Nate's Letter #2 (1/6/04):
Mikey, everyone,
still in processing at the reception station. my company, Bravo Company, is scheduled to move out to our basic training location on friday. tomorrow we have a PT assessment to make sure everyone passes minumum qualifications to move on. as soon as basic training actually starts, i'll have an address. may even be able to make a phone call once in awhile. but as far as personal freedoms go, it ends there. as i found out, after all of my training (which will hopefully be a successful course through SF training... no easy task but i will be ready for every challenge) even after all my training, regardless of my success level, i have no choice in where i get stationed. but should i get through airborne and only as far as that, there would be a strong likelihood of me being at either ft bragg, or ft cambell, kentucky. SF training would likely make me stationed at ft bragg or in germany. of course those are the duty stations... but anyway you slice it i will see combat overseas. i don't even want to know what wll happen if i just end up as regular infantry. not that it isn't a noble profession, it's just that everyone i know including myself, knows i'm made of so much more potential.
for now there's a complication in my processing because i have't actually been determined physically qualified for airborne school (it requires a hearing/earpressure/balance type of test, the details of whch i'm not solid on). anyway, hopefully by the time you receive this letter, that problem will be solved.
i miss everybody, but my life is pretty much locked into contract now. i have to do this out of duty, if not to the "america" identified by the flag and the statue of liberty or the lincoln memorial or the liberty bell... i'm doing this for the america i know and love... my friends back home who i don't want to disgrace. for every step of this i know you guys are there in prayer and support. all i can do is hope that i am making things happen for the right reasons. some of these guys talk about this being a part of world history with the things going on in the middle east... i just want to be a part of God's story. day by day i seek and find opportunities to share faith and edify others here in the barracks. the conversations have lately been amazing, and it's only my hope to transform the hearts of other men who will someday pull the trigger. don't know what i'm doing. but i'm hoping to get started.
your friend and ally,
nate
Mikey, everyone,
still in processing at the reception station. my company, Bravo Company, is scheduled to move out to our basic training location on friday. tomorrow we have a PT assessment to make sure everyone passes minumum qualifications to move on. as soon as basic training actually starts, i'll have an address. may even be able to make a phone call once in awhile. but as far as personal freedoms go, it ends there. as i found out, after all of my training (which will hopefully be a successful course through SF training... no easy task but i will be ready for every challenge) even after all my training, regardless of my success level, i have no choice in where i get stationed. but should i get through airborne and only as far as that, there would be a strong likelihood of me being at either ft bragg, or ft cambell, kentucky. SF training would likely make me stationed at ft bragg or in germany. of course those are the duty stations... but anyway you slice it i will see combat overseas. i don't even want to know what wll happen if i just end up as regular infantry. not that it isn't a noble profession, it's just that everyone i know including myself, knows i'm made of so much more potential.
for now there's a complication in my processing because i have't actually been determined physically qualified for airborne school (it requires a hearing/earpressure/balance type of test, the details of whch i'm not solid on). anyway, hopefully by the time you receive this letter, that problem will be solved.
i miss everybody, but my life is pretty much locked into contract now. i have to do this out of duty, if not to the "america" identified by the flag and the statue of liberty or the lincoln memorial or the liberty bell... i'm doing this for the america i know and love... my friends back home who i don't want to disgrace. for every step of this i know you guys are there in prayer and support. all i can do is hope that i am making things happen for the right reasons. some of these guys talk about this being a part of world history with the things going on in the middle east... i just want to be a part of God's story. day by day i seek and find opportunities to share faith and edify others here in the barracks. the conversations have lately been amazing, and it's only my hope to transform the hearts of other men who will someday pull the trigger. don't know what i'm doing. but i'm hoping to get started.
your friend and ally,
nate
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