Thursday was an entirely tiring and unnecessarily long day! I only got an hour of sleep the night before, and spent the remainder of the day processing in Baltimore and flying down to Columbia, S.C. Traveled distance so far is over 460 miles. I fully expect the milage count after I arrive at my duty station to be well into the thousands. Duh.
Anyways, Ill keep this short as I'm extremely tired and have a few things to take care of before racking out. I'm currently in South Carolina at Fort Jackson, the place I originally began my military career. When I graduated from basic training, I NEVER thought I would ever end up back here again...the world takes some funny turns. It's been really strange walking through some of the places I have strong memories of. Today I was being seen by the dentist, and just by looking down a hallway I somehow recognized being in 6 years ago, I had something like a flashback happen in my head. I instantly remembered lining up in that hallway waiting for some X-RAYS to be administered. I remember I was joking around with my newly-made friend at the time Matt Beyerlein. We ended up becoming really close friends throughout all of basic training. A few months after we graduated I had gotten bad news from a mutual friend/graduate that Matt had died in a horrible car accident in Fort Benning, G.A. while training up for his deployment to Iraq. The news hit me hard at the time, and the memory of my once good friend made me feel something really special today. I hope you now rest in the peace you never had at home man, this world was a better place with you in it.
Moving on. The good news is that everything is going just fine, and my final destination in Europe should become reality in a few days. The bad news is that it's going to take a few days. I'm here with about 21 other guys that are in a similar situation as me, apparently they'll all be stationed in Germany. When we get to Germany, we will then be sold out to different units across the country and the continent, like the cheap whores that we are :-)
I have a few things to take care of tomorrow early in the morning, but after that I have the weekend off and am free to go into town, roam around, and do my thing. We'll be going full throttle again come Monday, and we are expecting to fly out of here on the 16th. Clearly, this is a little longer than I expected, but it's not all bad. Just a bump on the road. Tomorrow I'll be calling some of you and elaborating on some further details, and will answer whatever questions you may have. That's all for now.
No comments:
Post a Comment