The Next Step on A Journey of Life(Army Times To Remember)
January 17th, 2007 found me on a bus to the Baltimore, MD airport to fly to St Louis, MO where I rode a bus down to Ft Leonardwood, MO. The change in tempurature and weather from VA that morning to MO. I went from a warm sunny day in VA to a frozen, two days after an ice storm day in MO! We signed into post and put our bags on a 3/4 ton Dodge with flat bed truck, (mind you we rode with our bags in the freezing temps on the back of the truck with just a small piece of canvas covering what the metal railing around the edge of the flat bed) Talk about cold. So started my 5 weeks of training in one of the craziest states in America. IT WAS SO COLD! LOL.
We trained in snow and cold driving trucks that on the most average day didn't have a working heater in it. We suffered thru the cold by bundling up as much as possible. 5 weeks we worked on trucks and driving snow, ice, freezing temps. Everything you can imagine in 5 weeks as far as cold weather goes. February 23rd after finishing my training in Leonardwood I got on a greyhound bus up to St Louis, MO where I got on a plane, flew to Phoenix where my parents picked me up and we headed to Yuma where I spent two weeks doing Hometown recruiting, this was great fun, 25 miles into town each morning and 25 miles back out each afternoon after calling students who would be graduating that year and asking if they wanted to enlist.
March 11th I went into Yuma Airport and boarded a flight that eventually ended up at Colorado Springs Colorado where I was picked up at the Airport and taken to Ft Carson where I would spend the next 18 months.
Those 18 months at Ft Carson were some of the best days of my life. Over the next few post I will write of those moments that made up for the whole! From meeting Ray, to NTC, to Pre Deployment, and thru my medical dilema. As my journey of life through words continues I know some people won't understand why I am writing this but these few post are for more my benefit than anything so that in the future I can look back and realize what I went through to get to where I am today and where I am going to in the future!
Always and Forever,
Me, Jamie Ann
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