Posted on 05/18/2004 9:19:19 AM PDT by RightOnline
It is with great pride that I, RightOnline, and The Lovely Wife (aka "RightOnlinesWife") announce the commissioning of our eldest son (oldest of our seven children), known to fellow FReepers as "Future Snake Eater", as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army.
F.S.E. was commissioned on Friday afternoon, then received his B.A. degree the following day from NC State University. Combined with his recent marriage to his lovely new bride at the end of February, this has been quite the past few months for the RightOnline household and Future Snake Eater.
He will soon leave for Infantry Officer Training School, then Airborne, then Ranger school......then off to Ft. Lewis, WA, where he will lead a Stryker platoon.
Please join us in congratulating a fine young man who is going to make one hell of an Army officer.
God speed, Chris.
Congratulations! Good luck to him!
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Congratulations.
Good luck Chris. Rangers lead the way.
Congratulations -- heart warming news indeed !!!
how very exciting, bet all buttons are bursting with pride there, and rightly so!
Cool, military always needs some new butter-bars...just kidding...!!
Congrats!!
Yippee! Thanks for serving and passing along duty honor country to your son.
Thank him for me and my family.
Thank you and your wife. What a wonderful thing, you got to swear him in and your wife does the first salute. Big smile here!
!!!!!!!! Cograts all around!!!
Actually........the bars we pinned on his shoulders were the 2nd Lt. bars that I had pinned on me in '77. Couldn't imagine a better use for them.
Congratulations with deep appreciation and respect.
Excellent!
(Maybe he shouldn't ask his missus to cook too many of them for him though) ;^)
RO: You and your wife have much to be proud about.
For all of you former and active duty military officers, especially from the Army............here's your chance to pass on your wisdom to a new member of your "fraternity".
Good luck Chris. You've made your parents and countrymen proud.
Godspeed.
The Strykers will be a very interesting place to be over the next several years of their phase in.
CONGRATULATIONS!! You all done good!! :o)
Thank him for me for being willing to serve!!
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