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Due to the fact that Ft. Jackson sorts their mail by hand, we've been told to stop sending Carey mail by 05/01. This gives mail time to get to him. If it doesn't get there before he leaves for his next post, it will be returned to you. Once I have his address at the next post, I will post it and letters can resume. 

We were very lucky this week and heard from Carey twice! On one occasion Sawyer babbled the entire time we were on the phone. Carey was happy to be able to hear him "talk". See the instagram photo of him in the side bar. He is wearing the headphones so that he can hear us as all 60+ members of his platoon were using their phones at the same time. 

They are in the blue phase of training which is the final phase. They will have to pass a PT test this week in order to graduate and next week they will be doing their 3rd and final field training exercise known as Victory Forge. Carey pulled two muscles in his leg and is hoping that he will still be able to complete his run in a good time. While he has be plagued by small injuries (blisters, sunburns, pulled muscles, sprained ankles) he is fortunate that none of it was significant enough to take him out of training but he did mention that he wished he had the 18 year old body that many of his platoon members have! 

Last week they spent time at three different ranges and were able to "play" with machine guns, grenade launchers, and do live fire drills. I am glad that he tells me these things after the fact so that I don't have to worry about him!

We have less than two weeks until we get to see him for graduation and the end of the first part of this training cycle!

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