San Antonio Zoo

My mother-in-law and I visited Kyle last weekend. We went to the San Antonio Zoo for my birthday :)

Panda Bears

Us with some flamingos 

My mother-in-law, Judy, and Kyle with some monkeys

I'm a pregnant butterfly!

Hippo!

Us in front of the hippo

(with his boot and my pregnant belly, it was difficult for us to get up lol)

There's a light gazelle in the background between us

It has been decided

So they moved Kyle to new dorm (again) and have let him know that he is definitely getting discharged, excuse me, an "administrative separation with honorable causes."

He gets to take the boot off and have more x-rays done on April 18th. If they decide that he is healed at that time, they will begin the separation paperwork. If he is not healed enough at that time, they will keep him until he is.

Once Kyle receives notice of his separation, he is able to have a council to try to have it to where he can re-enlist immediately after coming home instead of having to wait the 6 month period with the medical waiver. We shall see...

Until next time,
Frieda

Such Uncertainty

Well, things are all turned upside down right now.

Kyle started at the Medina Annex for tech school on February 28th, 2011. He had a 2 week waiting period, and then began a 2 week prep-course or development course on March 14th.

During his run evaluation during week 7 of Basic Training, someone stomped on his foot while they were running. He was unable to seek medical attention at the time and was told he would be able to when he went to Medina. When he got to Medina, he was looked at, told it wasn't that bad, and all Airmen were told if they went to Reed Medical on their own they would be discharged so he didn't seek further medical attention.

During a run on March 17th, Kyle asked to go to medical. On March 18th, he found out he had been running the last 5 weeks on 2 fractures in his left foot. There were 3, one has healed and left a scar on the bone. The doctor said that if he had run on it for another week, he would've completed the fractures, been hobbled (permanent limp), need surgery, and would be disqualified from the armed services forever.

It'll take about a month to heal. He was given crutches that same day and fitted for a boot on March 21st. He goes back on April 18th for more x-rays and to see if he has fully healed. Right now, it looks like he will be discharged because of it, we'll find out for sure after his additional x-rays in a month. It'll be an "administrative separation for honorable causes." If he is discharged, he will be able to re-enlist after 6 months and start Indoc again to continue his training.

Nowadays...

I'm terrible at this blogging thing! It's been almost 6 months since my last post! Here's what's been going on:

Kyle passed his final PAST on December 16th

He began Basic Military Training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Tx on December 28th, 2010 and officially becomes Active Duty.

Kyle was issued his M-16 and learned to break it down and reassemble it in 2 minutes during the week of January 3rd, 2011

Kyle went into the Gas Chamber and learned to fight with a pugil stick during the week of January 31st, 2011

Photos were posted of Kyle's flight on February 3rd, 2011

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2120623&id=1418571215&l=9ad2e6e663

Kyle headed to BEAST week on February 7th, 2011

On February 17th, 2011, an article was posted titled New Element Assists Special Forces Trainees

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123242729

On February 24th, 2011, Kyle received his first coin during the Coin Ceremony and officially became an Airman! He ran in the Airman's Run singing "jodies" and got to see some of his family for the first time in over 2 months!

Kyle participated in the Graduation Parade on Friday, February 25th, 2011. His flight achieved Honor Flight (which is only awarded to one flight per graduating class), broke the record for Warrior Flight, achieved Male PT Excellence, Academic Excellence, and Marksmanship. His flight won 5 out of 6 possible awards (and came in second place for the 6th). Very proud!