June 3, 2005

Well, alot more happened today that yesterday. Today was actually pretty good. We started off the morning with a BN run.

This is the field we started at. This photo was taken before anyone really arrived. Every month we have a BN run that is about 4 miles long. There are somewhere around 300 soldiers who run in it. I love going on the runs and seeing all these out of shape guys crying because they can't breathe and keep up with everyone. The run is mandatory, so you get a lot of people who are half dead at the end of the 4 miles ecause they don't run the entire rest of the month. I like t take the company flag and run a couple of laps around them just for fun.

here are a couple of the road guards from my unit coming in from the run. That is Klopp (left) and Dorsey (right).

Here are the first soldiers coming in from the run. Everyone runs in a formation together rather than at their own pace, so that everyone finishes at the same time. At least that's the idea, but there are a lot of them who don't run at all and can't keep up and faqll out of the group. We leave those guys behind and keep on running.

There is Chaplain Wead coming in from the run. My roommate Jung never runs any of these runs. He always saves his comp days (day off for working the weekend) so that he can take it on the day we have the run. Jung hates running.

After the Battallion run, we went to an awards ceremony. Chaplain Wead was getting an award today for all the work he has done for the unit since he has been here. LTC Foster (left) and CSM Houston (Middle) presented the award to Chaplain Wead (right).

Later on that day, we had a promotion ceremony for one of the KATUSA's. PFC Choi got promoted to CPL. Choi is a really nice guy. He works in our S-4 shop.

Here is Choi receiving his promotion from the Commander, CPT Bowers.

After work Chaplain Wead, his family, Jung, and myself all got in cabs and drove to the train station. Jung had invited us all to come meet his family and have dinner with them in Suwon, where Jung's parents live.
Here we are in the taxi on the way to the train station.

Here is Jung telling the taxi driver where to go.

Just a picture of me tagging along with Jung in the back of the cab.

When we got to the station we only had 5 minutes before the train left so we had to run to make it on the train in time. Here we are running to get on the train.

These two kids are Chaplain Wead's kids. His son is named Colton, and his daughter is Taylor.

Jung's mother must have worked all day to make dinner, because when we arrived there was soooo much food. She cooked all traditional Korean dishes for us. I like the Kalbi best (Kalbi is Korean style BBQ ribs). Afterwards we talked to his family. Jung translated for us.

I took this picture while I was there. It is a picture of Jung when he first came in the Army. He is what we call a "baby KATUSA." I told him that I was going to use the picture to blackmail him.

And here we all are in one last picture. This is Chaplain Weads family and Jungs folks together with myself. Jung was taking the picture, so he wasn't in it.