I'm back, married, and ready to move!

Cake at the wedding!

Well, Fort Knox is now a thing of the past, thank God! The last week of training was chaos and I didn't write anyone. In fact, the last two weeks were chaos. We spent a week in the field doing day and night exercises, in which the more "experienced" inserts kept getting everyone lost or killed. And the last week was 20 hours each day of cleanup. We cleaned so much STUFF that I may never clean anything again. It was completely ridiculous.

After graduation I jumped on a plane and came back to Portland. I did two weeks of hometown recruiting, which was interesting. Basically it was my job to hang out in public places and talk to people about the Army. It sounds like most people don't really do anything at all, but I actually worked on it quite a bit. Portland is such a difficult place to recruit from, and it was extremely frustrating. What amazed me is that the Army hadn't figured out a better way to use us. It would have worked WAY better if the recruiters had taken us to schools and places like that. Instead, we just wandered through malls all day.

Oh, and my truck decided to die. On the way down to Woodburn to check on our wedding rings, the water pump went out, it split the radiator and broke the exhaust manifold. We had the truck towed to Chuck and Jaira's, fixed it, and then two days later, the alternator died. So I fixed that in the driveway. After all that work, the truck had better last a few thousand more miles.

Lindsey's grandmother nearly died, so Lindsey went out to Michigan for a few days. As soon as she got back, it was non-stop wedding preparations until the 19th, when we got married. I'll post another posting on the wedding, because I just got back from our honeymoon, and have quite a bit of stuff to do. But thank you to everyone who was there and everyone who sent such supportive cards and thoughtful gifts.


More later,
Trey

P.S. I will be maintaining this site now that I'm back, so you can all expect more updates!