Camp Atterbury / JROTC camp

( they get dirty also ) have fun, and learn teamwork

I repeated this for 4 days, the dirtier they got the moor they enjoyed it.

July 21-24 I was at Camp Atterbury helping to train 222 high school kits. The kids were all in JROTC at school (jr reserve officer training course). I was involved in part of the leader ship reaction, others were working with the repelling tower, swimming and land navigation. My part was in two parts, 1st. taking a wounded soldier off the battle field, giving first aid and negotiating obstacles (a stretcher and a 5 gal water bucket full of holes, that they had to patch and go through the obstacles with out letting the bucked run dry). the 2nd part learning how to build a 2 roap bridge, and tie a swiss seat around them. the roap was 125 foot long and the river was about 75 feet wide. 220 graduated on Saturday the 25. The kids came from Indianapolis, Gary and Evansville Indiana. there were about 30 IGR personnel and maybe 25 teachers.

Zoe @ Church 7-12-09

Zoe at Church Sunday 7-12-09

Zoe going to church

Kristy and Jim

The week end of July the 4th Dristy and Jim moved to Chicago. Involved in the move were Jim's parents and Kristy parents. The short verson is the truckes and cars are unloaded and most things are set in place

Sargent Major Beavers

Saturday June 20Th 2009 my orders were presented to me, promoting me to Sargent Major. For those who don't know, you can not go any higher and still be a Sargent. The orders were dated June 13, 2009. This is a fulfilled dream. The orders on the left are from MG Umbarger and the letter on the right is from MG Green, both men are two star generals

Dr. Kristy Mount May 23 2009

This has been a very busy time. But first, Kristy became a PHD, WOW that is awesome. Since then other things have happened. 1 turned in her theses for the last time, with all revisions done. 2.SOLD their house, 3.now it on to Chicago to start medical school. They will be moving and starting school on July 27. She will be studying to become a OBGYN. WAY TO GO GIRL.

Indianapolis Mini Marathon 5/2/09

May 2nd 2009 was a great day, temp was in the 50's and cloudy, a perfect day for a race. This is the One America Mini Marathon in Indianapolis a 13.1 mile race. This is what I was looking at as I started the race. It ran from down town Indy to the Indianapolis 500 mile track, around the track and back down town. This was how many people were in front of me. The race was divided into 26 catagories (A-Z ) I was in "Y" . I finished the race in about 3 hours and 45 min. Just for giggles I had my iphone counting my steps 994 steps per mile 12,922 to compleat the race. For the first 11 miles I averaged 15 min miles then I got tired and slowed to 18 min miles. anyone want to try it next year?, this was my 4th year. When I checked in the night befor I found out there were about 50,000 signed up for the race and a additional 15,000 for the 5K which was ran after all of us in the mini had started (swine flue any one).