Located: 1 badass drill instructor

A few days ago, my Marine friend Olga mentioned she knew someone who was still active duty who could lookup our drill instructor’s email address.  Within a day she had two of them, so we both emailed her.  Today, we got a response!  This was one of the coolest emails I’ve ever received!  lol

See, our hard hat was so inspiring.  Yeah, she scared the piss out of us, but she also inspired us to do so much more.  She never once talked to us about being ladies either.  It was all about being a Marine.  Tough, hard corps, don’t back down especially to the men.  It wasn’t that men were evil, but she knew life was going to be hard on us when we hit the fleet.

So now I’m all giddy.  She said that she did remember us, and in fact our platoon was her best and most memorable.  It feels great to hear that 9 years later.  I had some hunches that we didn’t totally suck, but you never know because they’re not supposed to let it show.  If we ever think we’re good, that’s when we screw up - which happened all the time.  So you keep recruits in check, let them know they suck, and everything is good.  lol

What’s funny is figuring out what to say.  I mean, this is someone I respect more than almost anyone else alive, yet during the time I knew her was never allowed to talk to her.  It’s a strange relationship.  lol  So we’ll see how this plays out.  It’s cool to see a bit of her personality just in a short email.  And I’m doing my best to not sound like a dork.  haha

By the way, we don’t have internet at home, so I won’t be online much except checking things at work, though tomorrow is my last day until next week due to moving.  So, I probably won’t see anything until monday again.  Or sunday.  We’ll see.  So now I better get home.  I did a tutor assessment.  I’ll send a message to the other overdue people and let them know they’ll get caught up next week.  Time to pack!

Oh and for those worried about stress, no worries.  I’m getting 7 1/2 hours of sleep, which is good enough for me to survive this week.  And last night we watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3, which was super outstanding!