Gas chamber today with CS gas. We got in and the room filled up and it stung along your neck and hands and ears and edges of the mask. There were like 30-35 girls in this smallish room, and they had us do a few things like jumping jacks. That was fine! I was nervous at first even though we practiced taking the mask on and off a lot already, but when I got in I found I was totally ok. We took off our masks, held our breaths, and shut our eyes until they said to put the masks back on. I fucked this up a little and didn't clear my mask properly (you have to exhale hard and hold down a certain spot on the mask) so I breathed a little gas but it wasn't awful. I cleared it in the next breath, and stood calmly by while the girl next to me FREAKED out, didn't put on her mask, collapsed on the floor, then ran for the door. They had to physically restrain her. Sucks to be her. "Failure to follow simple instructions" as the DIs always say.
They dragged in someone else at the start, too. You're going through that chamber whether you want to or not!
After we got out and stripped our masks my eyes teared up awful though. It was horrible. I must have gotten some CS in them from my cammies. Some of my platoon had to direct me to the place we stripped down. But I wasn't freaked about it! I just couldn't see.
Gonna wrap this up and send it. Don't want too long of a letter to be discovered and confiscated.
P.S. Our drill is way improving.
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