Monday, November 17, 2008

Individual Weapons Qualification (IWQ)

IWQ went very well, considering there were 145 soldiers from the 166th Engineer Company and at least two dozen more from supporting units.

The bottom line is that we had no injuries and successfully completed qualification for 113 of our soldiers. Those who were unable to attend or who failed to complete all three events (day fire, NBC fire, and

night fire) will have to go with the rest of the Battalion in January. It's going to be very, very cold no doubt!


We were also able to complete the large majority of the make-up validation training to set the stage for our last few months at home. It will be busy, but it should be much more manageable for us all now that we're back on track.

Oh, and Ben was finally able to try out his new jammies. Weird.