Wow, it's been a little while since I've posted. A good reason for that is because we spent the first 18 days of June at AT (annual training). It's the two week part of our army contracts. Luckily for us, we got to go all the way to Camp Williams. For those of you who don't know where that is, next time you drive on the freeway and pass over the point of the mountain take a look off to the west. That's it. That's Camp Williams. Super awesome. It goes from all the buildings you can see off into the mountain out west as far as you can see. Meaning it's huge. And there is nothing there, except a few machine gun ranges, a long range artillery range, and of course, a few gravel piles for the engineers to play around with. Well it was a long couple of weeks full of lots of dirt pushing. We fixed up a couple roads that had been washed out from all the rain we've been getting and built a parking lot for September's upcoming Governor's Day (basically the worst day of the year. We stand in formation while the governor and some other people speak. Then we leave. It's very hot and we generally get a few heat casualties.) We did do a fun event that our battalion has decided to make an annual competition. We split into squad's and had to hike somewhere between half mile and a mile between 9 different challenges. It was a blast. Possibly the one thing we're looking forward to about next year.
Wendover! Ugh. So not as cool as the commercials try and make it look. As soon as I got back to work after AT I was told I was going to Wendover for the weekend. At first I was kinda dreading it but I eventually learned it was for an airshow. Since I'm a big fan of flying and airplanes I got a little excited. Until we got there. Super creepy. The town is split into two sides. One in Utah and one in Nevada. The Utah side is certainly worse, but the whole place is kinda no bueno. There are very few actual houses. Most people live in trailer parks. Now not that there is anything wrong with that, but combining the fact that half of the trailer parks look abandoned and falling apart and the fact that the only thing that is green is the small strip of astro turf grass one of the hotels has our front makes it look like a barren creepy little town. I didn't get the chance to actually go into any of the casino's, but I feel like unless you are hiding out inside you probably wouldn't want to spend too much time there. And I probably won't be going back any time soon, or any time ever for that matter. As far as the airshow goes, it was pretty good. They only really had two acts. One was a local guy that built his very own little plane, and the other was a group of retired military pilots who travel to shows and competitions. They certainly did some fantastic flying.
This week was soccer camp for the high school. Probably one of my favorite weeks of the year. It's basically an extra 4 days of tryouts for the coaching staff. We get to see what the incoming freshman look like and also how the returning kids are doing. And coming from a high school team who had a hard time finding 20 people for a varsity team, it's fantastic to see all the talent that is growing. We're going to have a hard time finding 20 people, only because there are close to 40 who could easily make the team. Look out 4A, Timpanogos is here to stay.
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