9 More Days!!!

Yes, today is the first single-digit day in the countdown to the day I get to see him again. We talked for about an hour on Sunday and he had some awesome stories to tell! The platoon did a 15K ruck march to the Forward Operating Base (FOB) and stayed there for a couple days. They got to apply the things they have learned to a role play type thing. My favorite story was the one Shaun told about being a bad guy, apparently he really enjoyed that ;). He and one of his battle buddies were sitting in the back of a truck headed toward one of the road blocks of the enemy (our soldiers). Shaun had a bomb and his partner had a pistol. Shaun quickly hid his bomb in an ice cooler underneath a couple bags of ice. The pistol was put in the man's back pocket and they were searched. The soldier who searched Shaun had him remove one bag of ice as the cooler was searched but not the other so the bomb remained in the vehicle. Somehow they missed the pistol in the guy's back pocket as well (scary huh?). Well just as too groups walked by the truck, Shaun blew them all up. Shortly after his battle buddy whipped out his pistol and shot a whole bunch of people. Shaun was captured and put in jail but the guards weren't paying attention so he just ran away. When he returns you need to ask him to tell the story. He had me laughing the whole time. I hope the soldiers are learning their lessons because we don't want the bad guys to win in real life. :) Shaun seems to be doing very well. There are just a couple more days of training this week. At the moment he's out in the field once again. But they will shortly be done and the next couple of days will just be devoted to returning their equipment and things. Then there's just waiting until family day and graduation. I'm glad I can stay busy instead of having to do nothing and just wait for the day I can see him. He said it'll be pretty hard but he has made a lot of friends so I'm sure he'll continue to have fun up until the end.