27 Aug 09

27 Aug 09

Dear Mom-

So yup now I’m certified in level 1 combatives. I had to go 2 rounds against drill sergeant and I couldn’t hit him or swat away his punches and to end the round I had to clinch him which means get to a position where his punches are ineffective. Three people got knocked out and one or two got a broken nose. I did totally fine. Both of my rounds ended like in 7 seconds. I just sped right in there and did what I had to. I think that I took a few body shots and maybe on grazed the top of my head. I not in no pain like some people tho. And my nose had one drip from me shoving my face into DS’s ribs. Well its about 4:15pm right now and I think they are letting us have the rest of the day to get back to normal. I saw the mail crate go in so I’m sure I will get something from you today. Once again I can’t wait for chow. I think they already got me on the eating schedule. Haha. I can seriously go to sleep at any point during the day. I’m like always tired kinda. But we start medical training tomorrow. That’s like 5 days of classroom time plus the IV thing. Sounds kinda nice to me. After that, I should be close to being done with red phase. Well chow was pretty good. Either I’m getting used to it or it’s just not that bad. But for dinner I had spaghetti and corn. Which I mixed together. Haha. But yeah it wasn’t that bad. Anyways I don’t know if we are getting any mail today or not. I know that I have something from you and I saw the dude that handles all that carrying the mail crate outta his office, but yeah I think they would have given it to us by now. Now there is some high school bitch drama bull going on. I’m so tired of it all. Why can’t they just do like me and just let all that shit go. 14 weeks of each other then we are done with each other. I’m tired of all this dick measuring. That’s all that some of these people seem to do. It’s like some of them need to go jerk off or something, seriously. Whatever, I’m more pissed at the fact that I can’t get my letter from you or anyone for the matter cuz I might have more mail. I don’t care. Then the DS just came and gave us our third dam teamwork speech and yeah I doubt that even going to help. They had had 2 of their own little platoon group huddles saying shit like they need to come together and yeah still the same old bull. I didn’t even bother joining in on either of their gathering. Nobody has even noticed it or mentioned anything about it either. Guess this whole shadows thing is working out. Me and smith are talking about pay because they are supposedly paying us for the whole month but who really knows with the army and stuff. As long as I get my money and then get it to you plus what I owe you, I’m not going to be that worried about it. When I go overseas I even get paid extra for combat and/or hazard pay. So that’s more money. Then Im Prolly going to wait a while before I buy my car and stuff ya know. Because when am I going to need it when I’m overseas? Plus I’m planning on living off of base, even tho its free to live on base, you get and extra allowance for living off base. Which I think I will Prolly end up with a little extra money from that allowance and I can pocket that or box it up. I’m just getting my stuff set straight already and if I need to improvise on it later that I can do that. I think I going to make a list of all the different foods I’m going to eat on my 36 hour family break after my 9 weeks are done. It’s gonna suck the day I have to come back but oh well. It will totally be worth it. Today is seemed like I saw another species or something cuz there were a bunch of family members here. I’m pretty sure there is going to be a graduation tomorrow because they said today was the turning blue ceremony where your family member comes up and puts on your blue infantry cord or ribbon or something. I’m pretty sure it’s the blue cord tho. That was funny. We get smoked if we stare at the civilians. Especially the females. But that’s if we get caught. Haha. Course there is this one dumbass that is from Boston that always whistles or something. Trying to get us into trouble or something. I wish we could like get a deck of cards or something cuz it gets pretty boring here. But apparently its contraband. And people are still bitching. Bleh. You know what’s funny is I think I’m losing weight. Haha. I thought I’d be gaining weight. Prolly will tho here pretty soon. Who knows. Well I think I’m going to go take a shower and go to sleep. Today was tiring.

Love ya,
Jeremiah,
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RECEIVED AUGUT 30TH 2009