Rise Above This

Greetings again from Ft. Eustis, VA!

Today, as you might see on the date stamp of this post, is Sunday, March 21, 2010, 5 days before my 25th Birthday. Everything is going very well, classes continue to be easy, but engaging, mostly thanks to good instruction. Good instruction and decent company.

I like doing things like this because it gives me the opportunity to make new acquaintances and new friends. I may have mentioned it before, but several of the guys that I enlisted with and shipped to Basic Training with are here now and are nearly finished with training. That isn't really much of an issue though because I have a couple of new battle buddies that will help get me through my long days here.

Judge is one of them; he's from Boise also and we seem to share a lot of the same views on a lot of things. He is pretty blunt, which I like. He says what he means and means what he says. We have good times just b.s.-ing in the break room at school and during chow.

Jermaeye is another one of my battles. He is from KC and is wild as a marge hare. He comes from a pretty crazy lifestyle, so he's got funny stories coming out of his ears, too.

Chris, my good buddy Jake's little bro, is here now too. He's fresh out of Ft. Jackson so I'm doing everything I can to get him on the path to succeed and not go insane whilst here at Ft. Eustis.

We all went bowling last night and had a blast! We bowled like eight games between 2200 and 0100. Jermaeye and Judge got a little toasted, but I stuck with my strong Mt. Dew. It hurts so good! I bowled like crap most of the night, but I think we are going to make it a regular thing on the weekends. I hope to Heaven that I get my inspections this week so I can get pass on the weekends.

Not much else is going on. Brittany had her first wedding yesterday. She was glad to be done when it was over, and I can't blame her. The people she was working with were pretty difficult, but she did a great job in turning a pretty harsh venue into a nice little ceremony. She conducted the ceremony as well, which is kind of cool. I've never married a couple before, so that's something isn't it?

Oh, we had sports day here yesterday. A Co. didn't do so hot, but we got out there and left everything out on the field that we could spare!

Until the sun rises on another day, be safe and remember those that serve, in any capacity, and the sacrifices they have made, yesterday, today, and tomorrow!