And a Dash of Chaos, If You Please!
In the Hangin’ Together or Hanging Alone posts, I indicated the beginnings of your military life would be, shall we say (seemingly) “unstructured.” Some would use the word “chaos” as a descriptor of the circumstances. They are right and not right all at once.
They are right in that just many parts of your day will be spent running about, doing push ups, being yelled at (for doing something you had been told to do and now being told it’s the wrong thing to do).
They are wrong, because the process is designed to flood your sensory inputs to their max limits and then toss more things at you, after you think you have reached saturation.
I once blogged about “crisis management,” as my captain clarified why it was a good thing…take a moment at this point to read that old post and begin to fill in the blanks on why there will be a seemingly over abudnance of wildness.
The confussion and conflicting commands are to help to stress you artificially, as you will be in a combat situation, and see how well you do in sorting out the real/important details, from the background noise. More than likely, you’ve never experienced this, so instead of reacting with fear about what’s going to happen next, think of it as an opportunity to experieince something “new.”
Bottom line:Â It’s all managed and all what works.
Get out there and excel!Â
