Matthew Parenteau, Artillery Gunner
MY JOB
Physical activity
There is a lot of physical activity; you're lifting the gun, which weighs maybe thirty three hundred pounds and digging the trails so the gun doesn't move when it backfires.
The loading part of the mission: a round is about three feet long and weighs fifty, sixty pounds. So that's the physical part about the field.
Being indoors you're doing a lot of physical training. Every morning you do physical training and a standardized fitness test once a year.