Driver's Training Academy

It turns out DTA isn't nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. I suppose that when you've got manuals with lines like this --

-- your quiz questions can't be all that hard.

Most of the first week was PowerPoint-based classes, which I'm fairly good at (assuming I can avoid falling asleep). So even though I missed out on Tuesday morning's stuff because of RFI and Wednesday because of the battalion's fun day, I averaged about 90% on the seven open-note tests for the week.

It's not great by Army standards, but it's plenty good enough. The second week was driver familiarization, which I skipped out on in a major way. On Monday I was very diligent, but as the week went by I started leaving as more important stuff came up.

Graduation was Thursday, but the three lieutenants (including me) weren't invited -- they figured we had other, more important things to do, which was true. And it wasn't like I was graduating high school -- I had barely put a good 40 hours into the 80 hour course; it wasn't like I could flaunt my "great accomplishment."

But it's done now. Yay.