We were so grateful for a phone call from Josiah this past Saturday.
He said that it was quite hard to return to the base after Family Day but the Drill Sargents made sure they were whipped back into shape :)
His squad has changed as there are men who have been in the Army, but not the infantry, who joined them for this Advanced Training. This has improved their particular squad and has resulted in Josiah no longer being the squad leader which is fine with him.
He told us not expect to hear from him for awhile now as they will be doing CQB (Which means Close Quarters Battles --think Urban Warfare) and then many field exercises (Camping with guns) as well as their harder marches.
He is doing quite well and all the soldiers are counting the days til graduation.
Trevor and Jonathan also spent time talking with him but I do not know the particulars of their conversations.
We did arrange for him to receive some "mushy" letters with scribblings on the back for the DS to read but what happened is the DS read the back of the envelope before seeing the front and when he flipped it, he was so surprised it was for "Wallis" that nothing came of it. BTW--the letter was from our dog, Mysterie, and another from a family from Tennessee--just having fun with him.
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