From Blackwater Training Center North Carolina:

I know that it has been several days since I posted, but I wanted to make sure I passed all testing and didn’t get sent home. Well, I passed everything and will be graduating on Friday. My good friend Moose, who I spent two years with in Iraq, is also here. I believe we are in the top three of the oldest out of a class of twenty five. I won’t lie; I thought I was going to die during the run. Someone said they heard a pop when I ran by indicating I broke the sound barrier. I told them it wasn’t the sound barrier, it was my lungs. I STILL hurt from that run and to top it off, the hotel had no hot tub available. I have got to let my fifty three year old body have a serious talk with my eighteen year old mind. Anyhow, I will fly home Saturday and spend two more week there, then return to North Carolina to await deployment to Afghanistan. Peace.