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Friday, 20 August 2004

Starting OBC
I got here on Monday night at about 5:15pm. I shortly found out my orders were still not ready, and that due to a few other conditions I was stuck at the airport...Go Guard! Being inventive (and very courteous to the counter guy) we got a rental for a day and headed to Ft. Eustis to report in. Waking up two hours later we (me and LT Sanchez) went to our first formation and got weighed...along with everyone else in the class I had gained exactly 7 pounds (so they dont calibrate their scales...). This week has been boring briefings and our initial processing, with a PT test on Wednesday. Today we managed to lock our keys into our rental car... Needless to say, LT Sanchez is Mexican, and despite 15 years of living in Hawaii he was able to get the door open with 15 minutes and a wire hangar. Now we are on our first weekend here, and we have 16 weeks left to go. On that note I'll go celebrate, I'll try to post again in the next couple days, but classes will start next week and furter postings may be not very regular.

Posted by un/armyofone at 1:23 PM HDT
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Friday, 20 August 2004 - 3:04 PM HDT

Name: Aaron
Home Page: http://students.washington.edu/akarlen/

Hope things are going well with you Josh. Do you have your cell phone still and can you receive calls on it? Or do you have to call us? I just finished my last final today and will be returning to Hawaii shortly. It would have REALLY SUCKED to miss seeing you, so I am especially glad we did Vegas together. Coming home will be bittersweet.

-Aaron

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Wednesday, 25 August 2004 - 1:05 PM HDT

Name: un/armyofone

I have my cell phone, I can recieve (and make!) calls, but I -am- 6 hours ahead of Hawaii time. Make sure you and Rik toss a few back for me ;) I'm actually enjoying it over here and doing a lot of things I know you (and maybe even Rik) would enjoy; Yorktown was last weekend and it was pretty cool. There was a deer on the battlefield... I have a great picture of it. I'll post it if I can figure this darn webthingy out.

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