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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.
Posted by jaborseth at May 8, 2006 06:31 AM
Comments
Thanks for the full report.
I didn't know fly boys handled weaponry like that. Jon II is like the Air Force version of Rambo. :-)
We will continue to pray for all of you as it seems that God delights in answering our prayers. Our God is a good Father. If we ask him for bread, He will not give us a stone. We can trust Him with everything.
Posted by: Tim at May 8, 2006 08:48 AM
Machine gun...grenade launcher...I'm officially jealous.
Posted by: Joanna at May 8, 2006 06:20 PM
Jon,
Did you get the message from the borsethnews group that Tom will be at Misawa AFB in June? He is hoping to get a chance to meet up with you while he is there. His stay will be three weeks. You can get ahold of him at grimkleth@aol.com or simply find him in the AF database.
Is Bonnie's new Beau in the AF or is he a private pilot?
Eric
Posted by: Eric Borseth at May 9, 2006 11:11 AM