Some of the information given here may seem choppy or inconclusive.This is a “running blog” and a continuation of a much greater story.You are encouraged to go to the main web-site to catch-up or read previous blogs.These blogs tell the story of Christian I(100% DAV, homeschooling pastor-dad with M.S.)and Christian II (son 3 years old-T1 diabetic)-BOTH TRYING TO RAISE MONEY FOR SERVICE DOGS!
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Christian II – As usual, I’m starting with the little man today, and alternating between he and I. So please hang on if you’re here for the Army story! In my opinion, little Christian’s story is always the best part. I think Christian is “hung-over” today. I hate to put it like that but I don’t know how better to explain it!
Yesterday was my daughter Grace’s birthday and
we had the grandparents over and so Christian was amped up all night because
they were here- and we put on Toy
Story 2- and my three year old Buzz Lightyear was jumping off of
everything in the house! LOL. So, today
he’s exhausted and his numbers are high (I believe it’s because of the pizza,
pie, and ice cream)! Good training!
That will be another cool thing about
having a service dog – the dog will be able to sense what Christian’s blood
sugar is GOING toward. And so, here
again life won’t be such of a guessing game.
Christian I - …..SSG X and I were moving out. I had several
concerns as I mentioned I couldn’t stand this guy. It was very dark and even
though there was a full moon, your eyes are still playing tricks on you in the
forest, and this guy was a ding dong. Was he going to run off and do something
stupid? Or was he going to save the day.
After about a half hour of walking, and moving tactically
(no talking), I was about to shoot myself because this guy was walking smack
dab in the middle of the road, remember he also had a speech impediment that
drove me bananas (when he did speak), and he was also moving so slowly which
drew out the minutes to seem like hours. Thankfully no vehicles came barreling
down the road that night! (Side note – NOW I appreciate how God brings special “Teachers”
into your life… THEN I didn’t-lol.)
We arrived at the edge of the wood line with the enemy camp
in sight. There was about 250 yards of plain clearing before we got to their
perimeter. So just when I was thinking , “Are we going to low crawl the whole
way?” (Like the last mission in the blog FLASHBACK??)…. SSG X takes off running without a word! He just…took off
running…and I’m thinking to myself, “What in the world?” But, before I could
think about it too much- obviously I
had to run after him! It was ridiculous. Good training- Lol.
Just then, we saw the silhouettes of two POGS on the edge of
their perimeter, quite a ways down the wire (maybe 300 yards away now) and they
opened fire on us! Now when you’re firing AT THAT RANGE, using blanks with
lasers attached to your rifles (MILES- gear) - the likelihood of you hitting
anything is very, very low.
Being that we didn’t discuss anything prior to this
excursion, I had no idea what the big picture was! So… my training took over. I
hit the ground and returned fire. So where was SSG X? He kept running! You know
how the Rangers say, “Never leave a man behind”? Not today! SSG X just kept
running. I had about half a second to pop up and try to follow the mad man, all
the while expending ammunition as I was still being fired upon.
Finally I caught up with the dude. Thankfully they only had
one level of Constantino wire, so we just jumped into their perimeter (I wanted
to butt stroke this guy with the end of my rifle – but I didn’t say a word). By this time, all
the little POGIES were awake, or at least a lot of them were, and we were in “big
time” danger of being caught now. Thankfully, we destroyed several vehicles
(Remember, by drawing big stars and circles on them with paint) BEFORE WE
WERE CAUGHT! But I have to stop here. My son says this blog is getting too
long.
So where’s the injury that I talked about in the last blog?
Where do the grenade simulators come into play? And – an extra tidbit- How did
we almost destroy the whole camp? I’ll come back Monday and get as far as I
can. (Remember, we don’t blog on Sundays- The Lord’s Day.)
God bless you friend... :)
HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE "COMING" GRENADE SIMULATOR....
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