02 Sep 09

02 Sep 09

Dear Mom-

So today we finally got some action around here. Wasn’t live rounds it was just a simulator. And the main thing was grouping your shots together instead of aiming and of course I did a little of both and did pretty good. And I had an MRE for lunch so yeah screw your Oregon burrito. You were mentioning that in the letter I got from you today. Oh yeah btw I got a letter from you today J I bet Gretchen was being goofy. I miss getting pummeled by all those dogs. I can’t believe how fast you are selling those puppies. I’m sure that by the time you get this letter you will have already sold them all. Maybe even by right now. That makes me happy that things are working out for you especially after you quit HD. I’m sure there could have been some scary thoughts there. I get your letters in about a week on average sometimes 4 days sometimes 8. I don’t think one has taken that long though. And I don’t know why you aren’t getting letters from me everyday because I write you everyday. In fact, since we are talking about me writing to you so much, last night I was on CQ duty and 10 to 11 and I was woken up late so I had no time to change. I got down there and did my accountability of the company and then asked for a piece of paper from somebody and started writing you a letter when the DS came down so I put underneath the binder and then he sent me upstairs to get my damn helmet and when I got back down everything was rearranged and my letter was sitting right there. I got yelled at a little and then he made me go upstairs and get the platoon awake and downstairs in formation. He made them do a few push ups and then explain about a dumbass writing a letter on duty and how that a no no. yeah that was my first slip up. It wasn’t that bad because half of everybody was still up doing laundry anyways and the only did like 10 push ups. Nobody has really said anything to me at all yet but yeah. I apologized to everyone already anyways. Plus today not even that long ago we just had to do a peer evaluation where we had 1-14 spaces to put people 1 being the best and 14 being the worst. Plus two questions saying who would we most want to go to battle with and who would we never want to go to battle with. Yeah. I’m afraid I might be on one or two naughty list. Oh well its supposed to be a majority thing and I know that I’m not going to get kicked out for that. Which is what can happen if you get the majority vote as worst. Besides that and the firing range simulator that reminded me about Ft Lewis pretty much, nothing else is new. We fire live rounds on Saturday but everyday till then we keep using the simulator. I still think that I’m losing weight cuz I feel like I’m getting thinner but we don’t have a scale in our barracks. So who knows. Almost done with red phase. Things are already starting to get easy. The only kinda hard thing now mainly in the PT in the morning which is kinda like P.E. just with more yelling. Haha. I hope you are getting my letters pretty quick, because my face still smiles every time I see the DS carrying mail in here. But I don’t seem to be getting mail from you everyday although I’m sure you, like me, write everyday. I’m putting mail in the crate every night and it gets taken down every morning way early. So yeah. I don’t see why your aren’t getting mail from me everyday. But anywho. I’m just sitting on my empty bottom rack now that my bunk mate is gone. Oh well he really wanted to go. He prayed every night. So I was thinking about it kinda hard and technically I only have 52 days of training left since the days I have already done are done. I get every Sunday off and the last two weeks are really nothing plus my mid training/family day break after the 4 weeks of basic are over. So yeah 52 days left. Not bad at all and the family day is on October 10th so that really doesn’t seem that far away either. A little more than, well a week and a month away. DS says now that on person is gone that lots more people are going to start going. I don’t doubt if cuz I believe the count is up to 5 or 6 and that’s just from people who have actually said something. Damn pussies. After red phase they can quit but that’s when the hardest part is over. And they think they get to go right home. They stay here longer than us usually. If you come you will see them directing traffic at graduation and stuff. Anywho I don’t need a list of things I wanna do when I get a chance to go back home. All I wanna do is catch up on doing nothing with you. Haha. If something comes up where we want to do something then we can go do that. I just hope that when you do see me well I should when I do get a chance to come home that you would be able to let me use the truck ya know. I could pay the insurance if need be. But I wanna be able to go do all my things like see Andy and ride around with him. Not only that but ya know what I mean. Plus I will especially need it if I get hometown recruiting. If you don’t want to that’s fine. I’m just going to rent a car which I might need your help with that too sometimes you have to be 21. Here I go planning the future still. Haha. The good thing is that when I do it that my plans rarely change at all. J. Renting a car might not be bad at all tho. Maybe I could get something cool. And if I get hometown recruiting then maybe the Army can pay for some of it, but I’m sure I can get a military discount. Which BTW if you go anywhere while your with me then you can use my discount haha. Damn if only I was around for the garage door. Haha. I miss you mamma. I hope you got your check I sent you. With it’s funny little note on there too haha. I love ya lots and lots after all you are my favorite mother. J. Well I hope I get another letter from you tomorrow. I know I’ll be sending one. But it gives me more things to write about when I get them. So that means longer letters to you.

Love ya
Jeremiah
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(By the way, everwhere there's a "J" by it self it's a smiley face, it just copy/pastes from Word that way.)