Over the past 5 months we have gone to Florida for two weeks, came home for a week and left for our soldiers BCT graduation. While in South Carolina for the graduation, the little girl of the family pulled a freshly brewed cup of coffee over on herself giving her second degree burns, two of them border lined third degree. Of course we rushed her to the ER, where they decided that since the Burns covered 10% of her body she needed to be transported down to the Augusta, GA burn center... The complication with this, is that we needed to have our soldier to Virginia by midnight the next night.... He called his 1st sergeant who totally understood and told him to get there when he could and bring a letter from the doctor to verify. The doctors were great and worked with us and got our baby girl all cleaned up and bandaged within a few hours and we were ready to head to Virginia by noon the next day (accident happened on a Thursday and we were released on Friday).
We got our soldier to Virginia by 9pm and then he was granted a weekend pass so we got to enjoy another day with him! Aside from the little accident it was a great trip and it was soooooo emotional to see him. The kids were crying, he teared up and I just wanted to hug him and never let go!
It was so amazing. And then... AIT started. And one thing they don't warn you about is hold backs to get classed. His graduation date from AIT should have been July 31, and well it's August 6, and he's still there... He waited 7 weeks to get put in classes. In other words, he sat at AIT cleaning alllll day until his name was finally called to be put in a class. They also don't tell you that they have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shift classes. He was put in a 2nd shift class which has worked out well!! In the middle of July he was finally handed written orders and my jaw dropped when I learned where we are going.... HAWAII!!! I never thought we'd end up with an OCONUS location but I was very excited... At first. I will write another post of how to prepare for an OCONUS move, particularly to Hawaii since that is the only place I've moved to with the Army lol. Well am about to move to...
It's been a crazy journey, but I know it's soooo going to be worth it!!!
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