Fire Guard
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Oh, the sweet smell of guard duty. It is one of those things that you will come into contact with over and over in your time in the United States Army. Anytime you have sensitive items, you have to have a guard on them. Guard duty can consist of just standing there and reporting in every couple of hours to say that what you're guarding is still there, or it might consist of watching Red Vs Blue for six straight hours, with a connex in your line of sight. I've guarded the front desk for CQ, and I've guarded weapons while everyone else was out doing errands. The first example of guard duty for me was Fire Guard. I generally don't mind guard duty myself. I celebrated 2006 on Guard Duty. But Fire Guard was a bit different. And as far as I know, its universal in the military. You and your battle buddy do fireguard in an hour to two hour shifts while everyone else sleeps. You do your rounds, checking to make sure that everyone's wall lockers are secured. You make sure nobody is out doing something they aren't supposed to be doing. And if there's a fire, you wake everyone up and make sure they are ok as they get out of the building. Fortunately, I've never had to do the fire aspect of my fireguard duties. But I had fireguard two nights on and one night off. And it sucked. I'm a person that likes my sleep, maybe a little to much sometimes. I can get by with seven hours of sleep alright, but it makes it doubly hard when you have an hour interruption in that sleep. Because of Fire Guard, I was often a walking Zombie, and I think that is one of the reasons why I fell asleep in class so often. "Must, catch, sleep. . . zzzzzz" Some units have you stay awake by making you do Barracks Maintenance while on fire guard, or they tell you to work on memorizing stuff. I still have my smart book where I was writing my chain of command on the inside and you can actually see where I was dozing off because writing down my chain of command was putting me to sleep! I had a few run ins with some of my platoon mates who decided to leave their wall lockers unsecured while I was on guard duty. Because I had some stuff jacked while in reception, maybe I was a bit anal about wall lockers being secured, but hey, I was the one on fire guard so it was MY butt on the line. Did I mention hanging out with a bunch of moody females was one of the worse parts of basic? Fire guard was part of that reason. And waking up the next people in line for guard duty. They NEVER wanted to get up. GARRRR!!!! Note to you new recruits, don't blue falcon your battle buddies. When its time for Guard Duty, be there for Guard Duty on time. The people you are recovering want to go back to bed.
Posted by Erickson on 13:23 : (((
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