I'm finished inprocessing (after only 2 days! Woot!) and I'm heading to my unit tomorrow. Yay!

So here I am at Ft Hood after 19 hours of driving. The reception barracks are so ghetto...I don't even want to think about what's on this chair or the shower floor. *shudders* It was a really stressful trip, but I'm feeling better now that I'm here. Now I'm in for 3-4 days of waiting in line and filling out stuff. Oh boy...Then I finally get to see ( Read more... )

I'm so sick of being here and can't wait to come home. Not much longer, but it seems like forever. I have two weeks of hard tests coming up, so wish me luck.

I'm STILL at freaking Ft Leonard Wood ( Read more... )

Well, the first week of recon school is done. The PT is like 5 times harder than it was when I was in BCT/AIT. We run way farther and faster. Everyone in the platoon has been really sore all week. The people in the platoon are really cool. We have 3 LT's, a bunch of SGT's, like 3 or 4 SPCs, a PFC (other than me), a PVT or PV2, the two others that ( Read more... )

Hello from FLW! This time I come bearing pictures of our last Field Training Exercise.

( It was really really warm... )

Hi all. Yes, I'm still alive; I just haven't been able to use the internet for the past couple passes ( Read more... )

Well, another eventful week has gone by at Fort Lost in the Woods...This week was our Dragon Warrior week. Basically what we did this week was "fun training ( Read more... )

Hello from fabulous (not...) Fort Leonard Wood! Things have been going pretty well, other than that some of the females in my room and some of the people in my platoon have been driving me insane. The lack of discipline around here after 14 weeks of training is ridiculous. I mean, we're supposed to be soldiers now and only about 35% of the company ( Read more... )

We just got our electronic priveleges, woo-hoo! I bought a cellphone (a RAZR V3). My number is 573-452-3288. If you want to call me, do it after 8PM Central (that's 7 Eastern) or after noon on Saturday and Sunday ( Read more... )