It Begins

Officer Candidate Jeremy Lyon, US Army, is heading out to training tonight. My Basic Combat Training (BCT) and Officer Candidate School (OCS) happen back-to-back in Fort Benning, GA. I should be finished in about six months.

My cell phone will not be coming with me, for obvious reasons, and I won't have access to the internet with any regularity. I am told that, if I am especially good, I can earn up to 3 minutes a week of telephone time on the base phones. So don't expect too many calls. In short, I'm about to reinvent the art of the written letter. I doubt I will have time to crank out too many letters given the constraints of training, so this Blog is a way to keep any interested parties updated of my status and share any particularly good or embarassing stories without breaking the bank on stamps or keeping me up into the last firewatch.

The lovely Hope Harvey will be my assistant with this magical Blog feat. I will write to her constantly with my journal and she will then decipher my handwriting and upload it to this site. This is obviously a very nice thing for Hope to do, so I would recommend that you praise her and lavish her with fine and expensive gifts as a token of appreciation for her sacrifice. At the very least, understand that she is certainly not to be blamed if this Blog is not updated religiously at noon every day. She is, after all, a very busy girl.

Thank you all for your support. I will have my address issued shortly and will have it available on this site. Recruits, as I understand it, love letters. I know that I love letters. Keep me updated with your adventures, please.

Now entering the dark side of the moon... we will return within radio contact in August. God bless.

-Jeremy Lyon