Bridging the Gap: June 2013

Friday, June 28, 2013

Memorial Day

This Memorial Day we went to the Airborne Museum in Fayettville. No pictures of the inside but an amazing museum to visit! They had wonderful displays outside including a flag memorial and the Budweiser Clydesdale horses and wagon. (Gwen was a cheese monkey most of the time and refused to be in any pictures)

Waiting for the horses

Stone in recognition of Jeff's unit (the older version)

Stone in recognition of the 82nd

Both of these are memorials to soilders killed in action on Jeff's deployment to Afghanistan

Happy Ending with the Budweiser Horse Team

EFMB (No it does not stand for Efficient Fast Meticulous Barbarian)

EFMB is the Expert Field Medic Badge and it highest level skill set badge a person in the Medical field can achieve during peacetime.
It consists of a 60 question test which is quite specific ie. which kind of rat droppings are from which rats that tend to carry which diseases, 3 "lanes" the practical skill sets, both night and day land navigation and a 12 mile ruck with 45lbs pack which must be completed in under 3 hours. Every step of the process is pass/fail and one fail disqualifies you.
Jeff spent a week training out in the field and another week in the field for the testing. It was nasty humid and there was a thunderstorm almost every day, except for the night land navigation then the storm happened at night.
Today he successfully finished the ruck and received his badge!
We are so proud

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Marbles Museum

Trains and more

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Southern Living

After a month of searching for my parasol and sitting in the blazing sun at Max's soccer games with out one, I broke down and bought one. And since I was already getting one for myself I figured I had better get one for Gwen too.
Always risky to buy a product you have not handled/seen in person but this one paid off!