17 Sep 09

17 Sep 09

Mom-

Well today was pretty dirty. We had to learn how to properly crawl and it has been raining here a lot lately and we were in full battle rattle. Shit sucked. I didn’t get any mail from you just yet but I probably might get some after dinner chow. I forgot to tell ya but yesterday we got to buy pizza for qualifying with our rifles. Sucked tho because it was like $10 a pizza and they are only a medium size. I thought things were supposed to be cheaper for military personal. Weird. So I just got done cleaning my rifle off and stuff. It got pretty covered today. Anyways I hope I get a letter from you today. I wanna call you tho. Sucks I didn’t get through on Sunday. That is fine the week is almost over again. Tomorrow I think we go to the simulator again. We are training on urban ops and stuff now for our advanced rifle marksmanship. That’s like clearing buildings and awesome stuff. Walking and firing and I think we even do a long distance thing tho but I’m not sure. It would be cool since I want to be a sniper. Well shit I don’t think tomorrow is going to be too fun. We got a 4 mile ruck march also. That’s gonna be a toughie. I didn’t do too bad on the last ruck march but I think that was only 1 or 2 miles. Oh well this will help me prepare for the 15 mile march. But in that ruck march we have a 1 mile hill called the stairway to heaven. There’s another name for it but it’s very inaccurate, direction wise, it’s called the stairway to hell. But that’s supposed to be the very last obstacle thing on that march. Not to mention we have the FTX or Field Training Exercise which is pretty much a camping trip where we tie in just about absolutely everything we have learned though out our training. That’s going to be fun I think. That’s the divider of those who graduate and those who don’t. well shit no letter from you today I think they hold our mail every now and then. I know because they tell us that NONE of us have mail. That’s a lie. Oh well. Ima go. Gotta get lotsa rest.

Love ya
Jeremiah
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PS. Miss you. Just thought I’d throw that in there.

RECEIVED 09-21-09