Aubree's deployment

Aubree left for Fort Sill Oklahoma with her unit, the 285th, on Monday October 5th. She will be there till November then she will go to Iraq whre she will transport troops and supplies. Aubree is the crew chief and the door gunner on a Black Hawk helicopter. She has been training very hard for this day for a year now. She is very excited, but is a very nrevous excitment. I am very gratiful for her servous and glad that she has given me a preview to all that Paul will have to go through. Paul's parents never thought they would have to kids on active duty at the same time.

Paul will graduate on October 30th, I can't wait to see him. He is glad that it is almost over, he has been sick of and on most of the time he has been at basic. That is to be expected when you have that many people together and very little sleep. Last week they ha some shocking news at Fort Jackson- a solider died of the swine flu. It was someone who wasn't in Pauls Battalion so he never had any contact with that person.

The boys have begun to run and climb. They are moving machines. I have mostly got my house baby proof, but when we go other places they are really hard to keep track of. they have to know what is every bag and on every self. They are learning to pick toys up and put them back in their buckets, but then they imediately dump the bucket back out. The boys got some more time to see a black hawk at Aubree's farwell ceremony they love all the buttons.