The Matrix says today is Marine Corps Mission and Organization day. Sounds like a classroom setting to me. I'm sure they're still drilling and probably getting ready for the SDI Inspection that happens tomorrow. Initial Drill is on Saturday. Boots and rifles likely are getting polished, and a woman from one of the support groups says the recruits are getting haircut #3 today. Yep...they get buzzed every couple of weeks.
We received a letter from Jeremiah today. He writes on Sundays since that day gives him the most time, and even that isn't much. In the letter he says there will be a video out with his platoon on it. He's ordered a copy already that will be ready when he graduates. Actually, he says he's ordered "a boatload of photograph items." Hopefully he hasn't blown his whole paycheck!
Jeremiah says that he has lots of mental pressure from the DIs and himself since he wants to do well. He's says he's praying so that he and his platoon do well and trying to ease that pressure. His confidence is "growing short" but quitting is not an option. Jeremiah still wants to be a Marine. In fact, he writes, "I will continue even if I do sometimes think I can't go on..."
His sense of humor is still appears intact in his letter. He talks about being changed, but I suspect it's that he's matured more than anything. He'll be stronger and louder (they do lots of shouting down there), but I suspect his personality will be the same. We can't go through life without change, but from what I see in the letters I've received, all Jeremiah's changes thus far are positive ones. He's learning that he CAN do hard things.
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