Random Conversations & Fun (3)

[Jesus1stKing]

The funny thing is that it is now half as physical because they had to reorganize to allow women to train with the men.

 

[GritsnGrace]

I think they are keeping each other sane. I would hate for her to just give up. But, I don't think she will.

 

[Jesus1stKing]

She has gotten over the first hurdel, if she can make it past the next one she will have it made. We'll all just have to keep praying.

 

[GritsnGrace]

Yes, she has started week #3. Next Tuesday, it will be a month!! They haven't shipped her home yet, and her first paycheck is in the bank!!

 

[Jesus1stKing]

How amny weeks is bootcamp now? If I remember we went to 9weeks of training before getting off for a week at home, then school. What they didn't tell us was that if we went streight home from boot we had a whole year before we had enough time to go home again.

 

[GritsnGrace]

Her basic is 9 weeks, then 16 weeks for her AIT training (tech school) I don't know if she will get to come home between basic and tech school or not. I do remember when my first ex went into the AF, he had about 2 weeks from the time he finished to get to the base. We drove from Louisiana to Hampton Virgina in a Mustang!!

 

[Jesus1stKing]

Isn't that across the river from Norfolk? It must have been a cramped trip with lugage and all. But I guess when your in love it doesn't matter.

 

[GritsnGrace]

Yep!! That's the place! We lived in Newport News. I think they had a base for every military division in that area!! We had a dog with us, too!

 

[Jesus1stKing]

I was stationed ther for 2.5 yrs. I used to love to go to vaginia beach. and there was a place that had one of the oldest wooden rollercoasters. It was some good times, back then, life was so much less complicated.

 

[GritsnGrace]

There was a park called Dominion something or other in Norfolk, and then Busch Gardens is in Williamsburg, along with Colonial Williamsburg. That was about 15 minutes down the road from where we lived. When were you there? We were there from February 1979 til December 1980.

 

[GritsnGrace]

And, yes, I agree, life was so much less complicated!

 

[Jesus1stKing]

I think the one I was thinking of was dominion...., I went to bush gardens several times. I was there from spring of 75 to around late fall of 78
The worse part of going from the east coast to the west coast for a desert rat was I thought the ocean was warm everywhere. What a suprise when I went to San Diego and hit the water.

 

[GritsnGrace]

You left just a couple of months before we got there! I have never seen the west coast. But, I have swum in the Mediterranean sea!

 

[Jesus1stKing]

I went to the Med 3 times, the carabean, once, the N. Atlantic once. that is the advantage of the navy over any other branch of the service. Hard to beat the travel. I managed to go 1/2 way around the world 3 times all together. The only place I never got was to S. America. But I did go through the Panama canal.

 

[GritsnGrace]

My dad was in the Navy when he met my mom. She was a Marine, and he was a corpsman stationed at her base!! (Cherry Point) He tells people that he fell off the bus in San Diego, he leaned into the wind, and there wasn't any!!! (he's from Oklahoma!)

 

[Jesus1stKing]

LOL
The part I had a hard time with was the weather. Either it was a lie about sunny SoCal. or the Navy imported foul weather. It felt like it rained about once a month.

 

[GritsnGrace]

I always heard it never rained in California, or was that just a dumb song from the 70's??? lol!

 

[Jesus1stKing]

I used to believe that too till I lived there for over 2 years.
I still love California. If I had to choose a place to live it would be either San Diego area, or the western slope of Colorado.

 

[GritsnGrace]

You mentioned in another thread you were in Nebraska until you were 9? I was there from 6 til I was 10!! In the Omaha /Bellevue area. I like Colorado, too!

 

[Jesus1stKing]

WOW, we could have seen each other and never have known. But I spent almost all of my time ther on the farm, not the city, that was where my G-mom lived.
I went to a one room school house, and really did have to walk about 5 miles to school after milking the cows and slopping the hogs, etc.