Wow! I am a slacker. You would think with being on top of all my updates for everyone that I of all people would be all over this blog thing. Well here it goes. Since the last update its been over 3 weeks! Which means red phase is done, white phase is done and Dan is now in blue phase. He will graduate the BCT portion of his training in 18 days and get a 36 hour pass. His pass is actually going to be extended longer because it happens to land on Thanksgiving weekend! AMAZING! I was able to tell him by phone about my plans to come!
Originally I was not going to be able to make it. Ticket prices I were seeing were outrageous for Thanksgiving weekend but I didn't loose hope. I prayed about it often and new it would work out if I was meant to be there. One night I was glancing through flights and found a ticket for $355!!! Most that I had been seeing at this point were well on there way to the $600 price range. I thought well just for the heck of it I will check and see if the cabins on base have an opening. I had checked weeks earlier and they were all booked. Low and behold... one small cabin available the dates I needed. I called my parents to double check they could watch Aiden for the 2/3 nights and BOOKED IT! Wow! God is so awesome how He worked all that out! Not only that by my friend Sara's husband is in 2nd platoon and she will be arriving a few hours before me in Atlanta and we will be able to drive together to go get our guys. She is also staying in the cabins which works out perfectly. I know of about 3 other wives staying in the cabins too! So the plan is for me to fly out on Friday, November 25th in the morning, get to Atlanta and Dan will be released around 5pm. I will get him to myself Friday night and Saturday night and there has been some confusion if he will have to report back at 5am Sunday or 9pm on Sunday. Let's hope its 9pm!! My flight returns home on Monday. I am a bit nervous about leaving Aiden. I have never slept a night away from him but I know he will be in good hands and have lots of cousins around to play with.
Dan has been able to send me a consistent letter a week at least. This week I got 3 and 2 phone calls! His platoon won a competition and was given an hour and a half worth of calls! They broke it up so they get 3 half hour calls. I am hoping to get my 3rd one today. Dan qualified as sharp shooter on the range. Hence the title of the post. He was a bit disappointed. (I dont know why because sharpshooter is really good) He shared that he was having problems with his scope and after each shot he had to readjust it and each target pops up every few seconds. Other guys said it was windy on the range etc... Dan learned he will be able to re qualify when he reports to his first duty station and gets assigned to his unit there. He was excited to be able to have another opportunity to really do his best. Since our last conversation the part came in for his gun that he needed to correct the scope. Dan is doing great with all of the PT, he does his 2 mile run in 12:22 and is in the "A" group. This is great news because we have heard when he goes to his Airborne portion of training that he will be running a lot. Dan said they completed their 6 mile ruck march (40-50 pounds in his ruck sack) and said it wasn't that bad. So proud of him! It is hard to believe in just a few short weeks he will be doing his 12 mile ruck march to the top of Victory hill where he will get his "blood" wings pinned to him. It makes me emotional thinking of this. I can imagine his pride of accomplishing this huge challenge.
Until next time...
Please pray for 1. Dan through out blue phase including his 12 mile ruck march. 2. Travel mercies for my flight to Atlanta/my time away from Aiden
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