gridlore | Front Leaning Rest Position, MOVE!

I was thinking today about my long medical history, and how hard it has been, and realize that without the training and examples I got from my Drill Sergeants, I would have long ago curled up and died. Infantry OSUT taught me that I could go that extra mile, that what I thought was my wall was really a door to what I could be.

This wasn't in a class or on a training range. It was a process, one so slow and subtle that I never noticed it happening, the same way I didn't notice that I had added so much muscle until I tried to put my civies back on.

I'm here because a group of instructors who I would have gleefully set on fire at the time dragged me through the mud and made me perform. The made me learn to not quit.

So, thank you to:

SFC Redding
SFC Chin
SSG Colom
SSG Rearden

APLHA!
SEVEN!
ONE!
INFANTRY!
ON THE ROAD!
HOOAH!