Sunday, October 14, 2007
oh yeah!
anyone up for a Honduras Team get together upon my arrival for Christmas Exodus? Im back from 20 december until 4 january. so, anytime from the 21st, to the 3rd....thoughts?
Ft. Gordon.
Hello All!
I'm sitting here at the student recreation center here at Ft. Gordon.
All is going well, it's just tough, as always, moving into a new environment after getting used to one place. However, i'm confident that this is going to be a good time. My roomates are pretty much cool, but, as usual, there will always be one or two that just completly suck.
My drill sergeants here are pretty cool. Drill Sergeant Dowdyl-Holm is the 4th platoon Drill Sergeant, haha, shes great. Most of us like her, shes a charecter. I'll have stories when I get home. oye.
I start class Monday (tomorrow), which means I am officially out of the "inactive" platoon, 4th platoon. You stay in 4th platoon until you are assigned a class shift. I'm second shift (12pm-6pm) anyone care to guess my platoon number? if you guessed two, then you're just too dag-on smart.
Our company was just added to the battallion. We are Echo-369. Alpha through Delta already existed, then two days before my arrival here to Ft. Gordon, they decided to give us 25u's our own company. (25u is my job. it's part of the 25 job series, which is in the signal corps.)
So, now there are 300 of us in barracks that are (quite literally) condemed. In the next few weeks we should be moving into our new barracks. I wont have to do any of the work, because 4th platoon does all the work, and...whoops...i'm no longer 4th platoon!!! darn!
Private Kuriger is broken!!! At basic(week 2), I developed a case of runner's knee in both knees, but didnt seek real treatment until now. as a result, Pvt. Kuriger cannot run, march, squat, kneel, powerwalk, walk at own pace, walk unlimitedly, run unlitmitedly, or really do anything else involving my legs....i just can go from point A to point B.....which sucks, because i love running, and marching....i can however, do without the squatting!!!!!!! this only lasts until the 29th, with physical therapy. oh, crap...i have physical therapy tomorrow...haha...glad i just reminded myself...i need to find a battle buddy to take me...daggon...
letters and packages are cool....
William Kuriger
Echo 369 Signal Btn
15th Signal Brigade
Ft. Gordon, Georgia 30905
expect updates once a week as thats all I am authorized internet time during phase IV. once i hit phase V in a couple of weeks, it'll be more.......
Thank you all for your thoughts, prayersand letters (i got more letters than anyone else in the platoon..haha, the drill sergeant got annoyed, but, i loved it! "Kuriger, if i Didn't know any better, i'd say peopole actually LIKE you!"..."Drill Sgt, with a face like this, how could they not??" "kuriger...shut up and push..." haha, actual conversation at our last mail call haha.) while I was at Basic, they definetly worked as I obviously passed, otherwise, i wouldnt be here....I missed you all (and STILL DOOOO!!)
hrm...anything else? i dunno....
anyway, i have my phone with me, can't always answer it, but, I do ineed have it. Leave a message and i'll call you back...
if you want my number, ask my family, or email me kurigerb15@hotmail.com and i'll send it to you.....
All my best,
Kuriger.
I'm sitting here at the student recreation center here at Ft. Gordon.
All is going well, it's just tough, as always, moving into a new environment after getting used to one place. However, i'm confident that this is going to be a good time. My roomates are pretty much cool, but, as usual, there will always be one or two that just completly suck.
My drill sergeants here are pretty cool. Drill Sergeant Dowdyl-Holm is the 4th platoon Drill Sergeant, haha, shes great. Most of us like her, shes a charecter. I'll have stories when I get home. oye.
I start class Monday (tomorrow), which means I am officially out of the "inactive" platoon, 4th platoon. You stay in 4th platoon until you are assigned a class shift. I'm second shift (12pm-6pm) anyone care to guess my platoon number? if you guessed two, then you're just too dag-on smart.
Our company was just added to the battallion. We are Echo-369. Alpha through Delta already existed, then two days before my arrival here to Ft. Gordon, they decided to give us 25u's our own company. (25u is my job. it's part of the 25 job series, which is in the signal corps.)
So, now there are 300 of us in barracks that are (quite literally) condemed. In the next few weeks we should be moving into our new barracks. I wont have to do any of the work, because 4th platoon does all the work, and...whoops...i'm no longer 4th platoon!!! darn!
Private Kuriger is broken!!! At basic(week 2), I developed a case of runner's knee in both knees, but didnt seek real treatment until now. as a result, Pvt. Kuriger cannot run, march, squat, kneel, powerwalk, walk at own pace, walk unlimitedly, run unlitmitedly, or really do anything else involving my legs....i just can go from point A to point B.....which sucks, because i love running, and marching....i can however, do without the squatting!!!!!!! this only lasts until the 29th, with physical therapy. oh, crap...i have physical therapy tomorrow...haha...glad i just reminded myself...i need to find a battle buddy to take me...daggon...
letters and packages are cool....
William Kuriger
Echo 369 Signal Btn
15th Signal Brigade
Ft. Gordon, Georgia 30905
expect updates once a week as thats all I am authorized internet time during phase IV. once i hit phase V in a couple of weeks, it'll be more.......
Thank you all for your thoughts, prayersand letters (i got more letters than anyone else in the platoon..haha, the drill sergeant got annoyed, but, i loved it! "Kuriger, if i Didn't know any better, i'd say peopole actually LIKE you!"..."Drill Sgt, with a face like this, how could they not??" "kuriger...shut up and push..." haha, actual conversation at our last mail call haha.) while I was at Basic, they definetly worked as I obviously passed, otherwise, i wouldnt be here....I missed you all (and STILL DOOOO!!)
hrm...anything else? i dunno....
anyway, i have my phone with me, can't always answer it, but, I do ineed have it. Leave a message and i'll call you back...
if you want my number, ask my family, or email me kurigerb15@hotmail.com and i'll send it to you.....
All my best,
Kuriger.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Good News!
I can actually get pictures at boot camp!
Q. What am I allowed to send to a Soldier in basic training?
A. Encouraging letters are very important. You may also send photographs and phone cards. Please do not send food.
(Basically, what that's saying is, letters, and pictures. That'll make this soldier very happy.)
I will try to get someone to put my address in here.
I can actually get pictures at boot camp!
Q. What am I allowed to send to a Soldier in basic training?
A. Encouraging letters are very important. You may also send photographs and phone cards. Please do not send food.
(Basically, what that's saying is, letters, and pictures. That'll make this soldier very happy.)
I will try to get someone to put my address in here.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Holy crap, im seriously leaving?!
So, as we all know, I'm peacin' out dis joint yo!
No, but seriously, I'm leaving July 16th, and communication with me will be...limited....to say the very least. For the first 9 weeks, it will be letters. (Don't look here for my address, I wont be able to post it, just ask around...) However, I do want letters, from everyone, That's how I'm going to survive the first 9 weeks. After that, I'll have my phone, and my email and AIM, however, my time on it will be, obviously, limited. Therefore, as I wont be able to call everybody, I can do the net best thing. Blog! (The Honduras trip gave me the splendid idea!!)
It's funny, I'm sitting in my room, and I'm missing this town already. I'm convinced Sewickley has officially succeeded in.....eating my soul....aw crap! (It's kinda like the gnat eating my soul before Honduras, right Alisa? sorry folks, try as you might, you wont understand that one!)
But seriously, I'm going to need tons and tons of support, and prayers, and letters, and prayers and more letters and more prayers....getting the drift here?!
Were can you get my address you may ask?
The obvious, talk to my family...their my peeps, they'll be the first to get it!
I'll also be sending a letter to Sewickley Starbucks, where I work, so customers can write to me....in case you haven't caught on, im dead serious about this letter crap!! haha
So, with all of that being said, please, just leave me some love for when I get out....
Leave me comments on here, because I'll be blogging thoughts before I leave, Facebook, Myspace and my email kurigerb15@hotmail.com
My phone will be disconnected for the initial nine weeks, but I'm going to call them the day I get out to reconnect it. Hell, I will barely even be GRADUATED and I'll be sneaking my phone around...oh Lordy...do you really think the military is ready for me?! We'll see...
For those of you who aren't so aware of my military agenda:
July 16th- I leave for the Ft. Indian town Gap in Harrisburg. (they refer to it as "The Gap," and I swear it took me two weeks to realize we aren't going to the mall...naw, I'm not a Sewickley boy!) Here, they will process me and scare the bejebus outta me......apparently it's harder than boot camp. We'll see.
Around the 20th, I'll be sent down to "Relaxin' Ft. Jackson" as they call it. apparently, if you WANT to go to a boot camp, it's Jackson. They say 9 weeks there, but we'll see when I actually graduate....
As soon as I get my address, my family will have it, around the beginning of August, start writing.....If you don't hear back from me, I'm sorry, its that I can't, not that I don't want to. And what ever you do....ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but letters in an envelope...I'm begging you, if you want me to survive this place, no packages, no pictures, no playboys, no nothing.....they will make me hate my life, and they will like it....and I'm sure they'll find enough reasons that I wont need help from someone sending me...whatever...you get the point...
After I'm trained killing machine (grrrrRRRRRRrrrrrrr) I'll be heading down to Ft. Gordon. Good Ol' Ft. Gordon Georgia...Been there...its boring...I want calls and texts out the wazzzzoooooooo.......once again, I wont respond right away, because I can't....
After however long they decide they want me there, I'll be home....Drilling once a month...You'd think I'd leave it at that...haha nope...As soon as I'm eligible (6 months after AIT) I'm going into Active Duty Air Force, or as one of my mature friends put it....Active Doodie...Yeah, real cute.
So, stand fast for more to come, and in the mean time, leave me messages on here telling me how freaking cool I am! haha j/k (that means just kidding for those who may not know...I need to remember I'm talking to a wide array of people....)
Peace, Love and smoke a flower (as the dear Cantor would say)
-PVT. Bill
No, but seriously, I'm leaving July 16th, and communication with me will be...limited....to say the very least. For the first 9 weeks, it will be letters. (Don't look here for my address, I wont be able to post it, just ask around...) However, I do want letters, from everyone, That's how I'm going to survive the first 9 weeks. After that, I'll have my phone, and my email and AIM, however, my time on it will be, obviously, limited. Therefore, as I wont be able to call everybody, I can do the net best thing. Blog! (The Honduras trip gave me the splendid idea!!)
It's funny, I'm sitting in my room, and I'm missing this town already. I'm convinced Sewickley has officially succeeded in.....eating my soul....aw crap! (It's kinda like the gnat eating my soul before Honduras, right Alisa? sorry folks, try as you might, you wont understand that one!)
But seriously, I'm going to need tons and tons of support, and prayers, and letters, and prayers and more letters and more prayers....getting the drift here?!
Were can you get my address you may ask?
The obvious, talk to my family...their my peeps, they'll be the first to get it!
I'll also be sending a letter to Sewickley Starbucks, where I work, so customers can write to me....in case you haven't caught on, im dead serious about this letter crap!! haha
So, with all of that being said, please, just leave me some love for when I get out....
Leave me comments on here, because I'll be blogging thoughts before I leave, Facebook, Myspace and my email kurigerb15@hotmail.com
My phone will be disconnected for the initial nine weeks, but I'm going to call them the day I get out to reconnect it. Hell, I will barely even be GRADUATED and I'll be sneaking my phone around...oh Lordy...do you really think the military is ready for me?! We'll see...
For those of you who aren't so aware of my military agenda:
July 16th- I leave for the Ft. Indian town Gap in Harrisburg. (they refer to it as "The Gap," and I swear it took me two weeks to realize we aren't going to the mall...naw, I'm not a Sewickley boy!) Here, they will process me and scare the bejebus outta me......apparently it's harder than boot camp. We'll see.
Around the 20th, I'll be sent down to "Relaxin' Ft. Jackson" as they call it. apparently, if you WANT to go to a boot camp, it's Jackson. They say 9 weeks there, but we'll see when I actually graduate....
As soon as I get my address, my family will have it, around the beginning of August, start writing.....If you don't hear back from me, I'm sorry, its that I can't, not that I don't want to. And what ever you do....ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but letters in an envelope...I'm begging you, if you want me to survive this place, no packages, no pictures, no playboys, no nothing.....they will make me hate my life, and they will like it....and I'm sure they'll find enough reasons that I wont need help from someone sending me...whatever...you get the point...
After I'm trained killing machine (grrrrRRRRRRrrrrrrr) I'll be heading down to Ft. Gordon. Good Ol' Ft. Gordon Georgia...Been there...its boring...I want calls and texts out the wazzzzoooooooo.......once again, I wont respond right away, because I can't....
After however long they decide they want me there, I'll be home....Drilling once a month...You'd think I'd leave it at that...haha nope...As soon as I'm eligible (6 months after AIT) I'm going into Active Duty Air Force, or as one of my mature friends put it....Active Doodie...Yeah, real cute.
So, stand fast for more to come, and in the mean time, leave me messages on here telling me how freaking cool I am! haha j/k (that means just kidding for those who may not know...I need to remember I'm talking to a wide array of people....)
Peace, Love and smoke a flower (as the dear Cantor would say)
-PVT. Bill
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