Hi everyone, well its 12:45 here on a Saturday and I got a call from Adam about an hour ago, while I was watching New Moon :)
He said he is doing fine, but anxious about BEAST week, which is Week 6, it starts tomorrow. BEAST Week, or Warrior Week, is when Adam's flight and 7 other flights go into actual combat situations. They get tested on all the skills that they have acquired over the past 6-ish weeks. So its basically simulated combat, they do all sorts of things, they live in tents, use their M-16's. From what Adam has told me, none of his TI's are with them, yes, they watch them in a tower, but this whole week is on them, the recruits. So I guess, all of the workers on Lackland act as "bad guys," where they are either terrorists or bombers, and the boys have to figure out how to combat against them, which sounds pretty cool in a way lol. Adam is excited to eat MRE's which are Meals, Ready to Eat, you pretty much just add water and it somehow heats up and makes food. He says the ones he has tasted are pretty good....lol silly boy. Anyway, I guess it's going to be a crazy week, but Adam just wants to get it over with.
Well, I FINALLY got my base ID this Thursday and I'm so happy! And I got signed up for TRIcare, which is medical insurance, and thank goodness that is done.
Earlier this week, I received a call from Adam saying that everyone on our "graduation list" got denied access to base for graduation. We were all devastated. Adam told us to call Security Forces and they will tell us why we got denied, mind you, I didn't have my base ID at the time so we were all freaking out. Anyway, we finally get a hold of someone at Security Forces and this guy was a TOTAL jerk, and refused to help us. He said the only thing we can hope to do is go to the visitors center when we arrived in San Antonio and hope to get a visitors pass. So my mom in law called the visitors center and they said that since we were denied, there is no way for us to get on base. So after all of this happened, Adam's mom, Cindy, was able to get a hold of the supervisor of that Security Forces jerk, thanks to her retired AF guy at work, and the supervisor found our paperwork and said that we filled it out wrong and that is why we got denied. UGH!!! Thankfully, Adam overnighted my Social Security Card and I received it on Thursday and Sandra and I booked it to the base to get my ID. I asked they guy there helping me, and he said that as long as I have my ID and I am driving the car I can get my family on base with no problem. So that is all worked out! but Whew, its been a crazy week!!!
Adam said they did the gas chamber in Week 4, which was the week before last and said it was hard but he got through it. He said he was happy he did it, but NEVER wants to do it again lol. And I guess they did the obstacle course too that week and he said it was crazy and very physical but he finished and was proud of himself.
So now they are finishing up Week 5 today, and he said it was mostly classroom work, which is hard because its very easy to want to sleep lol. He said he doesn't get much sleep because he is and EC (Entry Control) and has to watch over the dorms for 2 hours a night while everyone else sleeps, but he says he plans on sleeping as much as he can when he gets home. :)
So that's that! I'll give you guys and update when I have one. Week 6 starts tomorrow and I doubt I will get much mail lol, but Adam did say that he will write during his down time, if he can! so lets hope!
Have a good week everyone, and stay safe!
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