Life in New Jersey

As most of you know, Jordan left for New Hanover, New Jersey on Thursday, October 11th. He will remain on the Army base, Fort Dix, until the 26th in which he will fly back to Charleston for a few days. He has been quite the busy soldier. He wakes up at 5:30 and works until 7:30. This will be his schedule for the entire length of his stay in New Jersey, and no he doesn’t get one day off.

Jordan is one of ten soldiers from Charleston that have been sent to this training. These ten men will also deploy to Tallil Air Base with Jordan on October 31st. You can imagine how close these guys are getting. Not only do they spend every minute of every day working together learning how to protect our country and their lives, but they also are forced to share one room with each other.

They have spent two long days in the classroom learning all of the techniques of what to do in terrifying war situations. Jordan refers to those two days as “death by powerpoint.” The last two days he has been applying what he has learned in the classroom out in the field. He has done everything from driving a Humvee (High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle), or Hummer as us civilians like to refer to it, to practicing fire fights which involves the team shooting blanks at each other as while pretending they are under attack.

I pray that God grants him the stamina, strength, and patience to learn and retain all he has learned and will learn throughout this training. What he learns during his eight day stay may save his life one day!

-posted by Lindsay