Mrs Pico was feeling left out: she had missed the last three telephone calls from our favorite basic training soldier, so today when PFC Pico called, I let Mrs Pico have the entire conversation. She has finished Week 5, and her unit moves on to the Blue Phase on Monday. She had missed her marksmanship [...]
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PFC Pico is alive!
The Fort Jackson website maintains a photo gallery of basic training soldiers, for their families to see. For PFC Pico’s unit, the photo galleries are here. The galleries are divided into separate weeks of BCT. There are no pictures of PFC Pico in Week 1: Red Phase, but the first picture under Week 2: Red [...]
Be afraid, be very afraid!
We got a letter from PFC Pico today, from Basic Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina: Dear Mom & Dad: Guess what! Your daughter is now the proud temporary owner of an M16-A2 assault rifle! That’s right, they gave me a gun. We all have them, and we have to take them with us everywhere. [...]
Monday is the big day for our older daughter — and the whole family
Well, Autumn’s big day is coming: her recruiter is coming tomorrow at 1100 to pick her up for transport to the Harrisburg Military Entrance Processing Station. We had thought this would occur on the 20th, but her actual processing starts early on the 20th, so the Army is transporting her up on the 19th. As [...]