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Posted on 11/05/2007 8:23:04 AM PST by SoldierDad
FORT DRUM – Nearly 1,300 Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team have returned from their 15 month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. However, many happy homecomings are left for the Commando Families as the remainder of the unit is scheduled to return before the end of November.
Welcome Home ceremonies for the returning Soldiers scheduled at Magrath Gym at the times listed below. All times are tentative and subject to change.
• November 1 – 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion; 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment; 2nd BCT Headquarters and Headquarters Company. Ceremony – Midnight, November 1.
• November 2 – 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment and 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment. Ceremony – 12 p.m.
• November 4 - 210th Brigade Support Battalion; 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment. Ceremony – 6:30 p.m.
• November 5 – 210th Brigade Support Battalion; 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion – Ceremony - 7 p.m.
• November 5 – 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment; 210th Brigade Support Battalion; 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion; 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment. Ceremony – 1:30 a.m., November 6.
• November 6 – 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment. Ceremony – 1:30 p.m.
• November 8 – 2nd Brigade Combat Team Headquarters and Headquarters Company; 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion; 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment and 210th Brigade Support Battalion. Ceremony – 10:30 p.m.
• November 12 – 2nd Brigade Combat Team Headquarters and Headquarters Company. Ceremony – 1:30 p.m.
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Happy, happy day.... enjoy the feeling...(((BlueStarMom))) and (((NamVet)))
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A Very Happy Day,,,We are breathin’ better...;0)
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Great news!
Now you can really start breathing again!!
I am so happy for both of you!
BTTT
SD, I am so excited for you. You know I keep checking my pings to keep updated through out the day.
And now I’m getting up to speed with 1Counter and I’m getting twice the fun out of reading these updates.
Congrats to you both and enjoy these reunions!
What an honor! One to be taken seriously, on both sides of the issue. Does the Academy prevent the cadets from being married after they are enrolled (one surmises that there may have been a tradition established to take care of accidental pregnancies).
The first year of training is extremely rigorous, and not a good time to be married under any circumstances. It's at least as hard and maybe harder than a medical intern's first year, when they are up all night every third night.
These kinds of strictures are in place for a reason, to determine who can make the sacrifices necessary to lead others towards the ultimate risk.
On the other hand, if you lose out on marrying the right person, another may never come along. In the old days, people planned on waiting as much as four years for all conditions to be arranged before they married. Sometimes the girl would go and live with the boy's parents if he was in the service. A friend of mine did that and even converted from prot to catholic for her officer husband, who ultimately was killed in Vietnam. Their story was told in the film "We Were Soldiers."
Bottom line, most of today's parents have little to say about their kids' decisions after the age of 18; the ACLU has made sure of it, and wants the state to have total control from birth onwards. But you are obviously a loving parent, so you have influence. Deliver your opinions and evaluations with love, and it will help.
Oh, happy day! Welcome home, heroes! Thank you for your brave defense of freedom!
Called the girlfriend first, huh? Oh, well, we parents know how to take turning into second fiddle.... How did you find out he called her first?
I believe that after completion of the first year of the Academy cadets are then given more freedoms and are allowed to marry. It is that first you, as you stated, that the rigor of the program makes being married extremely difficult. My wife and I would have no problem with this young woman coming and living with us if Robert chooses to apply for enrollment and makes it. But, the decision will be up to him and them. I can only give my advice, which I’ve done.
She called his mother after talking with him. She also sent me an email.
Oxygen feels great.
Neal Boortz refers to these girls as “flat-bellies”!;^)
LOL. Funny. I wish I could listen to him more.
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