See you in three months..

  Last week, a fellow poolee, Travis Hull, had a "going away BBQ." I realize since I won't be leaving for another five months or so I will be meeting a lot of new people and seeing a lot of people leave. This really sucks because I am so anxious and grow only more anxious to leave. Anyway, it was freezing but of course he still had the BBQ on the beach. Its pretty cool how his family treated me because I was also a future Marine. I recognized his cousin as a fleeting Marine MOS 03 infantry. He and I started talking because I knew I knew him from somewhere I just could not remember where. He said he ran PT one week at the office and I immediately remembered. He asked me when I leave for bootcamp and I told him in July, he shared that he's going to be deployed to Afghanistan while I'm in bootcamp. We all played basketball, which was kind of hard thanks to the wind. We ate and finished by having a cake with the Marine Corps insignia, the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor. After that, everyone, including me, started packing up and went on their way. I shook Hull's hand and wished him goodluck to write to the office when he gets his platoon and everything. It takes about a week so we should be getting his address soon. I intend to write to him so he can tell me a little about bootcamp from his perspective.