NMMI Happenings

We had a terrible time saying goodbye to Chad.  It was especially hard because he had to leave about three weeks before any of the other college students in order to participate in recruit training. I think there were tears all around.  Here are the girls before we took off for Roswell.

Chad in the baseball locker room.  Most of the boys hung out there for the first month to avoid being yelled at by officers and because they couldn't call home or have access to their phones.  Yikes!

Reading the recruit pamphlet.  About this time, I was pretty sure he was going to bolt and I was going to happily bring him back home again.

Not the best look.  I was so worried to leave Chad in this house of horrors and it didn't help that the couple of times we got to talk to him during the first month, he said he was in Hell and that the only time his life didn't utterly suck was during baseball practice.

 Here's the crew during RAT month.  Do you recognize that tall boy standing next to #15?

This is Chad's favorite thing about being on the Broncos.  They have a fabulous weight lifting program.  Chad has gained about thirty pounds of muscle weight.

We brought Leah down for Parent's Weekend after the RAT period ended.  Chad still claimed he hated everything about NMMI other than baseball at this point.  Chad did get to come for one weekend in October at which point someone at church for some reason asked him what would happen if a recruit was caught drinking.  Chad told him that the recruit would be marching for so long that he or she might as well march on home. Ha!

 But, should you think it's no fun and games, here is the team on Halloween.  This doesn't look so bad, does it?

It has been a whole semester now and Chad has actually adjusted quite nicely.  He loves his teammates, his coaches and even his troop members.  And thanks to the good grades he earned mostly due to mandatory study hall, he will be returning as an officer and can therefore do pretty much whatever her wants and is even going to have a truck and hair.  Yee Haw!

And here's the best part.  The new uniforms.  Don't they look sharp?  Three weeks until baseball season begins and they can officially show these babies off.