16 Aug 2009

Mom-

So today at this moment we are getting our rifles issued to us. Which is nice. But I have had only one and a half hours of sleep since last night. I had to accompany my battle buddy to the emergency room. I tried to sleep there but it didn't really go too well. So I am pretty exhausted. And we have to take a long class about our rifles today too which I have to try my hardest to stay up for I am going to try and take some notes. One of my DS's was explaining the mail process to us and I found out that I can get my letters to you within a couple days but your letters can take anywhere from a week to 20 days just to get to me after all the sorting and seperating. I am going to try and have another discussion with a different ds here pretty soon about the whole plane ticket thing.I have been thinking, you should look up train tickets too just in case that may be cheaper. One dude told me that I should just rent a car and drive home, but that is such a long drive. Although if you decide to come down I might not even have to worry about all that. But it kinda all depends on if I can get the hometown recruting program. Pretty much just talk to SGT Dickson to you get the chance to. I was just thinking about our trip to Seattle. That was so much fun. I can't wait to do more things like that with you. So Day 3 is going ok so far besides that lack of sleep and all that good stuff. We hae a lot of shit to memorise right now. But we have been seeing other platoons and shit walking around and I have been asking thme when it starts getting better and they all say it gets better after the first couple of weeks. I have no idea what is going to be going on when I get done with training. I might have to go to my duty station right after all of it or if I might get some leave or something. I just need to talk to either my DS or Sgt Dickson. But I don't really get to use the phone that much so I don't really know what to do. All I know is that it would be so nice to be able to come back and do things. Like sleep. Idk Mainly I am just waiting for the years that I am doing this to go by and then I will have my money and stuff. And then I get to let my hair grow back. I hate having it so short and shit. I wouldn't mind if I could grow it out just a bit ya know. So I just got my rifle issued to me and it's like whatever. I don't really care right now I just wanna get training done and over with. I hate it. So I just got done talking to a completely different DS and shit about if I am going be able to come home or not and he pretty much told me he doesn't know but we looked at my contact and I am not doing Hometown recruiting now unless SGT Dickson can pull some string or something but I dk. I think you should give him a call still but don't even worry about the ticket I guess unless Sgt Dickson can 100% garantee that he got me in to htr. but if I do get some time before my next duty station or what ever then I will just buy a ticket at the airport or trainstation. what ever is cheaper. And that time will come out of my leave which I am cool with I guess. I dk I shouldn't even be worrying about all this on day 3 cuz I got like 96 more days to go. I just wanna come home when I can. I guess that I am homesick and it really sucks bad. I'm just not used to anything about this place but shit will get way better after this training. As long as I keep telling myself that then I should be fine. Plus I am getting paid for all this shit and well so that always nice to think about. I just hope I get a nice duty station somewhere and it better not be in f-ing Georgia. I know how to take my rifle apart and put it back together now. I thought it was awesome. I constantly get reminded of Forest Gump here. I wanna watch that movie now. How are the puppies? Getting big I bet. I wish I could see them again. I hope I get to call you soon. I don't get many calls these first few weeks or so if I get any at all. I'm so tired. I just wanna sleep for a couple of days. Eat some good food for once. I would kill for some Fatty Patty's right now like just getting that real bacon. My mouth is just watering. I miss Fritz. haha shit I miss just about everything about home. Hopefully I. will be able to make my own home after all this. At least something temporally while I'm in the army. I wanna try to get my own apt or something if not at least my own room somewhere. I hate these barracks and staff. Trying to tolerate all these people and just everything. It's just a lot of work. I wish time would just fly by while I'm here. So I just got done eating dinner chow and such and lately today I have been carrying around two M-4's cuz of my crippled battle buddy. I think I get to call you tonight. I hope so. :) I will let you know.. Ahh it was so nice to talk to you mom. That just made me so happy. I got a couple tears of joy from it. I don't care if it was mainly only long enough to give you the address it was just so nice to hear your voice tho. I can't wait to call you again. Or even get some mail from you. I hope it doesn't take to long. There was so much more I wanted to tell you. By the way the other Smith here says hi. I think there are 7 of us in the company but only me and another in this platoon. Well I can't wait to hear from you in some sort of way again.

Love ya Love ya
Jeremiah

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RECEIVED AUGUST 19TH 2009