"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Jul 2, 2:37?pm, "JimH" ask wrote:
August 13, 2007. One day before our 25th Wedding Anniversary our son
leaves
for Paris Island. He is slotted for Military Police training after
completing basic training and *earning* his right to officially call
himself
a Marine. He originally planned delayed entry in mid September but the
MP
opportunity came up if he went in earlier.

Even before his decision to join the Marines he has been concentrating on
his physical condition, recently completing a community event 5 mile race
and finishing in 2nd place.

He will continue with the physical preparation but will now start to
mentally focus on the fact that he will be leaving for Paris Island in 6
weeks.

We are very proud of him and his decision to join the Marine Corps.

Congrats to him.

I'd like to hope the situation in Iraq improves and stabilizes or even
gets resolved before he's eligible to be deployed.



Thank you Chuck.

We will be getting a first hand report on the *actual* conditions there well
before he is slated for deployment to Iraq as 2 of our best friends sons (US
Marines) are soon scheduled for redeployment to Iraq.