Hey Odin. Saw you were online. Hope everything is alright with you.

I missed the one time you're alive

Yea, he is really bad smoker though so I'm trying to convince him to quit.
He wants to be in the parras
I think the name is correct

That is great!
I'm sure he will learn a lot about himself and his future.
As for what it might be called I am unsure.

Ah right, fair enough!
My friend goes to (is it?) Army College in two weeks or so, going to miss him

Its a great feeling for sure.
After I get off of leave here I will probably be headed out to Afghanistan.

Wow, I'd love to have people I'm that close with, guess I'll meet them at college.

You going to be deployed anywhere?

They are like a family to me now, I would go to war with these men any day.

I can imagine it.
Fair enough, in the UK, to train as an officer, it takes more than a year of intense training.
The bond between the people you trained with must be so strong.

They call it the thirteen weeks of hell, and it sure as hell was.
I went in directly as a ground infantry unit, so I am just considered a soldier now.
Who knows what the future holds, if they want to promote me then so be it.
For now though, I would rather stay as a Rifleman; I love my brothers.