Saturday, June 02, 2007

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I'm still in Germany. I guess sometimes it takes a while to get things moving. They wanted the doctors in theater to talk with the doc here before I go anywhere, but I see myself moving to the states relatively soon. In the mean time, they are keeping me busy with swearing in navy enlistees. It was actually a pretty funny story. I'm in my PT uniform and these Navy recruiters walk up and are asking for an officer to swear this guy into the navy. Everyone points me out. I'm like "what did I do?" Then I'm really uncomfortable because everyone else is in full dress uniform and here I am in PTs swearing this guy in. They did give me a cool coffee mug and pen though. I will post about this place tomorrow, but the hospital here at Landstuhl has a place called the "Chaplains Closet." They receive donations from the states with all kinds of stuff. Its an amazing thing. Most of the Soldiers coming into Germany don't really have much with them. This place gives clothes, toiletries, etc. to these Soldiers immediately. The Army does give a clothing voucher to buy clothes, but not everyone can go out and buy stuff. This is run by some great people. I'm getting their contact information tomorrow and I'll post it when I get back. This is a really great service to the wounded Soldiers that are evacuated here.