Loadin'

So I just wanted to share these pictures with ya'll. One of Richard's fellow students in his basic loadmaster course (BML) e-mailed them to me. It is so neat to get to see the boys in action. Richard is loving his job and is getting set to fly to Florida on Monday (3/3) to begin his water survival training. After that he'll fly to Washington for his combat survival training and then it's off to Oklahoma (yes, where the wind comes sweeping through the "planes"- haha). Steven and I get to join him there in OK. He graduated from his BLM course on Friday and is very proud of his "wings". His wings are a metal pin that he wears on his uniform, signifying that he is part of a flight crew (which only 2% of the people in the Air Force actually are).

These pictures were taken by a student on the last day of class (Wednesday 2/27) and then at the graduation ceremony on Friday 2/29. Hope ya'll enjoy them as much as I did. In the first picture, Richard is the one squatting down in the middle of the front row. His friend Hoffman is to the right (Richard's left). In the second picture, Richard is the second one from the left in the lighter uniform with tan boots (these are the new ABU's, by the way, the darker ones are the old BDU's) In the third picture, Richard is the one standing right next to the plane on the right of the picture.

In the fourth picture Richard is the first one (left side) in the front row. Again, Hoffman is to the right (his left) and the guy behind Richard, sort of in between them, is Richard's room-mate Burton. The last picture is of them doing what they spend a lot of their time doing lately, waiting. Richard is the first one you see in the picture.

Doesn't he look sharp in that uniform? We are so proud of him! GO RICHARD!!!!