She’s a Marine now! She completed the Crucible and was awarded her Globe and Anchor on Saturday. She called us on Sunday to let us know; she was terribly excited. Sounded like she has galloping consumption, though. Apparently the climate at Parris Island gives everyone a nasty upper-respiratory crud.
Graduation is a week from Friday.
The wonders of boot camp. Whenever the air wing embarked aboard the carrier, they always brought that same upper respiratory disease. 😷