7-18-14
Phase 1 is done!!! Swim week is over!! I am so glad that this week is over. Phase 2 of their training starts on Monday -- with the Gas Chamber. Recruits will learn to use masks and will have to break the seals on their masks to experience first-hand the effects of the tear gas -- YIKES! We are averaging a letter a week - sometimes several to different family members in the same envelope:) for which we are extremely grateful.
I am a member of two wonderful support groups on Facebook. We all chat late into the night. I hope we get to meet at graduation so I can tell them that knowing my feelings aren't uncommon mean to me. They even post pictures of the recruits from different platoons. I cannot express how actually laying eyes on my recruit has made me feel!
I am beginning to explore graduation gifts. At present am leaning toward a ring.
Please keep him and his fellow recruits in your thoughts and prayers. Only 8 more Fridays before graduation:)
Friday, July 18, 2014
Friday, July 4, 2014
Weekly Training Schedule @ Parris Island
7-4-14
Happy Birthday, America!! Perhaps this year, more than any other, the meaning of this holiday has been more meaningful than before!
Our recruits are finishing up their 3rd week of training -- 1/4 of the way through! I hope they were able to see a little of the fireworks that Parris Island had.
Hurricane Arthur missed them - thank goodness! Praying for the coast of NC and VA.
We got some wonderful news today! Cory Dismuke has been medically cleared and is expected to rejoin the next recruit class!
Warren's mom ran in a marathon in Atlanta today - she did great!
Me, I have been reading most of the day, except for the time that I took my nap:)
On to week 4! Please keep them in your prayers.
7-4-14
Happy Birthday, America!! Perhaps this year, more than any other, the meaning of this holiday has been more meaningful than before!
Our recruits are finishing up their 3rd week of training -- 1/4 of the way through! I hope they were able to see a little of the fireworks that Parris Island had.
Hurricane Arthur missed them - thank goodness! Praying for the coast of NC and VA.
We got some wonderful news today! Cory Dismuke has been medically cleared and is expected to rejoin the next recruit class!
Warren's mom ran in a marathon in Atlanta today - she did great!
Me, I have been reading most of the day, except for the time that I took my nap:)
On to week 4! Please keep them in your prayers.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
7-2-14
Welcome to week 3! The should be dealing with Pugil sticks, which for the life of me, look like giant Q-tips:) Hopefully, this will let them take out some of their frustrations. Here is what they look like:
We have received our second letter (JOY)! He sounded much more upbeat in this one! He says the food is pretty good, but they are salting everything to try to keep from sweating so much - hate to tell him, it's Parris Island - in the middle of summer - nothing is going to help. He was very proud of the fact that he had been told he made a tight rack - really - prior to this, I don't think he's made his bed 5 times throughout his life! He also has great rolled sleeves - so that's why he obsessed over doing them over and over for months before he left. He wrote that he had developed a love for hard-boiled eggs too.
In his letter, he wrote that it rained last Thursday (the letter was written on Friday) night. He describes it as insane - and that he thought it was a hurricane. Little did he know that off the coast of Florida the first tropical storm of the season - Author - was forming. Should hit the Carolina coast early tomorrow (7/3) and may be upgraded to a category 1 hurricane. I know they will be kept safe, it's just a little more training they will go through:)
News is that his friend, Cory Dismuke, is doing better and may resume training next week. Logan and Warren are rack mates. I can't tell you how relieved that made me feel. Logan has never had trouble making friends, but having a good friend whom you've know for a while, has got to be comforting - especially since you are going through the same experiences.
Keep praying!
Welcome to week 3! The should be dealing with Pugil sticks, which for the life of me, look like giant Q-tips:) Hopefully, this will let them take out some of their frustrations. Here is what they look like:
We have received our second letter (JOY)! He sounded much more upbeat in this one! He says the food is pretty good, but they are salting everything to try to keep from sweating so much - hate to tell him, it's Parris Island - in the middle of summer - nothing is going to help. He was very proud of the fact that he had been told he made a tight rack - really - prior to this, I don't think he's made his bed 5 times throughout his life! He also has great rolled sleeves - so that's why he obsessed over doing them over and over for months before he left. He wrote that he had developed a love for hard-boiled eggs too.
In his letter, he wrote that it rained last Thursday (the letter was written on Friday) night. He describes it as insane - and that he thought it was a hurricane. Little did he know that off the coast of Florida the first tropical storm of the season - Author - was forming. Should hit the Carolina coast early tomorrow (7/3) and may be upgraded to a category 1 hurricane. I know they will be kept safe, it's just a little more training they will go through:)
News is that his friend, Cory Dismuke, is doing better and may resume training next week. Logan and Warren are rack mates. I can't tell you how relieved that made me feel. Logan has never had trouble making friends, but having a good friend whom you've know for a while, has got to be comforting - especially since you are going through the same experiences.
Keep praying!
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