And now I'm busy again...

After I settled all the stuff I had going on at the beginning of the month, I found myself with not much to do.  In fact, in that time I was able to read all 3 books of the Hunger Games trilogy and the first 3 books of the Harry Potter series.  Since I started the 4th book, I have gotten busier.  It really is a shame when work gets in the way of reading....

So, I went from no cases to having 3 court-martials.  I will be preferring charges on one Soldier tomorrow and the other 2 shouldn't be too far behind.  The case I'm preferring tomorrow, has the possibility to end up as a guilty plea.  The Soldier ended up confessing to CID, so it will be hard to fight the charges at this point.  Best to probably try and throw himself on the mercy of the court.  But who knows, stranger things have happened.  The other two cases are very likely to go all the way to a contested court-martial as they are both Article 15 turn downs.  There really is zero chance that after turning down an Article 15, a Soldier will then plead guilty at a forum that could give him more punishment than the Article 15 could have.  But again, stranger things have happened.

Today my paralegals had their mandatory training that they have once a month.  It consists of all the paralegals from all the units getting together and doing some kind of training.  A lot of times it is legal training.  Today it was combatives training.  Nothing makes me more nervous than watching people do combatives.  When I was going through training back when I first joined the Army, I did combatives training.  My training was short lived, as I ended up dislocating another girls shoulder while doing an arm bar.  After that, I was really too nervous that I was going to hurt to somebody, so I kinda sat out the rest of the training.  Luckily, today was just paralegals, so I didn't have to join in.  I was just there to take pictures.  It was still nerve wrecking watching, as some people get a little rambunctious and forget that it is just training and not some heavy weight match.  Thankfully, there was only one bloody nose and nothing worse.  Here are some pictures from the training....

Getting a safety briefing before starting

Making sure everyone is stretched out

Learning the dominant positions

Practicing the different positions

In the Army it is perfectly acceptable for guys to fight girls

Practicing what they learned

They had 30 seconds to get the other person in a dominant position

She is having fun...

Learning a new way to choke someone out

Trying out the new choke

Learning yet another way to choke someone out

Fitz may be small but she is pretty hard to pin down

She has him right where she wants him

She had a lot of pent up aggression that she was ready to get out in combatives 

Doesn't it just look like a whole bunch of fun?