Posted on 06/21/2016 4:37:30 PM PDT by IronJack
Just a bittersweet vanity thread announcing that my 18-year-old son left today for Air Force Basic Training. This is a boy -- a man now -- who has gone through a lot in his short life. A few years ago, he turned it around and started on a rigorous road of introspection and self-improvement. And it worked.
This is finishing school for him. He has been training to be an Air Force Combat Controller for the last 18 months.
Today, he stopped being ours and became the property of this country. He will do it proud.
Tell the kid to say to the DI that he would like to sleep in the first few days.
Good luck. I went into basic in Sept 1987. Hot in SA.
Thanks again ... to everybody. If I can manage it, I’ll forward this thread to my son. It might make some of those 15-mile rucks in the Texas heat a little more bearable.
I joined 23 June 1981. Ah, San Antone in July. The heat, the fire ants....
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