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Well, the day has come. I ship out Tuesday November 27th for Basic Military Training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio Texas. It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here. I wish you and yours a happy holiday season and many blessings. See ya in 8 weeks.

Joshua

Congratulations, brother. I'm sure that you're going to enjoy yourself.

God Bless you for your upcoming service.

Love in Christ, Eva

God Bless and keep you safe always! And give you the strength , courage and wisdom during your service!!

Luv in Christ
Tigerlily..

Hello Brother Joshua,

It's great to hear from you and CONGRATULATIONS! You'll be in our prayers that GOD will watch over you.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Joshua...... brother, I'll be keeping you in prayers.

I stand at attention in salute!!! As the daughter of a career soldier I respect your decision and give you honor... May the Lord lead and guide you ... in all your ways acknowlege him and he shall direct your paths...and remember the steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord... You will come across great temptation and it will be a challenge to stand up for who you are and what you believe... during those times you will find that cleansing yourself with his word will be a great source of strength ...Let him go before you... our strength is made perfect only thru him... when you get to the point where you feel like you can't go on...(those times will come) remember that when you have given all that you have and all of your strength God comes along to make perfect your strength...He is the lifter of your head...  You can do all things thru Christ who strengthens you....

I am not trying to be a nay sayer... just stating the facts and encouraging you ... I pray that these words from scripture will come to you in your time of need and bless you and provide encouragement...

You are devinely favoured

Wendy

You will love it, Joshua. I really did--about as much as I love having my teeth pulled. ;D Yeah, right! OK, seriously now. I did the first half of my basic training at Lackland in November, 1965 and went to Gunther AFB in Alabama for the second half. I froze my butt off in Texas and roasted in Alabama. I couldn't adjust from winter weather in Texas to summer weather in December in Alabama

Yes, I loved basic lol...not really.  I survived basic and am now at technical training at Keesler AFB in MS. The weather sucks, but it's ok, i'm bored on the weekends, but that's because i cannot go off base, and it's the whole meeting new people and all that. But it's fun and interesting.Oh well, off to chow...laterz

Congratulations, brother. Those boring weekends give you lots of time for study.  ;)

Congratulations!!

Glad to hear your doing okay brother.......... study good!! ;)

Yes lots of good time for Study...and do not forget that Sundays have worship services....even if they are not your denomination you can attend. 

Just do not get sucked into the pit of alcohol which is incredibly easy to do in the military and it is a temptation with lots of peer pressure to join.

Good luck and learn all you can and take advantage of every opportunity the military has to offer.

YEAH!  CONGRATULATIONS!

You are in our prayers.  It's great to hear from you, and I'm very happy to hear things are going well for you. Please do stop in from time to time and keep us posted about how you are doing.

In the meantime:


Love In Christ,
Tom

 

I take it you didn't do basic training? It's not fun.

Anyway, Joshua, I did mine in November and December of 1965. I froze in November at Lackland and roasted in December in Alabama and hated every minute of it. As hot as Alabama was in December I would hate to be there in the summer. We had guys passing out from the heat.

Yep, I did basic at Great Lakes from Nov 1969 to Feb 1970. The gas chambers were down, the obstacle course was snowed under, I never had to pull snow watch or do retribution on the grinder. The motivation exercises were a welcome activity for me. The worst that I had to do was take "swimming lessons" in a very cold indoor pool and to march to classes and chow in the cold, snow and freezing rain. All a piece of cake compared to Viet Nam and Desert Storm.

Besides that I was referring to the technical training that he is in now.  ;) ;D

 ;D

My Army Basic was July, 1967, at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and it was 150 Degrees (F) in the shade at 0200 A.M. The first thing they did was indoctrinate us on all of the poisonous snakes we would likely see before morning.   ;D  (Small Print - I might have exaggerated some about the temperature - BUT not the snakes.)

B-4-2  Up Tight and Outa Sight Drill Sergeant!   

We saw the swimming pools that the recruiter promised, but we never got to use them. It was a wonderful place, and I think that we ran through every swamp within 50 miles. BUT, we loved it and wanted more PT, and the Drill Sergeant was happy to oblige.   ;D

One thing I loved about basic was how the TI (training Instructor) kept telling us that we were lower than whale manure.  ;D In Alabama during the last half of my basic I was persecuted by the sergeant for being a Christian.

We hardly ever saw our Company Commander. He was an E-6 that was going to retire shortly after we our basic training was finished. A short-timer with a real short-timer attitude.

Heh, my TI was a little californian who looked like a chiwawa (sp) He was llike 5'5 and had to look up to see us.  He was our chow runner the last night of basic because we got 0 demerits on parade. So we had a good time after that. We had about 10 people got recycled...we started with 42 and closed out with 32. It was nuts. But our TI was nuts, but we respected him and he was cool. I'm in Miss. now, and will be headed to Germany when i finish up here. Things are alot more relaxed here, and i'm half way through with stuff here. :) Yay. Anyways, got laundry and other stuff to do, seeing as tomorrow is back to the work week. Laterz.

Joshua

YEAH Joshua!

CONGRATULATIONS!

It sounds like things are going good for you, and I'm happy to hear from you. You are in our prayers. It sounds like you got a good duty assignment, one that I hope you will enjoy. The adventure begins.

Ref. your TI, they're supposed to be a little bit nuts.   ;D  You would have been short-changed if your TI was completely sane. Take care and have fun. You will be in our prayers.

Love In Christ,
Tom

 

Another congratulations brother. Germany is a pretty good tour of duty. Many people try to get assigned there and never make it.


5' 5" you got a toughy (nuts) then. Us short ones have to be the nutty ones in order to make it.

Congrats brother

Good job on the basic.  And keep up the good work in the school.

Germany is nice, I spent one night there and by what I saw it was pretty, the people were nice.  I do not remember how to ask where the bathroom is...but oh well, people generally figure out what you are asking for by the time your legs cross and you start to wince :)

Praying for you inJesus Name
Faithgirl