Fort Benning

Matt has shipped and is currently at Fort Benning, GA. He will be sending updates through me (mom) as soon as he can get mail out. I will do my best to keep this as up to date as I possibly can.

Last RSP drill

So at about Midnight (EST) last night, I got back from my last drill with RSP before I ship. It was actually pretty fun compared to the usual routine, we went out to the "field" on Saturday, which is to say we all piled in a van and drove out to the lake, did a company run, had some watermelon, then chow from Golden Corral like usual, followed by a good 4 hours of Ultimate Frisbee and Combatives. Sunday contained an ability group run, Ultimate Football, and some light DNC work during the last bit.

Preparing to ship

For those of you reading this, the purpose of this blog is to save me writing 800 letters to different people all saying the same thing. Still send me letters (The address will be posted here once I get to reception), but here is where i'll have family members uploading general information about what i'm doing in training at this time, to save me including that in every single letter I reply to.

So I got a call today from OC Dougherty telling me my shipdate was moved forward a day, from 29 July to 28 July, and I report to the hotel on the 27th.