Matt's Officer Training Course

Matt left me home all alone the past 2 weeks, fending for myself while he had a "dreadful" time at Officer Training. At least he said it was the longest 2 weeks of his life. I'll let you decide after viewing the pictures.

Officer Training was in Leesburg, Virginia which is about 45 minutes west of Washington D.C. On the weekend, he and some friends went over. He didn't take many pictures. Just the close up, glamour shot at the train station.

Here he is at the Smithsonian in the dinosaur exibits.

This is a picture of them at the Capital building. He's in the back up on the balcony in the black while the rest of his group is standing below, all in black. They were watching the changing of the guards.

And can you believe they couldn't decide on the winner of a game so they had a dance off. The top picture is of Matt on the left of the line clapping.

You can imagine my extreme pleasure in seeing this picture. I guess he thought the sprinkler move is still the rage in dance moves.

He did have a little class time inbetween all the fun. Here he is doing CPR on a baby dummy.

Matt also volunteered to be on flag duty. Every morning and every night he would raise and lower the flag. Eagle scouts really did come in handy for him. Matt's at the middle post.

This is a pic of them marching to the flag pole.

This was the squad he was placed with while at training.

Here he is getting his pins put on. I think this man is the Admiral who came to speak at their course graduation.

And last, but not least. For your viewing pleasure. Here is Matt doing the can-can with his squad. It's a wonder on the things you need to learn in order to be an officer in the military.

As you can see it was all work and no play. I felt really bad for him when he called and said he was so bord. All he had to do in the evenings was watch football or sleep. Boo-hoo. I felt even worse for him when he came home and wanted to take a nap, because he was just-so-tired! But me, being the absolute mean wife, didn't let him. Instead I made sure the kids were hyped up on sugar, then locked myself in the room and took a nice long nap myself.