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hola c,

how goes the training these days down in Virginia? you all picked a splendid time to go to the field, july in virginia, the only thing worse is august in iraq.....it will be a mild winter for you though which will be nice....the candidates finished up the first 6 week increment last friday with a good old fashioned Marine Corps parade, 4 companies graduated with about 800 junior and senior candidates finishing up their respective training. makes you reaffirm your belief in the next generation, if those kids want to be an officer that bad that they are willing to sacrifice their summers to get yelled at, condition hiked, starved, deprived of their sleep, made to go through the quigley time after time, then i think the future of the Marine Corps is in relatively safe hands, at least from what i saw.

i have some pics from the family reunion down in leonardtown, no one there knew everyone, which makes me feel good since i'm so bad with names and faces, especially with people i've known all my life but only see once every 3 years or so. grogan and lynn made an appearance, he took a break from his busy test pilot syllabus, good to catch up with them. pappas and pikey were unavailable.

well hope the training is going well and you are learning a lot, knowledge is power!

semper kill,
will

hola

sounds like your classes are arduous and eye ball piercing. that is interesting that people would venture into iraq to do trafficking in persons, seems like there are safer places in the world to do that. i was extremely ecstatic to see Zarqawi got his just due earlier this week. that was a huge strategic victory, not much will change at the tactical level i think. glad to hear gigi is doing well, miss bebba is blue i'm sure, she's probably all over your mom these days.

ocs is going well, but the hours are merciless and i caught the candidate crud a few days ago. the PT isn't all too bad, but for them, they probably sleep less than us and have no downtime at all, it catches up. it is somewhat rewarding, albeit challenging.

have a good week of training...

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