Welcome!

Howdy!

So, my buddy caved in and finally created a blog to keep people up to date on his whereabouts, and not wanting to be behind the power curve, I figured I had better jump on the band wagon too. Hurray for peer pressure!

Mostly, I want to use this blog as a means to keep everyone up to date on my activities, and what's going on in my life. So to catch you up...

I graduated from Cal Poly in June of this year with a degree in Civil Engineering and a minor in Military Science. I was also commissioned as an Active Duty officer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. (NOT the Adjutant General's Corps. Hurray!) My unit is the 18th Engineer Brigade in Heidelberg, Germany, and that is where I will go eventually. Right now, however, I'm on permissive TDY at Cal Poly as an officer recruiter. Basically, I try to get people to join ROTC.

November 2nd I report to BOLC II (Basic Officer Leaders Course II, the first being ROTC, OCS, or the USMA) which basically teaches all officers how to perform standard infantry tasks regardless of branch. January 7th I report to EN BOLC III (Engineers BOLC III, Formarly EN OBC) which is where I learn how to do all the cool things an Engineer Officer does.

Right now, I have orders to go to Germany right after that, but I will be trying to delay that so I can go to some additional training. Airborne, Air Assault, Pathfinder, Ranger, Sapper, whatever I can get.

For those of you who are wondering, as soon as I'm done with BOLC III I can get deployed if need be. And no, that's not a bad thing. I want to get deployed, so it's ok.

That's it for now. I'll keep you posted as things develop.