Thanks for passing it along! 
Posted on 06/09/2006 3:33:18 PM PDT by bnelson44
Thanks for passing it along!
Thought you'd enjoy these numbers. How's the kid doing? :-)
We received a letter yesterday from him telling us his military address, but not much more than that.
We hope he's doing fine, but we don't expect to be able to speak with him for another two weeks.
But thanks for asking!
Awesome!
Got another letter from my boy today. I can't tell when he wrote it, but it was early this week. He said he had one sleepless night (only four hours was allotted, and he had firewatch, whatever that is), but he'd only screwed up a few times and hadn't yet gotten into any real trouble for it.
He assured us he had made the right decision and that he was fine.
They might just make a Marine out of him yet. ;-)
Those letters are priceless, aren't they?! How are YOU? LOL!
We had a distant relative graduate just yesterday!!! Mine made Cpl. last week, didn't tell us, came home yesterday, met up with us at a social affair, and I wasn't sure what I was looking at on his sleeve. Thought I was seeing double. Kind of a twilight zone thing. LOL!
Yeah but MSM will dump this on Friday, A35 in the newspaper so no one knows about this.
That's terrific! I'm still learning about the ranks and what they mean, but I'll get the hang of this before long. ;-)
Congrats on him making Corporal! That was my favorite rank.
While the unit is sleeping, there are generally a couple of folks walking firewatch. They roam around the barracks guarding weapons, preventing theft and mischief, and looking out for fire and other emergencies.
It's basically for accountability. If something goes wrong during the night, the drill instructors have someone to blame. :-)
I believe it's generally a one-hour shift.
Thanks, Coop.
I doubted it was tending a fireplace, but what do I know? ;-)
He said he spent the rest of that night practicing how to write his name correctly according to regulations. To me, that should be about a five-minute exercise, but it's apparently more complex than I realize!
I was enlisted. I just had to mark an "X!" ;-)
I do not have a source for that, it's a sound clip I saved one evening when things were looking a little grimmer than they are today. If anyone can come up with an attribution I'd be much obliged...
Thanks! It was more fun finding out that way, than on the phone! So proud!
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