christmas

hey kristi,
good news, all the visitors and high ranking officers go home for the hollidays, so they told us that christmas will be the time we get to come home. I figured that you would LOVE to hear that

j.v.b

for all who has not yet heard, at camp roberts CA. I was part of a team who cook for some dignataries and the General of Oregon and other high ranking officers and NCO's, apparently i know how to cook because the meal that we served got me a ticket to the joint visitors beareau in bagdahd. which means that i will be cooking in a five star hotel for all the high ranking officials that come in from that states and also enertainers. so that is some new news from my end and i will keep you all posted on how it all goes. thanks again for all your prayers and support

Ft. Stewart GA

This is the first hello from ft. stewart GA. The first step I got off the plane it brought back memories of basic training. We got off the plane about midnight and the muggyness in the air sank right it. It felt like north carolina. from about the first day we got here it has been go, go, go. We havent had too much time to ourselves, a lot of traing. One of the reasons why i havent been updated this blog.

We have been here for about two weeks now, the first week consisted of uniforms being issued and also our weapons. We got our vehicles dispatched to us and been going to ranges firing out M4's and 50 cal's.

This last week was a full week of intense training. We got put into firing teams wich consists of three soilders. One driver, one truck comander, and a gunner(which was me). We had a pretty big lane and we rolled aroung in the humvee's taking out targets during the day and night. It was alot of fun the first day, we scored 788 points out of 900. the second day I couldnt hit the broad side of a barn. It sucked, my platoon sgt. was me truck comander and he lade it on me on how i was screwing up, stressed me out just a bit.

so we had to go back on the third day and re-qualify. we needed to get 280 pts to pass, which ment that i had to hit all the targets. it was a good thing i did or my platoon sgt. would have kicked my ass. Then we went to convoy live fire. it consisted of 5 trucks, we had day and night missions, and we engaged targets.

this traing took about six days and we just got back yesterday. we averaged about four hours of sleep during the week. so it is nice to be back to catch up on sleep.

hope you all enjoy the little video i put together and thank you for all your prayers and support. May God bless you all and until next time

sunny california

hello all from cally. my writing style will be a bit different from the previous two blogs, and that is because erika wrote them, bless her heart. so here goes my writing style. we arrived here in california on thursday about midnight and didnt get to bed till four then up at six the following day. since the it hasnt been too hot here, yet. the mornings are a little cold. so far we have been going through briefings and doing PT at five in the morning, so dad no worries about me sleeping in. besides that there is not to much to say so far but i am enjoying standing in lines and dealing with all the fun stuff that the army throws at each day. keep on praying for me and my fellow soilders and you all are in my prayers

17 days in counting

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