ColoFarmer
06-18-2014, 11:42
So our oldest is at Fort Leonard Wood in basic, talked to him last week and he asked if I could get him a cleaning kit for his M4. Don't ask me why in the world we have idiots in charge that will issue an M4 without a proper cleaning kit... Anyway, recommendations on a good kit, thinking relatively light weight, in it's own pouch ready to pack with him?
He's coming to enjoy it, he didn't get much outside contact for the first month or so (30-60 seconds to call and say he's ok), and he sounded pretty down then, but now they get phones for 30 minutes or so Sunday afternoons and sounds like he's over the hump and figured out why they do things the way they do. Going to be a good thing for him, we are sure proud of him and doing all we can to support him. He almost had a hard time because of his aunt, she didn't bother to read the guidelines on sending packages and was just about to send a package stuffed with 20 twix bars and a bunch of jerky and other stuff...not realizing any food sent has to be consumed by the one it's sent to RIGHT WHEN DELIVERED... That would have been bad...[panic]
He's coming to enjoy it, he didn't get much outside contact for the first month or so (30-60 seconds to call and say he's ok), and he sounded pretty down then, but now they get phones for 30 minutes or so Sunday afternoons and sounds like he's over the hump and figured out why they do things the way they do. Going to be a good thing for him, we are sure proud of him and doing all we can to support him. He almost had a hard time because of his aunt, she didn't bother to read the guidelines on sending packages and was just about to send a package stuffed with 20 twix bars and a bunch of jerky and other stuff...not realizing any food sent has to be consumed by the one it's sent to RIGHT WHEN DELIVERED... That would have been bad...[panic]