BraveMan’s Excellent Adventure at Fort Jackson, South Carolina

BraveMan | 02/15/10 | BraveMan

[BraveMan]

Goodbye dear daughter. Until we meet again, all my love.

[BraveMan]

My most excellent adventure!

[Joe 6-pack]

Congrats to your daughter (and you, too!)

[gardengirl]

Congrats, and next time... Leave the snow at home! LOL

[loveliberty2]

Wonderful post! Thank you! And, please pass along our gratitude to your daughter for her willingness to serve in the cause of liberty on our behalf.

Your post is an emotional reminder of days long ago in a similar experience at Ft. Jackson, and following Ft. Benning, the next post was Ft. Sam Houston, an absolutely great experience.

San Antonio is a great place to be and to enjoy, with wonderful people, history, and surrounding countryside.

Wish her well and our prayers are with her.

[QBFimi]

1/ Congrats to daughter.
2/ IMHO, waaaay too wordy for the contained content. Just couldn’t slog it out. Sorry.

[martin_fierro]

Pix or it didn’t happen.

< |:)~

[Jet Jaguar]

Well written.

We got a bunch of global warming in Sumter, SC as well.

Tell your daughter “thanks for her service” from a crusty old Air Force guy!

[BraveMan]

Thanks Joe. It really was an awesome experience.

[BraveMan]

I thought I left plenty at home! I didn’t realize two suitcases full would add up to so much . . .

[BraveMan]

It’s the Kindle. I fancy myself a wordsmith now . . .

[gardengirl]

LOL

Great story, and truly, I am sorry it snowed while you were there—twice! I live in NC right on the coast just above Wilmington. We only get snow every once in awhile, and big snow about once every 10-15 years. We got 7” of globull warming last weekend.

You’re absolutely right about people not knowing how to drive in snow down here! The yankees who think they can don’t realize that ours is usually udercoated by ice, and the locals don’t know anything. Better just to stay home and off the roads until it clears. :)

[BraveMan]

All things considered, I'm glad the daughter went through BT in the South Carolina winter. I spent the better part of a year in the Spartanburg area many years ago. I know how hot the summer can be. My girl was fortunate to go through BT in the winter.

I remember asking one of the locals on a particularly brutal day, “What do you do when its this hot”? His short reply was, “stay inside”.

For my part, I enjoyed the time immensely. I got invited to go fishing once with some of the local ironworkers. They all laughed when I showed up with a pole & tackle. It was my first experience with what us Yankees call ‘noodling’, where you use your hand as bait, reach under a rock and grab ahold of the catfish trying to eat your hand. I managed to latch onto a pretty good size specimen, redeeming myself in front of the group. They took no end of pleasure asking me to show off my scars to others on the workforce. My arm reacted very badly to the bites and scratches, and flamed up rather nicely.

I carried it as a trophy. I was a true noodler. I've never done it since . . .

[McGruff]

I had my AIT training in Fort Jackson, SC but that was in 1971. Still remember the crows (birds) down there sounded like they had a southern accent. Still makes me laugh.

[gardengirl]

Yeah, summers here can be tough, but I’ll take my summer over your winter any time!

Noodling? I’m impressed. No way am I stickingmy hand into a dark hole underwater when I can’t see what’s there! LOL

Got “stung” by my MIL’s aquarium catfish one time. That thing hurt like you wouldn’t believe! Burned and throbbed and swelled. I can only imagine how bad a real bite hurts!

[BraveMan]

This was taken out the hotel room window around 12:00 hours, Friday February 12 2010


Two days later the Palm trees looked none the worse for the torture.


This is why they call it Hilton Hill. Learn more at the link below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_H._Hilton


CSM & PFC outside the hangar. Yes, we did get to see her depart. Try snagging a forgotten cell phone from
a flight booked by the DOD sometime. My daughter doesn't fully grasp the trouble we had to go through.


PFC Gosselin in her Class A Uniform. Standing in the barrack's Kill Zone like this would normally earn you some
manner of sadistic PT torture. Fortunately the Drill Sergeants were nowhere to be found.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Congratulations, PFC Gosselin,
on your graduation from Boot Camp!!

Click for The Story: FReeper BraveMan's daughter graduates!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[beachn4fun]

Holy Cow was it cold!

I find that funny coming from a Wisconsin person. LOL

Congrats to you, your daughter and family. You and family have a right to be proud

Please convey my thanks to her for her taking up the mantle and for her sacrifice. Thank you as well.

[fatima]

WoooHooo.:)