.
• Had lunch at Pizza Hut in the student center.
• I used all of my GT dining rewards funds.

3-0 in 4-on-4 [POTD]

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Kaylen intercepts a pass during our 32-20 victory of Hefty-Fit ‘n’ Strong.

Today I...

• Listened to the Georgia Tech @ UGA baseball game on WREK online.
• Final score Tech 25 – Bad Guys 6.
• Tech scored its most runs ever against UGA game.
• 25 runs is also the most runs ever allowed by UGA against ANY opponent.
• Georgia Tech’s record for runs scored is 41 runs against Earlham in 1975.
• To Hell with Georgia
• I’m really looking forward to the series against Clemson this weekend. Not only our biggest ACC rival, but they’re also really good at baseball.
• Watched spring football practice.
• Today was the 9th practice.
• The spring game will be next Saturday, April 24th (ITS FREE):
• I wrote my practice report on the North Avenue Bulletin.
• Played intramural 4-on-4 football.
• My team won 55-20.
• We are 3-0 and play for the #1 seed in the playoffs next week.
• Did my laundry since I needed to get my camoflauge uniform trousers clean from crawling in the dirt during Monday morning PT.
• Also had to roll my sleeves for the first time since OCS.
• Watched the EPIC 200th episode of South Park.
• Did anyone catch that? I bet they don’t even make a continuation to it.
• Found my phone (see yesterday)

PNS Inspection Today [POTD]

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Captain Stephen Kirby, GT NROTC Commanding Officer.

Captain Kirby, the Professor of Naval Science, inspects the midshipmen of the Georgia Tech NROTC unit. The PNS inspection is an event that occurs each semester. MIDN Blankenbeker, the Battalion (midshipman) CO, trails the captain taking note of any deficiencies in the midshipmen’s uniforms.
Checkout the rest of the set here.

Today I…

• Discovered the interesting stores on 11th street like PPR where I found a replacement lens cap.
• Started working on Fore ‘n’ Aft, the Georgia Tech NROTC yearbook.
• Found a old DVD from 2003, did they have DVDs back then? The video was a video version of the 2002-2003 GTNROTC unit yearbook. I only knew about half a dozen of the people in it.
  
  
  
  • Will try to upload the videos to YouTube later.
• Lost my phone. Have you seen it?
• Made some spaghetti for lunch.
• Received a Bit.ly Pro invite. Exciting! Will set it up later.

Today I will…

• Watch LOST at 9 PM. Only a 5 more episodes until the series finale.
• Drop by Woodie’s for Dinner.
• Go to the CRC, only a few more days until our semiannual PFT (Physical Fitness Test).

#GTNROTC, #POTD

OCS: POTD

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It took me a while to get this scanned, but here is my platoon photo from OCS.
This was taken a few days prior to graduation. Our platoon was 5th platoon, or as we called it, the Forgotten Fifth. We called it that because they staff members at OCS weren’t used to having five platoons so we were often forgotten.
The 4 Marines in desert MARPAT uniforms are our platoon staff. From left to right they are: GySgt Rowland (Sergeant Instructor), Capt Throughton (Platoon Commander), GySgt Tsang (Sergeant Instructor), GySgt Washington (Platoon Sergeant). To the right of the 4 Marines is a Navy Corpsman, Doc Watts.
Did you find me in the photo?