When you fall down get back up for god’s sake!
Humble pie has to be some of the worst tasting pie I have ever eaten but, all at the same time it s the best damn pie you’ll ever eat if one can learn a little something from the flavor.
Training is always something I have valued and enjoyed doing. This week we were doing squad live fire training and I didn’t quite perform as well as I would have liked, no wait let me be blunt…… I was ate up. I never really took into consideration that I was a recruiter for the last five years; rusty can’t even begin to describe how I was feeling at squad lane training. I was feeling down right embarrassed that I had let my infantry mentality slip so far while in the nice happy bubble of my comfortable recruiting desk job.
Humble pie, mmmm mmm not so good this week but you lick your wounds, get back on you horse, draw your sword and you charge forward. I’ll be hitting the books pretty hard and honing my skills because these guys deserve better leadership and it’s my job to provide that leadership.
Today was driver’s training for the armored Humvee and it was good training. The instructors were really laid back and from the ass wuppins I took at the squad lanes it was a good break.
I spoke to Lina today and she told me Isaiah is developing quite a little attitude now that dad is away. I expected him to take his frustrations out on everyone because no one really knows how to get through to him except for me. My son is my best friend and I miss him so much, I just hope he is the same guy when I get home. The odds are against it, but hell I probably won’t be the same the same dad after 18 months of war. To me and probably all of the guys that have kids here that is one of our biggest worries, how will our children react when we get home? How will we react? Will I still be a good dad? I think experiences need to be learned from and hopefully I can apply these new experiences in a positive way and not take them out on my family or the world for that matter.
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