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May 08, 2006
Whats Happening
Today is 8 May 2006. Amanda has been visiting me for the past 27 days and it is has been great. We have walked the hard pavement of Fussa Japan, eaten Curry (a lot of it) and taken about 150 pitures of the local area and of Showa Imperial Park, one of Tokyo's grandest parks.
Jon II is still in training for Security Forces at Lackland AFB Texas and will be graduating on May 27. He qualified "Marksman" on the 9MM pistol, the "M4" and the M249 automatic machine gun. His instructor was very impressed with his shooting skills becasue the normal accuracy range of the automic was 600 meters, Jon was destroying targets up to 750 meters away. He also hit the target with the grenade launcher 13 of of 15 times. To qualify only takes 2 hits out of 15. (of course we are talking about grenades so close is close enough.) He will graduate and move to his first assignment at Edwards AFB in California. Most likey he will not be there very long before he is shipped to Iraq.
I am still waiting to hear official confirmation on my retirement. If all is approved the way I have asked I will be leaving Japan around the 2nd week of August at the latest.
Amanda has had fun here but is looking forward to getting back home. Her father is having knee replacement surgery on May 24th so she will be helping him out as he recovers.
Her daughter, Jessica's, childeren will be spending a lot of time with her at our home because she will soon be a single parent and is going to school and working a job too.
Bonnie is moving to Minot North Dakota and (it looks like) getting married again in the future. She has been dating Shawn, a pilot of really big planes, for about 10 months and he has asked her to move up and become his wife. (If I say any more I will have to kill ya'll)
She will be leaving the end of May.
So as you can see lots of stuff going on this month.
God Bless each of you and remember us in your prayers.
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