Mobile

Just arrived home from Mobile.  Ouch.....Thats all I can say.  Walking all day in the snow with a 95lb ruck not so fun.  There were some fun parts however.  We learned some very interesting things about navigation that was really helpful.  We also got some great views out there aswell.  All in all it was a very hard phase for me, but made it through a better person for it.  Hope all is well at home.  Rocks next!

back out

Hello everyone back at home.  Just thought I would drop a line let everyone know how things are going over here.  Craig and I just got back from our teaching techs field portion.  We both had a great time and learned more about how our lessons will look when we are instructors.  We got back and had a couple days of and now it is back out to the field for Mobile.  For mobile we will be learning navigation skills using mostly compass and triangulation.  This is supposed to be a really beautiful phase where you can ee some good views so I hope to have some pictures.  We get back noxt Saturday have a couple days off then we are off to roughland evac training.  Hope all is well.   Love love check in again soon.  

Seattle

Hello.........

We just got back from Seattle.  We had a great time.  Its been like 8 years since I have been there so I was looking forward to seeing what I remembered.  Craig and I decided to get out of Spokane on Saturday and just started driving spur of the moment.  We were able to see the cousins which was awesome to catch up with them.  It was really great to see family out here.  

     Seattle was great aswell.  Craig and I spent alot of time at Pike Place Market.  That place is an awesome open air market.  Saturday we smoked a cigar overlooking the harbor....pretty relaxing.  Overall it was a very relaxing weekend.  

     On a side note, Friday before we left Craig and i were able to sit in on a briefing from one of the Rangers involved in Black Hawk Down.  If anybody does not know the story I highly recommend watching the documentary the the History Channel made on it.  This Ranger's name was Keni Thomas and he just told us about a couple of the lessons that he learned through his experience.  One of the things that stuck out to me was a verse he quoted from the Ranger training.  He said that this verse was on the grave stone of the men that died in that fight.  The verse was Isaiah 6:8, " Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said,  "Here am I. Send me!".