J is still at Ft. Jackson going through AIT or Advanced Individual Training, in other words he is learning how to do his job which is "Light Wheel Mechanic." Basically working on Hummers, and other SUV's in the military motor pool's. I have talked to him a few times and things seem to be going alright for him.

I took my AIT at Ft. Belvior, Virgina and I had a blast. We had weekend passes all the time, and we (my class) all the time went into Washinton DC. I went to the Smithsonian and went through all the exhibits plus I saw all the other things to see in DC. You may be wondering how we got there since no one had a car, well there was this guy that we called Mr. Bill and he had a old school bus. I am not sure who or why he did this but he would come around on the weekends and pick up the GI's on post and then pass a hat around and everybody would put in a few dollars for gas and he would take us to DC. He had regular stops in DC at specific times, so that is how we travelled from the post to DC.

There was this guy who was in the National Guard and he was from the Virgin Islands, he never come out of his thermal underwear. He said that he was always cold, and we thought that is was hot at Ft. Belvior. Every night at last formation we had 13E (MOS) I forget what their job title was, but they were some kind of Nuclear specialist, anyways they allways ended formation by saying:

"Nuc them until they glow, and then shoot them in the dark"

I always thought was quit humours, Lily did not think so, ooooowellllll.