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News from the Base

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Josh Skyped last night from his base in Honduras.  After three weeks he is settling in to the job and to life on the base.  He was having a quiet night to get up early for what he called an “MW&R” trip.  “MW&R?” we asked. “Morale, Welfare, and Relaxation” Josh replied.  Everything’s an acronym or [...]

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Deployed

Monday, February 8, 2010

After 15 months of training–Basic Combat Training, Officer Candidate School, Basic Officer Leadership Course, and Signal Corps–our son Josh, a/k/a Second Lieutenant Randall, left Fort Gordon, GA this morning for a 13-month deployment in Honduras.  He’s stationed at Soto Cano Air Base.  The U.S. military mission includes drug interdiction, humanitarian efforts, and god-knows what else.  [...]

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Sobering Words

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

After graduating from Army Officer Candidate School Josh spent two weeks at home, assigned to a local recruitment office.  “Recruiting” did not require that he break a sweat, a nice break after six months of Basic Combat Training and OCS.  He left for Fort Gordon, GA yesterday.  He has six more months of training and [...]

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Military graduation

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

We attended Joshua’s graduation from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, GA last week.  OCS graduation does not provide the same spectacle as graduation from Basic Combat Training–no smoke bombs–which is more in keeping with the graduates’ entry into professional soldiering.  As our newly-minted 2nd Lieutenant says, “I’m now lower middle management.”

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Hiding in Plain Sight

Sunday, March 1, 2009

I’m searching for the Army’s Fort Benning website to find information about graduation dates for my son’s  Officer Candidate School.  I click the link to the URL https://www.benning.army.mil/ocs/.  The page fails to resolve and I receive this message:
www.benning.army.mil uses an invalid security certificate.  The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.  (Error [...]

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Scenes From Basic Training

Monday, February 9, 2009

Selected photos from my son’s graduation from Army Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina.  (Other photos are here.)

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