props from the crossroads of the Marine Corps

hi miss,

things are well here in lovely Quantico. i've been going throught the Staff Orientation Course for the past two weeks. good times. This morning we did the Tarzan course which is a series of rope obstacles 50 feet in the air and then we did the Confidence Course which is a bunch of height obstacles designed to build your......confidence. Other than that it's been a lot of running on the trails trying to memorize them so we don't get the candidates lost when they show up....no promises from me on that one.

two weeks ago went up to DC to see matt and company. last weekend i was in philly to visit some old friends from college. this weekend i'm going to camp hill for a few days, then flying out to minneaopolis to finish moving my crap into the new apartment. we pick up the candidates next Wednesday so i'm off until then.

there is a little black cat that has an injured front paw that lives in the woods behind the BOQ on base where i'm staying. I feed her every morning or night, she hears the sound of the mustang and knows its chow time. i figure that is my good deed for the day or the week, hopefully her leg is better before i leave in 6 more weeks, she can't catch any food on her own the way she is.

that's all that is fit to print for now from here. i had some chai tea the other day, matt brewed a mean batch of it, i think it was the stuff you sent from india, it was damn good, now i know why you all are always drinking that stuff, it's like crack, huh?

you travels sound awesome, it's almost soothing just reading your descriptions of everything, and it sure beats crawling through the snake and leach infested standing water in the OCS Quigley. Be safe and know i miss you and love you.

Semper Fidelis,

W. B. FENWICK
CAPT USMC