Fort Stewart, Georgia
Sunday, August 31, 2008 (13:56:14)

Posted by watts

My Squadron just completed training at Fort Wolters (Mineral Wells), Texas. It consisted mostly of weapons ranges and the month we spent there flew by pretty quickly. We are now at Fort Stewart, Georgia, where we will complete our premobilization training and processing. We arrived throughout the day last Thursday with the latest arrival being Friday morning on the red eye. I got here just before midnight and spent the first hours of my birthday on a bus from Hunter Army Airfield to Fort Stewart. The accommodations here are slightly better than Fort Wolters, where we had no functioning air conditioning in the living area. The humidity is borderline unbearable here but the scenery isn't bad. Spanish moss drapes over the oak and pine trees and mosquitoes the size of small birds carry off the occasional soldier for some blood sucking. It apparently rained a solid two weeks before we got here so we're dealing with the effects of that. The training schedule is pretty filled up, though these first few days here have been pretty light and full of a lack of common sense on the part of certain certifying parties. We've gotten our immunizations and the anthrax shot hurts more than I remembered. I've been pretty busy and taking pictures hasn't been much of a priority for me. I'll try to remember to take more as training starts to kick off.