I got my letter!!!!

So today FINALLY I have gotten my letter from Derek. Update is he had passed his swim test,pushups and situps, he finished his 1.5 mile run in 10 mins 30 secs he got a 96 on his mid term and passed his seamanship test. That is truly amazing!!

Now how he got his colors word for word:
"Saturday July 25th we got our asses handed to us all day. one evolution after another. No one could figure out why we were doing any of it. At one point during the day 2 males from our company were caught sleeping in th bathroom and where punished all day and finally at 10:00 PM we went to bed dead tired. 2 hours later we where woken up at midnight andtold to pack our sea bags and form up outside. They said it was punishment for our shipmates sleeping, so we started marching in the rain for like 2 miles. Then our CC sent the 3-4 guys that where sleeping and goofing around back to the squad bay and we kept marching to the beach. We dumped our seabags on the sand and started doing push ups and crunches. He then told us to get on our stomachs then to get up and face away from the water so we did and where standing there for a few minutes. We then heard our head CC scream " ABOUT FACE!" we turned around to the pitch black water and the other CC's took their flash lights and put them on our head CC who was in the water up to his knees holding out company colots aka flag and screamed " IF YOU WANT YOUR COLORS COME GET EM!!" We all ran down to the beach into the water fully dressed up to our waists and grabbed our flag!! Single greatest moment ive had here at boot camp so far!!! They dont just give their colors they hace to earn them and it feels good"


Truly amazing I got goosebumps!!!! I am so happy for him and his squad. Sounds like they are doing an AWESOME job! 22 more days and he will be back home as a United States Guardian.