25 Aug 09

25 Aug 09

mom-

Gah! So we just got done with our two mile ruck march. My shoulders are a little sore but that’s it. My feet feel amazing tho. We are turning our sheets and pillow cases in right now so we can get clean ones. I mainly just sleep on top of all my covers. Then we are going to bleach everything cuz a lot of people are sick and trying to spread it. Then we are going to do more combatives. I’m waiting for chow. I’m hungry. It’s almost 4 in the morning for you right now. We are all still planning on what we are gonna do for our family day. I’m planning on getting a hotel room and just gonna eat food, ice cream junk food watch TV and use my cell phone. Haha. Who knows. I should be getting paid within the next week or so. So you might be getting a check here pretty soon. Maybe two depending on how much I get paid. But yeah you’ll know. We are pretty alike tho. I was reading your letter again. I still laughed when you total me about Fritz rolling off the bed. I can just picture it happening in my head. So did mike get that job or no? I think that would be a good job. I kinda have always wanted to be a mailman or ups/fedex guy. But hey if mike does get that job then technically we will both have government jobs haha. I just wish my training was as quick and easy as his. I bet it pays pretty good. I wonder if it is going to be by the mile tho. Still its Prolly pretty good. So now I keep hearing the whole duty station knowledge at about 5 weeks. Sounds kinda convincing but I still a just trying not to get my hopes too high. At one point just few people were saying that 80% of this graduating class or whatever is going to be stationed at FT Hood TX. Just cus they also said a lot of the last cycle went to korea. I would kind like to get stationed out of the country. I was gonna have my three picks be italy, germany, or Alaska. But who know. So yesterday I also got a letter from michelle. I thought that was kinda weird. But she didn’t really say the exact words but I’m thinking that she checked everyday for the address to come up. She did say it was her routine to do that. But she also keeps asking me if I could spend some of my break with her. I got other priorities. Like spending lots of time with my family. Then my close friends. And then maybe other people. Ahh! So the drill sergant just gave us this long speech about how he hates quitters and this isn’t that bad. It was kinda inspiring and motivational. Not saying that I wanna quit. Just helped me stay in check a bit. The main thing I will remember that he said is “do not base militarty life off of basic training. It is nothing like that. If it was that, then I would have been going a long time ago. That’s what I have been thinking to myself kinda. So chow is pretty soon. I’m hungry. I can’t wait to eat some actual food. So I just got done eating lunch chow plus all the combatives and damn. I just feel like I have a food baby. Its not a good feeling at all. But it was nice to eat to combatives is going by alright. Just learing stuff that I pretty much already knew but just how to do it more in the actual way. Me and the other smith are talking to other people about how its pretty stupid to quit now. Especially after red phase is over with. But we found out that there are 5 people trying to quit which is Prolly why the DS gave that speech today. But the company commander who is a 26 year old captain said that after red phase it pretty much just shooting rifles all day and then coming back plus the whole PT in the morning. And yeah I just don’t get why people would want to quit. But what ever. To each his own. There are f-ing shit up for the rest of us that actually want to be here. So screw them. My stomach finally feels better. Now they are talking about OJ simpson and stuff. Jeez now they are talking about Rodney King. Now its if jesus was white or black. Sometimes these people are just funny. What ever. So just so you know if we ever have a family emergency and I’m in the military, you can get a hold of me or send me notice through the RED CROSS. They pretty much send out an emergency telegram or whatever to me way fast and yeah. But I don’t really know how you use it or whatever. But yeah just to let you know. Because if you can’t call me, it will reach me faster than a letter. So we just got done with more combatives and we started pairing up and rolling which just means wrestling against each other. And then we had to start doing face slaps and body shots. I didn’t get hit that much at all. And now we are getting ready for evening chow. Pretty soon we are gonna start doing medical classes which won’t be bad. During some point of the medical we have to pair up and give each other IV’s. some people are scared but I’m not. I know how to use a needle and I’m sure I can put in an IV. Ahh so mail just came in and I got one more ltter from you. I was excited. Plus on from tammy and one from my friend Xanthia. So yeah this one was from the 20th so I think it might take 5 days at the soonest. I dk but anyways. Yes I miss talking to you so much. We do just kinda go along so well. We can just talk to each other and help each other out. People always call me a momma’s boy and I am always prouod to admit it. But uhh yeah I bet it will be nice to have that break. Well I’m sure Fritz will survive he will just have some powerful seed for the next batch. Haha. I miss him. And sadie. I can’t think of Sadie having bad intentions unless somebody is in her bubbl. I know Dutch was going to grow into a lion haha. I told you. Ya should have named him samba or mufusa. That way you could walk up to him and be like “Que passa mufasa: J. Seem like the business was a good ideal for you. Makes me happy. Yeah the humidity here is mainly what gets me. But it is kinda mellowing down. We had a cold front yesterday. But I will write you tomorrow. To be honest on one part I don’t like being independent cuz I like to be around you. But its gotta happen eventually. Well I miss ya bunches.

Love Ya
Jeremiah
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RECEIVED AUGUST 28, 2009