Hey Everyone,
Yesterday I had my second future soldier meeting and I had a blast! We played a couple rounds of Softball and had a picnic!!!
We met at the recruiting station and all had to have a one on one with the big dog to make sure there was nothing stopping us from being able to ship! After that we all carpooled over to Fastnight Park.
There were well over 50 people there, family and friends were invited but I'd say around 20 of us were future soldiers!!!
There were four teams of 10-12 players, I was on team 3 and we rocked (we only scored 5 while everyone else scored quite a bit higher)!!! I actually did really well and it only took me about 2 times to hit the ball (we stayed at bat until we hit it), I never made it to first base but I was proud of myself and so was my mom! She says I ran like a girl (which I am so I have an excuse) but Sergeant told me I did really good of going out there and sprinting)!!!
After we each played two rounds we went and had hamburgers and hot dogs. I was starving and the food was good!!!
After lunch we all got briefed on Basic and Reception Week. They mentioned to parents to write but stay on a positive note; if your house burns down, if you get sick and have to go to a hospital, or someone falls a breaks a bone don't tell us because there isn't one darn thing we can do about it. Now, if someone dies then they are suppose to contact the red cross and the red cross will take care of it (we can leave to go to the funeral). I've already warned my family not to die because if I leave then it postpones my graduation date!!! They told us the same thing; if we are homesick don't write home and tell our family about it, we can write our recruiter about how much we hate them but don't tell mommy and daddy, we also got told not to over exaggerate because what mommy and daddy know is what we tell them. We got warned to write our recruiters or there will be consequences, but there will also be consequences for writing them too (you can never win)!! We got told some words of advice and then got told to get out!!
It was fun and I always like socializing with other future soldiers because they are the few people that are doing and going through the same thing you are!!
Once again I got bragged about by one of the recruiters for getting airborne and medic; they are prized possessions in the Army and not very many people can get them. I'm lucky and I constantly get reminded about it!
I was on the news (KOLR 10) last night for about 2 seconds. Sergeant Combs (one of the recruiters that helped to talk me into going active) wanted them to come to give us some recognition.
I'm sunburned but it'll turn into a tan (I'm not looking forward to a farmers tan though).
I'll post more pictures once my computer decides to stop being retarded!!
Yesterday I had my second future soldier meeting and I had a blast! We played a couple rounds of Softball and had a picnic!!!
We met at the recruiting station and all had to have a one on one with the big dog to make sure there was nothing stopping us from being able to ship! After that we all carpooled over to Fastnight Park.
There were well over 50 people there, family and friends were invited but I'd say around 20 of us were future soldiers!!!
There were four teams of 10-12 players, I was on team 3 and we rocked (we only scored 5 while everyone else scored quite a bit higher)!!! I actually did really well and it only took me about 2 times to hit the ball (we stayed at bat until we hit it), I never made it to first base but I was proud of myself and so was my mom! She says I ran like a girl (which I am so I have an excuse) but Sergeant told me I did really good of going out there and sprinting)!!!
After we each played two rounds we went and had hamburgers and hot dogs. I was starving and the food was good!!!
After lunch we all got briefed on Basic and Reception Week. They mentioned to parents to write but stay on a positive note; if your house burns down, if you get sick and have to go to a hospital, or someone falls a breaks a bone don't tell us because there isn't one darn thing we can do about it. Now, if someone dies then they are suppose to contact the red cross and the red cross will take care of it (we can leave to go to the funeral). I've already warned my family not to die because if I leave then it postpones my graduation date!!! They told us the same thing; if we are homesick don't write home and tell our family about it, we can write our recruiter about how much we hate them but don't tell mommy and daddy, we also got told not to over exaggerate because what mommy and daddy know is what we tell them. We got warned to write our recruiters or there will be consequences, but there will also be consequences for writing them too (you can never win)!! We got told some words of advice and then got told to get out!!
It was fun and I always like socializing with other future soldiers because they are the few people that are doing and going through the same thing you are!!
Once again I got bragged about by one of the recruiters for getting airborne and medic; they are prized possessions in the Army and not very many people can get them. I'm lucky and I constantly get reminded about it!
I was on the news (KOLR 10) last night for about 2 seconds. Sergeant Combs (one of the recruiters that helped to talk me into going active) wanted them to come to give us some recognition.
I'm sunburned but it'll turn into a tan (I'm not looking forward to a farmers tan though).
I'll post more pictures once my computer decides to stop being retarded!!
Heather
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