Life Update from the last 3 months.

So it has been like forever since I posted anything to the Folks at Booksneez.com My dearest Apologies I am by no means ignoring you I just finished the book you sent me and a review will be soon to follow. My email address was lost this summer while I was at OCS (another Blog Post in itself) and all of my internet affairs attached to serveandvolley101@cox.net now must cease and I have to start over. I have been considering new addresses names and debating getting a g-mail account the people here at BlogSpot I’m sure would greatly appreciate that but I believe Google has enough of my internet lifw without running another e-mail account for those of you wishing to reach me now my school address would probably be best. Cdfoy3428@northgeorgia.edu . So I will be posting this blog to let everyone know the short story of the last three to four months of my life.
I will start where I left off last time. I left for United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School the first week in July planning on graduating 6 weeks later on August 21st I was picked up in the Atlanta airport around midnight on August 15th. Yea I was kicked out, it’s hard to tell the story of the events of OCS without making any excuses. I don’t believe it was a just dismissal from a program I thought I was doing relatively well especially towards the end of the program all the physical events I passed and the academic events I did good on with the exception of one history test I failed by one question and majorly aced the remedial version I had to take before liberty started on Saturday. That being said I defiantly made some major mistakes while I was there as far as things I said and things I did. I was over confident and believed that this was what I was made to do. I also did and said some things that I outright knew better than. I knew it was a game and they were trying to play me and for some reason I let them make me feel inferior and question my integrity. Looking back it seems so obvious I gave them ammunition to use against me and didn’t realize they were taking the very things I told them bothered me and forcing it all on me at once. I made the mistake of actually confiding in the Platoon staff and letting them know what I was going through, I was thinking they were there to train me and help me learn to become a Marine Officer and would let my guard down around the Platoon Commander and actually tell him what I was thinking during said situations and then all the stuff I told him behind closed doors was being screamed back at me by Sergeant Instructors from other platoons. I for some reason didn’t catch it until I was already on my way out.
So on August 17th I showed up at north Georgia College and State University and my life took several drastic turns and fundamental differences. I took off one of the best looking uniforms to grace the face of God’s green earth the MARPAT Camies, to dawn the Velcro incrusted universal patterned Army Combat Uniform (ACU) A uniform I have been taught to make fun of my entire life and even more so over the last 5 weeks of my life. I showed up incredibly exhausted both mentally and physically as well as incredibly discouraged that I had massively failed probably one of my biggest life goals. I was (and am) also incredibly determined to fight and claw my way back in to OCS cause I still just have and incredible desire to be a commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps.
North Georgia was an entirely different animal I still practice a somewhat military lifestyle but beside the army being different from the Marines the Corps of Cadets is different from the Military, for one everyone in the corps does not plan on commissioning and there are a lot of people in the Corps for money reasons cause its cheaper. It also is a little humbling to be a technical freshman with no rank in the Corps being told what to do by power hungry 19 year olds that often make freshman do things not for any particular purpose but just because they can! It really has not been that bad though I truly like it here and the sophomore NCO’s cool down and have some conversations with you after a few weeks. Classes are going well and I Have made several friends. I have gotten involved with the Chaplin Corps as well as joined another unit on campus North Georgia’s famous Drill team the Blue Ridge Rifles named after a rebel unit supplied to the confederacy from the city of Dahlonega in 8161. It’s a lot of work but they are one of the best Drill teams in the nation. The PT here is good I mean it keeps you active and in shape 7 AM on MWF its not super intense but it serves one of the main reasons I decided to come here was I thought the Corps would keep me in shape for the Marines and I believe it is doing that. I will have to beginning training a little harder here in the next month or two if I am to return to OCS this summer and be anywhere as good as I was last summer but, all in due time.
So life is good God is still working in me, and sometimes believe it or not through me! Crazy Spiritual things are happening on this campus I have meet such Spiritual heavyweights since I have been Here Josh Middleton, John Kishamoto, Laura Simpson, and so many others that God is doing ministry on this campus. I am so excited to see what the next 2 years encompass and wonder where I will be in 3 more semesters when I finally earn a bachelors degree.