Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity. – Psalms 133:1
Short Haul made a call to the bullpen on Wednesday and YHC gladly accepted. After a brutal wk2 IronPax beatdown on Tuesday, YHC felt the pax needed a little levity and the plan was to bring the fun. Make no mistake, work was done. That’s how the men of Graveyard roll.
Conditions: 74 and muggy
OMW, Disclaimer, no FNGs
Pledge of Allegiance, Prayer
Warmup mosey around parking lot
Head to press box and grab blocks and circle up
- At this time the FNG (EH’d by a missing PYT) showed up to join us. Disclaimer repeated and we continued.
COP (all IC)
- SSH x20
- Squats x10
- TTT x10
- LBACs (f/r) x10
- OH Claps x10
- LBACs (thumbs down f/ thumbs up r) x10
- Windmills x10
- Iron Crosses OYO x15
- Imperial Walkers x10
- Burpees x10 OYO
Mosey back to entrance
Frisbee Scramble
- split up pax into two teams
- 1st target is goalpost at far end of football field
- each team is to alternate thrower until target reached
- prior to start and prior to each throw – all pax perform 10 squats (other rounds incl merkins & Iron Crosses)
- winners – plank
- 2nd place – Iron Crosses (also BBSUs, Merkins, etc.)
- Rinse and repeat
- 2nd target is goalpost at other end
- 3rd target is goalpost other side of field
- 4th is YHC’s block at top by pressbox
Block Party (all IC x10)
- Curls 4 girls
- Thrusters (crowd pleaser after IPC on Tuesday)
- Weighted squats (flashbacks)
- Alpos (flashbacks)
- Iron Crosses
- block merkins
- plank OMC (rt arm up/lt arm up)
- block merkins
- Curls 4 girls
Return blocks and Mosey to entrance
Bag of Balls Relay
- two teams – two bags of balls – first team to complete all exercises wins
- all pax start by running to far end of entrance to fire hydrant
- one pax from each team will then return to start to grab ball out of bag while waiting pax plank (also, IWs, LBCs, etc.)
- all pax on team will perform exercise on ball (x10) before next pax takes off again
- Ball exercises included:
- Burpees
- Squat Jumps
- Monkey Humpers
- BBSU’s
- Merkins
- Mountain Climbers
- Iron Crosses
- Winners – plank
- 2nd place – BBSU’s
Mosey back to Shovel Flag (Imperial Walkers for final minute)
TIME
Announcements
- Reaper tomorrow
- Fuel is back on Wednesdays
- Check Q sheet for other AOs that are doing IPC wk2 this week
Prayers
- Pax, Our Nation, Schools, Students and Administrators
- Temperament of our Nation
- Pax competing in BRR
Moleskin
- T-claps to Bulldog for the tunes today
- Prayers on a speedy recovery for Twitterless Spackle as he deals with heal issues and unable to run. Got to give it up to him because posting when you’re injured always beats the fartsack.
- FNG – EH’d by PYT (noticeably absent today) – Chad – works for a food distributor – not much info received as he left early to travel to Oburg > PullOut. Rename is due next time he posts as Smokehouse already claims a PullOut.
Devo
Our goal should be to return the unity our Nation showed in the days and weeks after 9/11. Also, shared the story of YHCs good friend that worked in World Trade Center Tower 2. He and another coworker had an appointment that morning & were not in the office on 9/11. He lost every one of his fellow coworkers that day and suffered tremendous survivor’s guilt. His depression led to his wife insisting that he get to SC and spend some time with me. We played some golf, shared a few drinks and had plenty of laughs that weekend. The time we spent together rejuvenated his soul and probably even saved his life. The only thing I had to do was to welcome him and be the friend I’ve always been to him.
Our country is in turmoil at present. It is our duty and mission as men to stand up for the Civil Society and defend our great Nation. We are charged to be courageous in adversity and to speak out and defend our fellow citizens from being harassed and maligned by those that wish our society and nation ill. Moreover, be the men that others seek out and find refuge and solace in times of despair.
Our history is filled with stories of ordinary, yet courageous, men that were called on to do extraordinary things in defense of freedom and liberty.
“Men of honor don’t do the courageous thing for the accolades; but because it is the right thing to do, because it is their duty.”
Here are the words of the elite group of men of Easy Company that fought in WWII on being called heroes.
